Dune by Frank Herbert.
On the desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides becomes caught in a struggle where political ambition, religious expectation and the demands of the environment are inseparable. Frank Herbert builds a world in which survival and power depend on understanding the same scarce resources.
Read it for the questions beneath the adventure: how leaders acquire authority, how belief can be used and how a landscape shapes human choices. Those questions make the novel especially rewarding to discuss beyond its plot.
