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Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1492 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 337,851 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1003 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,704,346 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 961 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,934 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 898 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 193,338 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 875 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,156 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 754 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 163,085 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 742 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 233,744 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 726 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 317,652 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 682 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.84 — 103,942 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 656 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 134,947 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 639 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,025 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 601 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 121,574 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 594 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 63,905 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 576 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 195,566 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 562 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 55,041 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 561 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 41,390 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 548 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 61,600 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 538 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 614,560 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 529 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,547 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 504 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,501 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 490 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,473 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 465 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 92,388 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 447 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,336 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 420 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,502,449 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 412 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 86,999 ratings — published 2019
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 399 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,086 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 399 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 442,399 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 377 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,874 ratings — published 1988
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 373 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 969,377 ratings — published 2014
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 372 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 407,854 ratings — published 2017
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 368 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,641 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 365 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 100,442 ratings — published 2006
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 363 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 93,401 ratings — published 2016
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 363 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 156,858 ratings — published 1990
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 357 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 144,221 ratings — published 2016
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 353 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,695 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 349 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,438 ratings — published 2018
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,999 ratings — published 2016
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 601,934 ratings — published 2015
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 340 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,752 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 331 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 488,855 ratings — published 2016
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,352 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 185,101 ratings — published 1974
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,356 ratings — published 2008
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 312 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 75,638 ratings — published 2021
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 312 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 233,493 ratings — published 1952
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,773 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,438 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,775 ratings — published 1990
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,344 ratings — published 1990
“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES
― MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES
“Death, it turned out, had a sense of irony.”
― Children of Titan
― Children of Titan
