I think I wanna get back into the expanded universe...

Actually, you might want to first start with the Hand of Thrawn books by Tim Zahn- Spectre of the Past and Vision of the Future. It brings a sort of "end cap" to the bantam era of books, and sets up things for the NJO a little better.

Normally, TF.N Books has a listing of the books by release date available (under Novel Reviews), but only the chronological and alphabetical options are valid links at the moment.

Anyways, of the major books released since then, I'd read the X-Wing novels if you haven't already, as well as "I, Jedi". I forget when the Corellian Trilogy and Black Fleet Crisis trilogy were released (although the latter is hampered by a poor subplot involving Luke, it features an excellent main plot and the former introduces something that is later revisted in NJO books).

There was also a good trilogy by AC Crispin that centered around Han Solo's younger days.

The Essential Chronology book does a good job of summarizing everything up to the New Jedi Order series also, so thats useful for picking up anything else you might have missed.

The comic "Union" takes place between Hand of Thrawn and NJO.

After that, your more or less up to the NJO.


For prequel stuff, definately check out Cloak of Deception and Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter- they make an excellent prelude to TPM.

The various comic story arcs from the ongoings eries also covers the post-TPM era nicely (Outlander, Twilight, Darkness and Rite of Passage are all excellent).