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Desert Books
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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,690,034 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,892 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,028 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,711,779 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as desert)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,392,516 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 163,845 ratings — published 2017
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 141,619 ratings — published 1992
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 111,058 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 434,805 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,523 ratings — published 1949
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,007 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 187,932 ratings — published 2015
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,182 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,194 ratings — published 1959
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,420 ratings — published 1982
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,118 ratings — published 1903
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,433 ratings — published 2025
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 97,350 ratings — published 2019
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,059 ratings — published 2020
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,162 ratings — published 1980
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,028 ratings — published 1927
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,813 ratings — published 2009
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.44 — 32,529 ratings — published 2023
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,291 ratings — published 2023
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 373 ratings — published 2020
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,719 ratings — published 2015
Walks Away Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,195 ratings — published 2013
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 515 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,935 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,221 ratings — published 1975
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,004 ratings — published 1939
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 677,537 ratings — published 1982
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 239,469 ratings — published 1985
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,062 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,514 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,109 ratings — published 2018
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.23 — 360,435 ratings — published 2015
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,564 ratings — published 1975
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,795 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,575,844 ratings — published 1943
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,081 ratings — published 2004
Desert Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,459 ratings — published 2022
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,990 ratings — published 2022
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,872 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,264 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,360,603 ratings — published 2011
Gods Without Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,412 ratings — published 2011
The Host (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,056,823 ratings — published 2008
Desperation (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 156,426 ratings — published 1996
“I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.”
―
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.”
―
“The planet’s famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it’s not just a desert. It’s a desert so old it’s literally rusting.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
