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If you're looking for something longer, try Brandon Sanderson's cosmere (start with either Mistborn or Stormlight Archives.)
Or perhaps Jim Butcher's Dresden Files (hard-boiled detective who also happens to be a wizard.) First few books are a bit weak, but gets much better.
Some other ideas:
Murderbot Diaries, The Locked Tomb, Assasin's Apprentice, Broken Earth, Kings of the Wyld.
Black library has quite some books that feel similar in a Sci fi setting. You could check vaults of Terra.
If you enjoyed the mystery part of the expanse I recommend Beacon 23.
Sounds like you have a lot in common with my father's reading tastes. In which case, I will recommend the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.
Seconded, for the nefarious villain Jack Schitt
You like many of the same books that I like. Try the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. I just read it recently and now itβs one of my favorites.
I'll check it out, thanks!
If you like DnD type stuff, He Who Fights With Monsters is about a dude who wakes up in an alternate universe where magic is real. It's pretty great, and 10 books deep.
Spiral Wars series by Joel Shepherd.
Bit more action-adventure based, but good fun read with good characters and worldbuilding.
For sci-fi, one I haven't seen mentioned here yet is Red Rising.
Kind of an Enders Game meets Hunger Games in the first book, but quickly expands into a solar-system wide war with lots of intrigue, star-wars-like tech, and amazing characters.
Neal Stephenson has a few good SF books (seveneves comes to mind) and some good alt history (cryptonomicon).
I just finished re-reading the three body problem series and it's still good too.