S |
1838 |
The Narrative of Arthur G Pym of Nantucket |
Edgar Allen Poe |
gothic sea novel follows boy who stows away on whaling ship |
N |
1864 |
English at the North Pole |
Jules Verne |
also known as The Purchase at the North Pole |
N |
1895 |
To Greenland and the Pole |
William Gordon stables |
inspired by Nansen |
S |
1897 |
Antarctic Mystery: The Sphinx of the Ice Fields |
Jules Verne |
sequel to Poe |
N |
1909 |
A Dash at the Pole |
William Lyon Phelps |
satire of Cook and Peary and race to North Pole |
N |
1909 |
First at the Pole |
Frank Shaw |
American and British teams race to the North Pole |
S |
1912 |
The Turnstile |
Alfred E W Mason |
polar explorer loosely based on Scott & Shackleton |
S |
1926 |
Spinster of this Parish |
William Maxwell |
Antarctic explorer loosely based on Shackleton |
S |
1927 |
The Woman Thou Gavest Me |
Hall Caine |
Polar explorer loosely based on Shacklton |
S |
1928 |
Over the Polar Ice |
Eustace Adam |
loosely based on first Byrd Antarctic expedition/flight to South Pole |
S |
1930 |
Lost at the South Pole |
Franklin Dixon |
loosely based on first Byrd Antarctic expedition/flight to South Pole |
S |
1931 |
Bird Life at the Pole |
Wolcott Gibbs |
satire on Byrd's first Antarctic expedition |
S |
1931 |
South of Zero |
Margaret Ross |
fictitious Antarctic expedition |
S |
1931 |
By Bicycle to the South Pole |
Emilio Salgari |
Italian, fiction British-American bicycling trip to South Pole |
S |
1935 |
The Man Who Deserted |
Ward Copley |
fictional Antarctic expedition |
N |
1947 |
The White Magic |
John Keir Cross |
based on Grinnell's serch for Franklin |
N |
1952 |
To the White North |
Kathleen Fidler |
about John Franklin's expeditions |
N |
1959 |
The Undiscovered Country |
Jay & Audrey Walz |
based on Elisha Kent Kane's Greenland expeditions |
N |
1960 |
Call of the Arctic |
Robert Steelman |
based on explorer Charles Francis Hall |
S |
1964 |
Gabriel |
Jo McDonald |
'based on the 3rd French Antarctic Expedition to Adelie
Land in 1952-53' |
N |
1968 |
A Dream in Polar Fog |
Yuri Rytkheu |
trans from Russian, set in 1910, an arctic sailor lives among
the Chukchi people or northeastern Siberia. reprinted 2005 |
S |
1970 |
The Survivor |
Thomas Keneally |
professor recalls surviving an earlier doomed Antarctic trip |
S |
1970 |
Cape of Storms |
John Gordon Davis |
A story of the last of the whaling fleets in Antarctica |
N |
1974 |
The Snowboys |
Forrest Webb |
fictional English & American expedition in Greenland |
S |
1976 |
The Race: A Novel of Polar Exploration |
Kare Holt |
trans from Norwegian, really interesting version of the race to South Pole |
N |
1976 |
The Balloonist |
MacDonald Harris |
novel about Swedish balloon trip to Arctic in 1897.
Natl. Book Award nominee, reprinted in 2011 |
S |
1978 |
Victim of the Aurora |
Thomas Keneally |
historical murder mystery on a British South Pole expedition in
1909. Villainous victim is a stereotyped predatory, untrustworthy, conniving homosexual
man
|
S |
1981 |
The Stone Idol |
Franklin Dixon |
Hardy Boys #65; search for Stone Idol includes Antarctica |
S |
1982 |
Sur | Ursula LeGuin |
Fabulous short story from the New Yorker about women sledding to the South Pole,
before the men.
In LeGuin's "The Compass
Rose" & other anthologies |
N |
1984 |
Anna's Book |
George MacBeth |
|
S |
1987 |
More Die of Heartbreak |
Saul Bellow |
not at the
Poles but a major character has worked there. "Its not that you're so asocial,
but a man who likes people doesn't wind up in the Antarctic" |
N |
1987 |
The Discovery of Slowness |
Sten Nadolney |
trans. from German (pub 1983), fictionalized biography of Sir
John Franklin
|
N |
1991 |
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness |
Christoph Ransmayr |
young Italian obsessed with recreating the Austro-Hungarian polar
expedition of 1872-74 |
N |
1992 |
Broken Lands: A Novel of Arctic Disaster |
Robert Edric |
about Sir John Franklin and the Northwest passage trips |
N |
1994 |
The Cage |
Audrey Schulman |
professional nature photographer in Arctic to shoot Polar Bears |
N |
1994 |
The Rifles |
William Vollmann |
about Franklin expedition, the forced relocation of Inuit families in the 1950s, and the effects of Western technology on indigenous peoples |
S |
1995 |
The Birthday Boys |
Beryl Bainbridge |
fictional account of Scott's expedition to South Pole |
S |
1995 |
Antarctic Navigation |
Elizabeth Arthur |
obsessed heroine wants to recreate voyage of RF Scott |
S |
1995 |
Heroes & Lovers: An Antarctic Obsession |
Lucy Kavaler |
suffragette marches to South Pole, to best her manly but sexist lover. Historical romantic fiction - "Great God this is an awful book",
ugh. |
N |
1995 |
A Discovery of Strangers |
Rudy Wiebe |
fictional account of Franklin's overland expedition to Arctic Ocean |
S |
1997 |
Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition |
Caroline Alexander |
Juvi, "Journal" of Shakleton's cat |
N |
1997 |
Do White Whales Sing at the Edge of the World |
Paul Wilson |
After WWII, a group retraces a doomed Arctic expedition |
N |
1998 |
Inexpressible Island |
David S Young |
Play based on true story of the scientific party of Scott's expedition |
N |
1999 |
Voyage of the Narwhal |
Andrea Barrett |
voyage to the arctic in search of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition |
N |
1999 |
The Ice Master |
James Houston |
novel of 1875 whaling expedition to the Arctic |
S |
1999 |
The Nanny and the Iceberg |
Ariel Dorfman |
sex, Chilean politics, and an Antarctic iceberg brought to
the Sevilla World Expo for the Chilean Pavilion (Chilean author writing
in English) |
N |
2000 |
North With Franklin |
John Wilson |
`The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames'; fictionalized account of Franklin expedition |
N |
2000 |
The Merry Widow |
Meagan McKinney |
historical romance, woman pretends to be widow of Arctic explorer from Franklin
expedition |
N |
2000 |
Latitudes of Melt |
Joan Clark |
Northern Canada; one character becomes a deep sea ice diver |
S |
2000 |
Requiem Antarctica |
Jane Yolen and Robert Harris |
short story, Asimov's science fiction magazine (May). Scott was a vampire...
|
S |
2001 |
The Grotto Berg |
Charles Neider |
novella about nature photographer in Antarctica |
N |
2001 |
I'm Gone |
Jean Echenoz |
trans. from French; Parisian art dealer has a midlife crisies & abandons family to chase after
Arctc treasure. |
S |
2001 |
The White |
Adrian Caesar |
AUS; novel about Scott and Mawson. |
N |
2001 |
The Ice Child |
Elizabeth McGregor |
London journalist looks for archaeologist who has disappeared
while researching the Franklin expedition |
S |
2001 |
Eliot's Rock |
Terry Shumaker |
geologist goes on Byrd's 2nd expedition and later gets involved in the Manhattan Project
|
S |
2001 |
May Be Some Time |
Brenda Clough |
future time traveling doctors rescue Titus Oates' body from Antarctica; short story in
Analog; Apr 2001. Expanded to (600 pp, self-pub?) ebook `Revise the World', 2008 |
S |
2002 |
Tiptoe, on a Fence Post |
Brenda Clough |
sequel to above; Analog Jul 2002 |
N |
2002 |
The Seal Wife |
Kathryn Harrison |
young scientist isolated at weather observatory in early
20c Alaska has affair with native Alaskan |
S |
2002 |
Polar |
T. R. Pearson |
in a small Virginia town,
a shiftless character calls himself Titus & mutters about
Antarctica |
N |
2002 |
The Navigator of New York |
Wayne Johnston |
historical novel about a young Newfie explorer, & the Cook
& Peary race to the North Pole |
N |
2002 |
North |
Roger Hubank |
historical fiction about the US Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
to the Canadian acrtic in 1881 (only 6 of 25 men survived). |
S |
2002 |
Antarctica |
Claire Keegan |
short story in collection of same name; women has affair and ends up tied to the bed while Antarctic documentaries relentlessly play on TV |
N |
2003 |
One Day the Ice Will Reveal All its Dead |
Claire Dudman |
about Alfred Wegener |
N |
2003 |
The Rope Eater |
Ben Jones |
young man joins arctic sailing expedition in 1860s |
S |
2003 |
White |
Marie Darrieussecq |
French, Eng trans. pub. in 2006, set in Antarctic research base |
N |
2004 |
North |
Donna Jo Napoli |
Young Adult, boy runs away to follow Matthew Henson's trek to the North Pole |
S |
2004 |
Colder than Ice |
Helen Macpherson |
Australian
archaeologist & American psychologist find remains of the first Antarctic
exploration team.
|
N |
2005 |
Smilers Bones |
Peter Lerangis |
Young Adult; Fictional account of Minik (Greenand child brought to NY by Robert Peary |
S |
2006 |
The Brief History of the Dead |
Kevin Brockmeier |
Coca-cola employee Laura Byrd - in Antarctica to bottle the melting ice- may
be the last survivor of a deadly virus on Earth |
S |
2006 |
Degrees of Separation |
Laurence Fearnley |
NZ; composer, young woman, and skua scientist
reflect on their time in Antarctica; (New Zealand writer from Artists to
Antarctica program) |
N |
2006 |
The Terror |
Dan Simmons |
historical gothic about Sir John Franklin |
N |
2006 |
Afterlands |
Steven Heighton |
historical novel about Polaris survivors |
S |
2006 |
The White Darkness |
Geraldine McCaughrean
|
Young Adult. In Antarctica with her crazy 'Uncle Victor',
who wants to deposit her into Symmes hole, a 14 yr old girl imagines
conversations with Titus Oates (oops - an awkward choice, given the recent
claim that Oates impregnated an 11 year old girl before going to Antarctica).
|
S |
2006 |
Voyage Along the Horizon: A Novel |
Javier Marias
|
trans. from Spanish; a 1900 voyage
to Antarctica with scientists, writers, & artists. Supposedly a parody
of 19th C novels. They never get anywhere NEAR Antarctica. |
S |
2006 |
Moj of the Antarctic |
Mojisola Adebayo |
stage
play performed in England; African American slave woman
escapes from slavery by passing as male, joins a whaling ship &
gets to Antarctica. Pub. in 'Hidden Gems', ed. by D. Osborne, 2008.
Pub in `Mojisola Adebayo:Plays One' along with ''Matt Henson: North Star'', 2012
|
N |
2007 |
The Solitude of Thomas Cave |
Georgina Harding |
17th century English whaler winters alone in Greenland |
N |
2007 |
Consumption |
Kevin Patterson |
Inuit family in Arctic |
N |
2007 |
The Yiddish Policeman's Union |
Michael Chabon
|
murder mystery/alternate history where 2 million refugee Jews of Europe
become the "frozen Chosen", temporarily, in Sitka Alaska |
S |
2008 |
Into White Silence |
Anthony Eaton |
Young Adult. In 1922, an exploration vessel is trapped in the Antarctic
icepack. Author had Australian Antarctic Arts fellowship |
N |
2008 |
House of Meetings |
Martin Amis |
WWII Russian slave labor camp above Arctic Circle |
S |
2008 |
The White Road and Other Stories |
Tania Hershman |
in the White Road, a woman runs a cafe in Antarctica |
S |
2008 |
A Buyers Guide to Maps of Antarctica |
Catherynne Valente |
short story and 2009 World Fantasy Award Nominee;
online here
|
S |
2009 |
Pescador's Wake |
Katherine Johnson |
loosely based on sea chase of Aus. vs Uruguayan ship
in Antarctic waters over illegal fishing |
S |
2009 |
Death on the Ice |
Robert Ryan |
Fictionalized account of Scott's expedition to South Pole |
S |
2009 |
Wanting |
Richard Flanagan |
Historical novel about Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin, and Charles Dickens |
S |
2009 |
The Ice Lovers |
Jean McNeil |
In a near future world of lethal flu viruses, a journalist
& the great-grandson of a Shackleton expeditionist search for
a young female biologist
who disappeared in the Antarctic peninsula. Author had a BAS/Arts Fellowship to Antarctica |
S |
2009 |
The Nature of Ice |
Robin Mundy |
AUS, alternates story of modern photographer in
Antarctica with that of Hurley on Mawson's expedition; author has worked and wintered over in Antarctica.
|
S |
2010 |
Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica |
Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
3 quirky women (a composer, a geologist, and an Antarctic 'regular')
spend a summer season in Antarctica. Author has had several NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers awards |
N |
2010 |
On the Proper Use of Stars |
Dominique Fortier |
French Canadian (trans.); about John Franklin's second in
command Francis Crozier, his wife Lady Jane Franklin, and her niece Sophia. |
N |
2010 |
The Still Point: A Novel |
Amy Sackville |
split story of a fictional 19th c lost Arctic explorer & his
great-great niece a century later |
S |
2010 |
The Journey of Anders Sparrman |
Per Wastberg |
Swedish, fictional account of Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman, who sailed with Capt Cook on his 2nd voyage to Antarctica |
S |
2011 |
The Lightkeepers Wife |
Karen Viggers |
AUS, author has worked in Antarctica |
S |
2011 |
Pym |
Mat Johnson |
American literature Professor
leads group of African-American sailors in search of Edgar Allen Poe's Antarctic
monsters. Satirizes academia, tenure, Whiteness, Blackness, Poe,
capitalist greed, obsessions, & bad art.
|
S |
2012 |
Dead Men |
Richard Pierce |
Woman sets out to discover what happened to Scott's team in Antarctica |
N |
2012 |
The Icy Barber |
Glennis Leith |
In 1845, newlywed lost her husband on an Arctic whaling ship, but maybe he's been found |
S |
2012 |
Where'd You Go, Bernadette |
Maria Semple |
Comic novel, film version in 2019 |
N |
2012 |
Inukshuk |
Gregory Spatz |
In northern Canada, a depressed teenage boy fantasizes about Franklin's Lost Expedition |
N |
2013 |
The Collector of Lost Things |
Jeremy Page |
naturalist on ship to Arctic in 1849 |
N |
2013 |
The Ice-Cold Heaven |
Mirko Bonne |
novelization of Shackleton's expedition told by the 17 yr old stowaway Blackboro |
S |
2013 |
The Beckoning Ice |
Joan Druett |
Historical mystery thriller; corpse on drifting iceberg
|
S |
2013 |
Chasing the Lights |
Jesse Blackaddere |
AUS; fictional account of the first woman in Antarctica, 1930s. |
S |
2014 |
Everland |
Rebecca Hunt |
Centenary expedition to Antarctic Island |
S |
2014 |
Shackleton Antarctic Odyssey |
Nick Bertozzi |
Graphic novel story of Shackleton |
N |
2015 |
The Sunlit Night |
Rebecca Dinerstein |
Two New Yorkers meet in Norwegian Arctic |
S |
2015 |
When the Night Comes |
Favel Parrett |
Australian; A young girl in Hobart meets a sailor who works on a research ship to Antarctica. Author received Antarctic arts fellowship |
N |
2015 |
The Surfacing |
Cormac James |
Ship hunting for Franklin's recently lost expedition gets trapped in the ice |
N |
2015 |
First Man: Reimagining Matthew Henson |
Simon Schwartz |
Graphic novel fictional biography of Henson; orig. pub. in German in 2012 |
N |
2016 |
Voyage of the Dolphin |
Kevin Smith |
In 1916, three Irish college students sail to the Arctic |
S |
2016 |
Ice Letters |
Susan Errington |
In WWI, unsent letters between Australian woman and her boyfriend in
Antarctica |
N |
2016 |
The Lamentations of Zeno |
Ilija Trojanow |
Trans. from German (2011). Glaciologist on Antarctic cruise ship tries to warn the world about global warming |
N |
2016 |
The North Water |
Ian McGuire |
Murder and tension on a 19th century whaling ship |
S |
2016 |
Up to this Pointe |
Jennifer Longo |
17 year old distant descendant of RF Scott goes to Antarctica for 6 months |
N |
2016 |
The Quality of Silence |
Rosamund Lupton |
Astrophysicist and her daughter in Alaskan wilderness searching for missing husband |
S |
2016 |
My Last Continent |
Midge Raymond |
Penguin researchers on a tourist ship in Antarctica |
S |
2016 |
The Comet Seakers |
Helen Sedgwick |
Astronomer meets chef at Antarctic base and finds they are connected through time |
N |
2017 |
Under a Pole Star |
Stef Penney |
Young woman leads British Polar expedition to Greenland in 1892 |
N |
2017 |
South Pole Station- A Novel |
Ashley Shelby |
|
N |
2017 |
Minds of Winter |
Ed O'Loughlin |
Chronometer from John Franklin's Arctic expedition turns up in 2009 London. Amundsen and other historical Arctic figures too |
N |
2017 |
Crystal Vision |
Alan M Young |
Fictional version of Franklin expedition.
|
N |
2018 |
The Restless Sea |
Vanessa de Haan |
In 1939, seaman in Merchant Navy in Russian Arctic. |
N |
2018 |
Split Tooth |
Tanya Tagaq |
Coming of Age in the Arctic |
S |
2018 |
Brother in Ice |
Alicia Kopf |
trans from Spanish & Catalan |
N |
2018 |
The Great Alone |
Kristin Hannah |
teenage girl and abusive parents settle in Alaska |
N |
2018 |
Lady Franklin of Russell Square |
Erika Elce Behrisch |
Franklin expedition from perspective of Lady Franklin |
N/S |
2018 |
Lava Falls |
Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
Stories, including in Alaska and Antarctica |
S |
2018 |
The Greatest Adventure |
Page Justin |
Novel about Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition
|
S |
2019 |
The Ice Ship |
Peter T Scott |
Set in Antarctica in 1840s.
|
S |
2019 |
The Ice Shelf |
Anne Kennedy |
NZ writer prepares to leave for an Antarctic artist fellowship |
N |
2019 |
Starvation Shore |
Laura Waterman |
novel about the Greeley expedition |
N |
2019 |
Neptune's Forge |
George Wier |
Fictional 1888 steamer trip to Antarctica and then trek to South Pole
|
N |
2020 |
Northernmost |
Peter Geye |
Great-great grandaughter of Arctic explorer visits northern Norwegian town of her
ancestors |
N |
2020 |
The Snow Collectors |
Tina May Hall |
Woman discovers a body which leads to a mystery about Lady Jane Franklin
|