i literally spent the entire morning (unsuccessfully) looking up wintery books only for this to appear in my subscription box, i feel like i manifested it

among the things i really like about this channel is how dedicated and consistent Emma is with video content releases: never keeps waiting for too long. that's nice and impressive too! keep it up girl!❤️

Emma being the physical manifestation of cozyness is why i love this channel so much! Happy Sunday Everyone! 😊😊😊

Hi Emma! As someone who has had experience with the Turkish language, the way you were saying it the first time is actually perfect! Most of the vowels in Turkish are short, rather than long, so rather than "pam-ook", like the the "u' in "truth", it's kind of more like the "u" in the word "Turkish", or like the double "o" in "book". Hope that helps! P.S., your videos are so beautiful, they bring me solace when I'm not feeling great. Thank you so much!

I want to watch this right now so BAD, but I'm going to save this for tomorrow for after school! When I come home, freshen up, grab coffee, blankets and play Emma's videos, it makes going through the day so worth it!! It's raining like crazy where I live, and I'm powering myself to go to school tomorrow, just by thinking that after school the alone time will make it worth it!! 💯

EMMA IS THE PERFECT EMBODIMENT OF “THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING” 🥺🥺😭💖

Oh god I have waaay too many recs for this!😅 Here are my ultimate magical wintry book recs in three categories: *Middle Grade with wolves* -The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan (This one's about Santa Claus' daughter and she has a wolf side kick!) -The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood (It's about a young governess having to look after three wolf children) -The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell (It's set in snowbound Russia and it's about a mother and a daughter who are 'wolf wilders' which is the opposite of a wolf tamer) *Romance* -Song of Salzburg by Jen Geigle Johnson (This one's actually the fourth book in a series but you don't have to read the other books in order to read this, they all work as stand alone novels. It's part of the Romance on the Orient Express series) -The Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese (An enemies-to-lovers romance set in a bookstore around Christmas time) *Fairy Tale Retellings* -The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher (The Snow Queen retelling) -A Single Thread of Moonlight by Laura Wood (Cinderella retelling) -Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (This one's actually not quite wintry, it's much more of an autumnal book but it's a retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses, it's set in Transylvania and it's such an awesome read!) 😇

The Witch's Heart. This book includes snow, nature, forest, norse mythology, romance, betrayal, friendships and so much more.. This book got me crying at the end, it's too good!

Thank you for recommending one of my favourite books! About Year of the Hare from a Finnish person: we Finnish people are Uralic, not Germanic/Scandinavian. We have our own mythology which actually was a huge inspiration for Tolkien when he wrote Lord of the Rings. That’s why the man in the book did not worship Norse gods but the Finnish ones. Vatanen also crosses the border to Russia because he goes to the east from the north of Finland. Here’s a few more recommendations if you’re interested in reading some other Finnish books: - Under The North Star by Väinö Linna ( it’s a trilogy about a family that struggles during the Finnish civil war and the 2nd World War. This book is one of the most popular Finnish classics) - Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson but I recommend reading any of the Moomin books (Moominpappa at Sea is a story about the main character’s father who goes through a mid life chrisis and takes his family to live at a lighthouse. It’s a story about self-discovery.) - Meet the Grump by Tuomas Kyrö (the main character really reminds me of Ove from A Man Called Ove but this book is a few years older.) - Kalevala (it’s the main book about Finnish mythology. If you’re into Lord of The Rings you need to read it. Gandalf was heavily inspired by Väinämöinen who is the main character in Kalevala)

These are great recs, Emma! It may be an obvious one, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has a great winter landscape as well!

ahh i LOVED entwined so much! the writing style, the way the author describes the scenery, the dynamic between the sisters *chef's kiss*

i read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead because of you and it’s seriously so amazing. everyone should give it a try!! the beginning was difficult to get into but once i did it has become a favorite

I think you (or anyone else in the comments) would LOVE The Haunting Season. It’s a collection of eight gothic winter short stories by eight award winning writers and it’s incredible! Perfect for curling up with and it’s cozy in a way only spooky snowy books can be ❄️

me watching this even though in my country is almost summer because emma's videos are such a good comfort

one of my favourite winter-y reads is Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak. the snow plays a big role in that book. i read this book last winter and it was honestly such a great experience. (also there's a fairytale aspect to the book as well, since it has taken inspiration from both rumplestilskin and slavic folklore)

I do like winter, I like the crisp, refreshing air, layering gives you more clothing choices, there are more arts performances like live theater, symphony, opera, etc. To help with seasonal mood issues, I keep all the lights on in the house. Also, Emma is awesome.

Bonjour! I have a book recommendation for you: 'The Snow Child' by Eowyn Ivey. It is so beautifully written, like a poem. Perfect for winter :)

Watching you is like opening Christmas presents! ☺️😌

Ghosts of Greenglass House takes place in a really pretty cottage in the winter. It does slow down towards the middle though, but there are quite a lot of plot twists at the end. It is a light read as it is intended for younger readers.

I'm so happy that you put out this video today because that's *JUST* the type of books I'm in the mood for these days as well! I'm currently reading "Deathless" by Catherynne M. Valente - I'm honestly surprised that I'm learning about it just now because it is right up my alley - and I think you would like it too! It's a retelling of the Russian story about Koschei the Deathless, it's cold, it's moody, it's magical, it's wonderfully written and I want to rush through it but at the same time I don't want it to end, ever. I'm barely 150 pages in but I strongly suspect that it's going to be a new favourite and I'll be thinking about it for weeks.

I love the red dress ❤️❤️. Your voice is soothing. I would also recommend For the Wolf. .

i'm currently already reading drive your plow over the bones of the dead (based on your recommendation from when you read it) and this is making me even more excited to continue! it's so intriguing so far!

I have been (unsuccessfully) looking for wintery books yesterday without much luck but you had so many interesting reccommendations in this video! So thank you very much! This was perfect timing! Also I love that most of your reccomendations were fairytale retellings and I love those!

Emma, if I may add to your list of "Winter Cozy books" I'd like to put "Consolations of the Forest: Alone In A Cabin on the Siberian Taiga" on your radar! It's a beautiful written book about basically what's on the tin, and it has that simple, non industrial cottage core life balanced with the thrill and danger of well, the Siberian Taiga in the winter. Brilliant read.

Sounds like a great bunch of winter books! I will put a bunch of them on my list. I love winter, too, and work on the 2nd floor of a university, overlooking a green space with spruce trees. When it snows, I always squeal with delight. It's like being in a snowglobe. I love it. My coworkers think it's odd, but I don't care.

I always notice Orhan Pamuk Snow on my book store. I have Red Haired Woman and thank you Emma with this video, I really need to grab it ❄️

Okay but, Emma’s channel is one of the most aesthetically pleasing channels on this whole platform. 😌 Question! What do we, Emma stans, call ourselves?? It would be so nice to have a name for this community heh:)

I just love this thumbnail!!!!! I find it creeping into my mind when its really quiet in the house and I whisper "tis the damn season" and chuckle to myself...lol!!!

Your videos are my absolute favourite. I love how diverse you read and how you read not just what’s popular and mainstream at the moment. Thank you for sharing and always brightening my day!

As a Pole, im really excited that you liked our nobelist book. I loved her book called Flights, i cant recommend it enough

Emma, Idk who said it was wrong, but your pronounciation of Orhan Pamuk's name is absolutely correct, it would be even on point if you think of his surname like a name that rhyms with the word book, so an abrupt end. Hope this helped, I wouldn't even say anything if you didn't ask :) I appreciate how you always try your best to pronounce people's names right. Now i will continue watching the video as winter is my fave season too and thanks in advance for the recs

Oh my god as a turkish person seeing the first book being from Orhan Pamuk was so unexpected haha made me really happy🙈 and your pronunciation the first time was really good! 💗💗

I am going to be rereading the little prince. I love children's books so much

New Year's Kiss is on my TBR for this month, so th e fact that you are recommending it makes me even more excited to pick it up!

Love winter myself as well. All that year end holiday vibes

the winter season is coming and i am coming back to your old videos!

Ohhh, I want to read so many of these! I highly recommend Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, a YA fantasy fairytale retelling set in Eastern Europe with loadsss of wonderful winter imagery and magic ✨ Also, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 💛 If you want to read some translated Norwegian fantasy, I highly recommend Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen!

Smilla’s sense of snow! Unsettling winter read

I love reading the Nutcracker, which is usually a short story, The Snow Queen, and overall fairy and folk tales. I'm currently reading Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist; his stories remind me of dark winter, while Jane Austen and L.M. Montgomery's novels have spring vibes.

finally finally finally i’m so excited

I think a lot of lit students and people who claim to love literature tend to want to appear 'edgy'. And so they promote only dark, depressing, scary, or inaccessible literature to almost create an air of mystery and also superiority around themselves. I appreciate Emma's unapologetic embrace of cosy, kind, even childlike literature.

Ooh the Tinderbox retelling sounds really interesting, that's always been one of my favourite Andersen stories.

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Book Playlist, lets go❄ 🎄 1, Snow by Orhan Pamuk 2, Tinder by Sally Gardner 3, Entwined by Heather Dixon 4, The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilina 5, New Year´s Kiss by Lee Matthews 6, For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten 7, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 8, Snow and Rose by Emily W. Martin 9, Frost Blood by Elly Blake 10, In the House In the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt Happy Holidays everyone :3

This was a perfect winter list and I'm going to work my way through quite a few of these books before the end of the season. Thank you, Emmie. Btw, you look so sweet and festive in this video.

omg i can't tell you how much i was waiting for this year's recommendations after seeing your last year's winters recs

Your voice is so warm and eloquent, what lovely recommendations. It’s hard to find people in real life that love books as much as I do(and I’m sure other people can attest to that) so thank you for making videos ❤️ Also, is the thumbnail a reference to Taylor swift? I love that song lol ❄️

Very excited to read the Christmas Carol together

One of my favorite fantasy books is a standalone called The Wolf in the Whale. It's set in the arctic north of Canada, and it mixes Inuit and Norse mythology. It was really excellent and great for winter!

Just ordered Tinder and Entwined based on your rec! I adored Snow and Rose and the lovely art of Emily Winfield Martin and I'm very much in the mood to continue on with the magical fairytale vibes.

Thanks for your recommendations.

omg so many uploads in a week, we're blessed, ty emma❤️❤️❤️

For cozy Winter read I have two words for you: Moominland Midwinter (by Tove Jansson). She was a badass and y'all lucky her works have been translated. She wrote adult novels too, y'know?

i'm turkish and the way you said orhan pamuk the first time is actually perfect!

Your videos are so so cosy and never fail to make me happy 🥰🖤

I recently stumbled on your you tube. I love watching you so much. Your voice is so comforting and you helped me start reading again. I'm an English major as well. Sending you lots of love from india❤

I WAS WATCHING YOUR COZY BOOK RECOMENDATION VIDEO FROM LAST YEAR, YESTERDAY! thank you im so excited to watch😄

AHHHH I CANT WAIT I LOVE YOU

Thank you for making all these comforting contents Emma and you're not wrong by the way, you did pronounce "Pamuk" correctly :)

I love your dress ! It’s so pretty! and it looks more pretty on you.

I've never heard of the Year of the Hare, thanks for the rec! 🌛

I am extremely nostalgic about this book so it may cause some personal bias but I love North Child by Edith Pattou! I got this book from my school library after I watched The Golden Compass, loved it and thought North Child was the original text (purely because there is a polar bear and a girl on the cover) but I am so glad of the mistake! Its a cosy, snowy, fairy tale adaptation that just makes me feel like a little kid on Christmas break, snuggled under a blanket and reading by the light of my tree

Bit of an odd recommendation, but I read This Is How You Lose The Time War last year over Christmas, and it was just so perfect. The lyrical prose and the epistolary format are Christmassy to me. Also because I'm a doctor who fan, I associate time travel epics with Christmastime.

I can’t believe I was on KZfaq at the exact time you posted a video. I commented on your last video if you had any ‘Christmas in a beachy-ish place’ book recommendations. I live in a hot place (currently 27 ºC) and I’m not feeling very festive atm 🥺

If you’ve read Greenglass House already-did you know that there’s a sequel?? Literally just as cozy but a little spooky as well ☺️

ahhh my comfort moment of the day has come :)

Ah the blessed video we’ve been waiting for ❤️ thank you dearly Emma

You look BLOODY GORGEOUS!

I don't know if you've read it but The Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society is an AMAZING book and feels so wintery and cosy to me. A book about books and with some WWII background.

Hey Emma! A viewer from Turkey here :) Your pronunciation of his name is perfect! The book is also a rare example of Kurdish struggle in Turkey so it's a great read, I would also highly recommend.

Not me being like, "No more books. I already have enough books I need to read on my shelves..." Then watching this. But hey, I see Emma, I click.

So the one winter book I really definitely want to read is Winter by Ali Smith. It's the second book in a four-part series that begins with Autumn, and the writing is supposedly really beautiful and the short stories all feature winter and are somewhat connected. I read the first few pages and I'm looking forward to reading this!

I remember picking out Entwined at an elementary school book fair and even though it was 10 years ago, the imagery from the Keeper's realm is still with me! ahhh so happy you enjoyed it as well :,)

"That day had never really got properly light.The trees were standing as if they didn't know what to do in the fog,and there was something high-handed about driving in amongst them.Now and then it began to snow again silently,and now it was as if every last mark were being erased and as if were journeying into a blank page".❤️

Waited for a Frost book cause THE ROAD NOT TAKEN LOOKS REAL GOOD NOW!☃️

Yay! Here's some wintery/snowy/icy ones I've been meaning to read or reread, some cozier than others (some definitely not cozy) :) Ice - Anna Kavan The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington Frost - Thomas Bernhard The Evenings: A Winter's Tale - Gerard Reve Ice (Trilogy) - Vladimir Sorokin Black Snow/A Dead Man's Memoir - Mikhail Bulgakov Dirty Snow/The Snow Was Dirty - Georges Simenon Winter in Sokcho - Elisa Shut Dusapin Winter's Tales - Isak Dinesen Evenings Near the Village of Dikanka - Nikolai Gogol (Also The Night Before Christmas) The Dead Mountaineer's Inn - Strutgatsky Bros

I’m loving your book choices. You present well.

Your videos are like warm hug to me🤗. Perfect as always👌. Love it!

Hey, Emma! The first pronunciation of yours is true for the Orhan Pamuk.

that was so lovely and cozy and i think now i can study better and finish my to do list

Beautiful calming and you look so amazing in red 😊💖

I was looking in the christmas section for A Christmas Carol in my uni library and saw Snow...couldn't help but borrow it. It's so much chunkier than I expected but I cant wait to read it ♡

I remember watching the same video last year sitting outside, soaking the winter sun, going to do the same today💛

omg, this is literally what I needed right now

emma, books, winter and a taylor swift thumbnail..... I love

Kawabata's Snow Country. And 2 shorts- Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, Joyce's The Dead.

this video felt like a bday present since today was my birthday, exactly what i needed 🥰💜

'I'm thinking of ending things' is a pretty good winter book, quite unsettling though.

I love Entwined! I just requested For the Wolf and Snow and Rose from the library. Thanks for the recommendations.

I was recently book shopping and found a collection called Three Snow Storms, which contains short stories of that theme by Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pushkin (I believe they're The Snowstorm, On the Road, and The Blizzard, respectively), and I can't wait to read it this winter! Also, just bought Snow after seeing you recommended it on your chanel so many times :)

Such a cozy video ❤️ tinder looks so amazing. Those drawings are so beautiful!

Thank you so much for your video, Emma :) All the books seem so good in different ways. Books that give me wintry vibes: * The Secret History by D. Tartt * Harry Potter * The Terror by Dan Simmons * La Passe-Miroir by Christelle Dabos (I think the English translation is "The Winter's Promise") * Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin * Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrel by S. Clarke * The Starless Sea by E. Morgenstern * The Rose series by Holly Webb

As a Turkish person I can confirm that your pronunciation of Orhan Pamuk was on point, perfect!! Also I am pretty surprised to see a book from Turkish literature and very happy to hear that you liked it :))

of all things, i love your red dress!! perfectly christmassy

currently boiling in Australia but this video is comforting

Thanks for this Emma! Your videos keep me alive in the midst of exam season ❤️ also summer is coming here and I miss winter sooo muchh so I think I'm gonna read wintery books in order to survive

Hey Emma, I'd like to recommend a German and a (I believe) Swiss classic (if you haven't read them already): 1.The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. We follow this teen boy who falls in love with a woman a lot older than him. She then disappears and he sees her again about ten years later, when her traumatic past is to be found out. The second book is The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. - a very unusual, short crime novel. (I'm not gonna say more bc I feel like it's one of those books where you have to jump in without knowing anything) It's a masterpiece tho! Btw, love your videos xx😘

This was perfect, such cozy vibes and some books I'll definitely be adding to my tbr 💕

These are amazing recommendations Emma, thank you so much :) Books that feel cosy and wintry to me are: - The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden - inspired by Russian folklore and history - The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett - this trilogy starts out right before the first world war and ends at the fall of the Berlin wall, and follows 5 families in the process. Not strictly wintry but such an absorbing and cosy read. - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern would also be a perfect read over winter.

Right now I'm reading a chilly book called Frostheart! It's a childrens/middlegrade book about a boy living in a frozen, snow-covered that has a powerful gift - the gift of song. I'm reading it in Florida and it is perfectly scratching that ice cold itch!