Desperate for books with cold weather - NO SURVIVAL STORIES

G'morning! With the goal of conquering the mental hold this horrendous summer has been having on my mental well-being, I am seeking out any compelling books with cold/wintery settings. Genre fiction is great, psychological litfic too. Also love media history/biographies. Some potential read-alikes might include:

No Night Is Too Long
A Little Life
Hypothermia
Sadie, When She Died
Poor Things
The Night At the Crossroads
Edith's Diary Highsmith
The Lake of Darkness
The Hand Simenon
By My Hand
Mischief Armstrong
Here Comes a Candle
Looking Glass Sound
Empty Theatre Jemc
Pictures at a Revolution
A History of Fear Dumas
Sellout Ozzi
Maynard's House
The Man Who Ate Too Much
Cimino elton
The Life of Crime edwards
The Show that Never Ends weigel
miss iceland

Genre fiction (noting that I'm old and so are these, sorry):
The Mirror of Her Dreams - mostly happens indoors, but it's cold outside.
The Anvil of Ice - in which the Ice is a sentient villain.
The Left Hand of Darkness - an ice planet
The Terror - quest for the Northwest Passage meets an ice monster

Other fiction
Smilla's Sense of Snow - setting is Denmark and Greenland
Lost Horizon - the snowy peaks of Tibet
Winter's Tale - almost genre fiction, actually. Magical realism in New York.

Pretty much anything by Ragnar Jonasson - the winter and the snow are almost characters in his books (crime fiction by an Icelandic author).

You may want to look into Nordic Noir as well - a lot of them are set in the winter months.

>3 AnnieMod: Thank you so much! I actually love Nordic noir, and Jonasson was my introduction. Two summers ago I picked up Winterkill and dug it, and have read several since than.

>2 Cecrow: I've read Left Hand of Darkness and The Terror and I really enjoyed them! Definitely will look into Mirror of Her Dreams (enjoyed Lord Foul's Bane) and Anvil of Ice (have it on Kindle!)

I've heard from several people that Winter's Tale is their all time favorite book so maybe I should keep that one in mind.

Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse

The wolf in the whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky historical inuit fiction.

The 2nd book of Mercedes Lackeys Valdemar series, Arrow's flight. Better read bk1 first, though. :)

Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden.

Softly Falling - Carla Kelly
A Cold Day for Murder- Dana Stabenow

VERY different from each other, but each very cold.

Mission Child by Maureen McHugh starts with a child living adapted to a snowy environment
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik has an Ice King and lot of descriptions of cold
Planet of Exile by Ursula Le Guin is about an oncoming long winter

I second the winternight trilogy. Set in medieval Russsia and viscerally cold.

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas is a masterpiece of world literature, really haunting.

The Snow Child and To the Bright Edge of the World come to mind. Both sort of magical realism.

Along with Away, great book but only cold at the end. Historical fiction.

Sled Dog Trails a memoir by the first woman Iditarod race competitor,

and if all else fails-

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

Tove Jansson's Winter Book perhaps?

ETA. I managed a link yay. Totally the wrong Book boo.

Also there's a fairly light and charming graphic novel by Eichler called Mush sled dogs with issues, v canine office politics

The first two books in Matt Goldman's Nils Shapiro detective series take place during winter in Minneapolis. Also I vaguely remember that series by the cozy mystery author with the books set in a small Quebec town being wintery at least sometimes. ETA: Louise Penny - I only read a couple of them, but there was definitely ice and snow involved!

Does no survival stories mean no horror too?

Popular music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi chronicles the author's youth in the far north of Sweden. Several chapters deal with the noises of winter, the beauty of the melting ice and the annual ice breakup when the river becomes navigable again.

1222 by Anne Holt is a locked-room mystery set in a snowed-in hotel.

Arctic dreams by Barry Lopez. Non-fiction (mostly), about the ecology and the biology (broadly speaking) of the Arctic.

Visions of Hanna by Rascha Peper is a novella about a winter spent in a houseboat on a lake, and the friendship between an elderly translator and a local ice skater.

Anna Kavan's Ice is a trippy apocalyptic tale where Earth is slowly freezing over. The iterations of the main plot deal with (among other things) loneliness, addiction and toxic masculinity. You'll either love this or hate this.

I can second other recommendations in this thread: The ice palace, The left hand of darkness, Smilla's sense of snow.

Flight of the Goose - Lesley Thomas

>11 defaults: I've been meaning to check this one out!

>15 eclbates: Thanks, that series sounds great! Horror is good, I led with that point to make it clear I was looking more for stories where conflict and plot development is the result of human interaction rather than clashing with the environment.

>19 Amateria66: Excellent! In that case, I'll add The Drift by CJ Tudor, and Near the Bone by Christina Henry, both of which have snowy settings.

>2 Cecrow: Reading your list put a smile on my face when I saw Lost Horizon. I remember reading and rereading and rereading that when a teenager, constnatly thinking/fantasizing that surely someplace like Shangri La must really exist in the secret, far reaches of the Himalaya!

For something very out of the ordinary how about an epic poem: The Kalevala. It was compiled into book form in the 19th Century and is based on Finnish folklore and mythology. Kalev, for whom the epic is named, was an ancient Finnish, possibly mythological, ruler.

WHITE DARKNESS
by Geraldine McCaughrean

Christopher Fowler did a series of eccentric procedural crime stories about a v old detective duo called Bryant & May. White Corridor is a wintry story story where they are away from London in the snow, solving a murder by mobile phone. Its mostly whodunnit with a bit of snow.

THE WILD ONE, Nick Petrie
NIGHTWATCHING, Tracy Sierra
Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances
by John Green (Contributor) LT Author, Maureen Johnson (Contributor), Lauren Myracle (Contributor)

I just read We Do Not Part and it contained the most beautiful descriptions of snow that I have ever read.

Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon is a good one for genre.