Snow does a particular thing to a house. The roads go quiet, the plans fall away, and for a day or two there is nothing to do but stay. These are the books I would put beside the chair for that: quiet novels, mostly about small places and the people who keep them, none of them in a hurry.
The list
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf. Holt, a small town on the high plains of eastern Colorado, and the people in it who take each other in. If you read only one book from this list, read this one.
Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf. Two neighbors in the same town, late in life, who decide not to be lonely anymore. Short enough for a single snowed-in evening.
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner. A long, patient novel of the American West, part of it set in the Colorado mining camps. For the weekend the pass is closed.
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. A man confined to a grand hotel for decades who decides to make a whole life inside it. A book about keeping a house, dressed as a book about a hotel.
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. An old minister writing a long letter to his young son. Read it slowly, by a window, a few pages at a time.
The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett. A brother and a sister, and the house they cannot stop driving back to look at.
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout. A small town in Maine in linked stories, with one difficult, unforgettable woman at the center of it.
Still, by Design., by Avery Lane Maxwell. My own, so take this one with a grain of salt. A man in recovery at a fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain, learning, slowly, how to stay. It is also an audiobook, in my own voice, if your eyes are tired.
What they have in common
None of these books are about what happens. They are about what it is like to stay somewhere: a town, a house, a marriage, a body that is getting older. That is what a snowed-in weekend is for.
For the table, not the nightstand
If you want something to leave out where whoever sits down can open it, my keeper's book, Come In. It's Already Warm., comes out on Thanksgiving Day. It is a large hardcover with hand-drawn maps of the country around the house, seventeen plates, and the recipes, including an orange scone and a pumpkin bread for the morning after the snow.