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Desert Books
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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,631,091 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,574 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 66,420 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,579,778 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as desert)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,365,008 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 154,954 ratings — published 2017
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 108,752 ratings — published 2019
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 139,447 ratings — published 1992
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,728 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 186,262 ratings — published 2015
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,923 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 — 405,018 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,811 ratings — published 1949
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 62,933 ratings — published 1982
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,083 ratings — published 2009
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 91,713 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 — 17,722 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 — 21,225 ratings — published 1939
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,821 ratings — published 2025
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.45 — 30,003 ratings — published 2023
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,120 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 — 1,978 ratings — published 2019
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.24 — 348,198 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 — 43,354 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 — 29,389 ratings — published 1975
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,533 ratings — published 2004
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,612 ratings — published 1985
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,258 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,696 ratings — published 2018
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,341 ratings — published 2010
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 79,161 ratings — published 1975
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,485,510 ratings — published 1943
The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,049,568 ratings — published 2008
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,520 ratings — published 2022
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 25,613 ratings — published 2022
We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,520 ratings — published 2021
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,234 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 — 1,289,396 ratings — published 2011
“WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish.
There is my desert.”
― The Book of Margins
There is my desert.”
― The Book of Margins
“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
