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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1463 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 329,205 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 975 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,667,905 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 945 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,316 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 881 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 188,449 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 866 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,082 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 740 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 159,059 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 729 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 229,587 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 707 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 308,459 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 676 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,391 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 647 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,577 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 612 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 74,537 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 591 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 118,569 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 588 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,960 ratings — published 2000
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,924 ratings — published 1986
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 557 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,517 ratings — published 2004
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 553 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,524 ratings — published 2015
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 538 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,772 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 528 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,059 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 514 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,842 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 492 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,674 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 488 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,265 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 453 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 89,850 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 438 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,450 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 416 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,489,088 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 399 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 84,508 ratings — published 2019
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 396 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,747 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 387 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 423,440 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 369 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,346 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,423 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 360 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 98,810 ratings — published 2006
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 389,636 ratings — published 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 355 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 91,139 ratings — published 2016
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 152,591 ratings — published 1990
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 347 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,869 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 347 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 875,180 ratings — published 2014
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 343 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,793 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 135,105 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 331 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,474 ratings — published 2021
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,967 ratings — published 2005
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.50 — 540,883 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 319 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,607 ratings — published 2018
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 182,861 ratings — published 1974
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 439,987 ratings — published 2016
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,508 ratings — published 2008
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 308 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 230,272 ratings — published 1952
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,351 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,518 ratings — published 1990
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,694 ratings — published 2021
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,548 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 298 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 104,964 ratings — published 1991
“Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that writer happens to favor — closet dramas, psychological dramas, sex dramas, etc., but by God important dramas, containing nothing but Big Thinks. Ten years late, the writer in question may or may not still be around, but the space opera can be found right where it always was, sturdily driving its dark trade in heroes.”
― The Best of Planet Stories 1
― The Best of Planet Stories 1
“Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.”
― Revelation Space
― Revelation Space
