I started up an Amazon Book Widget (some of my favorites), but I know I haven't read em all.
I was also wondering which was your favorite? I would like to get them all together on the Amazon Book Widget and then folks can go look at em in one place. And thank you for giving me your favorite. If possible when you list a favorite here to make sure I load the right one can you list your favorites this way please:
1. Book title
2. Book cover image
3. Very short synopsis or story description (if possible)
Personally, I liked the Republic Commando Series and the Darth Bane Series as well as the Lost Tribe of the Sith. I have heard the X-Wing Books were good and am planning on buying those next. Currently I just purchased Darth Plaeguis and need to start reading that one.
Books on our Widget so far:
Republic Commando Series:
As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxy–stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . .
Hard Contact
Triple Zero
True Colors
Order 66
Imperial Commando: 501st
The Thrawn SeriesFive years after the fall of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is the first in a new line of Jedi Knights. Han Solo and Princess Leia have married, together assuming many burdens of the New Republic's government. But across the galaxy lies a dying part of the Empire - all the more dangerous near death - and it has just discovered something that could bring it back to life! The last of the Emperor's warlords, Admiral Thrawn, is ready to destroy the New Republic - and the odds are stacked heavily against Luke, Leia, and Han!
Thrawn Trilogy
Individual Books in Series:
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
All three paperbacks
The Hand of Thrawn
Spectre of the Past
Vison of the Future
Shadows of the Empire
Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of evil who dares to oppose one of the best-known fictional villains of all time: Darth Vader. The story involves all the featured Star Wars movie characters, plus Emperor Palpatine and, of course, Lord Vader himself.
Death Star
The Death Star’s name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itself–equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blink of an eye. Its annihilation of the planet Alderaan, at the merciless command of Grand Moff Tarkin, lives in infamy. And its own ultimate destruction, at the hands of Luke Skywalker, is the stuff of legend. But what is the whole story, and who are the players, behind the creation of this world-killing satellite of doom?
Darth Bane Series:
“Two there should be; no more, no less.
One to embody the power, the other to crave it.”
–Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith
On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There, Dessel’s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly win him renown as a warrior. But in the eyes of his watchful masters, a far greater destiny awaits him.
As an acolyte in the Sith academy, studying the secrets and skills of the dark side, Dessel embraces his new identity: Bane. But the true test is yet to come. In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness, he must defy the most sacred traditions and reject all he has been taught. It is a trial by fire in which he must surrender fully to the dark side–and forge from the ashes a new era of absolute power.
Path of Destruction
Rule of Two
Dynasty of Evil
Star Wars Zombie Series:
When the Imperial prison barge Purge—temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves—breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back—bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine. And death is only the beginning. The Purge’s half-dozen survivors will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
Death Troopers
Red Harvest
I will work on more of these as time allows. I think this will be a really cool section. I also think this book (for those who want to get serious about their SW Reading) is a great compendium of most of the stuff that is out there. It is hard to fathom so much has been written:
The Essential Reader's Companion
