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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1399 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,228 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 948 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,585,964 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 934 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 177,897 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 861 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 176,983 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 846 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,397 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 724 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 149,555 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 713 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 218,516 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 682 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 289,413 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 652 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 98,692 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 629 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 123,502 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 577 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,262 ratings — published 2019
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 577 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,558 ratings — published 2000
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 569 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.44 — 110,919 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 543 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 53,053 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 536 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,638 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 527 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 58,682 ratings — published 2017
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 522 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 163,739 ratings — published 2015
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 507 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 585,019 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 499 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 95,175 ratings — published 2016
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 480 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,536 ratings — published 1993
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 479 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,602 ratings — published 1992
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
by (shelved 432 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.08 — 59,436 ratings — published 2014
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 430 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 83,725 ratings — published 2017
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 407 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,456,337 ratings — published 1985
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 386 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,967 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 371 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.89 — 386,674 ratings — published 1969
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 366 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.58 — 78,154 ratings — published 2019
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 78,930 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 356 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 37,778 ratings — published 1996
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 345,542 ratings — published 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 85,694 ratings — published 2016
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 351 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 93,946 ratings — published 2006
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,207 ratings — published 2016
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 49,048 ratings — published 2015
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,642 ratings — published 1990
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 320 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,906 ratings — published 2005
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 317 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,212 ratings — published 2016
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 313 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 686,350 ratings — published 2014
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 177,962 ratings — published 1974
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,744 ratings — published 2008
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 304 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,061 ratings — published 2013
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 303 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,739 ratings — published 2021
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 297 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 26,800 ratings — published 1990
The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,703 ratings — published 1993
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.49 — 419,349 ratings — published 2015
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 222,029 ratings — published 1952
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 290 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,654 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 289 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 100,980 ratings — published 1991
Trading in Danger (Vatta's War, #1)
by (shelved 289 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,121 ratings — published 2003
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 284 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 199,976 ratings — published 2018
“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
“You have heard stories of men driven mad in quiet rooms by the rushing of their own blood. It is not true. It is not the sound that does it, it is themselves. In silence, they are confronted with their own natures—and with nature itself—and cannot look it in the face. As darkness brings forth the creatures of the night, so silence brings forth the things within our hearts . . . if we will but listen to it.”
― Demon in White
― Demon in White
