Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Holiday Reads — books we love to read during the holiday season. I don’t particularly read holiday-themed books, but I do love a good wintry feel. Since I’ve already done a TTT about winter settings, I thought I’d go with books with winter elements in the title — anything to do with snow or being cold. Brrrrrrr.
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon – Yes, any excuse to include an Outlander book!
2. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater – I didn’t love everything about this trilogy, but the first book in particular was so haunting and powerful.
3. Snowblind by Christopher Golden (review) – Yikes, horror in the snow! Pretty terrifying.
4. The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire (review) – I love me some Toby Daye. The entire series is excellent, and this was a particularly good one.
5. Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs (review) – I love the Mercy Thompson books too. Mercy is such an awesome hero.
6. A Fine and Bitter Snow by Dana Stabenow – The Kate Shugak series is one of my favorites… and a new book is coming in January!
7. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham – The Fables series is amazing. I think I need a reread.
8. Snow Glass Apples by Neil Gaiman (review) – This story has always been a favorite, and the new illustrated version is gorgeous.
9. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (because it’s about SIMON SNOW!!) (review) – All sorts of yes for Simon and Baz.
10. In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl (review) – A lovely historical novel that I read with my book group.
What are your favorite winter books?
Please share your thoughts, and if you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Great list! One of these days I really need to give the Mercy Thompson books a try, and I’m looking forward to picking up Wayward Son after I enjoyed Carry On – I’m just waiting for the kindle edition to be a bit more affordable!
Wayward Son was so much fun — I hope there’s more to come. I love the Mercy books so much! I hope you give them a try. 🙂
Good to have a list of Christmas stories that aren’t all warm and fuzzy. https://pmprescottenterprises.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/top-ten-tuesday-winter-movies/
Yeah, I don’t really go for warm and fuzzy too often — I’d rather like slightly creepy/eerie/mysterious. 🙂
Snowblind does sound interesting!
My TTT.
IT was a little over the top, but really fun too (in a horror sort of way.)
My Top Ten Tuesday is closer in theme to yours than anyone else’s I’ve seen (so far)! These all look like great books. Happy reading!
My Top Ten Tuesday!
Thanks so much! Now I need to see what you did!
I actually have a review for the graphic novel of Snow, Glass, Apples going up tomorrow! The illustrations were STUNNING!
My TTT:
Ooh, good, I’ll look for your review. I loved the illustrations so much — I feel like I want to blow them up to huge size and study the details. 🙂
Thanks for sharing. Which of these books is your favorite?
That’s a tough question! So many of these are parts of beloved ongoing series. But I think I’d have to say that Snow Glass Apples is my favorite of these — it’s unique and gorgeous and perfect in so many ways.
thank you!
Thank YOU for stopping by! 🙂
my pleasure.
I love a wintery feeling book and these all look great! 😊
My TTT: https://lifewithallthebooks.com/2019/12/03/top-ten-tuesday-holiday-reads-books-you-love-reading-during-holiday-season/
Thanks! This was a fun prompt to work off, and I really liked putting all these book covers in one post. 🙂
Love this list, and I’m needing a hot cup of tea just looking at all these covers😁
Hot cocoa with marshmallows for me! 🙂
These covers are so lovely. I am especially drawn to Snow, Glass, Apples. I don’t think I’ve heard of that one before.
It’s originally a short story (I read it years ago in one of Neil Gaiman’s collections (maybe Smoke & Mirrors?), but this illustrated edition makes it even better.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes is the next book in the series I need to read. Hopefully I can pick it up soon!! And I have Snowblind on my shelf waiting too. Great list!
My TTT
Thanks! A Breath of Snow and Ashes is a really good one (aren’t they all??). Enjoy!
I’m going to have to look through and see – I suddenly have the urge for a hot chocolate! Great list 🙂
Thanks! I’ll have to remember to do something similar in six months to warm me up for summer. 🙂
So many lovely picks! I’m so excited to see that you included Carry On–I feel like it fits with this time of the year so well, too!
Thanks!