To me, the best starwars books ever written was the Thrawn Trilogy, though Zahn's 2-book sequel to the triology honestly wasnt that good. In Trilogy, Thrawn got a reputation in my mind as just about the coolest startwars villain ever, and with Specter of the Past/Vision of the Future, things got really, really boring. The thing was, the books were built around the Thrawn legacy but when thrawn isnt actually
in the story, the formula doesnt work
One of my favorite non-thrawn books was New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest. I read it several years ago and I was quite fascinated by [spoiler]the vong brainwashing Tahiri into becoming a Vong-zombie-jedi-slave[/spoiler]
Some other stuff I've read is parts of the x-wing series, Shadows of the Empire,
Star wars book 1 and book 2 (when I was younger) and some other things I guess I didnt enjoy enough to remember
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