# Another Star Wars comment...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 25, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-star-wars-comment/42618 "2000-11-25T04:25:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-star-wars-comment/42618/81 "2000-12-07T02:42:25Z")

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Okay, after Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy, _then_ what?

I cheated when I implied I hadn’t read _any_ of the SW books. I’ve “read” the Thrawn Trilogy, Anderson’s Jedi Academy Trilogy, A.C. Crispen’s Han Solo Trilogy, and Greg Bear’s Rogue Planet. But when I say “read,” I meant I listened to them as abridged books-on-tape. I have a long commute and that’s how I fill the time.

So: Which SW books, _available as books on tape_, should I listen through next? My main objective here is to fill in the important gaps in my knowledge of the SW Extended Universe first, before I go off and read some obscure SW book which, while absorbing and fun to read, is little more than a long-winded tabulation of the number of rivets in Boba Fett’s Mandalorian armor.

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-star-wars-comment/42618/82 "2000-12-07T08:38:31Z")

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Well, _The Courtship of Princess Leia_ is key to the plot. The X-wing series, while more of an offshoot of the main storyline, is damn good, so that’s recommended. Then you may want to read the later books, _The Black Fleet Crisis_ or _The Corellian Trilogy_, although they weren’t too hot (the Black Fleet series seemed more of an excuse to write about the hot new ships the New Republic got after a decade).

After that… definitely the second Thrawn duology _Hand of Thrawn_ and \* Spectre of the Past\*.

But stuff like _Children of the Jedi_ and _Darksaber_ can be ignored. They bit.

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