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Desert Books
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Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as desert)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,079 ratings — published 1968
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as desert)
avg rating 3.95 — 66,185 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as desert)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,521,173 ratings — published 1988
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as desert)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,353,828 ratings — published 1998
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 152,169 ratings — published 2017
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as desert)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,890 ratings — published 2019
Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,603 ratings — published 2017
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 396,146 ratings — published 1969
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 138,785 ratings — published 1992
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 185,914 ratings — published 2015
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,848 ratings — published 1986
Arabian Sands (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,011 ratings — published 1959
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 4.20 — 62,785 ratings — published 1982
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 86,753 ratings — published 2009
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 4.38 — 89,981 ratings — published 2019
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as desert)
avg rating 3.89 — 30,586 ratings — published 1949
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,612 ratings — published 2015
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.24 — 343,696 ratings — published 2015
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 — 2,042 ratings — published 1903
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as desert)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,931 ratings — published 1939
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.04 — 362 ratings — published 2020
Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,951 ratings — published 2019
Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,129 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,554 ratings — published 2018
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,474 ratings — published 1980
Three Little Javelinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,775 ratings — published 1992
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 499 ratings — published 1991
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,884 ratings — published 1927
The Secret Knowledge of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,833 ratings — published 2000
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,074 ratings — published 1975
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as desert)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,345 ratings — published 2004
Death Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.45 — 29,146 ratings — published 2023
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,149 ratings — published 2022
Spice Road (The Spice Road Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,059 ratings — published 2023
We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,086 ratings — published 2021
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.15 — 215,581 ratings — published 1985
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.14 — 971 ratings — published 2020
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,153 ratings — published 2010
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.00 — 78,726 ratings — published 1975
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,439,927 ratings — published 1943
The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as desert)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,046,074 ratings — published 2008
Sundial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.78 — 25,099 ratings — published 2022
Bright Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,533 ratings — published 2021
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as desert)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,213 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 — 1,271,483 ratings — published 2011
“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
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into history. A hundred years from now, I will be free. I will have forgotten their names and faces, and the struggles they have will not matter. Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.”
― The Forbidden Wish
― The Forbidden Wish
