Stories of the Sahara (Chinese: 《撒哈拉的故事》; pinyin: Sāhālā de gùshi) is an autobiographical account of the life and love of the Taiwanese author Sanmao while she was living in the Sahara Desert with her Spanish husband Jose Maria Quero y Ruiz.

In the work, she describes her encounters and neighbourly relationships with the Sahrawis, the local indigenous people of Western Sahara amongst whom she and her husband lived in close proximity; her adventures in exploring the Saharan desert; and her relationship with her husband, whom she married in 1973 in Western Sahara after successfully progressing through protracted bureaucratic red-tape with the colonial Spanish authorities.

It was met with immediate success, and reprinted four times within a month and a half of its first print-run.

[1] It remains extremely popular with Chinese readers across Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong.

[2] In a study on the wave of enthusiasm for Taiwanese music and literature that swept the mainland in the 1980s, Hongwei Lu notes that "San Mao’s travel accounts of foreign cultures and life experiences gathered through her living and studying abroad provided post-Mao China with a taste of multiculturalism, and suggested the possibility of not only an expanded consciousness of the world, but a transformation of the way people think about the world and the possibility of being part of it.