20 Wintery books (for every type of reader)!

[@anastasia1206]

Tove Jansson’s name is pronounced something like Toove Yansson. So it’s the “oo” sound as in the word “too”, “e” at the end of the first name is pronounced, and the beginning of her last name starts with the “ya” sound as in “yah”

[@AnneSofieLovesMozart]

It's not "oo" as in too, it's more like an "oh" sound, but not quite. I'm not sure the English speaking language has that sound. Also the "e" in Tove is pronounced.

[@anastasia1206]

Yes, different languages have different ways of pronouncing similar sounds, so it’s difficult to write down pronunciation of words from one language using symbols of another language, but I believe that “too” would be close enough for an English speaker

[@miriam2526]

I'm usually reading Narnia during the winter. Especially the first book! :)

[@ReligionOfSacrifice]

"Oh, they have robbed me of the hope, my spirit held so dear. They will not let me hear that voice my soul delights to hear. They will not let me see that face, I so delight to see; and they have taken all thy smiles and all thy love from me. Well, let them seize on all they can, one treasure still is mine. A heart that loves to think on thee, and feels the worth of thine." - Anne Bronte "I hoped that with the brave and strong, my portioned task might lie; to toil amid the busy throng with purpose pure and high. But God has fixed another part and He has fixed it well; I said so with my bleeding heart, when first the anguish fell. A dreadful darkness closes in on my bewildered mind. Oh, let me suffer and not sin, be tortured, yet resigned. Shall I with joy, thy blessings share and not endure their loss? Or hope the martyr's crown to wear and cast away the cross?" - a portion of "Last Lines" by Anne Bronte

[@iamrjdennis]

So excited for the winter!! ❄☃❤

[@denisefreitas6727]

Great recommendations, Carolyn! Anne of Green Gables, Anna Karenina, A Christmas Carol are some of my favorites too. I recommend The Nutcracker.

[@fandomshark]

I’m currently reading “Game of Thrones”, and I hope to read “Little Women” this winter.

[@bujobyfilo]

Last winter I read the first book in The bear and the nightingale trilogy and loved it! It's set in winter and it's folklore and magical realism and so good!

[@deborahracette9755]

I have A CLASSIC CHRISTMAS in a little vignette with evergreen branches and candles. Looks so simple yet beautiful.

[@erinjandacreative]

I always think about reading Little Women and watching the film adaptation during the Winter.

[@aprilg3193]

Have you read Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey? It is a beautiful book to read in the winter! It is sad and hopeful and can immerse you in the feeling of winter any time of year!

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I have yet to read it, but I’ve heard great things! I’m so glad you recommend it!

[@__rishikasingh]

Carolyn I'd love if you can do a middle grade book recommendation part 2 ! ❤❤❤

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’m so glad! I’ll make a note of that!

[@NatalyaVins-blueflower775]

For mystery lovers, I recommend The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie.

[@bettymaugeri7316]

So glad to have found your channel - I hope to read some of your winter recommendations!

[@aoivil]

Carolyn, greetings from Ireland ! Another great video. So delighted to see Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan make your list.

[@neliaaa]

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh feels like a cold, harsh winter book. It would be good to read before the new adaptation is released!

[@circleofleaves2676]

Haha, when you said "I never talk about this book ever. I don't really like it that much". I laughed out loud because I knew what you were going to say. I love your love for Anna Karenina. I love AK too and I really want to re-read it!

[@caitlin1008]

📚All the books mentioned: - Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R Tolkien - Where snow angels go by Maggie O’Farrell - Moonminland Midwinter by Tove Jansson - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - This winter by Alice Oseman - Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery - The deal of a lifetime by Fredrik Backman - A classic Christmas / A vintage Christmas / A timeless Christmas - The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare - The Night is Darkening Round Me - Emily Brontë - Frost - Robert Frost - Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Small things like these - Claire Keegan - Normal people by Sally Rooney - A game of thrones by George R.R Martin

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Thank you 😊

[@danielg3918]

Lovely video, I have to check a few of those out. I always like to revisit The Catcher in the Rye. I don't consider it a Christmas book but it does take place just before the Christmas school break

[@creativemantlemusic9305]

I am really into crime thrillers that almost border on horror... BUT watching your vids has opened my eyes and heart to classic lit and older fiction. AND I just love your voice! Thank you for your reading passion!!

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

Love the Christmas sweater 😂😂😂and thank you for sharing some amazing and brilliant and beautiful books to read on your winter please stay safe and healthy while on your holiday and prayers and blessings for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤

[@melissaaugust7016]

the nutcracker is a favorite for this time a year

[@deblawrence8341]

I recently purchased "Small Things Like These" and "Eugene Onegin" thanks to you and am looking forward to reading them once the snow begins to fall! I work with a lady who is from Russia and she told me reading Pushkin is like champagne. 🥂

[@gabiocampos]

Hahahahhaa the winter sweater!! Lovely recs btw ❤❤ as always!!

[@CarolynMarieReads]

😊❄️

[@AdrianasWonderland]

such a great video! i cannot wait for winter time!

[@ACupofNicole]

I’ve never heard of that Tolkien book! It sounds so beautiful gonna get it for my bf for Christmas thank you for this rec 🥰

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Amazing! I hope you and he enjoy it!!

[@MyGrannyEra]

I had that light gray sweater in college in 1998. haha! And I've so much not enjoyed poetry in the past... but you've convinced me! Ordering Emily Bronte and pulling Robert Frost down off the shelf! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@NameInsertedHere]

12:25 I am absolutely mindblown! Thank you for finally mentioning this book in one of your videos. It is such a gem!

[@marjoriedybec3450]

My recommendations to you: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, and Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory.

[@MariaMedeiros]

I enjoy reading "Little Women" and I know its a sad story but "The Little Match Girl" as well. Thank you for all your lovely recommendations. They all sound so wonderful!

[@chiarabertoldi2992]

Hi Carolyn! I'm half way through "Emily Wilde Encyclopedia of Fairies" and I'm really liking it so far! definetely a fall/wintery book, lots of snow, lots of magic! I agree on Anne of Green Gables, every December I continue with the series, this year is "Anne of the Island", I can't wait! lots of love ❤

[@rondoflicflac]

Loved this ❤ even though here in Argentina summer is coming, I love winter and I love pretending it's winter 😂

[@knygodzungli]

So sweet Christmas sweater😂

[@tundeszabo8220]

I love almost every book you mentioned in this video, and I also read A Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve. I just ordered this beautiful edition of it (I only have it in Hungarian), because I always wanted to have it in English, and this version is sooo beautiful. I agree, it's so heartwarming to see a bit of Tolkien as a father, not only the storyteller. I don't know if you read The Ice Dragon by Martin, but I love reading it in wintertime. Katherine Arden's Winternight series is amazing, too. My most recent favorite is The Snow Child by Maja Lunde, it has the most beautiful illustrations by Lisa Aisato. 😊

[@cinnamonandbooks]

I read the winters tale in January! I gave it 4 stars and really enjoyed it. It's similar to the tempest in the sense that it's a comedy, but there are some tragic elements in it as well

[@martinelanglois3158]

Loved the sweaters !🤣 I like to read Russian authors during the winter because if there is mention of a fireplace, warmth of a stove, fur, etc and I'm reading it when it's 80° outside? Nope. Can't handle it. 🥵 Hope you're having the time of your life travelling. ❤

[@swifty545]

Someone else mentioned The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and I would also thoroughly recommend that. Perfect winter reading, my favourite winter read for sure. Another by the same author, To The Bright Edge of the World, historical fiction, set in Alaska, is also very, very good so recommend that too 🥶❄

[@maryamameen8849]

I love Anne of Green Gables too!! I've reread it so many times at this point lol I am reading game of thrones right now, and I'm almost done with it. I really like it so far 💜

[@Emmareads]

The deal of a lifetime is so good!

[@jmsl_910]

me: how many times did i stop this video to order a book? me: yes

[@CarolynMarieReads]

😂

[@mrd736]

I just found your channel. You're lovely and your book recs are awesome.

[@T-M123]

Hello! I’m so glad you made this video, I literally ran to my bookshelves to get Emily Brontë’s from my Little Black Classics! I’d no idea it was ! apart of it!🤩👏🏼🐾👏🏼🤩 and of course there’s a feeling of validation to have a few of your recommendations! I always read The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg 🌲📚🌲

[@pendragon2012]

I love winter weather and winter books! Tolkien's Letters are amazing!

[@circleofleaves2676]

I always get jealous at this time of year seeing Northern Hemisphere booktubers going into winter and showing footage of snow, etc, because where I live right now we've already started on our 7 month summer.

[@jamesduggan7200]

O Henry's Gift of the Magi - perennial X-mas story. btw Winter's Tale one of my favorites. The stage direction is either the end of Act 1 or the start of Act 2. It is as bizarre as it sounds and can affect how we receive the play, which is a wild ride of ups, downs, and sideways.

[@chiming_]

I think you will love Tove Jansson’s novels. You could consider trying her The Summer Book first.

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’m very glad you think so! I’ve been wanting to read The Summer Book for quite a while now. I’ll have to prioritize it :)

[@Tanya1714]

What?! I didn't know that Vintage Christmas is part of a series! Now it feels lonely on my shelf and I need to buy the other two 😊

[@cafeaulivre]

What I love most is that I did a similar video just a week ago and we came up with so many different wintery books (and both ended up with Fredrick Backmann apparently). If I would recommend just one, let's go with the 'new' Agatha Christie seasonal series. Midwinter Murder collection of winter-themed mysteries, because a lot of her stories are winter-related and are perfect to read this time of year.

[@Johanna_reads]

Excellent recommendations! A Game of Thrones was a perfect choice. There are several on this list I want to pick up now. I wonder if you might enjoy The Winternight Trilogy. It’s a Russian folklore inspired fantasy series with an excellent cold, wintery atmosphere.

[@BibBubDude]

A personal recommendation that I have. This book to me just has the best vibe to read on a cold wet lonely winter night. Norwegian Wood.

[@dieuraltemorla1658]

12:14 I did start reading Anna Karenina last week and I'm liking it so far. I kinda waited for the cold season to read it, because it just felt right. It's my first Tolstoi - it took me a whole day to decide if I should read this or War and Peace - and even though I read larger classic this year I'm still intimidated after 160 pages.

[@sportyprincessxo]

Carolyn, I am still on my fall tbr!!!!!!😂

[@CarolynMarieReads]

👀😂 best of luck with your reading, no matter the season!

[@briannareece2746]

L.M. Montgomery has a book of Christmas stories, they are beautiful ❤

[@ЕкатеринаСидоренко-ж8ч]

The most wintery books for me are Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and His dark materials by Philip Pullman ❄️

[@Doreneemi701]

I LOVE wintry books! A few I’d love to recommend are The Bear and the Nightingale (and the rest of the trilogy), and my favorite ever picture book, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston and Barbara Cooney

[@ReligionOfSacrifice]

That Gloria Houston book is great. "Oh, they have robbed me of the hope, my spirit held so dear. They will not let me hear that voice my soul delights to hear. They will not let me see that face, I so delight to see; and they have taken all thy smiles and all thy love from me. Well, let them seize on all they can, one treasure still is mine. A heart that loves to think on thee, and feels the worth of thine." - Anne Bronte "I hoped that with the brave and strong, my portioned task might lie; to toil amid the busy throng with purpose pure and high. But God has fixed another part and He has fixed it well; I said so with my bleeding heart, when first the anguish fell. A dreadful darkness closes in on my bewildered mind. Oh, let me suffer and not sin, be tortured, yet resigned. Shall I with joy, thy blessings share and not endure their loss? Or hope the martyr's crown to wear and cast away the cross?" - a portion of "Last Lines" by Anne Bronte

[@CatherineLambert-fz7pd]

A Winter's Tale is fantastic ❤

[@pique-portia]

Thank you for these recommendations! I want to film reading vlogs for christmas and winter in general for my Channel. I am going to read Backmann and Dickens. But also E.T.A. Hoffmanns The Nutcracker and The Night before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol 😊

[@Tanya1714]

Anne of Green Gables books are associated for me with autumn and spring, not winter/summer. I always try rereading one from this series during the fall 🍁❤

[@magda_mf]

The Ice Palace! And for coziness, some Agatha Christie 😊

[@mattkean1128]

I love The Winter's Tale, not everybody does. Eugene Onegin as well. I just finished Foster by Claire Keegan. It's not as season appropriate as STLT, but i loved them both. You should get The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, an illustrated book. It has a classic animated special too.

[@exlibrisdeclan]

i always recommend reading the secret garden by frances hodgson burnett during winter

[@neshkavirdure8289]

🎇🙋‍♀️🙂Thank You So Much for This Winter Book Recommendation List🙂👍👍📚😊I am a Big Fan of Tolkien But Haven't Read Letters From Father Christmas So I Will Be Soo Looking Out For It, Thanks Again!🌻🌻🌻🌻

[@CarolynMarieReads]

My pleasure 😊 I hope you enjoy it!!

[@neshkavirdure8289]

@CarolynMarieReads 🌄🙋‍♀️🙂Thank You🌻🌻🌻

[@Sev0518]

A Winter’s Tale is fabulous. If you like reading it, check out the 1999 RSC version with Sir Antony Sher. It’s amazing!

[@circleofleaves2676]

I'm going to be an annoying pedant (but with a smile) and say that it actually isn't "literally called A Winter's Tale". It's called The Winter's Tale. If you like Jeanette Winterson, after reading TWT you could try reading The Gap of Time, which is Jeanette Winterson's re-telling (or "cover version" as she calls it) of TWT. It's part of The Hogarth Shakespeare Series, which I think you'd actually love, Carolyn! 😊 The Hogarth Shakespeare Series is modern authors each taking on a different Shakespeare play for a modern adapted re-telling. I think my favourite so far in the series has been Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood, which is a re-telling of The Tempest. The Gap of Time isn't a favourite of mine, I much prefer JW's older works.

[@traceyartista2058]

I'd add Tolstoy's short story "Master and Man". Definitely feel the cold. I know you love Tolstoy, Carolyn, so you've likely read this one 😊 but I recommend it here to others.

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I actually haven’t read Master and Man yet, so I’m glad you recommended it! Thank you :) Also, yes, Tolstoy is the best!

[@traceyartista2058]

@CarolynMarieReads Yay! I think you'll love it. I have the Penguin 60s edition, which is a cute little book with a Monet winter landscape on the cover, a lucky vintage find.

[@Harmosaurus]

Recommend Leo Tolstoy's short story 'Master and Man'.. The whole story takes place in a blizzard! Happy Friday-upload day everyone :)

[@monikatabak9474]

Thank you for your recommendations❤❤❤ I think Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak could be a good read for winter📚📚

[@CatherineLambert-fz7pd]

I have a few of those little black Penguins ❤❤❤❤

[@jamesduggan7200]

Of course I don't know but there is a possibility in an original staging of The Winter's Tale they used a real, albeit trained, bear, which if true certainly would have riveted the audience's attention. On a more literary level, the bear serves to advance the storyline in a way human interaction could never do. In other words, if you imagine the following conversation: "Well, yeah but why didn't so and so do such and such - it doesn't make any sense." There is the convenient answer: He/she would have done precisely that but for the unforeseen presence of the bear.

[@黃鈺婷-t3b]

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin is great for winter.

[@neshkavirdure8289]

🌄🙋‍♀️🙂I Just Got Through Reading Letters to Father Christmas By J.R.R.Tolkien(My Most Favorite Author Other Than Jane Austen😊) 😃Loved All The North Pole Adventures And Characters(Polar Bear Setting Off Firecrackers, The Goblin Battles, Polar Bear, Red Gnomes, Elves Etc ).Thank You Soo Much for This Recommendation😊Want to Own This Book Much😊📚

[@AmalijaKomar]

Love Ana Karenina, but more like War and Peace person. You are great when the Russian classics are in question. And no, I'm not from Russia.

[@sherribugd3799]

Dad, why does the North Pole look like Gondor? lol Lovely collection.

[@salkinfamilychiropractic3142]

Is there a link to that version of "Letters" JRR Tolkien

[@doreene11]

Normal People for winter?? I associate this one with spring and summer, especially since most of it takes place during this time and the Italy part of it.

[@chariotmoon]

i really thought she’d recommend legends and lattes for the fantasy pick 🤣

[@lilaccottage]

📚😊

[@kurtfox4944]

Snow Falling on Cedars. Beautifully written. Not cozy. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Feel the cold. FEEL THE WINTER. Anti-cozy. Call Of The Wild (or, To Light a Fire, or many books by Jack London). Feel the cold. FEEL THE WINTER.

[@negarshafia]

please talk about other books, you have already talked about them enough❤

[@moonflower1616]

"Why am I recommending this book?" BECAUSE WINTER IS COMING. ☠️⛄️❄️ 😂😂😂😂

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Exactly 😂❄️

[@aliajaffer3427]

Anna Karanina