I am curious what is everyone's favorite Star Wars book/series? I liked the movies but when my favorite hard sci-fi author wrote a series I was drawn in...

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Hands down, this is the best Star War book I have ever read:

The Thrawn Trilogy, without question. Hand of Thrawn was great, too, and I really loved the X-Wing novels. ESPECIALLY Alston's. He may have written some of the flat-out FUNNIEST books I've ever read (Starfighters of Adumar particularly stands out).

5 hours ago, Bullox said:

Of course you'd say these. You're in at least 2 of them!

From the old EU, I would say the Thrawn trilogy. Not just for the story, but for what it did for Star Wars when it came out. It was the first books that extended the story, we could relive Star Wars.... but I was so young when I read it, I don’t know if it aged well.

From the new canon, Lost Stars was really great! But I also liked Bloodline a lot. Claudia Gray is currently my favorite Star Wars author and I can’t wait to finally start reading Master & Apprentice (**** preorder problems...).

The Stackpole/Allston books are good. I remember liking Truce at Bakura. Having recently re-read Shadows of the Empire...most of my nostalgia there comes from the video game.

Thrawn trilogy, like everyone else said. Haven't bothered with new canon. Too hard to try and let go of the EU I put time and money into before Disney Lucasfilm went "lol **** you none of that counts anymore". Yes, I'm bitter about that.

10 hours ago, Scopes said:

Of course you'd say these. You're in at least 2 of them!

I’m glad you got that reference. That is indeed where I got my user name from but, unfortunately, I didn’t realize I was misspelling it for a while (it was supposed to be Bollux). By the time I realized my misstake, I had already posted a fair amount of content on the Painting/mods forum. 😕

On 4/27/2019 at 9:56 AM, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Hands down, this is the best Star War book I have ever read:

Yeah I love this one too!

Dark Disciple is also good

I liked the first half to three quarters of the NJO.

I still haven't read Lost Stars but sounds like I need to just read all the Star Wars that Claudia Grey is involved in.

I loved the Zahn trilogy back in the now-Legends books. Looking back, there was some absolutely silly stuff in them but overall they are quite good.

Darth Bane trilogy.

The X-wing Series would narrowly beat out the Thrawn Trilogy for me.

I guess the one(s) that really stick out for me are:

It was refreshing to have all new content that also didn't rely on the (main) triology characters for story. And, it was about a starfighter squadron.

On 4/28/2019 at 12:31 AM, Bullox said:

Daley passed way to soon. I've been collecting all of his other works slowly over the years from used book stores.

On 4/28/2019 at 7:33 AM, Red Castle said:

From the old EU, I would say the Thrawn trilogy. Not just for the story, but for what it did for Star Wars when it came out. It was the first books that extended the story, we could relive Star Wars.... but I was so young when I read it, I don’t know if it aged well.

I just took another run through those and they are still solid reads.

I'd say they're my favorites from the old EU as well and would echo most of the other comments here for the reasons why.

I still have a soft spot for "Splinter of The Mind's Eye."

On 4/28/2019 at 11:42 AM, ArcHammer said:

Thrawn trilogy, like everyone else said. Haven't bothered with new canon. Too hard to try and let go of the EU I put time and money into before Disney Lucasfilm went "lol **** you none of that counts anymore". Yes, I'm bitter about that. 

I know where you're coming from there. I was just finishing up The Fate of The Jedi and had been really enjoying Ben and Vestara when The Mouse nuked all of it to give me that pile of dren Force Awakens. Have read none of the new canon novels set after Return of The Jedi.

Did read the Rebels tie-in novel "A New Dawn" and the Clone Wars tie-in "Dark Disciple." I enjoyed them both. Been pretty deep into the new canon comics. Picked up the new Zahn Thrawn books but haven't made time for them.

3 hours ago, Frimmel said:

I was just finishing up The Fate of The Jedi and had been really enjoying Ben and Vestara when The Mouse nuked all of it to give me that pile of dren Force Awakens.

Honestly, this was a mercy killing. Legacy of the Force SERIOUSLY FUBARed the old EU, with WTF plot points that made no frelling sense (like how was Daala not in a MENTAL INSTITUTION?).

On 5/6/2019 at 12:52 PM, Cr0aker said:

Daley passed way to soon. I've been collecting all of his other works slowly over the years from used book stores.

That's sad, I didn't know that. Turns out that I lived very close to where he was living when he passed. If he had pets, it's quite possible my wife was his veterinarian (he lived in Arnold, MD and my wife worked at Arnold veterinary hospital at that time).

On 4/29/2019 at 1:42 AM, ArcHammer said:

Thrawn trilogy, like everyone else said. Haven't bothered with new canon. Too hard to try and let go of the EU I put time and money into before Disney Lucasfilm went "lol **** you none of that counts anymore". Yes, I'm bitter about that.

Eh... as a fellow lifetime EU fan, it had pretty much run its course, and the last entries before the wipe had been so bad that it needed to be put out of its misery. Everything after New Jedi Oder was abysmal, and combined with how divisive NJO itself was*... yeah, things weren't great. Although it had started to turn around with Mercy Kill and Sword of the Jedi sounded promising, you certainly couldn't ask them to make multi-billion dollar movies with that kind of baggage. It was a good time to call it.

* Spoken as an NJO fan, before I get accused of lumping it in with the trash that was Dark Nest , Legacy and Fate .