I was a Star Wars book junky through my teens, and I read pretty much everything up till about halfway through the YZ war.

I have since gotten rid of most of them with the exception of the X-Wing books and the Thrawn series. I loved them then, and I still think they are worthy reads.

They are to literature what Star Wars is to cinema: Light, fast, fun. Not everything has to be super serious and weighty.

the first 1-5 books are better in my opinion.. i actually just re-bought them all on my tablet off google play bookstore.. I lost a few over the years and some are trashed.. thought it was time to get the digital ones for life (they are worth it..)

As an X-Wing newbie but avid book lover, is their a site or something that gives a rough order in which to read these books? Or which series are considered canon and which are just flights of fantasy?

Thanks

In all honesty, I think it's best to read them the order they were published, since they sometimes reference each other. That may just be me, though

Period3 is overly harsh but not wrong.

What this means is that the X-Wing series is not high, or even medium tier literature. They are light, shallow, fluff reading. They are fun to read, so long as you don't have a wildly obnoxious internal editor. Just don't expect much depth to what you're reading. They're about spaceship battles, a little bit about diversity, and not much else.

Yeah, i sorta do have a wildly obnoxious internal editor, because my dad is the head editor of a magazine and i think he passed it on to me.

As an X-Wing newbie but avid book lover, is their a site or something that gives a rough order in which to read these books? Or which series are considered canon and which are just flights of fantasy?

Thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_books

Find the Rebellion Era and start from there. Ignore any with a (Y) next to them (unless you're a kid).

Period3 is overly harsh but not wrong.

What this means is that the X-Wing series is not high, or even medium tier literature. They are light, shallow, fluff reading. They are fun to read, so long as you don't have a wildly obnoxious internal editor. Just don't expect much depth to what you're reading. They're about spaceship battles, a little bit about diversity, and not much else.

Yeah, i sorta do have a wildly obnoxious internal editor, because my dad is the head editor of a magazine and i think he passed it on to me.

I do too. I can turn it off while writing. But while reading every sentence is judged... Shadows of the Empire nigh on murdered my brain when I last read it...

Yeah, when i read Eragon, i could just feel my IQ dropping.

what books discuss Soonter Fel??

for Fel you would be better off getting the old Rogue Squadron comics, especially "The making of Baron Fel" issue. Fel gets mentioned a few times in the X-Wing series but he had disappeared between the end of the comic story and the start of the X-Wing books story.

He really doesn't get mentioned again in a major way until the hand of Thrawn books came out. Then he had a few major roles in the Vong war series books, but lets just say it's almost worth losing Thrawn and Fel, all the other books, stories and characters just to have the Vong removed from star wars canon when Disney cleaned the slate earlier this year.

As an X-Wing newbie but avid book lover, is their a site or something that gives a rough order in which to read these books? Or which series are considered canon and which are just flights of fantasy?

Thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_books

Find the Rebellion Era and start from there. Ignore any with a (Y) next to them (unless you're a kid).

That's not entirely a fair assessment. I found the Young Jedi Knights series to be really good reads. And it makes Jacen's story that much more tragic to know what he was like in his youth.

As an X-Wing newbie but avid book lover, is their a site or something that gives a rough order in which to read these books? Or which series are considered canon and which are just flights of fantasy?

Thanks

None of the Expanded Universe novels are canon of any sort anymore Lucasfilm/Disney officially announced they were being rebranded 'Star Wars Legends' sometime earlier this year. The only items with any legitimacy are the 6 movies and the Clone Wars series.

Most of the Expanded Universe is pretty **** silly, really. Multiple clones of the Emperor, superweapons that make the Death Stars look like toys...once you hit the Vong and especially the stuff after that it's time to check out...

Up through Thrawn and (most of)the X-wing series, it's all a lot more balanced. No superweapons(except where I, Jedi crosses with the Jedi Academy trilogy), no cloned Emperor, just the fledgling New Republic versus the remnants of the Empire. It does still have fuzzy Force blocking lizards and clones with too many vowels in their names, but eh; it's still Star Wars. Everything afterwards... just doesn't feel right.

Whenever the X-Wing series comes up, I'm surprised that no one plugs the X-Wing comics series. Also worth a look.

They are some of the best Star Wars books out there, really good read with some great characters, yub yub commander.....

I read the X-Wing books when I was a teen, and enjoyed them thoroughly. I don't think you could pay me to read through them again at this point in my life. Some things are better left to nostalgia.

I read the X-Wing books when I was a teen, and enjoyed them thoroughly. I don't think you could pay me to read through them again at this point in my life. Some things are better left to nostalgia.

Oh, I don't know, I re-read them probably at least once every year or two

It's just personal taste. I'm not saying that mine is better or worse than that of anyone else, only that some things aren't palatable for me anymore.

I too rotate through this series every few years.

They have some very colourful characters, interesting solutions to problems, and well just a fun series.

They fit well within the Star wars universe where good guys are good, bad guys are bad and there are pretty special effects everywhere.

As mentioned already they can sometimes feel like they are based a little too much on the X-wing vs Tie fighter computer games.

If you want a high brow story line and deep character developments and 3 pages of walking through a field, maybe not for you.

If you want to read about the big ego pilots of dinner squadron and silly squadron, star fighter battles and commando type operations, and fun one liners, then go for it

This is also probably the series that took Wedge Antillies from a recurring role side character to super awesome pilot god of the skies.

Yub yub commander.

Thanks for all the helpful responses!