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Desert Books
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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,670,616 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,469 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 66,838 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,667,711 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as desert)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,381,507 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 160,713 ratings — published 2017
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,755 ratings — published 1992
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 110,296 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 424,827 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,251 ratings — published 1949
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,913 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 187,362 ratings — published 2015
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,099 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,150 ratings — published 1959
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,225 ratings — published 1982
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,570 ratings — published 2009
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,104 ratings — published 1903
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 95,387 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 — 1,041 ratings — published 2020
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.22 — 18,899 ratings — published 2025
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,240 ratings — published 2023
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 369 ratings — published 2020
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,698 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 — 18,010 ratings — published 1980
Walks Away Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,192 ratings — published 2013
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.32 — 511 ratings — published 1991
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.97 — 44,373 ratings — published 1927
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,759 ratings — published 1939
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 673,377 ratings — published 1982
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.44 — 31,683 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 233,306 ratings — published 1985
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,034 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,425 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,987 ratings — published 2018
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.23 — 356,560 ratings — published 2015
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,058 ratings — published 1975
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,791 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,544,622 ratings — published 1943
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,911 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,917 ratings — published 1975
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,925 ratings — published 2004
Desert Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,413 ratings — published 2022
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,514 ratings — published 2022
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,698 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,248 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,336,752 ratings — published 2011
Gods Without Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,401 ratings — published 2011
The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,054,496 ratings — published 2008
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,359 ratings — published 1926
“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.”
―
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
― The Expendable Man
― The Expendable Man
