These Books are Literally Winter. 

You have quickly become one of my favorite RU-vidrs ever!! Such an inspirational and lovely gal! :-)

A true Capricorn ♑️ ❤. Resonates with me. I’m also a Capricorn. Give me all the dark, deep, cold, depressing vibes. It makes me feel so much better about myself 😅

her being a winter baby makes SO much sense to me (a compliment btw)

I really enjoyed Small Things Like These. It's also being turned into a movie starring Cillian Murphy!

If you haven't read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk I'd highly recommend! A great winter-y read--I loved the audiobook.

I LOVE Claire Keegan! - I’m very into that economical writing in which every word seems to have been placed carefully and with purpose - ‘Foster’ is very good too☺️

When I think winter, I automatically think of Dr. Zhivago-both the movie and the book. Winter is used as a device to highlight the beauty of the season but also how harsh it (and life itself) is, and they contrast it with the spring time, and how life is easier then.

My two favorite booktubers are both winter-loving girlies - you and Emmie/Emma 💕 you described winter so well through these books, loved this. I read Hunger earlier this year because of you and it was so moving! It has stuck with me in a very haunting way. I feel like I don’t have a lot of winter recs under my belt, but I did just finish Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and felt like that was a really good spooky, unsettling winter book!

Your videos are masterpieces Anna ! Love your vision and taste. As For book for me it’s The shining By Stephen King, both novel and a movie are just so atmospheric.

My winter favorites are The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and a more adult book is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey ❄️🩵 Also Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather! ❄️

I love hearing you talk about Krakauer. I actually just finished Classic Krakauer this past week from your recommendation. I've only read Into the Wild a few years ago but I have a similar fondness for him and I can't wait to dig into his work more. Happy almost winter!

yayy finally a non-norwegian booktuber talking about Knut Hamsun

The Terror by Dan Simmons. Ships frozen in the Artic Sea. Minus 54F. A lurking creature. Amazing writing and characters. A fantastic Winter read.

I enjoyed HUNGER! So true to life, in that whenever he did get a break, he didn’t make the most of it.

Love your energy!! And just what I needed to finally pick up Knut Hamsun's 'Hunger' which has been on my TBR shelf for ages. Do give James Joyce's 'The Dead' a try; very atmospheric and bleak. Yasunari Kawabata's 'Snow Country' is definitely a winter read through and through. I would also recommend Mike Leigh's 'Naked' (a film) if you haven't already watched it. It's gritty, existential, and cold. It reeks of suffocation, which I think might be reminiscent of Hamsun's 'Hunger'. Also, I just thought of Kafka's 'The Castle' though I'm not sure if the story is set in the winter, but it does evoke a similar feeling. Again, great video. Can't wait for more!

I'm a February girlie so winter is my favourite season. I love this list, will definitely check these out!

I discovered your Channel yesterday and i finally feel like i found the booktuber i was searching for 🥰 Mostly because the Books you talk about are amazing and are not only science fiction and Fantasy but also because you seem so extremely sweet ;)

I LOL’d at “he’s a great guy….i think” 😂 I wrote all of these down for January when I’m sad the holidays are over! Thank you for all the recommendations!

you’re such a TRUE capricorn it’s insane

I've just come across your channel. Love your personality! And love the hair too! Please do a video of how you make your hair one day 😊❤

Have recently discovered this channel and Ana is like the best book friend I have always wanted 😌

I just read Eileen and wow what a ride! Creepy, dark and gloomy but she can write and hold the reader’s attention. I was very engrossed. I read In Cold Blood when I was around 19 years old many many years ago and instantly became a big fan of Capote. Great video as always Ana! ❤

Your voice is so pleasant to listen to!💜

Another winterbaby here🤗 Reading Light in August by Faulkner, dark, complex, poetic, loving it!

With most writers, the best part of them is what they put on paper. I suggest to be careful about assuming the personal "great guyness" of your favorites. Large publication is a massive ego rush that many cannot withstand. And others like Bukowski, Celine and Pound (all favorites of mine) have had enormous egos even while wallowing in poverty

Would love a home tour! That room looks so lovely

Nice interior where you filmed!!

This room is beautiful

you remind me so much of the character Claire from Outlander!! such a timeless beauty! This video was lovely! You've gained a new follower.

If I had such a comfy pink💗sofa...I'd be sitting in that instead of at the floor 😛

Totally agree on Eileen, I am really intrigued for the film to see what Moshfegh does with it. In Cold Blood is one of the best non fiction books I’ve ever read. Made me cry at one specific point IYKYK.

I love the books, I love the video, and I love your house but over all, I love your hair (we neeeed a tutorial!!)

What wonderful recs! I'm excited to be a new sub!!

i love love love love love love love love your channel

This was so fun! also, you should try the storygraph, it's a lot better than goodreads, you can give 025,.5 and .75 star values, you can track audiobooks separately, and they've got this really great challenges feature, i've been doing the around the world challenge where you track how many countries you've read books from, there's no deadline per se, just a great way to find books and track them. Also, the perfect winter books for me are the original fairy tales, hans christian anderson, grimm brothers, perfectly dark and fireplace-y.

You’re my favorite booktuber now

your channel is so underrated !!

Horoscope + book mashup video?! Yes pls!

Love all your content! & I'm a January 10th baby too!! 1977!

🌬️Thank you❄️

omg!! AWJ, your bday is the same day as my boyfriend (the president of the oleg fanclub) no wonder we love your content so much we were watching a CAPRICORN this whole time❗️ my winter books are great expectations and catcher in the rye ❄️❄️❄️ basic BUT chilly! also when is patreon happening❓💋

Hunger is really good, I hope I get to read it again some day! Another Norwegian classic that I highly recommend is the Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas. It is literally about a girl who gets lost in a glacier, and the lives of the people left behind. I highly, highly recommend.

she reminds me of Caitriona Balfe or Claire Fraser from Outlander especially when she smiles she looks so pretty 🫶🤍 anyone notice the resemblance?

"Strega" by Johanne Lykke Holm is an excellent winter read, I read it while in the mountains last year and it was a great experience. also a pretty short book

Ana, I urge you to read Tove Ditlevsen's "Copenhagen Trilogy", I have a feeling you might like it. I've read it last year in January and couldn't put it down!

I was born on Jan 10th too! And on the coldest recorded day in Virginia’s history where I was born.

Have you read Jon Fosse (this years norwegian nobel prize winner?) The septology is a perfect winter/christmas book. The style is hypnotizing!

Highly recommend the Wayward Pines trilogy for a stellar chilly season reading experience. Everything I have read by Blake Crouch has exceeded my expectations, especially what I have listened to on audio!

I am a winter baby too. True winter.

When I think of winter, Secret History and Burial Rites come to mind. 🥶❄️💨

Also I have maybe the 2 best winter recommendations... ever!?!? no I cant claim that, but they ARE very good: "Thin air" and "Dark Matter" both by Michelle Paver. They're easy reads but very atmospheric, one of them takes place in Svalbard, the other on Mt. Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas.

This gorgeous sweater in this gorgeous room is Pinterest-worthy

Oh hey, Happy Belated Birthday.

Fellow January baby, I think I might appreciate it more if it weren't for the fact that my birthday falls eleven days after Christmas and four days after New Year's so by then people are pretty much done celebrating and have made resolutions to quit spending money, drinking, eating cake 😫

Kafka, The Castle is a good recommendation. There is a collection of short stories,Tales from Kolima from Shalamov. This is a true masterpiece about Gulag. Really don't know was this translated to English.

So funny because I am a January baby but because I was born in South Africa I identified deeply with being a summer baby… until I moved to England and now I am 100% I should have been a winter baby (South African winter). Great and interesting suggestions as usual!

GHOSTS by Edith Wharton. Perfect for the dark winter season. The writing blew my mind.

Wintery books are my favs! Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata is one I’d highly recommend. Recently read Small Things Like These and loved it. Make this a yearly video! 🫶

Can you do specific book recommendations where we ask you for recommendations

wow I love the room you're in! Are you at your parents'?

My birthday is January 11th....🥰🥰🥰im very much a Capricorn!!also...im from Tipperary Town.....a small Irish town😊

“The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats ☃️. (Newberry Medal Winner) “Snow Treasure” by Marie McSwigin “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen “The Dead” by James Joyce

I just read the climb which refutes some of the contents of into thin air. I would give it a read it might make you question Jon Krakauer

As a January/Winter baby I also associate myself with Eileen too!!!

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of course youre a capricorn..... me too

ur so cool and elegant Ana

My suggestions are The Winter Solider by Daniel Mason Snow by Orhan Pamuk Snow by John Banville 🍀👋☘️📖🇮🇪📚📕☕️

Any tips on getting into audiobooks?? Ive tried it sometimes, but i never fully pay attention :/

The childrens blizzard

The Irish accent 😂🙈

Frost, Tolstoy, Jack London, Jean Giono, oh yes One Day, deadly, Hunger hell yeah, Bubu Of Montparnasse, Louis-Philippe, Baudelaire, The Silmarillion, Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather!...

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I could not watch the video because the camera movement made me sick, but I heard you talk about very interesting books. :)

Is your bday January 10th? Idk why I think you once mentioned it and I might have been like Mine is the 10th too! 😅

I missed my call being a winter baby. I was born in July, I do NOT feel represented and seen.

I love you 🥰🥰🥰

As a Capricorn born on January 8th, I can confirm and relate to absolutely everything you said about being born in January. And when I saw the title of this video I immediately thought of Eileen ❤

Ethan Frome.

I bet you already know this, but the many people with whom you share a birthday are Rod Stewart, George Foreman, Pat Benatar, Shawn Colvin, and Gurinder Chadha (directed Bend It Like Beckham).

It IS a bad Irish accent…but a great video.

Girl crush

The only problem I have with "Eileen" is that the characters talk about riding their motorcycles in winter a couple times, and anyone who lives in a wintery place, or even those who don't, KNOW that nobody rides a motorcycle on snow and ice. lol. That said, I love Ottessa Moshfegh. Big fan.

Pls can we be friends

It is not possible for books to be LITERALLY winter. You are a writer, and should know better. Come on.

Love thiiis. One question: do you have an Instagram account?