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Novels set in deserts

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The Alchemist
1988 novel by Paulo Coelho
Dune
1965 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert
The Host
2008 novel by Stephenie Meyer
Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, the second in his Dune series of six novels. A sequel to Dune (1965), it was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1969, and then published by Putnam the same year.
Children of Dune
1976 novel by Frank Herbert
The Red Sea Sharks
nineteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin
God Emperor of Dune
1981 novel by Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune
1984 novel by Frank Herbert
Holes
1998 novel by Louis Sachar
Land of Black Gold
fifteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin
Desperation
1996 novel by Stephen King
Blood Meridian
1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy
The Scorch Trials
2010 novel by James Dashner
In Desert and Wilderness
novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Invasion of the Sea
1905 novel by Jules Verne
Prey
2002 novel by Michael Crichton
Ask the Dust
novel by John Fante
The Valkyries
novel by Paulo Coelho
The Sheik
1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1927 adventure novel by B. Traven
The Sands of Mars
1951 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
The Savage Detectives
1998 novel by Roberto Bolaño
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
1976 Star Wars novel by Alan Dean Foster
The Monkey Wrench Gang
1975 novel by Edward Abbey
Death Comes for the Archbishop
novel by Willa Cather
Throne of the Crescent Moon
2012 novel by Saladin Ahmed
David Starr, Space Ranger
1952 novel by Isaac Asimov
McTeague
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924). It was also adapted as an opera by William Bolcom in 1992.