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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1449 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 321,353 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 966 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,636,490 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 940 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 186,518 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 873 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 184,212 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 864 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,493 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 734 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 155,566 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 730 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 225,647 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 701 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 301,102 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 666 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 101,059 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 642 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 128,598 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 601 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,719 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 584 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.44 — 115,308 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 576 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,004 ratings — published 2000
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 553 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,020 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 549 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.07 — 40,446 ratings — published 1986
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 548 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 176,873 ratings — published 2015
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 537 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,089 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 523 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 598,879 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 512 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 99,421 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 484 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 66,906 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 482 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,974 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 446 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 87,674 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 438 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,727 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 412 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,477,442 ratings — published 1985
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 391 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,448 ratings — published 1986
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 389 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 82,330 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 384 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.89 — 407,319 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 81,086 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,172 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 359 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 97,112 ratings — published 2006
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 374,367 ratings — published 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 355 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 89,171 ratings — published 2016
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 351 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 149,170 ratings — published 1990
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 347 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,207 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,572 ratings — published 2016
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 798,079 ratings — published 2014
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 332 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 126,265 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 326 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 34,125 ratings — published 2021
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,577 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 319 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 181,053 ratings — published 2003
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,846 ratings — published 2008
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 312 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.50 — 490,534 ratings — published 2015
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,230 ratings — published 2013
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.95 — 51,239 ratings — published 2018
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 227,435 ratings — published 1952
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 301 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,230 ratings — published 1990
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 299 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 399,496 ratings — published 2016
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 297 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 103,428 ratings — published 1991
The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)
by (shelved 296 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,004 ratings — published 1993
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,746 ratings — published 2021
“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
“If scientists and archaeologists investigate everything like detectives, their proof will be more than circumstantial, and their theories will take us to the stars!” —Captain Jul Naris”
― Timewreck
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