📚 Deserts

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The dry third of the land: Sahara to Gobi, life adapted to thirst, and the cultures built around oases.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject deserts in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Arabian sands	Wilfred Thesiger	1959	22
Tracks	Robyn Davidson	1980	14
The desert	Leopold, A. Starker	1961	11
The desert year	Joseph Wood Krutch	1952	10
I Wonder Why the Sahara Is Cold at Night (I Wonder Why Series)	Jackie Gaff	2002	9
Exploring Deserts	Anita Ganeri	2014	9
Desert meteorology	Thomas T. Warner	2004	8
Defying death in the desert	Gary Jeffrey	2010	8
Gets All Dried Up	Joanna Cole	1996	7
Desperate Deserts (Horrible Geography)	Anita Ganeri	2000	7
Desert Habitat	Kelley MacAulay	2006	7
Let's Visit the Desert	Buffy Silverman	2016	7
The California deserts	Edmund Carroll Jaeger	1933	6
Geomorphology in deserts	Ronald U. Cooke	1973	6
Desertification	Michael H. Glantz	1977	6
About Habitats	Cathryn P. Sill	2007	6
D is for desert	Barbara Gowan	2012	6
One Day in the Desert	Jean Craighead George	1983	5
Cactus desert	Donald M. Silver	1995	5
Deserts (Mapping Earthforms)	Catherine Chambers	2000	5
Desert (Living and Nonliving)	Cassie Mayer	2007	5
The voice of the desert	Joseph Wood Krutch	1955	4
Home is the desert	Ann Woodin	1964	4
Deserts	Gail Gibbons	1996	4
Parrotfish and Sunken Ships	Jim Arnosky	2007	4
Can you survive the desert?	Matt Doeden	2012	4
Sonoran Desert Spring	John Alcock	1988	3
Tank Girl	Alan Martin	1993	3
A Desert Scrapbook	Virginia Wright-Frierson	1996	3
The Mojave	David Darlington	1996	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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