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Best Star Wars Novel?


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I'm not very familiar with SW novels released the last 8 years or so, but here's my favorites:

 

Courtship of Princess Leia (probably favorite single novel)

X-Wing series (especially love the ones by Aaron Alliston)

Corellian trilogy (was my home planet in SWG, and one of my favorite worlds in TOR)

Shadows of the Empire (too bad Steve Perry didn't write more than one SW novel)

Tales from series (Jabba's Palace and Bounty Hunters ones especially)

Jedi Academy trilogy

Thrawn trilogy

 

 

 

The New Jedi Order ones are alright, but the Yuzong Vong are just less of an enjoyable adversary imo.

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Most of all 'I, Jedi' by Michael Stackpole is the one to read, if you don't touch any other, it's the best. This is my favorite by a large margin. I reread it every so often, and still find awesome bits I somehow missed before.

 

The X wing series is *very good*, they have a lot of action, and I'd say read them all (except you could skip the last tacked on book to the series, that's not really in the series, 'Starfighters of Audmar').

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If you're going for quality story, then you're going to want to read:

 

Cloak of Deception

Darth Plagueis

Shatterpoint

Labyrinth of Evil

 

The Han Solo Trilogy

  • The Paradise Snare
  • The Hutt Gambit
  • Rebel Dawn

 

Shadows of the Empire

 

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

 

The X-wing Series

  • X-wing: Rogue Squadron
  • X-wing: Wedge's Gamble
  • X-wing: The Krytos Trap
  • X-wing: The Bacta War
  • X-wing: Wraith Squadron
  • X-wing: Iron Fist
  • X-wing: Solo Command
  • X-wing: Isard's Revenge
  • X-wing: Starfighters of Adumar
  • X-wing: Mercy Kill (due out later this year)

 

The Thrawn Trilogy

  • Heir to the Empire
  • Dark Force Rising
  • The Last Command

 

I, Jedi

 

The Hand of Thrawn Duology

  • Specter of the Past
  • Vision of the Future

 

The New Jedi Order

  • Vector Prime
  • Dark Tide I: Onslaught
  • Dark Tide II: Ruin
  • Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
  • Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
  • Balance Point
  • Edge of Victory I: Conquest
  • Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
  • Star by Star
  • Dark Journey
  • Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
  • Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
  • Traitor
  • Destiny's Way
  • Force Heretic I: Remnant
  • Force Heretic II: Refugee
  • Force Heretic III: Reunion
  • The Final Prophecy
  • The Unifying Force

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I tried to get into the books but the only one I really enjoyed looking back was the thrawn series. I read the next few in succession and i think my interest was still based primarily off of the thrawn books, during the NJO i completely lost interest.

 

Maybe its just me though.

 

Thrawn series is must read

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What if someone is looking for stories taking place during SWTOR? To go along with the game?

 

Thanks

 

There are three TOR-specific novels so far:

  • Revan, which is set between KOTOR 1 and 2 (first half of book) and after KOTOR 2 (second half), and establishes a direct tie between those two games and a certain storyline in TOR
  • Deceived, which begins concurrently with the Deceived trailer and follows Darth Malgus for the next few days afterward
  • Fatal Alliance, which is set approximately concurrent with the game. This book is also f'ing awful and nobody should ever have to read it.

 

And a fourth TOR novel in the works which will be set after the events of the game, but we don't have any specifics yet.

 

There's also Red Harvest, which is set two years before the events of the game. I haven't read this one, so I can't comment on it beyond noting that it's standalone/a prequel to the Death Troopers novel and not directly tied to the TOR sub-franchise.

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I have heard that the First Bane book, Path of Destruction gives away then ending to The whole Reavan series. My question is should I read Revan first or does it not matter and I could read Bane?

 

Thanks

 

The Darth Bane series is set 1600 years after TOR, and was written 5 years before TOR came out.

 

In fact, the only Revan-related canon that existed when the Bane series came out was KOTOR 1 and 2.

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IMO, read:

 

 

Rogue Squadron by Michael A. Stackpole

Wedge's Gamble by Michael A. Stackpole

The Krytos Trap by Michael A. Stackpole

The Bacta War by Michael A. Stackpole

Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston

Iron Fist by Aaron Allston

Solo Command by Aaron Allston

Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

The Last Command by Timothy Zahn

Isard's Revenge by Michael A. Stackpole

I, Jedi by Michael A. Stackpole

Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston

Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn

Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn

 

Legecy (comic series) by Jon Ostrander and Jan Duursema.

 

Really, any of the comics by Ostrander and Duursema. They have K'Kruhk, the somewhat unkillable Whiphid Jedi, and his really sweet hat.

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