Hibernation or Coma? You Decide!

With winter's shorter days, sometimes a nap or good night's sleep is what we need. Taken to extremes, that could lead to Hibernation or Coma! Try these novels with characters who experience long and longer sleep.

Updated February 6, 2025
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The shadow girls
Blanchard, Alice
Paper Book
Someone is playing deadly games. Lieutenant Luke Pittman lies in the hospital in a coma after being attacked by one of their own. Veronica Manes, Burning Lake's most respected modern-day witch, is dead, her murder left unsolved. Natalie Lockhart has become embroiled in a case with threads that...
Overkill
Brown, Sandra
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a riveting thriller in which a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an ambitious state prosecutor swiftly intensifies into a fight for their lives.   Former Super...
Galway confidential
Bruen, Ken
Paper Book
In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns. Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the...
Dangerous women
De Castrique, Mark
Paper Book
"A bewitching political thriller."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ethel looks like Marple but acts like Marlow." --Kirkus Reviews In a case deciding the future of clean energy, everything hinges on how the chief justice of Supreme Court will lean. DANGEROUS WOMEN stirs...
Thicker than water : a novel
Collins, Megan
Paper Book
In this "twisty, propulsive thriller" (Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author) from Megan Collins, two sisters-in-law are at painful odds when the man who connects them--the brother of one, the husband of the other--is accused of a brutal crime. Julia and Sienna...
The land of lost things
Connolly, John
Paper Book
The redemptive power of stories and family is revealed in New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's atmospheric tale set in the same magical universe as the "enchanting, engrossing, and enlightening" (Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale) The Book of Lost Things. ...
Beneath the stairs : a novel
Fawcett, Jennifer
Audiobook
Early riser
Fforde, Jasper
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller The latest standalone novel from Jasper Fforde, the bestselling author the Thursday Next series and the forthcoming standalone The Constant Rabbit Every Winter, the human population hibernates. ...
Something to hide : a Lynley novel
George, Elizabeth
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!   Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life...
Something wicked
Housewright, David
Paper Book
Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he's been an occasional unofficial private investigator - looking into things for friends and friends of friends - until his most recent case put him...
What doesn't kill us
Housewright, David
Paper Book
In David Housewright's next novel featuring the beloved Rushmore McKenzie What Doesn't Kill Us--McKenzie has been shot and lies in a coma while the police and his friends desperately try to find out what he was doing and who tried to kill him. Rushmore McKenzie, former...
Sleeping beauties : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and near it might be now,...
All the colors of night
Krentz, Jayne Ann
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! Two psychics plunge into a dark world of deadly secrets in this second installment in the Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.   North Chastain possesses a...
Death's end
Liu, Cixin
Paper Book
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times * "War...
No way out
Michaels, Fern
Ebook
Tick tock
Michaels, Fern
Ebook
My year of rest and relaxation
Moshfegh, Ottessa
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller<...
Love for beginners : a novel
Shalvis, Jill
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER What would you change if you had to start your life--and love life--over again? When Emma Harris wakes up from a coma she learns that her fiancé and her BFF have fallen in love, she's lost her job, and the life she knew is gone. Overwhelmed but grateful to be...
A winter in New York : a novel
Silver, Josie
Ebook
A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love--and life--she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December. A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
Husbands & lovers : a novel
Williams, Beatriz
Paper Book
Two women--separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom--reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. "My favorite kind of page-turner--unputdownable!"-...

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