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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1452 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 324,749 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 966 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,648,962 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 938 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 188,642 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 875 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 186,070 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 860 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,135 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 736 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 157,075 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 732 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 227,451 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 702 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 304,188 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 671 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 101,648 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 642 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 129,948 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 606 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,465 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 584 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 117,066 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 578 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,331 ratings — published 2000
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 555 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,234 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 553 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,685 ratings — published 1986
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 552 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 180,489 ratings — published 2015
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 534 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,391 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 523 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,021 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 513 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,518 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 489 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,232 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 485 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,118 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 448 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 88,618 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 436 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,028 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 416 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,482,473 ratings — published 1985
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 394 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,587 ratings — published 1986
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 392 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 83,269 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 384 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 413,381 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 366 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 81,631 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,277 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 360 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 97,871 ratings — published 2006
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 357 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 380,628 ratings — published 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 355 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 90,053 ratings — published 2016
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 352 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 150,591 ratings — published 1990
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 346 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,469 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,675 ratings — published 2016
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 832,266 ratings — published 2014
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 335 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 129,617 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 326 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 34,741 ratings — published 2021
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,752 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 319 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 181,814 ratings — published 1974
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.50 — 512,848 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.95 — 54,634 ratings — published 2018
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,117 ratings — published 2008
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,279 ratings — published 2013
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 417,416 ratings — published 2016
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 228,684 ratings — published 1952
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,357 ratings — published 1990
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 298 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,159 ratings — published 1990
The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)
by (shelved 297 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,061 ratings — published 1993
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 297 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,133 ratings — published 2021
“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.”
― The Stars Are Legion
― The Stars Are Legion
“Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse.
No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!”
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No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!”
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