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Desert Books
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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,631,373 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,580 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 66,423 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,580,465 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as desert)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,365,139 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 154,992 ratings — published 2017
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 108,764 ratings — published 2019
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 139,463 ratings — published 1992
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,729 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 186,269 ratings — published 2015
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,924 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,063 ratings — published 1959
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 405,154 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,817 ratings — published 1949
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 62,935 ratings — published 1982
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,087 ratings — published 2009
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 91,746 ratings — published 2019
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,643 ratings — published 2015
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,723 ratings — published 1980
Walks Away Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,191 ratings — published 2013
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,064 ratings — published 1903
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,227 ratings — published 1939
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,907 ratings — published 2025
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.45 — 30,018 ratings — published 2023
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,123 ratings — published 2023
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 365 ratings — published 2020
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 993 ratings — published 2020
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,979 ratings — published 2019
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.24 — 348,271 ratings — published 2015
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,784 ratings — published 1992
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 504 ratings — published 1991
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.97 — 43,363 ratings — published 1927
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,853 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,392 ratings — published 1975
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,537 ratings — published 2004
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,704 ratings — published 1985
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,259 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,698 ratings — published 2018
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,345 ratings — published 2010
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 79,168 ratings — published 1975
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,486,013 ratings — published 1943
The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,049,618 ratings — published 2008
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,524 ratings — published 2022
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 25,616 ratings — published 2022
We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,527 ratings — published 2021
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,233 ratings — published 2015
Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.79 — 108 ratings — published 2001
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,289,641 ratings — published 2011
“Cress?"
"It's beautiful out there."
A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?"
"The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed her fingers to the glass and traced the wavy hills on the horizon.
"Oh, good. You've really narrowed it down for me."
"I'm sorry, it's just..." She tried to stamp down the rush of emotion. "I think we're in a desert."
"Cactuses and tumbleweeds?"
"No just a lot of sand. It's kind of orangish-gold, with hints of pink, and I can see tiny clouds of it floating above the ground, like...like smoke."
"Piles up in lots of hills?"
"Yes, exactly! And it's beautiful."
Thorne snorted. "If this is how you feel about a desert, I can't wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode.”
― Cress
"It's beautiful out there."
A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?"
"The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed her fingers to the glass and traced the wavy hills on the horizon.
"Oh, good. You've really narrowed it down for me."
"I'm sorry, it's just..." She tried to stamp down the rush of emotion. "I think we're in a desert."
"Cactuses and tumbleweeds?"
"No just a lot of sand. It's kind of orangish-gold, with hints of pink, and I can see tiny clouds of it floating above the ground, like...like smoke."
"Piles up in lots of hills?"
"Yes, exactly! And it's beautiful."
Thorne snorted. "If this is how you feel about a desert, I can't wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode.”
― Cress
“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
