What is your favorite EU book

What is your favorite EU book? Mine is Star By Star. I've read all the books and most are somewhat good except for the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy.

 

Um, I think SotE was the best actual book of them all, but Rebirth is my personal favorite, even if it isn't that nice.

 

It would probably be Star by Star, The Bacta War or Wraith Squadron.

 

i rally enjoyed Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy
and all Vong books are good too

 

I've been reading some of the Battle Tech series by Michael A Stackpole and I have to admit he is talented

 

All goes back to "Heir to the Empire."

 

DVader316's top 3 :

1) Vision of the Future
2) Star by Star
3) Vector Prime

 

The Last Command

 

The Bounty Hunter Wars

 

It's hard to say one book as they are part of a larger set, but my favourate are the X-Wing series and the NJO.

 

Star by Star. then again, it will hopefully be DJ when it comes out cos Jaina's my fave character.

 

Here are my top few:

1 - Tales of the Bounty Hunters
2 - Vision of the Future
3 - The Last Command
4 - Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter
5 - Jedi Academy books
6 - Shadows of the Empire
7 - Heir to the Empire

 

Vision of the Future

 

I will assume you mean "books = most common Bantam or Del Rey novels" to make things easy and limit the field a bit. (and I'm also not including the children's books). I'd have to go with something like this. I should note that outside of the top three, except for a few major exceptions at the bottom of the list, there's not much separating all of the rest (i.e. #30 could almost just as easily be #6). It's like #6 is #6.00000, while #7 is actually #6.00001

1. Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley
2. Star By Star
3. Lando Calrissian Adventures
4. X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
5. Edge of Victory: Rebirth

6. Episode I: TPM Novellization
7. X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
8. Edge of Victory: Conquest
9. Cloak of Deception
10. Agents of Chaos: Hero's Trial

11. Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
12. X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar
13. Splinter of the Mind's Eye
14. Vector Prime
15. Han Solo Trilogy: Rebel Dawn

16. Jedi Academy Trilogy: Champions of the Force
17. Dark Tide: Onslaught
18. X-Wing: Wraith Squadron
19. X-Wing: Iron Fist
20. Black Fleet Crises: Tyrant's Test

21. Han Solo Trilogy: The Hutt Gambit
22. A New Hope Novellization
23. Empire Strikes Back Novellization
24. Return of the Jedi Novellization
25. The Courtship of Princess Leia

26. Jedi Academy Trilogy: Jedi Search
27. Jedi Academy Trilogy: Dark Apprentice
28. Corellian Trilogy: Showdown at Centerpoint
29. Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse
30. Rogue Planet

31. Darksaber
32. Children of the Jedi
33. Planet of Twilight
34. The Crystal Star
35. Black Fleet Crises: Shield of Lies

36. Bounty Hunter Wars: Hard Merchandise
37. Balance Point
38. Shadows of the Empire
39. X-Wing: Isard's Rrevenge
40. X-Wing: Solo Command

41. Black Fleet Crises: Before the Storm
42. Corellian Trilogy: Assult on Corellia
43. Corellian Trilogy: Ambush at Selonia
44. Truce at Bakura
45. Han Solo Trilogy: The Paradise Snare

46. The Bounty Hunter Wars: The Mandalorian Armor
47. I, Jedi
48. The Thrawn Trilogy: Heir to the Empire
49. The Bounty Hunter Wars: Slave Ship
50. X-Wing: The Bacta War

51. X-Wing: The Krytos Trap
52. The Thrawn Trilogy: Dark Force Rising
53. The New Rebellion
54. Dark Tide: Ruin
55. Hand of Thrawn: Spectre of the Past
56. The Thrawn Trilogy: The Last Command

The following was just a bad Star Wars novel, and I can't consider it a "favorite" by any definition of the word (even my 57th favoite SW Bantam/Del Rey novel):
Hand of Thrawn: Vision of the Future

I would most likely derive more enjoyment from being kicked in the jimmies than reading VotF again. I've had the unpleasant occasion to have had my jimmies grazed by a football once as well as having read VotF once. Even extrapolating the increased force from a kick hitting the target solidly versus a football hitting the target region, I can honestly VotF was the more painful experience. I think I could read VotF to overwhelm the pain of a root canal, making me forget I had one.

 

Heir to the Empire.

 

I'm changing my vote to "Vision of the Future" just because I think Genghis12 should have said "Han Solo Adventures" and stopped.

 

vison of the future. that book looks foreward brightly to new horizons in the star wars galaxy. then i read vector prime.

 

I agree. VotF would have been the perfect conclusion to the SW saga and the EU if they hadnt decided to move forward with the NJO.


Im glad they did, though.

 

Star by Star
Truce at Bakura
Conquest
Rebirth
Balance Point
Vector Prime
YJK series
Jedi Academy trilogy
Specter of the Past
Visons of the Future
Heir to the Empire trilogy......

so many are good, nbut those are my favabove all, ooooh, and
Tales of the New republic
Tales from the Empire, etc...

 

Shadows of the Empire or Vision of the Future

 

I have a bunch of favorites; it's hard to rank which is more favorite, so here goes, in no particular order:

Wraith Squadron
Iron Fist
Solo Command
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
Starfighters of Adumar
Spectre of the Past
Vision of the Future
The Shadow Academy arc of the YJK

Okay, so they kinda came out in chronological order after all. Still, my favorites.

 

Hmm... my favorite EU book...
That's a tough one, but i'll have to go with Edge of Victory I and II (I because Anakin is basically the main hero in the story and II because it marks the beginning of Anakin and Tahiri's relationship).
A VERY close second is Shadows of the Empire, because in my humble opinion it recaptured teh "good old days" of the originol trilogy like no other book managed.
Finally, I really liked Vector Prime, so that is in a close third. I honestly felt like I was watching a movie, I could almost see Jaina evading those Z-95's at the beginning of the book, and Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin weaving in and out of the asteroid field in the modified TIEs. Well, that's my list.