
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
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- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books Set in Snowy Places. Here are ten books I’ve read that fit the bill but will probably make you want to wrap up and keep warm. Links from each title will take you to my review.
- A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford – sections of the book are set in the Arctic aboard a whaling ship
- The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller – set in the West Country in December 1962 during the harshest winter in living memory
- The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason – Lucius, a twenty-two-year-old medical student, is assigned to a freezing outpost in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains during WW1
- Cold, Cold Heart by Christine Poulson – murder mystery set in an Antarctic reasearch station just as six months of darkness begins
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey – a magical story set in the harsh but beautiful Alaskan landscape
- The Body in the Ice by A. J. Mackenzie – a body is discovered frozen into the ice of a horse pond on Romney Marsh during the winter of 1796
- Winterkill (Dark Iceland #6) by Ragnar Jónasson – set in the northernmost town in Iceland, extreme weather threatens to hamper the investigation of a young woman’s death
- The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea – a young woman is sent to join her new husband in a windswept, isolated village in Iceland in 1686
- A Winter Grave by Peter May – it’s 2051 and the melting of the Greenland ice sheets means Scotland now has the climate of northern Norway including ferocious snow storms
- Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco – a young girl, anonymous and ignored, sits through a cold, hard west-country winter, begging for change and searching for a warm place to sleep
What books have you read set in snowy places?











Now I know why you picked up on the Carrasco!
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Yes, all down to you!
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Great selection. I’ve read five of these I think.
Here’s mine for this week: https://portobellobookblog.com/2025/12/09/top-ten-tuesday-9th-december-2025-books-set-in-snowy-places-toptentuesday-amreading-bookrecommendations-tuesdaybookblog-booksky-%f0%9f%92%99%f0%9f%93%9a/
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I’m not really into Christmassy books so I had to look quite hard to come up with ten to fit the topic.
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Another list of books I haven’t read any of! Oops.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/12/09/top-ten-tuesday-how-did-i-do-on-my-fall-2025-tbr/
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Top Ten Tuesday often does damage to my wishlist…
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I loved The Snow Child.
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Fab selection, but No Cold Wind From Moscow?
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I saw that on your list and thought, damn why did I forget that one!
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Every single book makes me want to snuggle into a pile of blankets with some hot tea and read nonstop.
Great list!
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In that case my work here is done 🙂
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Lots of great picks, thanks for sharing
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These are all new to me!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-canadian-fiction-reads-of-2025/
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Same with your list!
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I’ve not heard of any of these before so it was great to discover some new books from this post! 🙂
Here’s my TTT post – https://justreadjessie.blog/2025/12/09/top-ten-tuesday-books-set-in-snowy-places/
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Thanks. I swear my own wishlist grows every Tuesday!
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Interesting selection of books that you have shared with us this week!
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