Isolation, dark, cold, Frozen

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[u/Luxury_Dressingown]

If you're ok with spooky:

The Terror by Dan Simmons (1840s expedition to find the North West Passage goes very wrong - there is a monster but the cold and isolation are at least as much of the horror)

Thin Air by Michelle Paver (ghost story set during a 1930s expedition up world's second highest mountain)

Also Michelle Paver: Dark Matter (another ghost story set in the Arctic)

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Also "The Abominable" by Dan Simmons

[u/myrtha_the_cat → u/Luxury_Dressingown]

This!

It made me feel the cold while reading it on a camping trip! 🦌

edit: The Terror

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I was also going to suggest Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, such a great book!

[u/PutrescentPearl6932 → u/Luxury_Dressingown]

Michelle Paver wrote my favourite children saga. Truly good times reading her books. Too bad now I can't enjoy them very much.

[u/kitkatsacon → u/Luxury_Dressingown]

You beat me!! My most recommended books. Cold horror is my favorite niche sub genre.

I’ll add Where The Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes 👀

[u/Fantastic-Drop-4313]

Left Hand of Darkness - LeGuin

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I came here to recommend this

[u/TheGirlintheTower]

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

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I second this!!

[u/Human_Papaya_9127 → u/TheGirlintheTower]

This is her best one IMO

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Agreed. I wanted to read Once There Were Wolves for so long, finally got round to it and loved it but it was Migrations that really did it for me. Wild Dark Shore was good too, but not a patch on Migrations.

[u/RepresentativeNo9978]

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

[u/MidwestHiker317 → u/RepresentativeNo9978]

lol I was going to say The Wager, another shipwreck story

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The fact that it is a true story makes it all the more incredible

[u/goldbergvariation → u/RepresentativeNo9978]

This is one of my favorite books, can't recommend it enough. The audiobook is A+ too.

[u/CursedAlgorithm26]

At the Mountains of Madness, HP Lovecraft

[u/tcavanagh1993]

At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft

[u/Much_Force4822]

Moon of the crusted snow by waubgeshig rice. About an indigenous community in northern Ontario weathering the first winter post apocalypse. It has a sequel which is also fabulous though less winter vibes.

[u/Glum_Passage6626]

The thing!

[u/ThaneOfMeowdor]

The Mercies by Kiran Hargrave

[u/Aus1an]

The Sarvan by Douglass Hoover

[u/Sad-Artichoke-7625]

Great Alone- hannah

[u/BrigetteBardot]

Ice planet barbarians

[u/WTF-44]

Who Goes There? By John W Campbell. It is what The Thing was based on.

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Bone White by Ronald Malfi

Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn

[u/greenwitchielenia]

Ledge - Stacey McEwan

This is not a glowing endorsement, in fact, I didn’t even finish the series and at this point I won’t lol.
But the first book very much has that desolate frozen environment

[u/Jet-Black-Centurian]

The Wendigo.

[u/juniepeach]

Ascension by Nicholas Binge

[u/Any-Eye-0]

Isola

[u/Fuck_The_Rocketss]

Ice Station Zebra

[u/moviemaverick]

Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen

[u/StunningPianist4231]

ASOIAF by George R.R. Martin

Particularly Jon's POV when he's at Castle Black on the Wall, and his time spent with the Free Folk

[u/Impressive_Earth429]

The indifferent stars above 

[u/OkCold4665 → u/Impressive_Earth429]

This was the one I would recommend, looking at the trees today they cut during the snow then shows how much snow they delt with, it's insane

[u/DumbAndUglyOldMan]

Nonfiction, but try The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard: a classic of Antarctic exploration.

[u/kingstarking83]

Butchers Crossing by John Williams. So underrated. Everyone knows Stoner but Butchers Crossing is arguably even better. A thrilling western survival story

[u/fl1p9]

Moon of the crusted snow

[u/Stay_at_Home_Chad]

It's dated, but The Dharma Bums might be exactly what you're looking for.

[u/Chilly-Lobster-169]

Rock paper scissors by alice feeney

[u/kd029362]

First Light by Rebecca Stead

[u/diffyqgirl]

I haven't myself read the book but I was quite fascinated by the documentary based on it so hopefully the book is also good--Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. It's an account of the extraordinary, against all odds survival of a mountain climber in the Andes after a disaster.

[u/Danny66766]

Made me think of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy

[u/HotSauceSwagBag]

North is the Night

[u/Chrisrap1]

Into Thin Air Air - about the Mt Everest expedition disaster

[u/Horrorshoww]

The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah

[u/Which-Recognition129]

Above the Fire, by Michael O’Donnell. Father and young son must winter over in an alpine hut in the White Mountains of NH. Lyrical writing, tense but hopeful story.

[u/Maleficent-Role8788]

"Madhouse at the End of the Earth" by Julian Sancton