Your information to books within the ‘Star Wars’ canon.
Star Wars has often had an thrilling data inside novels. The primary piece of Star Wars media ever launched grew to become the respected novelization Star Wars: From The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, launched in November 1976, a 12 months forward of the discharge of the movie. The primary by-product novel Splinters of the Thoughts’s Eye by means of Alan Dean Foster bought right here a 12 months later, and explored the equally adventures of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia as they confronted off in opposition to Darth Vader. Many authors endured to extend upon the actions of the film saga, which embody the well-known trilogy Inheritor to the Empire, Darkish Pressure Rising, and The Final Command from Timothy Zahn inside the early Nineteen Nineties. Characters together with Mara Jade and Grand Admiral Thrawn might need abnormal roles in later novels.
Within the subsequent a number of many years, authors explored occasions ranging from hundreds of years sooner than The Phantom Menace to a very long time after Return of the Jedi. Books explored the wars amongst hundreds of historic Jedi Knights and Sith Lords, and launched Han Solo and Princess Leia’s kids Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin, along with Luke’s son Ben Skywalker.
When Disney adopted the rights to Lucasfilm and relaunched the Star Wars franchise, they initiated a model new period of publishing and a brand new canon. Novels launched given that 2014 are a part of this new timeline. Whereas quite a few the older books had been re-launched by means of Disney, they’re now considered part of the “Legends” non-canon timeline.
It will possibly get complicated trying to decide out how every of these tales match collectively, and whereby they take area in relation to the movies. Right here’s the chronological order of the newly launched Star Wars books, not together with transient testimonies or books for youthful readers.
- The Excessive Republic: Gentle of the Jedi
- The Excessive Republic: The Rising Storm
- The Excessive Republic: The Fallen Star
- The Excessive Republic: Into the Darkish
- The Excessive Republic: Out of the Shadows
- The Excessive Republic: Midnight Horizon
- The Excessive Republic: Tempest Runner
- The Excessive Republic: Convergence
- The Excessive Republic: The Battle For Jedha (Upcoming, February 2023)
- The Excessive Republic: The Battle For Jedha (Upcoming, February 2023)
- The Excessive Republic: Cataclysm (Upcoming, April 2023)
- The Excessive Republic: Quest For Planet X (Upcoming, April 2023)
- The Excessive Republic: Path of Vengeance (Upcoming, Could 2023)
Earlier than ‘The Phantom Menace’
- The Excessive Republic: The Vow Of Silver Daybreak (Upcoming)
- Dooku: Jedi Misplaced
- Grasp & Apprentice
- Padawan
Between ‘The Phantom Menace’ and ‘Assault of the Clones’
- Queen’s Peril
- Queen’s Shadow
- Queen’s Hope
Between ‘Assault of the Clones’ and ‘Revenge of the Sith’
- Brotherhood
- Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising
- Darkish Disciple
Between ‘Revenge of the Sith’ and ‘A New Hope’
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Higher Good
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
- Ahsoka
- Thrawn
- Lord of the Sith
- Tarkin
- Most Wished
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (Novelization)
- Insurgent Rising
- A New Daybreak
- Misplaced Stars
- Battlefront: Twilight Firm
- Leia, Princess of Alderaan
- Thrawn: Alliances
- Thrawn: Treason
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Novelization)
- Battlefront II: Inferno Squad
Between ‘A New Hope’ and ‘The Empire Strikes Again’
- Inheritor to the Jedi
- Physician Aphra
Between ‘Return of the Jedi’ and ‘The Pressure Awakens’
- The Princess and the Scoundrel
- Hunters: Battle for the Area (Upcoming, March 2023)
- Alphabet Squadron
- Aftermath
- Shadow Fall
- Aftermath: Life Debt
- Victory’s Worth
- Aftermath: Empire’s Finish
- Final Shot
- Poe Dameron: Free Fall
- Shadow of the Sith
- Bloodline
- Pressure Collector
- Phasma
- The Pressure Awakens (Novelization)
Between ‘The Pressure Awakens’ and ‘The Final Jedi’
- Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire
- Star Wars: The Final Jedi (Novelization)
Between ‘The Final Jedi’ and ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
- Resistance Reborn
- A Crash of Destiny
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Novelization)
