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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,708,008 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,231 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,186 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,751,637 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as desert)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,400,623 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 166,464 ratings — published 2017
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 142,466 ratings — published 1992
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 111,716 ratings — published 2019
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,256 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,236 ratings — published 1959
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 444,271 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,733 ratings — published 1949
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,094 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 188,340 ratings — published 2015
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,624 ratings — published 1982
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,125 ratings — published 1903
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,889 ratings — published 2025
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,546 ratings — published 1927
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,968 ratings — published 2009
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.44 — 33,217 ratings — published 2023
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 99,117 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 — 1,069 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 — 18,274 ratings — published 1980
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,341 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 245,231 ratings — published 1985
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 375 ratings — published 2020
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,746 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 — 519 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,954 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,491 ratings — published 1975
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,245 ratings — published 1939
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 681,234 ratings — published 1982
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,076 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,596 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,180 ratings — published 2018
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,379,132 ratings — published 2011
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.23 — 363,403 ratings — published 2015
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,959 ratings — published 1975
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,797 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,605,708 ratings — published 1943
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,228 ratings — published 2004
Desert Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,497 ratings — published 2022
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,424 ratings — published 2022
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,013 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,274 ratings — published 2015
Gods Without Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,426 ratings — published 2011
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 405,294 ratings — published 1954
The Host (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,058,727 ratings — published 2008
“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
― You're Doing Just Fine
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into history. A hundred years from now, I will be free. I will have forgotten their names and faces, and the struggles they have will not matter. Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.”
― The Forbidden Wish
― The Forbidden Wish
