Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean.

The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder

In the Land of White Death, by Valerian Albanov. In 1912, a Russian merchant ship is trapped in the ice and after several months, the navigator leaves the ship with several of its crew and attempts to make it back across the ice from somewhere north of Franz Joseph Land to Russia, a 200+ mile journey. This is his diary, but reads almost as a novel.

Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness, which takes place on an Ice Age planet nicknamed Winter. The best part of the book (my opinion!) is when Genly Ai and Estraven cross the glaciers.

This is nonfiction, but consider Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance, by Mariana Gosnell, or the Caldecott Winner, Snowflake Bentley.

Or another famous picture book, A Snowy Day. That one will really take you back to childhood days of playing the snow!

Endurance by Alfred Lansing, about Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, is an amazing story.

Peter Jenkins' book, Looking for Alaska, about living in remote parts of Alaska is interesting, too. His description of bears crushing skulls and other body parts is memorable.

Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, starts and ends with a red sled and snow storms, I think.

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney - set in snowy Canada.

SNOWFLAKES by Kenneth Libbrecht

This is a beautiful and awe-inspiring book .

What a treasure trove of ideas! I have not read a single one of the books suggested so far. I knew I'd get some good ones from this group. I'm eager to see what other books might be mentioned.

I forgot to mention Touch, by Alexi Zentner - set in northern Canada. The review talks about the 'crippling beauty of winter' - the images this book evokes will stay with you! (There are a LOT of books with the same title, be sure to look at the right one, by Zentner.)

A book I read as a young teen is Mrs. Mike, set in Alberta, Canada. It is based on the life of a real woman who, as a young girl, fell in love with a Canadian man and lived through tough times. It's a love story and more.

My mother was fond of Mrs. Mike. It was one of the school book club books when I was growing up. Lots of the girls read it.

The Left Hand of Darkness is written by one of my favorite authors. She won both the Nebula and Hugo awards for the novel.

Arctic Chill and Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason. Both are murder mysteries taking place in Iceland in the dead of winter.

Veins of Ice by Yrsa Sigurdardottir takes place on an isolated research station in Greenland in the middle of winter and is very claustrophobic.

I remember Mrs. Mike, I read it in elementary school, and might have even bought it through the Scholastic book club. I do clearly remember being upset by her child dying -- was it whooping cough?

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen. A snow book and a dog book. Funny at times, fast, easy reading.

Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed is quite good too (not a Western!).

I'm so pleased with my new Snow Book TBR list. Thank you! Let me know if you think of others.