Another Star Wars comment...

In My Humble Opinion
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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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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.