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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1468 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 330,121 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 979 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,671,396 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 948 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,885 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 883 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 188,934 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 866 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,271 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 741 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 159,429 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 732 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 229,998 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 709 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 309,366 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 676 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,556 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 649 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,898 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 614 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 74,792 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 592 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 118,837 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 588 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 63,045 ratings — published 2000
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,980 ratings — published 1986
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 556 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,571 ratings — published 2004
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 553 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 186,468 ratings — published 2015
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 539 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,844 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 528 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,874 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 516 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,108 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 491 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,754 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 488 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,292 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 454 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 90,117 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 439 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,532 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 418 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,490,470 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 400 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 84,752 ratings — published 2019
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 396 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,791 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 387 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 425,238 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 370 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,485 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,440 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 98,948 ratings — published 2006
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 359 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 91,372 ratings — published 2016
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 357 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 391,496 ratings — published 2017
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 355 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 152,977 ratings — published 1990
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 351 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 883,542 ratings — published 2014
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 348 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,968 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,816 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 136,002 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 329 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,590 ratings — published 2021
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 326 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 546,306 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 59,384 ratings — published 2018
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,014 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 183,057 ratings — published 1974
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 317 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 444,448 ratings — published 2016
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,580 ratings — published 2008
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 308 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 230,572 ratings — published 1952
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,357 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,546 ratings — published 1990
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,818 ratings — published 2021
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,623 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 299 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 105,188 ratings — published 1991
“Evil occurs because we are insufficient to challenge it. Too weak to stop it at the gates, too blind to see it bubbling within. Were we all angels in our virtue and heroes in our capacity, we might hold all chaos at bay, might stop even the unkindling of the stars. Yet we are but men.”
― Ashes of Man
― Ashes of Man
“Death, it turned out, had a sense of irony.”
― Children of Titan
― Children of Titan
