Which book to read first

I have gotten my hands on the following books:

Bane Trilogy

Prequel Trilogy

Splinter of the Mind's Eye

Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter

The last command

The Truce at Bakura

Kenobi

Outbound Flight

Shadows of the Empire

Death Star 

Old Republic: Fatal Alliance 

Maul: Lockdown

Heir to the Empire

Original Trilogy

Plagueis

Thrawn

Old Republic: Annihilation 

Dark Lord Trilogy

Bane Trilogy ~ Prequel Trilogy > Plagueis > the rest imo. Should also check out Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.

BoD wrote:Bane Trilogy ~ Prequel Trilogy > Plagueis > the rest imo. Should also check out Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.

im halfway through to Rule of Two, so i guess ill go straight to DOE after im done with it. then ill read the prequels, then plagueis

Read Heir to the Empire and other TT novels first

Path of Destruction is always a good EU starting book.

^ The Bane trilogy books are how I started getting into Legends.

Can't speak for a decent portion of the novels, but some good picks are Plagueis, ROTS Novel, and Kenobi. Honestly, I didn't care for the Bane trilogy, it took me forever to finish the last two novels, the only one I genuinely liked was PoD.

Should also check out Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.

Possibly the best EU novel I've read, only slightly surpassed by ROTS in quality.

Agreed. I prefer YDR to ROTS, but Stover is an incredible writer. Both him and Stewart have their respective strengths, which makes it hard to choose for me.

DarthAnt66 wrote:Path of Destruction is always a good EU starting book.

yes, but ive already read. i will factually read the bane trilogy, but im looking for recommendations- should i finish the trilogy first after im done with ROT, or go to something even better?

Don't listen to these basic people, YDR and ROTS are overrated, Shadows of the Empire is the most fun I've ever had reading a book and makes a really cool developmentfor Vader and Luke's father and son relationship

Isv wrote:Don't listen to these basic people, YDR and ROTS are overrated, Shadows of the Empire is the most fun I've ever had reading a book and makes a really cool developmentfor Vader and Luke's father and son relationship

plagueis novel >>> all :>

Although the Plagueis novel is my favourite EU novel, it’s quite complex and isn’t really the best book to read first. As others have said, I’d start with the Bane trilogy

I started with the Bane trilogy. Path of Destruction in particular is 10/10, insane character development.

Dark Empire, the best by far.

My first entries were the Jedi Apprentice books; after that, the Bane trilogy. I'd recommend the latter for now. You might also want to read the Darth Maul books you have before you go to the prequels because they provide some background for Maul in TPM. Darth Plagueis is also one of my favorites but it's honestly meant for advanced aficionados of the EU - it makes references to other material left, right, and center. So probably straight to TPM and AotC, after which you should read the Dark Lord trilogy (LoE is a direct prequel to RotS and DL:TRoDV a direct sequel to it).

Azronger wrote:My first entries were the Jedi Apprentice books; after that, the Bane trilogy. I'd recommend the latter for now. You might also want to read the Darth Maul books you have before you go to the prequels because they provide some background for Maul in TPM. Darth Plagueis is also one of my favorites but it's honestly meant for advanced aficionados of the EU - it makes references to other material left, right, and center. So probably straight to TPM and AotC, after which you should read the Dark Lord trilogy (LoE is a direct prequel to RotS and DL:TRoDV a direct sequel to it).

^ This. The Plagueis novel is also longer than the other books from what I remember, and it covers so much time i.e. the end of Plagueis's apprenticeship to Tenebrous, Plagueis meeting Sidious, Sidious's background psychotic tendencies, then it covers the several years of Sidious's apprenticeship to Plagueis, then Sidious finding Maul, some of Sidious's relationship with Maul, Sidious betraying Plagueis etc. You can't rush through this book.