Snow/winter fun! (with teeth)

Books with winter, snowy, or frozen settings. Usually suspenseful, thriller, or horror. The weather or temperature as a secondary character.

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created by Krasue

last updated April, 2026

38 books

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Whiteout

Ken Follett

Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1)

Darcy Coates

The Quality of Silence

Rosamund Lupton

Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)

Kyla Stone

The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

Jo Nesbø

The Dark

Emma Haughton

One by One

Ruth Ware

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson

The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)

Sarah Pearse

The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley

Shiver

Allie Reynolds

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

The Overnight Guest

Heather Gudenkauf

No Exit

Taylor Adams

An Unwanted Guest

Shari Lapena

Frozen Hell

John W. Campbell Jr.

Beware, the Snowman (Goosebumps, #51)

R.L. Stine

The Thing

Alan Dean Foster

Stolen Tongues

Felix Blackwell

Snow

Ronald Malfi

Where the Dead Wait

Ally Wilkes

The Drift

C.J. Tudor

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

Snowblind

Christopher Golden

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Shuddering

Ania Ahlborn

The Terror

Dan Simmons

The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon

Dark Matter

Michelle Paver

Five Total Strangers

Natalie D. Richards

Comments

slugwizard99

Five total strangers is another good one!

KrasueOP

Thanks! I added that one to my TBR as well!

alexindex

Would Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh or The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones fit too?

KrasueOP

I read the synopsis for Eileen and it does take place around Christmas time but I don't think the weather plays a part in it. Same with The Only Good Indians. I started that book a while ago - they did kill the elk in the winter time but I stopped reading it after more than one dog was killed, lol. Did the rest of the book take place in winter time? I'm definitely TBR-ing Eileen, though!

alexindex

For sure both takes place in a snowy setting, but I am not sure if I can judge whether it plays a part in the story. Beginning and climax of The Only Good Indians take place during similar snowy weather, but yes, poor poor doggos 🙁

KrasueOP

I know! I love Stephen Graham Jones but can't deal with too much animal killing.