Pretty similar tastes here, used to get the old Star Wars books back in the 80's such as Splinter Of The Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (who did the movie adaptations) to tide you over until the next movie came out, and of course the comics, used to get the Marvel UK ones that you used to get over here, some really good stories including the Shira Brie and Lumiya tales, Pariah was another good story arc from this era, they also explored Bothans if I remember rightly, long before the novels did.

Then after the movies had finished in the late 80's I'd turn to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game for my Star Wars fiction hit, lots of good stuff in here in the form of character, planet and hardware back stories, and general fiction in the various sourcebooks, which has gone on to feature, if not become the backbone in some cases of the EU.

Then the real boom in Star Wars reading came for me in the early 90's with the start of the Timothy Zahn Heir To The Empire novels, this was cracking stuff, and at around the same time Dark Horse comics started doing original new Star Wars comics including the Dark Empire series amongst others such as the X-Wing: Rogue Squadron books and comics which were a favourite of mine. At that time I was pretty regularly picking up most Star Wars novels that came out, but then as things do, time changes, and I had less and less time to read with on thing or another. I'd get the odd book here and there, pick up a collected graphic novel rather than the individual issues of a series, and now pretty much pick up the Star Wars coffee table reference books for research and the like rather than fiction. I think the last Star Wars fiction novel I picked up (not including graphic novels which I still get fairly regularly) would be Timothy Zahn's Outbound Flight, and that was years ago.

Never really got into The New Jedi Order so much, just seemed so far removed from the original source material to me, though the alien enemy from that sounded and looked interesting. I actually wrote a similar post Jedi set tale myself about an alien species invading the galaxy after the civil war ended, when I was about 12. I kid you not.

Let's see what I've read...
I'll keep spoilers out of this, unless you guys say otherwise.

In chronological order;

Old Republic Era

The Darth Bane trilogy. First one was borderline good, and went downhill from there. Force powers from video games don't translate well into books.

Rise of the Empire Era

Outbound Flight. Quite enjoyed it.

Clone Wars Era

Order 66. Meh, nothing special to me. Wasn't bad, but not great either.

Rebellion Era

Star Wars Episode Six. Liked it a lot, you know what the characters feel even more. It's the movie on pages.

The Mandalorian Armor. Suffice to say I don't feel like reading the sequels to that. Once again, it wasn't bad per se.

Truce at Bakura. Pretty good. Would be worth a read if you haven't already.

New Republic Era

X-Wing series. Read about half of them, no particular order. Good reads all, but I prefer Stackpole more than Allston. And Starfighters of Adumar was just plain weird.

Jedi Academy Trilogy. I read the two last ones, quite enjoyable.

The Black Fleet Crisis. Read the second one in that trilogy, didn't make me want to read the others.

The Corellian Trilogy. I read the two last novels in this one, but man were they ever good. Definitely worth looking into.

The New Jedi Order Era.

Read one of the novels, really didn't like it. Not to mention that the whole  premise of the series put a bad taste in my mouth. Bunch of aliens with organic spaceships didn't interest me. But then again, some things were really cool. Hmmm. Well, guess I'm sort of conflicted.

The Swarm War trilogy. The end of The New Jedi Order series, but that weird war is over by then. Really great trilogy, think you guys would like it.

Legacy Era.

Legacy of the Force series. My favorite out of all the Star Wars series. The first novel is a little difficult to get into, but it picks up right by the second.  This series is more akin to those in the GCW era, more so than the others around it. Can't say much without spoiling anything, but it's awesome. This is my number one recommendation.

Fate of the Jedi series. So far I've read six out of nine, but it's so-so. Some good parts, and some bad parts.

And that's what I've read. Lots of good authors and novels, but you do get your fair share of lesser ones. I also didn't mention any of the short stories.

Thank you for the link, Un-Co.

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