Andrew Mayden

With Star Wars hurtling toward its 50th anniversary, we’re feeling nostalgic about its history. In 2014, Star Wars’ new owner Disney rebooted the franchise’s canon, rebranding all the games, comics, and novels that came before as “Legends.” To this day, the Legends-era Star Wars books still have a diehard fanbase. So, let’s take a look at the best of the best.

For one reason or another, the books here all represent peak Star Wars, the space opera sci-fi saga at its best. Some of the picks might be controversial, and the ranking order can always be argued with…but point being, each of these novel will take you back to a time when it meant something very different to be Star Wars than it does today.

The picks here span a fifteen-year span from the early ’90s to the late aughts, which was arguably Star Wars at its most ascendent. This ranking is a window into an older way of doing Star Wars. Like the Jedi of old, let us initiate you into our arcane ways, and hopefully make you want to read some old Expanded Universe material.

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