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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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...
Absence of mallets
Carlisle, Kate
Paper Book
" Contractor Shannon Hammer steels her nerve to pin down a killer in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Premeditated Mortar. ... Shannon could not be happier that her hunky thriller-writing boyfriend, Mac,...
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
The land of lost things
Connolly, John
Paper Book
Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident -- a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.
Early riser
Fforde, Jasper
Paper Book
Something to hide
George, Elizabeth
Paper Book
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
Paper Book
A riveting new read that will thrill you from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, perfect for fans of Nora Roberts, Rachel Caine, and J.D. Robb.   Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with...
Tick tock
Michaels, Fern
Paper Book
In a thrilling new story of female empowerment, adventure, and vigilante justice from the legendary bestseller Fern Michaels, The Sisterhood reunites to avenge an attack against one of their own... The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound...
Darling girl : a novel of Peter Pan
Michalski, Liz
Paper Book
Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy - yes, that Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company, her son Jack is happy and healthy, and the tragedy of her past is well behind her... until she gets a call that her daughter, Eden, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade,...
My year of rest and relaxation
Moshfegh, Ottessa
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019** **A NEW YORK TIMESCRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018** A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman's experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the...
Love for beginners
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
Silver, Josie
Paper Book
Where better to start again than New York? Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind. Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she...

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