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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,723,232 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,509 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,316 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,781,022 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as desert)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,405,734 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 168,504 ratings — published 2017
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 142,992 ratings — published 1992
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 112,175 ratings — published 2019
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,332 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,266 ratings — published 1959
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 452,037 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,917 ratings — published 1949
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,174 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 188,703 ratings — published 2015
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,756 ratings — published 1982
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,142 ratings — published 1903
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,006 ratings — published 2025
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,005 ratings — published 1927
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 88,186 ratings — published 2009
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.44 — 33,638 ratings — published 2023
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 100,471 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 — 1,079 ratings — published 2020
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,587 ratings — published 1980
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,376 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 249,908 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 — 7,761 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 — 522 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,984 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,690 ratings — published 1975
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,400 ratings — published 1939
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,336 ratings — published 2004
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 684,803 ratings — published 1982
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,086 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.32 — 20,672 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,294 ratings — published 2018
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,392,381 ratings — published 2011
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.23 — 365,659 ratings — published 2015
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 81,554 ratings — published 1975
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,797 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,627,550 ratings — published 1943
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,640 ratings — published 1926
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,869 ratings — published 2022
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,173 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,281 ratings — published 2015
Gods Without Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,435 ratings — published 2011
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 408,178 ratings — published 1954
The Host (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,060,357 ratings — published 2008
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.”
― Henderson the Rain King
― Henderson the Rain King
