Comments on: ‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe: Where Should a New Reader Begin?

By: Justin Turner

Justin Turner — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:45:56 +0000

I started at the very beginning of the timeline, Lost Tribes of the Sith

By: Kondorr

Kondorr — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:57:30 +0000

Shadows of the Empire or Heir to the Empire…

By: BLaDz01

BLaDz01 — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:21:08 +0000

My website is the link to my personal spreadsheet.

By: BLaDz01

BLaDz01 — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:16:36 +0000

I have always been an avid follower since I was three in 1986. I dropped out since the 3rd prequel came out. When SWTOR was released I jumped on board and tried to find everything I could reading wise. I made a spreadsheet based mostly of wookiepedia’s site of every piece of content. I am starting at the beginning and going to legacy. I think this is a great way. Some content might be hard to find but I am working on finding it all.

By: harvester

harvester — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:51:02 +0000

maybe the darth bane series is a good start for star wars beginners…

By: EdoAon

EdoAon — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:09:47 +0000

I started with the X-Wing series, really preferred stackpole’s take over allston’s, then read the Thrawn trilogy. I had my sister start with Allegience, gives a good tie-in to the movies and introduces Mara Jade. My aunt is going by galactic chronological order, starting with the ancient republic stuff. Also, I think the \tales from\ short stories help give a nice introduction.

By: mandoclone3381

mandoclone3381 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:14:41 +0000

I actually came into reading the EU by reading the Xwing series, mainly the Stackpole stuff. I find the stories moving and I liked the characters. I tried reading the Thrawn trilogy and it just seemed long winded to me for whatever reason. I listen to the old audiobooks though and that makes it a bit more palatable.

By: David

David — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:40:37 +0000

I am an avid believer in start at the beginning. I didn’t start there myself only due to a reference I read accidentally online that got me hooked on knowing what happened. I started with the New Jedi Order to find out how Darth Caedus came about. I then had to jump back to Vector Prime and go through the whole Yuuzhan Vong that I saw massive references to in NJO. I started back at the very beginning with a few out of sequence ones later when the library did not have what I was looking for next and have loved the entire EU thus far. I just finished the first two Lando novels that someone else dissed. I liked them too. I don’t think there is a bad book in the bunch. All that said, if I could manipulate the past, I would try not to find that reference to Darth Caedus and his prior identity and start with Crosscurrent. If someone were to ask my favorites I would be torn between the Darth Bane trilogy, the Yuuzhan Vong and NJO. Fair warning I think that no matter what Rogue Planet should be read before Vector Prime and the rest of the Yuuzhan Vong stuff.

By: Althaltallik

Althaltallik — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:11:50 +0000

I’d recommend them start where i started: with reading novelized forms of the movies. That way, they’d be used to how Star Wars books read, and there have been a few scenes and details in the novelizations that weren’t in the movies. (Ex: the scene where Luke hangs out with other teens from Tattoine in ANH)

Then, turn them to the Hand of Thrawn Books.
I, myself, read Shadows of Mindor first, simply because Star Wars was new to me, and i wasn’t even aware that there WAS an EU. I went to WalMart, and it was on the bestsellers rack. Since then, I’ve been hunting for them and grabbing with a quickness any time i see more SWEU books.

By: Branden

Branden — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:45:44 +0000

Im only 16 and the first Star Wars book i read was The Courtship of Princess Leia and i loved it! Since then ive powered my way through the big series. I would either reccomend TCOPL or The Truce at Bakura because they are fairly easy to understand in terms of lack of EU characters ect.