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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,706,062 ratings — published 1965
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,194 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,161 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,747,464 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as desert)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,399,822 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 166,206 ratings — published 2017
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 142,356 ratings — published 1992
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 111,643 ratings — published 2019
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,247 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,232 ratings — published 1959
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 443,256 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,707 ratings — published 1949
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,077 ratings — published 2017
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 188,290 ratings — published 2015
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,598 ratings — published 1982
The Land of Little Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,125 ratings — published 1903
Snake-Eater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,733 ratings — published 2025
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,475 ratings — published 1927
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,949 ratings — published 2009
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.44 — 33,152 ratings — published 2023
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 98,942 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 — 1,069 ratings — published 2020
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,262 ratings — published 1980
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,339 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,648 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 — 7,744 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 — 519 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,951 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,461 ratings — published 1975
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,221 ratings — published 1939
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.90 — 680,767 ratings — published 1982
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,074 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,579 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,172 ratings — published 2018
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,377,220 ratings — published 2011
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.23 — 363,089 ratings — published 2015
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,910 ratings — published 1975
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,797 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,602,540 ratings — published 1943
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,210 ratings — published 2004
Desert Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,492 ratings — published 2022
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,368 ratings — published 2022
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,996 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,272 ratings — published 2015
Gods Without Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,424 ratings — published 2011
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.91 — 404,957 ratings — published 1954
The Host (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,058,483 ratings — published 2008
“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
“Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her”
― Jane of Lantern Hill
― Jane of Lantern Hill
