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 Omega Project
Alten, Steve.
Ebook
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....
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. ...
Viral
Cook, Robin
Paper Book
In this electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus ensnares them in a growing danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by profit and greed. Trying to...
Beneath the stairs : a novel
Fawcett, Jennifer
Paper Book
"An enthralling debut by a gifted storyteller!" --Wendy Walker, author of Don't Look for Me In this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut for fans of Jennifer McMahon, Simone St. James, and Chris Bohjalian, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts...
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...
Our lady of mysterious ailments
Huchu, T. L.
Paper Book
"Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but it's Ropa - a hard knocks ghostalker on her paranormal grind to pay the rent - who grabs hold. The moment you meet her, you'll follow wherever she goes." - Olivie Blake, New York Times...
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
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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