I've just gotten back into reading after having finished the Sun Eater and was somewhat dissapointed with the direction the story went after book 3. I enjoyed the scope of the series but I had a lot of qualms with the characters, writing, and as said above direction the series eventually went (the pivot from scifi to scifi fantasy with a frustraiting amount of heavy handed christian theodicy)
I haven't done much reading but my all time favourite series is Red Rising although I understand that those books are a much more of an antiwar antiauthoritarian series that uses scifi as a backdrop.
I'm currently reading the Heirarchy series to get some more fantasy under my belt and while im enjoying it its only two books at the moment so i should finish it somewhat shortly.
Oh and its not a requirement but i usually prefer first person series, and I read specifically Audiobooks so I'd be interested to hear peoples preffered narrators for any suggestions too.
by HydroShark_27
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Dune series
Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ender’s Game series
Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
The Liaden Universe is a long running space opera, you can read the first book for free.
https://www.baen.com/agent-of-change.html
Hail Libertas! Nothing is the same after reading the Rising. Best of luck.
The Expanse
For Space Opera, I can highly recommend the Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the Culture series by Iain M Banks, and pretty much anything by Peter Hamilton or Alastair Reynolds
The Vorkosigan Series by Lois McMaster Bujold. (I started with The Warrior’s Apprentice)
Liaden Universe by Lee and Miller. (I started with Agent of Change.)
The Texicalaan duology
Lots of good recommendations here. The Expanse is amazing. Dune is a classic. One that’s not been mentioned yet is The Honor Harrington series which is pretty good and very long as well but it’s classic space warfare. Pages and pages of space warfare if that’s your jam.
Just an FYI – I disliked Red Rising so maybe my recommendations won’t suit you.
Dungeon Crawler Carl MC Carl has a lot of Darrow in him.
Not quite Space Operatic but if you enjoyed Darrows angst “Dungeon Crawler Carl” will scratch the itch.
Currently reading Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson and it’s easily one of my favorite scifi reads yet. The audiobook is fantastic – narrated by the actress Ali Ahn
The *Children of Time* series by Adrian Tchaikovsky is excellent
Honor Harrington series by David Weber (long). All spaceship battles, all the time.
Vattas War series by Elizabeth Moon.
Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.