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Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

(Most) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners since 1918!

Books featuring snowy weather as the backdrop for stories, mix of genre: thriller, mysteries, historical fiction, etc.

Antarctica, Patagonia, Alaska, Canada, upper Great Lakes, somewhere in the mountains, wintertime, etc. (fiction and nonfiction)

Sea spray, gulls, cold wind & harsh currents

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."

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