Colder weather and shorter winter days are a good time to find a cozy corner with a hot drink and a good book. Regardless of our favorite genre, the stories that take place in the winter are often full of mysteries and many dramas take place in these books.
There are many winter stories for readers of classic and literary stories. From contemporary readings and romance novels to thriller novels and crime stories, these winter-themed stories are made to make winter fun with a cup of hot tea.
In this post, we have shared a collection of 6 unique and best-selling winter books, the key scenes of which take place in winter, between blizzards and snowy areas.
Bear City Novel
The novel “Bear City” is the work of Swedish writer and blogger Fredrik Beckman, first published in 2012. The book, which immerses the reader in the depths of their characters’ lives, was voted BookReads, BookBrowse and Goodreads Book of the Year. Originally written in Swedish, The Bear City is a fictional novel that takes readers into a small, unknown community deep in the Swedish jungle where the spirit of the city is born from the local hockey league.
The ice rink in this book was built centuries ago in the center of the city and has brought joy and excitement to the people of the city who are interested in the sport of hockey. The city’s youth ice hockey team is on the verge of participating in the semi-finals of national competitions. Their team has not had success in the past, but in the end they have a better chance of winning because of the new players on the team with their unique strengths and abilities.
The people of Bear respect the game and the players, but just when their team has a big win ahead of them, a member of the community is raped and the success and popularity of the team is jeopardized. This book is not just a story about sports, but also about loyalty, the hopes that unite a small community, the secrets that shatter society, and the courage it takes for a person to face threats.
If you are looking for a book with a winter background to read on cold winter days, the novel Bear City may be the best choice.
In a part of the book Bear City, we read:
During the winter, which was seven years old, he suffered from such severe frostbite that even if you stand close to him, you can still see the white spots reminiscent of that frostbite on his cheek. He played his first real game that evening and lost a ball in front of an empty net in the final seconds. Bjorn’s Master Twelve’s children’s team won, and it was Kevin who scored all the goals, but he was very upset and disappointed. Late at night, his parents found out he was not in bed, and at midnight the whole town was looking for him in the woods.
The Great Alone
The book “The Great Alone” by Christine Hannah was first published in 2017. It’s one of the best winter books in the Alaska with its secluded environment and cold weather.
As mentioned in the book, the title of the book is borrowed from a verse from Robert John’s poem, which refers to the remote lands of Alaska as great solitude.
The story of The Great Lonely Book begins when Lenny is 13 years old and his father decides to move the family to Alaska. Arendt Albright is a Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress due to arrest and torture during the war. The book’s story is both about surviving in Alaska and about the family’s difficult and complicated emotional relationship with an abusive and fugitive father.
Lenny, who has an intelligent, resilient and compassionate personality, finds himself in a strained relationship with his parents and hopes that the new land will be a better future for his family. As winter approaches in Alaska, Arendt’s mood worsens and his family deteriorates.
In part of the great solitary book we read:
They were arguing over this today, the father had been fired again. Lenny put his hat down on his head. On the way to school, stay away from blocks of flats and yards, away from the dark arboriculture, past the fast-food restaurant where high school kids gather on weekends, and from the gas station where cars lined up for fifty-five cents. Fill their car, it was rejected. People in those days were angry about the price of gasoline. As far as Lenny could tell, the elders were totally angry and upset, and he was not surprised.
One by One
“One by One” is a book by British author, educator and bookseller Ruth, first published in 2020. Snowfall in a luxurious, rustic ski hut in the French Alps does not seem to be the worst problem in the world. Especially when the view is stunning, the fire is a delightful fireplace and a professional chef. Unless the company has eight employees and each has something to gain, lose and hide.
The story of this mysterious book takes place in a remote cottage in the French Alps; Where a group of founders, young shareholders of a modern technology startup based in London called “Snoop” are on vacation. There is a woman named “Liz” among them who does not fit in with them and it turns out that she is a shareholder in a large company.
Suddenly a devastating avalanche occurs and closes all the exit routes and the electricity, internet and telephones are cut off and everyone is trapped inside the hut. This creates something beyond panic for people, because every once in a while, a new member of the Snoop team is found dead. Although the number of people in the hut is very small, it is not as easy to identify who the killer is.
In one part of the book, we read one by one:
It helps a little, it helps to silence the voices inside me, their voices, which pull me this way and that, and crush me left and right with their loyalties and arguments. Instead, I let James Blunt muffle their voices and tell me over and over again that I’m beautiful. The irony of this sentence makes me laugh, but I do not laugh. There is a sense of comfort in this lie. It is one-fifty-two in the afternoon. Outside the window, the sky is gray steel, and the spinning motion of snowflakes makes one sleepy, strange.
The Snow Child
The Snow Child is Ivin Ivy’s first book, published in 2012. The book was named one of the ten best-selling books by Hardcover and Paperback and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Snow Child is a thought-provoking and terrifying story written with extraordinary skill and elegance that is hard to believe is Ivy’s first novel.
Snow Baby is one of Alaska’s best romance books set in 1920; Jack and Mabel struggle with their relationship and their inability to have children. Mabel encouraged her husband to move to Alaska to avoid the sound of children reminding them of their infertility.
For a fresh start, they travel north to live on the Alaskan border. Alaska was not a good place to live at the time, especially for newcomers Jack and Mabel. Together they made a snowman who dressed like a little girl. Jack woke up that night and saw a young girl in the woods removing gloves and a scarf from the snowman she and Mabel had made.
Jack and Mabel became the half-parents of a mysterious girl named Faina, who lived alone in the Alaskan desert. Faina refused to stay with Jack and Mabel permanently, but visited him regularly, especially during the winter months. Things in this beautiful, cool place are seldom what they seem, and eventually what they learn about Faina changes them.
In a part of Snow Baby book, we read:
It was calm, except when the wind passed from time to time, rubbing its skirt with its woolen socks and keeping the seams cold. Slightly higher along the river, the valley stretched half a mile from the glacier to the rocky bottom of the earth, ending in shallow rocky canals, but here the river was still narrow and deep. Maple could see clay rocks bending over and falling on the other side of the Dark River. Downstairs, the water there easily covers the top of the head.
Winter Garden
The book “Winter Garden” is one of the most valuable authors of the romantic genre, Christine Hannah, which was first published in 2010. Does anyone really know the true depth of the secrets hidden in the heart of every family? Can another person fully understand the extent of another person’s suffering? These are the questions you may be thinking about after reading this book.
The story of The Winter Garden is a powerful and heartbreaking story and a fascinating and mysterious romance that lasts sixty-five years and is transported from frozen and shattered Leningrad to present-day Alaska. It is a terrifying novel that sheds light on the complex bond between mother and daughter and explores the enduring links between the past and the present.
Meredith and Nina Whitson are two very different sisters who were intimate as children, but separated in adulthood; One pursues their family business, which is managing the family apple orchard, and the other pursues his dream of becoming a famous photographer. When their beloved father falls ill, they both return home and promise their father that they will take care of their cold and dry mother, Anya, and do their best to keep their word.
The two sisters quarrel over how to deal with their mother; Nina criticizes Meredith for sending their mother to a nursing home quickly, and Meredith gets angry with Nina for being thousands of miles away during the family crisis.
Meredith and Nina finally discover a secret from their mother’s past and discover a truth that is so terrifying that it shakes the foundation of their family and changes what they think.
In a part of the book Winter Garden we read:
He wished his family would be like the families he sees on TV, where everything and everyone seems perfect. No one, not even his loving father, understood how lonely he felt in these four walls, how much he was ignored. But tomorrow night everything changes. An extraordinary plan had come to his mind. He wrote a play based on a fairy tale his mother told him he wanted to perform at an annual Christmas party. What he wrote was exactly like what happened in the Partridge family play.
In the Midst of Winter
The book “In the Midst of Winter” is the work of the acclaimed storyteller and one of the most widely read Spanish-language writers, Isabel Allende, which was first published in 2017. In the middle of winter, Isabel tells a fictional story about three very different people. It is a novel of time travel that slides back and forth between very special places and periods, and a fascinating story from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala and Chile and Brazil in the 1970s.
In his novel, Allende addresses issues such as politics, the family, generational pride and history, human rights, passion and love. The story of the book in the middle of winter begins with a car accident in Brooklyn that triggers an unexpected and shocking love story between two people who thought they were in the middle of winter of their lives.
In the middle of a snowstorm on icy and slippery roads, 60-year-old human rights researcher Richard Boumster crashes into the car of a young, undocumented immigrant named Evilin Ortega from Guatemala. At first, the accident seems minor, but it turns out that the car belongs to the employer and he removed it without permission.
After the incident, Evelyn goes to Richard’s house to ask for help, but Richard does not know what to do and seeks help from his tenant, a 62-year-old Chilean university professor named Lucia Maraz. They find out that Evilin is undocumented, and returning the damaged vehicle to his employers reveals his citizenship status. As the snowstorm gets worse outside, Lucia suggests that they spend the night at Richard’s house and make a plan to help Evelyn the next morning. During this time, each in turn tells stories about their immigrant history.
As the three of them talk about their lives on that snowy day, they will begin to reveal some dark secrets. It is the secrets that compel them to accept that each of them has suffered as a result of political injustice and that love as well as intense frustration have come to them as a result of their experiences.
In a part of the book in the heart of winter we read:
Richard Boomster was Lucia’s president at New York University. Lucia had a one-year contract with them as a guest teacher. When this year was over, the task of his life was not clear: he had to look for another job and another place to live until he made decisions for his long-term future. Sooner or later he returned to Chile to spend the last years of his life. But he still had time until then. Now that his daughter Daniela had come to Miami to study biology and had probably fallen in love and decided to stay in the United States, there was nothing left to take Lucia home.