Long Space Opera Audiobook Series, Ranked by Total Hours
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 32 Space Opera series in our catalog have every numbered book from book 1 on, at least three books and 30 or more hours in all. Ranked by total listening time.
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The list
| # | Series | Author | Books | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human Chronicles Saga | T.R. Harris | 29 | 213.6 hrs |
| 2 | Frontiers Saga Part 2 : Rogue Castes | Ryk Brown | 15 | 146 hrs |
| 3 | The Saga of the Skolian Empire Series | Catherine Asaro | 11 | 140.4 hrs |
| 4 | The Starsea Cycle | Kyle West | 10 | 113.8 hrs |
| 5 | Ambassador | Patty Jansen | 11 | 113.3 hrs |
| 6 | Firebird Chronicles | T. A. White | 6 | 102 hrs |
| 7 | The Phoenix Conspiracy Series | Richard Sanders | 7 | 96 hrs |
| 8 | Space Team Universe (Dramatized Adaptation) | Barry J. Hutchison | 12 | 85.7 hrs |
| 9 | Odyssey One | Evan Currie | 7 | 79.3 hrs |
| 10 | Atrophy | Jess Anastasi | 5 | 68.7 hrs |
| 11 | Confederation | Tanya Huff | 5 | 56 hrs |
| 12 | The Kantaki Saga | Andreas Brandhorst | 3 | 54 hrs |
| 13 | Salvation Sequence | Peter F. Hamilton | 3 | 52.5 hrs |
| 14 | Dark Galaxy | Brett Fitzpatrick | 5 | 50.7 hrs |
| 15 | The Messenger Chronicles | Pippa DaCosta | 5 | 50.1 hrs |
| 16 | The Pandora Sequence | Bill Ransom | 3 | 47 hrs |
| 17 | Return of the Aghyrians | Patty Jansen | 4 | 45 hrs |
| 18 | Singularity | Charles Stross | 3 | 45 hrs |
| 19 | The Ringworld Prequels | Edward M. Lerner | 4 | 43.1 hrs |
| 20 | The Dissolution Cycle | William C. Tracy | 3 | 42.8 hrs |
| 21 | The Eternal Frontier Series | Anthony J. Melchiorri | 5 | 41.9 hrs |
| 22 | Serrano Legacy (Dramatized Adaptation) | Elizabeth Moon | 7 | 41.7 hrs |
| 23 | Event Horizon | Conor Malachi | 3 | 39.1 hrs |
| 24 | The Demon Princes Series | Jack Vance | 5 | 38.6 hrs |
| 25 | Sentinels of the Galaxy | Maria V. Snyder | 3 | 38.3 hrs |
Ranked by total listening time of the numbered books. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.
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