Category: Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

• 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.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books On My Winter 2025-2026 To-Read List. Here are ten books I want to read between now and the end of February. It’s a mix of 2026 ARCs, book club picks and books from my TBR pile. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

1. Helm by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)
2. A Granite Silence by Nina Allan (Riverrun)
3. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor (Picador)
4. Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Polygon)
5. Room 706 by Ellie Levenson (ARC, Headline Review) – publishes 15th January
6. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson (Macmillan Business)
7. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Macmillan)
8. Female, Nude by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (ARC, Tinder Press) – publishes 12th February
9. The Shock of the Light by Lori Inglis Hall (eARC, The Borough Press) – publishes 12th February
10. Julia Sleeps by Zoe Caryl

Which books do you hope will be keeping you company over the next few months?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

• 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.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

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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.

1. A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford – sections of the book are set in the Arctic aboard a whaling ship
2. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller – set in the West Country in December 1962 during the harshest winter in living memory
3. 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
4. Cold, Cold Heart by Christine Poulson – murder mystery set in an Antarctic reasearch station just as six months of darkness begins
5. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey – a magical story set in the harsh but beautiful Alaskan landscape
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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?