On desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides seeks revenge after his noble family’s downfall while pursuing humanity’s ancient dream. Winner of the Nebula Award.

Also fulfills: Read an Epic series starter. Read a fantasy novel. 

One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart – their bodies elaborately arranged like angels.

Also fulfills: Read a book with a color in the title.

Jezebel. You’ve heard the name. But you’ve never heard her story.

Also fulfills: Read a book with a one-word title. Read a historical fiction set before 1800.

A family struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic desert world, where one brother’s dangerous sand-diving expedition could uncover secrets that threaten their fragile existence.

Also fulfills: Read a book with a one-word title. 

The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets—about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love

Also fulfills: Read a historical fiction set before 1800. Read a magical realism story. Read a book over 500 pages.

A girl with strange powers is transported to a land of ice and snow, where she must navigate a centuries-long conflict between the Fae and humans, all while trying to survive and make it back home.

Also fulfills: Read a fantasy novel. Read a book with a one-word title. 

A small village in New Mexico becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose.

Also fulfills: Read a romance.

Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female.

Also fulfills: Read an Epic series starter. Read a romance. Read a fantasy novel. Read a book about found family.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist chronicles the harrowing true story of men attempting to cross the Mexican border through Arizona’s deadliest desert region in 2001.

Robyn Davidson’s opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.”

Also fulfills: Read a memoir/autobiography.

In a parched future, a spy, journalist, and migrant become entangled in a deadly conspiracy surrounding a rumored water source.