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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1409 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 309,690 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 951 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,591,338 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 932 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 178,948 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 863 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 177,877 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 845 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,761 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 723 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 150,253 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 714 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 219,359 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 684 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 290,752 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 659 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 98,952 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 630 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 124,077 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 579 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,669 ratings — published 2019
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 577 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,720 ratings — published 2000
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 572 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.44 — 111,457 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 542 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 53,175 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 537 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,730 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 528 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 58,852 ratings — published 2017
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 525 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 165,173 ratings — published 2015
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 507 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 586,586 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 499 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 95,664 ratings — published 2016
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 482 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,587 ratings — published 1993
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 480 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,766 ratings — published 1992
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
by (shelved 432 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.08 — 59,632 ratings — published 2014
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 431 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 84,226 ratings — published 2017
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 408 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,458,632 ratings — published 1985
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 387 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,021 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 378 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.89 — 388,915 ratings — published 1969
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 366 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.58 — 78,624 ratings — published 2019
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 79,170 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 356 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 37,816 ratings — published 1996
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 348,994 ratings — published 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 353 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 86,130 ratings — published 2016
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 353 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 94,366 ratings — published 2006
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 144,339 ratings — published 1990
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 49,193 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 339 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,256 ratings — published 2016
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,982 ratings — published 2005
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 117,122 ratings — published 2016
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 697,814 ratings — published 2014
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 178,317 ratings — published 1974
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,878 ratings — published 2008
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,996 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,078 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 297 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 26,848 ratings — published 1990
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 296 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.49 — 426,957 ratings — published 2015
The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,739 ratings — published 1993
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 222,674 ratings — published 1952
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 290 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 101,218 ratings — published 1991
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 290 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,766 ratings — published 1990
Trading in Danger (Vatta's War, #1)
by (shelved 289 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,147 ratings — published 2003
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 285 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 202,207 ratings — published 2018
“But to know a thing and to see it, to experience it, are as different as the moon and the finger pointing to it. Knowledge is not truth, only the apprehension of it. Experience is something else entirely.”
― Ashes of Man
― Ashes of Man
“When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
