Books: What to read first and my top 10

I must say that The New Jedi Order books are quite good. It is true that Chewie was killed in the first book, Vector Prime, but they are good books none the less. It deals with an alien force from outside the galaxy who are taking over worlds, and they cannot be seen with the Force. There are about a 100 Jedi or so and they can hold there own, but themselves have suffered casualties. It takes place about 20-25 years after Endor. Some other great SW books are
The New Rebellion
The Thrawn Trilogy
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Shadows of the Empire
The Jedi Academy Triloghy
Rouge Planet
The Truce at Bakura

Yesh, those books are all real good, I'm glad to see we have a new member that likes the books as well. I haven't read Rouge planet, but have heard mostly good things about it. Something that doesn't make sense is where it seems you say that their are 100 Jedi in Vector Prime, is that true?

These are my top ten picks. I don't list them in order of favorites because I don't have time to read (even speed read) all these again and evaluate everything I liked/didn't like. You be the judge on what you like in these awesome picks. Enjoy!

Dark Empire 1,2,3 (Empire's End)
Heir To The Empire Trilogy
Jedi Academy Trilogy
Tales of The Jedi (ALL THE SERIES)
Truce At Bakura
Shadows Of The Empire
Crimsom Empire 1,2
Hand Of Thrawn series
Darksaber
Jedi Apprentice series

Yes, there are about a hundred or so Jedi in the New Jedi Order series. And they have gone back to the one master, one apprentice routine, but still have the academy at Yavin 4. The only Jedi to obtain master status are Luke, Mara, and Kyp

I thought Kam Solusar and Streen were also Jedi masters.

That sounds really cool. So this is after the Hand of Thrawn series and Luke and Mara are married right? Henious, have you read Shadows? I agree that all the books on your list are great. Except dark Empire, I didn't like these because they were basically big comics, they also went against, in my opinion, SW's literature rules. You don't kill major characters that were alive at the end of the OT, and you don't bring back characters Lucas killed. Cloning the emperor was stupid, even Tim Zahn thought so because he had Mara mention here disdain for that whole scene in the Hand of Thrawn Duology. Anyhow I'm rambling, read Shadows, either again or for the first time, it's a great book.

What are the books after Vector Prime like?

I was told that they were crap and not to bother reading them, apparently really badly written or something...what do you guys think?

The two after VP are pretty good, the next two, Agents of Chaos are not very likeable, and the best so far is Balence Point which came out recently.

1.Thrawn Trilogy
2.X-wing Series
3.ORIGINAL Han Solo Trilogy
4.Balence Point
5.The Truce at Bakure
6.Hand of Thrawn Duology
7.Tales books
8.Newer Han Solo Trilogy
9.Shadows
10.Spinter of the Minds Eye

good list, the Thrawn trilogy is by far the best. Shadows is kinda low though, maybe b/c it's so short, only one book? I also think the newer Solo trilogy blows the other one out of space.

Yeah I guess so, but Crispin had a lot more material to work from than Brian Daley had back in '80 or whenever he wrote those books.

"Yub yub, commander." -Various Lt.Kettch personaes

He wrote them that long ago? These are the ones with him in the corprate sector right?

Yeah, Star's End 1979, Revenge 1979, Lost Legacy 1980. Unfortunately Daley died a couple of years ago🙁 .

Thats a shame, I need to get around to reading those books again, it's been like 5-6 years since I looked them over.

I'm gonna have to butt in and set some people straight about the NJO book series. First of all Vector Prime is a superb and gutsy book. Come on people, people die, lets face it Chewie had to, think about it - how hard is it to write for a character that doesn't have the ability to speak English. The whole point about reading a book is not knowing what's going to happen next and with characters dieing let right and centre gives the whole feeling nothing is safe anymore. The expanded universe novels were getting a bit stale and needed something new, granted i would have done things stightly different(to many jedi!!), but never the less makes thing a hell of a lot more interesting. As for the other books: Stackpoles two are great(Onslaught - Ruin), James Luceno's Hero's Trial is the best of the bunch, but his second isn't as good, Kathy Tyers Balance Point is pretty good but not as good as VP or HT. Then comes the two books from Greg Keyes(Conquest - Rebirth) which are superb because they do not take place on a grand scale, only a confined space(if you get my drift). Then comes Troy Denning's Star By Star, one of if not the longest of all Star Wars Novels(606 pages) and pretty good , but again to many jedi!! As for future novels Dark Journey, Rebel Lines 1-2 and others including one called Traitor we'll have to wait and see. Any way heres my top reads:
The Thrawn Trilogy
The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy
The Han Solo Trilogy
Hero's Trial
Vector Prime
Conquest
Oh yeah i nearly forgot.. BRING BACK FETT!!!!!!

Lances Top 10

10. I, Jedi

9. Courtship of Princess Leia

8. Hand of Thrawn Duology

7. Young Jedi Knights Series

6. Correlian Triology

5. Han Solo Adventures (not the Han Solo trilogy)

4. Star Wars Epiosde 1 TPM (it adds more to the story)

3. Truce at Bakura

2. Thrawn Trilogy

and the numero uno of my list

1. New Jedi Order

I made a top ten list before, but I think that if I made one up right now they'd be diff........
I like the YJK series....they're good, easy read, kiddie books, and they talk about the Solo twins

JJK is just ok....a bit young even for me....but nice if one wants to learn about Anakin Solo and Tahiri

NJO is absolutely awesome!!!!!!!! Though I can't say that I've enjoyed the endings of them all....I love the series. They hand picked some of scf fi's best authors to feed us more star wars....
VP- ok....nice start of...sad ending
Dark Tide I- II decent
Agents of Chaos I-II decent
Balance Point good focuses on Jacen Solo's inner struggle

Spoiler:
I enjoyed the fact that when it came to saving his mother... he used the force

Spoiler:
adds a new member to the Star Wars cast: Ben Skywalker

Jedi Apprentice.....good books....short easy reads tells you all about young Obi Wan and his relationship to Qui Gon

I love books!

I just finished Dark Journey that was a pretty cool book although i havent read any of the other previous books with the yvongh. So im kinda clueless as to how the whole vong thing happened.

Well then you need to go find a copy of Vector Prime. It's the first in the series that will end up being 25 books long.

Do you really think they'll stick to the originally planned 25 books???? I thought they had cut the number down.....I hope I'm completely wrong, BTW.

The last I heard the were still doing the 25. I hope they would do more though.