Official series
Official series · The Expanse
Humanity Beyond the Rings
The complete nine-novel arc from one missing woman and a stolen gunship through the opening of alien gates, contested worlds, system-wide war, interstellar empire, resistance, and the final choice over humanity's connected future.
Read the complete arc
The complete shelf
Every cataloged volume appears in publication order. Open any companion when you are ready to map its story and ideas.
01Volume 1
Novel guide
Leviathan Wakes
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
An ice-hauler officer and a Belt detective follow one missing woman into a conspiracy capable of turning political tension into system-wide war.
02Volume 2
Novel guide
Caliban's War
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey
A vanished child, a Martian marine's impossible battlefield report, and a political struggle on Earth pull the Rocinante toward another protomolecule crisis.
03Volume 3
Novel guide
Abaddon's Gate
Abaddon's Gate
James S. A. Corey
When an alien Ring opens beyond Uranus, a human flotilla carries its old rivalries into a place whose physical rules no one understands.
04Volume 4
Novel guide
Cibola Burn
Cibola Burn
James S. A. Corey
On the first contested colony beyond the Rings, refugees and a corporate expedition fight over one world while its alien systems begin waking beneath them.
05Volume 5
Novel guide
Nemesis Games
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
With the Rocinante crew scattered across the solar system, four private journeys expose a coordinated attack designed to break the old political order.
06Volume 6
Novel guide
Babylon's Ashes
Babylon's Ashes
James S. A. Corey
After the attacks on Earth, the Free Navy controls the Belt and the routes to new worlds, forcing old enemies to build an alliance that can survive its own history.
07Volume 7
Novel guide
Persepolis Rising
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
Decades after the Free Navy war, an empire returns from isolation with alien-enhanced warships and a plan to place every human world under one command.
08Volume 8
Novel guide
Tiamat's Wrath
Tiamat's Wrath
James S. A. Corey
With Holden imprisoned and the Rocinante crew dispersed, a hidden resistance confronts Laconia while experiments awaken the force that destroyed the gate builders.
09Volume 9
Novel guide
Leviathan Falls
Leviathan Falls
James S. A. Corey
As the gate network begins turning human minds against one another, the scattered survivors of Laconia must decide whether unity is salvation or extinction by another name.
One sequence. Every consequence in its proper place.
Series shelves are generated from each novel's registered volume metadata, so the reading order stays complete as the catalog grows.
Back to all collections