Find your perfect winter break read below ! :)
A true story about tragedy on Everest, the visuals reflect the season, but the story will chill you.
Recommended bu Julia C.
Set in a small Massachusetts town, this book is cozy, gripping, and darkly funny.
Recommended by Clark G.
It really is a fairy tale so it fits with the holiday mood. It's also nice and long and will be the perfect book to read on a cozy winter night.
Recommended by Cindy F.
There is no better time than winter break, when you have some time off and you're stuck inside, to dive into an involved sci-fi/fantasy series! This book is both such a fun time and incredibly heartbreaking, and that theme continues throughout the series.
Recommended by Hilary C.
This is the first book in the Winternight trilogy, perfect if you like any of the following: vivid winter atmosphere, folklore-inspired fantasy, medieval Russian history, and a heroine it's impossible not to root for. Bonus: All three books are available from BC Overdrive.
Recommended by Natyra P.
A man's son, who is studying for the priesthood, is murdered at Christmas time. Over the next decade, the man struggles with grief, depression, loss of faith and marital problems. He slowly learns to forgive and move forward.
Recommended by Karen B.
The story unfolds during the Christmas holidays and has a nice, romantic feel.
Recommended by Cindy F.
My Life of Crime is a set of autobiographical essays full of pranks, minor crimes, and Gen X humor set in and around New York City in the 80's and 90's. Always amusing & yet compassionate, never reticent, and and often laugh out loud funny, Gore's essays recall an era of New York that was gritty and even a little unhinged. Imagine "Seinfeld" if the main characters were almost flat broke and a little more transgressive.
Recommended by Steve R.
If you haven't read "The Hobbit" but have been thinking about it - now is the time! I can't possibly think of a cozier and more captivating adventure book for the winter break than this! Additionally, "The Hobbit" is a self-contained story, so if you don't want to read "The Lord of the Rings" series afterwards, you absolutely don't have to! (But I doubt you will stop at "The Hobbit"!)
Recommended by Katya V.
Glück's verse is as sparing and stark as leafless branches in winter, but always richly evocative and unflinching in its answers to existential questions, and this collection centered around the myth of Persephone and Hades is no exception. After enjoying it in college, I picked up a used copy of my own recently, and I'm eager to reread it with a hot cup of tea on some chilly Sunday.
Recommended by Nicole K.
Set in the 1960's in California, Lesson's in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott a chemist, made TV host. The book takes on sexism and changing the status quo with a fun cast of characters. A fun read that also deals with important topics!
Recommended by Lily D.
The prose are very accessible but at the same time very profound; the characters are easy to follow and each are totally unique (lots of humor, too). The story itself is about a young man (a soldier during WWII) who has flashbacks to his younger days when he first began to discover his identity in relationship to a very mysterious and slightly obscure family who reside at Brideshead Manor. The story weaves together themes of Catholicism, atheism, college life, romance, and art.
Recommended by Jacob S.
Easy to read with lots of advice and thoughtful wisdom. A great contrasting explanation of how not to work for money but let money work for you. I recommend this to students, early 20's, to start having financial wisdom and plan ahead because financial difficulty is the worst kind of stress anyone can have.
Recommended by Takumi O.
