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
A criminal walking free. A life hanging in the balance. The ultimate choice. Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife since their divorce. So he's shocked to learn that not only has Rebecca been placed on life support following an assault, but he's also still her Power of Attorney...
The land of lost things
Connolly, John
Paper Book
*** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER *** Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . 'Book lovers and fans of John Connolly will not be disappointed by this remarkable standalone novel' ...
Viral
Cook, Robin
Paper Book
In Viral, an electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestseller Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the centre of a terrifying new danger to mankind - and pulls back the curtain on a health care system powered by greed and corruption. Brian Murphy and...
Early riser
Fforde, Jasper
Paper Book
Something to hide : a Lynley novel
George, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Our lady of mysterious ailments
Huchu, T. L.
Paper Book
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding book in the Edinburgh Nights series. 'Stupendously engaging' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonSome secrets are meant to stay buried When Ropa Moyo discovered an occult underground library, she expected...
Sleeping beauties : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to...
All the colors of night
Krentz, Jayne Ann
Paper Book
If you like Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown, you'll be swept away by this thrilling pageturner about two psychics who plunge into a dark world of deadly secrets. . . 'Sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers Weekly 'Sexy . ....
Death's end
Liu, Cixin
Paper Book
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the...
No way out
Michaels, Fern
Ebook
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 : a novel
Shalvis, Jill
Paper Book
'Perfect, feel-good fiction' Sarah Morgan 'This book is so warm and enveloping like a great big literary hug' 5* reader review 'Blends the author's trademark offbeat humour with an emotional depth that had me...
A winter in New York : a novel
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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