There are 9 books in the The Expanse series. The newest book is Leviathan Falls which came out in 2021.

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Leviathan Wakes

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Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the…

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Abaddon's Gate

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The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series. 

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For generations, the…

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Cibola Burn

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Cibola Burn is the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from…

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Nemesis Games

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Nemesis Games is the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.

A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old…

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Babylon's Ashes

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A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the…

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Persepolis Rising

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Persepolis Rising is the seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder,…

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Tiamat's Wrath

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Tiamat's Wrath is the eighth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow…

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Leviathan Falls

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The biggest SF series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S. A. Corey's Hugo Award-winning Expanse series.

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'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written'…