--- title: Blizzard: Authors Share Their Book Picks for Snowy Reading description: What do I care how much it may storm? I've got my book to keep me warm canonical: https://time.com/4190874/blizzard-reading-book-picks/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-22T21:40:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:33.476Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here’s What Authors Think You Should Read During the Blizzard og:description: What do I care how much it may storm? I've got my book to keep me warm og:url: https://time.com/4190874/blizzard-reading-book-picks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here’s What Authors Think You Should Read During the Blizzard twitter:description: What do I care how much it may storm? I've got my book to keep me warm twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here’s What Authors Think You Should Read During the Blizzard by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 22, 2016 9:40 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 22, 2016 9:40 PM UTC The best part of a [massive winter storm](http://time.com/4190045/blizzard-snowstorm-east-coast) heading to the Eastern Seaboard is an excuse to curl up with a good book all weekend long. TIME asked authors to weigh in on what to hunker down with to weather the blizzard. ### [_Travels in Siberia_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312610602/?tag=timecom-20) by Ian Frazier  Picador “Because it can always get colder. And because Ian Frazier is among the greatest living travel writers. Here are stories of Russia’s Most Bearded in exile (Dostoevsky and Stalin), of dogsleds and relics of 1917, of prisons and swamps and awkward hugs. It’s anecdotal and historical and beautiful and you don’t need your mittens to read this book. Or any book, really. Mittens make everything unnecessarily difficult.” —Sloane Crosley, author of [_The Clasp_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374124418/?tag=timecom-20). ### [_Lonesome Dove_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439195269/?tag=timecom-20) by Larry McMurtry  Simon & Schuster “Read Larry McMurtry’s cattle-drive epic _Lonesome Dove_ to keep your mind off the cold, and then watch the 6-hour miniseries—a near perfect adaptation—once you’re done. It should be spring by then.” —Colson Whitehead, author of the forthcoming [_The Underground Railroad_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385537034/?tag=timecom-20). ### [_Ovenly_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0373892950/?tag=timecom-20) by Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin  Harlequin “Snow makes me want to turn on the oven, and to bake, so this weekend I’m going to hunker down with the Ovenly cookbook—baking is also a toddler-friendly activity, plus it always ends with something sweet, so it’s a win-win-win.” —Emma Straub, author of the forthcoming [_Modern Lovers_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/159463467X/?tag=timecom-20). ### [_A Tale of Two Cities_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0141196904/?tag=timecom-20) by Charles Dickens  Penguin Classics “I think that’s the perfect day to revisit a classic. You could do _A Tale of Two Cities_. You vaguely remember this, maybe you’ve even seen a movie based on it, and all you know is, ‘Hey, I read this a long time ago, it’s amazing, why don’t I just curl up in a chair and read something I haven’t read in a long, long time, but something that has withstood the test of time?'” —Nicholas Sparks, author of [_See Me_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455520616/?tag=timecom-20). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4190874/blizzard-reading-book-picks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4190874/blizzard-reading-book-picks/"},"headline":"Here’s What Authors Think You Should Read During the Blizzard","datePublished":"2016-01-22T21:40:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:33.476Z","description":"What do I care how much it may storm? 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