Books where the cold may as well be its own character. Its presence can be felt in every aspect of the story. I've included both fiction and nonfiction.
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last updated January, 2026
Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)
Colin Meloy
Through the Woods
Emily Carroll
The Sight (The Sight, #1)
David Clement-Davies
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
Katherine Arden
A Guest in the House
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
Susan Cooper
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
Rena Rossner
Winter Loon
Susan Bernhard
The Goblin Market and Other Poems
Christina Rossetti
Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Velma Wallis
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
Ethan Rarick
Urchin and the Heartstone (The Mistmantle Chronicles, #2)
M.I. McAllister
Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman
The Contest (Everest, #1)
Gordon Korman
Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole
Edmund Hillary
Golden Kamuy, Vol. 1
Satoru Noda
The Secret of Nightingale Wood
Lucy Strange
Hunted
Meagan Spooner
East (East, #1)
Edith Pattou
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
C.S. Lewis
Snow-Walker
Catherine Fisher
Deathless
Catherynne M. Valente
Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
Jean Craighead George
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman
Vinland Saga Omnibus, Vol. 1
Makoto Yukimura
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
Owen Beattie
Brian's Winter (Brian's Saga, #3)
Gary Paulsen
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
White Fang
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