Arctic novels

Description
Novels set in the Arctic. Started with The Guardian's Top Tens article, "Top 10 Arctic Novels", by Ian McGuire, as well as McGuire's own Arctic novel.
1
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
50,910 members
813 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
22,735 members
345 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
1,229 members
36 reviews
3.9
2 Members
NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
NinieB: The Guardian reader recommendations
4
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
22,018 members
272 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
7,885 members
176 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
6
Ice Station Zebra
by Alistair MacLean
1,563 members
30 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
Explanations
NinieB: The Guardian
7
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
by Michelle Paver
1,242 members
70 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: Absorbing; re-readable.
8
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
by Christoph Ransmayr
332 members
10 reviews
4
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: Good to see this one on the Guardian's list.
9
Greenland
by David Santos Donaldson
114 members
6 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
The Head of Vitus Bering
by Konrad Bayer
52 members
1 review
½ 4.4
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: A very short book. An altogether wonderful one.
11
Silenic Drift / Scales
by Iain Sinclair
12 members
1 review
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: The longer section of this book is a terribly haunting novella of which one strand takes place in Greenland.
12
The Terror
by Dan Simmons
5,534 members
225 reviews
4
13
Solar
by Ian McEwan
3,994 members
159 reviews
½ 3.3
14
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness
3,405 members
120 reviews
4.1
15
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
1,644 members
104 reviews
4
16
The Voyage of the Narwhal
by Andrea Barrett
1,612 members
38 reviews
3.9
17
Through Black Spruce
by Joseph Boyden
1,177 members
50 reviews
4.1
18
House of Meetings
by Martin Amis
1,032 members
31 reviews
½ 3.5
19
The White Darkness
by Geraldine McCaughrean
928 members
76 reviews
½ 3.6
20
The Discovery of Slowness
by Sten Nadolny
920 members
16 reviews
4
21
The Unknown Soldier
by Väinö Linna
886 members
14 reviews
4.1
22
An Old Captivity
by Nevil Shute
490 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Quality of Silence
by Rosamund Lupton
490 members
119 reviews
½ 3.4
24
Permafrost
by Alastair Reynolds
440 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
25
The Rifles
by William T. Vollmann
339 members
5 reviews
4
26
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
by Kim Leine
325 members
13 reviews
4
27
The Sunlit Night
by Rebecca Dinerstein
207 members
12 reviews
3.2
28
The Cage
by Audrey Schulman
194 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
by Georgina Harding
194 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
30
The Still Point
by Amy Sackville
191 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
31
Unformed Landscape
by Peter Stamm
184 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
32
The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga
by James A. Houston
167 members
3 reviews
4
33
The Balloonist
by MacDonald Harris
126 members
2 reviews
3
34
Katherine Carlyle
by Rupert Thomson
97 members
2 reviews
3.8
35
The Broken Lands
by Robert Edric
57 members
1 review
½ 3.5