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Desert Books
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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,649,007 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,006 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 66,615 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,625,115 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as desert)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,373,141 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 157,692 ratings — published 2017
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,080 ratings — published 1992
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 109,538 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 413,404 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,020 ratings — published 1949
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,812 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 186,843 ratings — published 2015
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,006 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,107 ratings — published 1959
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,109 ratings — published 1982
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,346 ratings — published 2009
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,083 ratings — published 1903
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 93,500 ratings — published 2019
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.26 — 14,822 ratings — published 2025
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,174 ratings — published 2023
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,016 ratings — published 2020
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,664 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 — 17,859 ratings — published 1980
Walks Away Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,191 ratings — published 2013
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.97 — 43,831 ratings — published 1927
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,502 ratings — published 1939
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 669,026 ratings — published 1982
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.45 — 30,927 ratings — published 2023
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 365 ratings — published 2020
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,007 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,332 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,863 ratings — published 2018
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.24 — 352,605 ratings — published 2015
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 79,607 ratings — published 1975
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,789 ratings — published 1992
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 507 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,877 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,614 ratings — published 1975
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,748 ratings — published 2004
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,032 ratings — published 2022
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 227,300 ratings — published 1985
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,539 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,239 ratings — published 2015
Gods Without Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,389 ratings — published 2011
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,516,425 ratings — published 1943
The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,052,042 ratings — published 2008
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,266 ratings — published 1926
Sundust: (A Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.73 — 397 ratings — published 2025
“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of desire " ( “Crépuscule du désir “ )”
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“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.”
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