Here I am, in October, putting holds out and adding them to my tbr on Libby. You have to do this months ahead or you'll miss out on the reads. Three from your list, already, have a hold! In October!
I never see anybody recommending The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, Once Upon a Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar which are relatively new releases as well as The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - an older one. Two more books that could be mentioned are The Snow Song by Sally Gardner and Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer. All those books are perfect winter reads so please do look them up!
The Brown Sisters series were the first romances I read in years, with very few before that & they totally changed my mind about what romance books can actually be. I love them so much, especially Chloe & Eve ❤
Krampus and Other Yuletide Tales is a book with short folklore stories, and it has super cute illustrations. The first three in the Monsters of Grimlake series by Salem Sinclair is short and fun. The first is Krampus and the third is too, but it takes place during Lupercalia. For snowy horror, Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates is great, and a lot of Ronald Malfi takes place in winter, Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell, One Last Gasp by Andrew C Piazza (this one is historical and cosmic and lots of body horror).
As someone living in Florida the warm weather setting is quite relatable for winter, I feel for you snow area people 😅😅😅 I've had kingdom of Souls on my tbr since you mentioned it a few years ago and just now remembered it lol. I adore The Lunar Chronicles and might need to reread it soon 🥰 "Victorian England in the cold" if I were to describe my winter ideal this would be it 😂😂😂As someone who studied both environmental science and history the word smog is very much a real description. ❄❄❄
@saramm3765 It wasn't the cozy, fun Christmas fantasy I thought it was going to be. It was so much more! I'm still thinking about it. I'll be rereading next year, and I think I'll get even more out of it.
If you want a warm climate book to read in the winter I bet With Love, From Cold World (same author as Love in the Time of Serial Killers) would be perfect since it’s set in Orlando Florida following people that work at a tourist destination called Cold World in which it mimics a winter wonderland including being very cold. I haven’t read it but I do own it and plan to! For very long fantasy /novels set in winter or Christmas I recommend Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin (748 pgs) This is a bit of a classic being originally released in 1983 but I’ve read the first 50 pages and the writing is beautiful and fits the winter vibe to the fullest. It also has an adaption to watch! A great winter horror anthology thats quite short is Dead of Winter by Kealan Patrick Burke- it has specific stories about Christmas as well. It’s definitely a good one for this request! A Wild Winter Swan is a fantasy historical retelling of The Wild Swans set in NYC! Definitely fits the fairytale-esque vibes. Winter thrillers: One by One by Ruth Ware, Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney, The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf Winter Fantasy in general that I loved: Cold the Night, Fast the wolves! LOVED this one- plus has an animal companion! A couple winter graphic novels to throw in: Friday Book One: The First Day of Christmas (so fun!) and Blankets!
Ohhh thanks for recommending Get a Life, Chloe Brown! I was trudging through stuck at 40%, but I think the audiobook might be more for me, so I will give it another go.
I recommend to read "The Gadfly" by E. L.Voinich- a beautiful, but hardly known in Europe and the USA victorian novel . You will never regret the time spent on it.
Can you please start listing the titles and authors of the books you recommend in the description? I keep having to go back to the video to find the names.
Whimsical fantasy just equates to Stephanie Garber to me 😂 The whole caraval and once upon a broken heart series 🥹 been saving the newest one for Christmas Day ❤
Not sure if you've read Midnight in Everwood, but it's been fantastic and I love Stephanie Garber. She even had a blurb saying she enjoyed the book too.
❄ there are some wintery thrillers that are very interesting to read this time in the year, Love you more is a action packed one that I read years ago. Also, the thrilling part of thrillers keep you warm. ☺
Im currently reading krampus by brom and I’m loving it. Always grieve the end of Samhain but this book has made me enjoy Yule as it doesn’t have all the sprinkles around it as Christmas and I feel it still has a touch of spook season to it😂 would highly recommend it! Reading the lore is so fascinating. Deffo one for the witches out there!
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Here I am, in October, putting holds out and adding them to my tbr on Libby. You have to do this months ahead or you'll miss out on the reads. Three from your list, already, have a hold! In October!
I never see anybody recommending The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, Once Upon a Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar which are relatively new releases as well as The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - an older one. Two more books that could be mentioned are The Snow Song by Sally Gardner and Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer. All those books are perfect winter reads so please do look them up!
Loveee The Snow Child, so I'll be checking out the rest of these!
I just heard about The Snow Child last week and knew it was a read I needed to order ASAP.
Love the witch and the tsar and reading snow child
Right now!
Emily Wilde is perfect for this time of year, it's cosy fantasy which still has stakes and is set in winter, both in the real and the fae realm.
Great video, The Night Circus is one of my favourites and love Narnia. ❄📚
I loved the bear and the nightingale, the witch and the tsar, and echo north and wind daughter
I need to finish Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Hiddensee by Gregory MaGuire was a Nutcracker origin story was good for Wintertime.
I was so excited to see Johnathan Strange & Mr Norell on this list! It’s such a good one!
Great recs! Merry Christmas! ❄️
45K here we come! Can’t wait to see you hit 50K! So excited when a new video hits ❤❄️
Great list! ❄️
Thank you for so many great suggestions. I'm looking forward to reading some of them this winter!
I adore 'Daughter of the Forest'
The Brown Sisters series were the first romances I read in years, with very few before that & they totally changed my mind about what romance books can actually be. I love them so much, especially Chloe & Eve ❤
Love your recommendations, they are always so diverse!
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Krampus and Other Yuletide Tales is a book with short folklore stories, and it has super cute illustrations. The first three in the Monsters of Grimlake series by Salem Sinclair is short and fun. The first is Krampus and the third is too, but it takes place during Lupercalia. For snowy horror, Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates is great, and a lot of Ronald Malfi takes place in winter, Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell, One Last Gasp by Andrew C Piazza (this one is historical and cosmic and lots of body horror).
There are some great vlogs on u tube from different countries marching the streets dressed up as krampus very atmospheric and great costumes xx
i plan on reading the once upon a broken heart series this winter. the setting in wintery and so nice for the season.
As someone living in Florida the warm weather setting is quite relatable for winter, I feel for you snow area people 😅😅😅 I've had kingdom of Souls on my tbr since you mentioned it a few years ago and just now remembered it lol. I adore The Lunar Chronicles and might need to reread it soon 🥰
"Victorian England in the cold" if I were to describe my winter ideal this would be it 😂😂😂As someone who studied both environmental science and history the word smog is very much a real description. ❄❄❄
So many of these are books I loved, I need to try Ordinary Monsters ❄️❄️
I'm currently reading Midnight in Everwood! ❄️
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Ok I really want to read The Raven and the Reindeer now! ❄️
So many great suggestions
I'm looking forward to reading The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen. It's a retelling of the nutcracker. Sounds perfect for a Christmas read. ❄️
I've just started reading Legends and Lattes (Yes I'm behind 😅) and it feels like the absolute perfect winter read. It's so cosy!
once upon a broken heart! i can't wait to read it
I’ve added A History of Fear and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia to my list! And curious about a few others, like Master of Sorrows😊
❤️📚❄️ Some very fun recommendations, thank you! Spinning Silver is great! I'm reading The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale now, very good.😊
Ooh I'm just about to start The Toymakers today!
@saramm3765 It wasn't the cozy, fun Christmas fantasy I thought it was going to be. It was so much more! I'm still thinking about it. I'll be rereading next year, and I think I'll get even more out of it.
If you want a warm climate book to read in the winter I bet With Love, From Cold World (same author as Love in the Time of Serial Killers) would be perfect since it’s set in Orlando Florida following people that work at a tourist destination called Cold World in which it mimics a winter wonderland including being very cold. I haven’t read it but I do own it and plan to!
For very long fantasy /novels set in winter or Christmas I recommend Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin (748 pgs) This is a bit of a classic being originally released in 1983 but I’ve read the first 50 pages and the writing is beautiful and fits the winter vibe to the fullest. It also has an adaption to watch!
A great winter horror anthology thats quite short is Dead of Winter by Kealan Patrick Burke- it has specific stories about Christmas as well. It’s definitely a good one for this request!
A Wild Winter Swan is a fantasy historical retelling of The Wild Swans set in NYC! Definitely fits the fairytale-esque vibes.
Winter thrillers: One by One by Ruth Ware, Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney, The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
Winter Fantasy in general that I loved: Cold the Night, Fast the wolves! LOVED this one- plus has an animal companion!
A couple winter graphic novels to throw in: Friday Book One: The First Day of Christmas (so fun!) and Blankets!
I read get a life chloe brown a few years ago I really enjoyed it definitely my favorite book in the trilogy 😊
Ohhh thanks for recommending Get a Life, Chloe Brown! I was trudging through stuck at 40%, but I think the audiobook might be more for me, so I will give it another go.
I hope you come to love it more!
No Exit by Taylor Adams is a great wintery thriller, very dark, very fast-pased, very, well, snowy.
I’m in love with your jumper!! Do you remember where it’s from? So pretty ❤❄️
I recommend to read "The Gadfly" by E. L.Voinich- a beautiful, but hardly known in Europe and the USA victorian novel . You will never regret the time spent on it.
I'm currently reading Krampus and Master of Sorrows was on my big books to read in 2023...that I did not get to😅❄
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I love the cover of Emily Wilde 😩
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Can you please start listing the titles and authors of the books you recommend in the description? I keep having to go back to the video to find the names.
Whimsical fantasy just equates to Stephanie Garber to me 😂 The whole caraval and once upon a broken heart series 🥹 been saving the newest one for Christmas Day ❤
Not sure if you've read Midnight in Everwood, but it's been fantastic and I love Stephanie Garber. She even had a blurb saying she enjoyed the book too.
Pretty copy of Emily Wilde's, I think I like it better than the US cover.
❄ there are some wintery thrillers that are very interesting to read this time in the year, Love you more is a action packed one that I read years ago. Also, the thrilling part of thrillers keep you warm. ☺
Im currently reading krampus by brom and I’m loving it. Always grieve the end of Samhain but this book has made me enjoy Yule as it doesn’t have all the sprinkles around it as Christmas and I feel it still has a touch of spook season to it😂 would highly recommend it! Reading the lore is so fascinating. Deffo one for the witches out there!
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