Star Wars Legends Fan Group discussion

Are you new to Star Wars Books and don't know where to start? Are you looking for a specific book on your favorite character or set in your favorite SW era? Are you looking for reads to fullfill some of our SW Yearly Challenge prompts?

Or have you just finished a great SW book and want to point others to that gem?

You can use this thread for asking/giving SW recs.

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For SW Legends newbies - check out Akindle's thread:

How to read Star Wars EU for movie watchers

She recommends these as good starting points for people interested in what happened in the galaxy far far away after the events of Return of the Jedi:

These are all Legends books (not canon).

The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn:
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command



X-Wing Series (10 books) - for fans of X-wing fighter pilots
starting with Rogue Squadron by Michael A. Stackpole




We're going to read Heir to the Empire in February '21 as our Group read. You can join in here.

I had a member of our group PMing me about needing recs for prompt #3 of SW Yearly Challenge:

"Read a SW short story anthology"

So here are some options:

Canon:
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark
Canto Bight



Legends:
Tales from the Empire
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
Tales from Jabba's Palace
Tales from the New Republic
Tales of the Bounty Hunters

Also Tales from the New Republic for Legends.

It's already there, Rebecca. Any other suggestions?

Whoops, missed that one being on the list. I think there is a collection of short stories called Lost Tribes of the Sith, or something like that for old Republic and or KOTOR era.

Rebecca wrote: "Whoops, missed that one being on the list. I think there is a collection of short stories called Lost Tribes of the Sith, or something like that for old Republic and or KOTOR era."

It is Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories by John Jackson Miller.

Yes, you're both right. But it's not an anthology because all of the stories were written by the same author (J.J. Miller)

Ah. So that's the difference between anthology and collection.

canon
Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Vol. 1: Aliens
legends
Tales of the Bounty Hunters by KJA

Thank you, Akindle. I will add tales of the Bounty Hunters to my post.

I fear that the first book isn't an anthology. It seems that Landry Q. Walker wrote all the stories in the collection.

Oh, we could change it as well, to have collections and anthologies.

I believe Canto Bight for the new canon could also work for this category.

Yep, I think so.

What about Journey to Star Wars: the Last Jedi - The Legends of Luke Skywalker? It is a junior novel like Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Vol. 1: Aliens and is also short stories by a single author.

Akindle wrote: "Oh, we could change it as well, to have collections and anthologies."

There's no need to change it. We can use collections of short stories as a prompt in another challenge.
Anyway, if you want to read a short story collection for our SW Yearly challenge, you can, you'll just have to fit it into another category.

TAMRA wrote: "I believe Canto Bight for the new canon could also work for this category."

Yes, Canto Bight is an anthology. Thanks, TAMRA. I'll add it to the list.

So there are two anthologies to be published in 2021:

Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 1 - March 2021
& Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 2 - September 2021

Hello there!
I just wanted to ask if the Boba Fett books are good. I'm thinking about buying them.

BücherDi'kut_66 wrote: "Hello there!
I just wanted to ask if the Boba Fett books are good. I'm thinking about buying them."

Hi! Which ones?

Zuzana wrote: "BücherDi'kut_66 wrote: "Hello there!
I just wanted to ask if the Boba Fett books are good. I'm thinking about buying them."

Hi! Which ones?"
The first book is called Boba Fett: The fight to survive, but I don't know if they're canon or legends sorry xD.

I believe they are Legends. IDK, if they are any good, though. Check reviews on Google and Goodreads.

I read that series. It's Legends. Published by Scholastic these books are "middle-grade". For children 8-13 yo. Doesn't mean that an adult can't enjoy them. They're short reads, full of action but kinda forgettable.

Ok thanks. :)
I wish you all a nice evening!

If you're looking for good SW middle grade books, I can recommend Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. They're about young Obi-Wan & his adventures with Qui-Gon.

BücherDi'kut_66 wrote: "Ok thanks. :)
I wish you all a nice evening!"
You're welcome.

Any recommendation for Disney Star Wars era non-fiction?
Sarah is looking for recs for our non-fiction SW challenge prompt.

Can anybody recommend Legends books with female main character other than Leia? Thx.

Republic Commandos series by Karen Travis, Into the Void, and Jedi Healer are the ones that come to mind quickly.

Thanks, Rebecca. I'm surprised that Republic Commandos have a female MC, I expected they were focused on the clones.

Maybe not a MC, but Star Wars Rouge Planet has a female that isn’t Leia

Thanks, Akindle. I need a female main character for the Yearly challenge.

I'm quite surprised how few books with a female lead other than Leia are there in the Legends line.

The main female lead in the Republic Commandos books is a Jedi. You get her perspective, the Clones, and several other point of view characters.

There may be others that have female leads or at least female point of view side characters from Legends, those are just the ones I know of. Not sure about the Vong war books.

If you're looking for a SW non-fiction audiobooks, Audible made a rec playlist.

You can check it out here

Recommended audiobooks:
The Princess Diarist
I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story
A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More
Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life And Career Of Warwick Davis
George Lucas: A Life
Why We Love Star Wars: The Great Moments That Built A Galaxy Far, Far Away
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
Inside Star Wars: The Complete Script of the Wondery Original Podcast