your ultimate guide to winter reading | ICE FANTASY, CHRISTMAS, SNOW CLASSICS

if you celebrate Christmas and you want some Christmas books in your life the first one is of course A Christmas Carol I would be it would be treason not to mention this

that is why a court of mist and fury gets put onto this list simply for the night court which is honestly really beautiful

first pick on here Game of Thrones it is A Song of Ice and Fire this category is all about fantasy this is all fantasy set in the winter or having something to do with the cold Winterfell you know obviously it's on here Love Song of Ice and Fire

Sarah in a little princess gathers whose name means princess doesn't it gathers so much strength from stories and fairy tales and believing that she is a princess after her father dies abroad and she loses her fortune

these are the books about winter that are not happy they're sad and they feel like those Long Winter nights where you're just so depressed and you're like where has the sun gone

you follow so many different characters in here and each of them are going through something and it's very or it tries very hard to be emotionally stirring

Daisy Miller by Henry James this one is actually beautiful

my absolute favorites on this video is in this video sorry is Ember and the ice dragons

this is also very good honestly academic rivalry between Emily and her colleague Wendell

this is one of my favorite YA books ever I am obsessed with this

these are the books about winter that are not happy they're sad and they feel like those Long Winter nights where you're just so depressed and you're like where has the sun gone

this is all written in verse so beautiful I read this last year tragedy so much tragedy is just so much better when there's snow around

this was not the strongest fantasy I've ever read in my life but I will still recommend it for the winter Vibes in the woods

it's Frankenstein by Mary Shelly incredible

it's honestly a very basic young adult tropy stereotypy fantasy but I think I liked it I really liked it I think she did it well

the writing style on this is just so gorgeous so suited to the story it's so lyrical it's so beautiful and it's written so interestingly

it follows a bunch of people who return again and again in the summer to the Athabasca Glacier in this book and it is so gorgeous this is one of my favorite books of all time

this is a retelling of The Nutcracker but I thought it was really overwritten it was the writing that did this one in for me I don't think it's very good it's really overwrought the description is obnoxious in my opinion

I didn't really like this but that is the mlet toe motive

this book is it's terrifying the things that go on for him because he's like where is my world where is the sun where's the grass what is this stuff it's just so it's really truly profound honestly like this book is gorgeous

I personally didn't really jive with this one takes a very liberal approach to how Charles Dickens became inspired to write a Christmas carol

for me this was just a silly fun time if not a little bit aggravating and irritating because I wanted it to be better

it's actually so good her best work that is reserved for the Raven Boys in my opinion but this one holds a very nostalgic place in my heart

I read this a long time ago this book is so cool

the illustrations in here are just something else like so Whimsical

this is set one of the snowiest places on Earth and we follow this man from Tokyo he's left his family behind and he's going up to the snow resort to see his girl who's not really actually his girl it's not a fun time

this has a lot of different fairy tale elements really beautiful and also quite like heavy it's a very heavy book honestly

I'm so sad that I didn't like this as much as I wanted to

I put the Blue Fox on here by is an Icelandic fable about a man who is hunting this Blue Fox it's very short set in the winter it's about him kind of being bested by this fox

this is one of the best middle grade I've ever read

the way that Heather like spins it is just so beautiful it combines such Gothic horrifying elements of the pi Piper

I love this I need to reread it and I need to continue on with the series

I need to reread it because at the time I was swamped with work and didn't get into the story as much as I feel like I could

the next and gather around the name has to be The Lion The Witch in the wardrobe by CS Lewis

so weird it's so weird and I love it so much it's like frightening and so strange

these are middle grade by the way but they read pretty mature I don't know it's been 10 years since I read it but that's was my feeling as a kid cuz I read this as a kid

if you have forgotten about it too may I recommend to you and remind you that the slippery slope by Lemony Snicket exists

descriptions in this book are really to die for so highly recommend the ice palace

if you like very meticulous books this is really interesting

what Sally Gardner has done because it's honestly a masterpiece is set the story of the Tinder Box in the 30 Years War

there is one guest who is a Frenchman who is a graphic design illustrator he's writing books and he wants her to be his tour guide around Soo really unique honestly

this is a retelling middle grade retelling about Baba Yaga but mostly we follow this young wolf and it's about her trying to save her pack from the people who would do them harm