10 books for fans of Babylon’s Ashes
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The Mercy of Gods
The Captive's War • Book 1
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When alien conquerors treat humanity as experimental subjects in their ancient war, survival depends on proving we're worth keeping alive. Corey crafts cosmic horror with intimate stakes.
★ 4.16 Goodreads (38.5K ratings) - 2
Too Like the Lightning
Terra Ignota • Book 1
by Ada Palmer
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Set in a world where nation-states are replaced by philosophical tribes, this genre-defying novel follows a convict-narrator investigating crimes that could shatter utopian society.
★ 3.81 Goodreads (15.9K ratings) - 3
Morning Star
Red Rising • Book 3
by Pierce Brown
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Darrow leads the final rebellion against the Gold overlords who hanged his wife and enslaved his people in this devastating conclusion to his revolutionary war.
★ 4.55 Goodreads (414.3K ratings) - 4
Golden Son
Red Rising • Book 2
by Pierce Brown
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Darrow must maintain his Gold disguise while orchestrating a rebellion that could free the enslaved Red caste. Brown's middle volume amplifies the stakes with space warfare and political betrayal.
★ 4.50 Goodreads (505.3K ratings) - 5
A Civil Campaign
Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) • Book 12
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Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan faces his greatest challenge yet—winning the heart of widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who's developed a violent allergy to marriage.
★ 4.41 Goodreads (20.4K ratings) - 6
The Dark Forest
Remembrance of Earth's Past • Book 2
by Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen
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If the universe is a dark forest full of hidden predators, humanity just revealed its location to the Trisolaran fleet.
★ 4.40 Goodreads (224.9K ratings) - 7
Zero Hour
Expeditionary Force • Book 5
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Alanson puts his space-faring humans in seemingly impossible straits: ship failing, AI companion apparently dead, and an alien civil war raging around them with no way home.
★ 4.37 Goodreads (14.8K ratings) - 8
Black Ops
Expeditionary Force • Book 4
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Joe Bishop's crew thought they'd secured Earth's safety, but their ancient AI's ominous 'Not so much' response launches them into their most dangerous mission yet.
★ 4.34 Goodreads (16.5K ratings) - 9
Mirror Dance
Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) • Book 8
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Miles Vorkosigan's clone-brother Mark steals his identity for a rescue mission that turns deadly, forcing both to confront what makes them truly themselves.
★ 4.32 Goodreads (23.4K ratings) - 10
Children of Time
Children of Time • Book 1
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Two species evolve toward intelligence across millennia—desperate human refugees and genetically enhanced spiders—leading to an inevitable collision over the last habitable world.
★ 4.30 Goodreads (180.0K ratings)