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Pierce Brown · 2016 · US · science fiction
Book 3 of 6 in Red Rising
★ 4.55 Goodreads · 508,907 ratings

Darrow, the Red who infiltrated the ruling Golds, has spent months as the Jackal's prisoner, and freed by his friends, he must lead the Rising into open war across the solar system against the Society.

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Pandora's Star

Peter F. Hamilton · 2004 · UK 99% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 55,272 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Commonwealth Saga
shares: space opera, epic · speculative, epic

In 2380 humanity has spread across hundreds of worlds linked by wormholes, and when an astronomer sees two distant stars vanish inside a barrier, a starship is sent to find out why, with consequences no one foresaw.

Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks · 1987 · UK 98% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 104,662 ratings
Book 1 of 10 in Culture
shares: space opera, propulsive, epic, war · action-packed, speculative

A shapeshifting mercenary fighting for the Idirans in their holy war against the Culture hunts a fugitive AI Mind across a galaxy tearing itself apart.

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini · 2020 · US 98% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 74,047 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Fractalverse
shares: space opera, epic, war · speculative, epic

On a survey mission to an uncolonised moon, xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic that bonds itself to her, and the discovery drags her into first contact and a war that spreads across the stars.

Horus Rising

Dan Abnett · 2006 · UK 98% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 44,213 ratings
shares: space opera, betrayal, epic · speculative, action-packed

Two hundred years into the Great Crusade to reconquer the galaxy, the Emperor withdraws and names the primarch Horus his Warmaster, and Captain Garviel Loken of the Luna Wolves watches what follows.

Leviathan Wakes

James S. A. Corey · 2011 · US 98% match ★ 4.31 Goodreads · 341,085 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in The Expanse
shares: space opera, propulsive, class · easy read, speculative

A hardboiled detective on an asteroid-belt ice hauler stumbles into a conspiracy that connects a missing woman to a weapon that could reshape humanity.

The Mote in God's Eye

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle · 1974 · US 95% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 74,157 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Moties
shares: space opera, epic, war · speculative, suspenseful

In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.

Downbelow Station

C. J. Cherryh · 1981 · US 94% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 16,812 ratings
shares: space opera, war · speculative, deep world-building

As the Company Wars end, Pell Station, orbiting a world inhabited by gentle natives, is swamped with refugees and caught between the Earth Company's fleet and the rising Union.

The Dreaming Void

Peter F. Hamilton · 2007 · UK 93% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 30,308 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Void Trilogy
shares: space opera, epic · speculative, epic

In the far future, a man begins dreaming of a perfect world inside the Void at the centre of the galaxy, and when millions decide to follow him there, the galaxy's powers fear that the pilgrimage will trigger the Void's expansion and destroy them all.

Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1994 · US 92% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 23,759 ratings
Book 8 of 16 in Vorkosigan Saga
shares: space opera, war · speculative, suspenseful

Mark, the clone made by Komarran rebels to replace Miles Vorkosigan, impersonates his brother to take the mercenary fleet on a raid to free the clones of Jackson's Whole.

Ninefox Gambit

Yoon Ha Lee · 2016 · US 92% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 22,125 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Machineries of Empire
shares: space opera, brutal, war · speculative, fast-paced

Captain Kel Cheris, a soldier of the hexarchate, whose weapons work only while its people keep a shared calendar, is disgraced for unorthodox tactics and given one chance: retake the Fortress of Scattered Needles with the help of Shuos Jedao, an undead general who once massacred his own army.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008 · US 92% match ★ 4.36 Goodreads · 10,329,666 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Hunger Games
shares: propulsive, class, brutal · fast-paced, easy read

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.

The Pariah

Anthony Ryan · 2021 · UK 92% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 19,666 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Covenant of Steel
shares: brutal, war · action-packed, easy read

Alwyn, raised among the outlaws of the Shavine Forest, is captured after his band is ambushed and sent to the mines, where he learns to read and write, and the road that follows leads him to Lady Evadine Courlain, a captain whose visions speak of a coming apocalypse.