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Creation

I've only added in the ones I've read/heard about. I found a site giving the chronology when I wasn't sure of it myself (http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/timeline.html), and got the authors from (http://www.amazon.com) when I didn't know them. I guess I might fill in more if I have time, but this seems like a good start.--

Kyle Dantarin
17:42, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, since the way the heading system works, maybe it would be better to scrap adding singletons in chronological order and just have them under a seperate ordered list of "Stand Alone Books"

I think I will have to do it that way. I'm going to try and find datings for each book so I can have Title/Author/Date

What about the

New Jedi Order? I know the books are listed there, but you could always move or duplicate them. DevastatorIIC
07:18, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

  • Yeah that sounds like a good idea for now. Maybe there'll be notions to merge stuff later, but for now let's just get it all on here. --
    Kyle Dantarin
    08:36, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

The Truce at Bakura needs to be added Jun 26 2005

The Lando Calrissian series is also missing. By L. Neil Smith. Del Rey did an omnibus reprint of them. --emb021

erm where have so many of the books gone? Can someone explain or I'm just going to revert this :/ --

Kyle Dantarin
21:09, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

I am adding all the books. I will be done by the end of the week so please refrain from editing until then---jedi6 (8-29-05)

  • It's a really good job jedi6, nice one :) --
    Kyle Dantarin
    09:12, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

stupid vanadals---jedi6

  • Books missing from the list: Star Wars Journals and Star Wars Missions. I don't want to mess up any formatting adding them...

superman 04:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Grammer

Grammatically it should be years before the Battle of Yavin not the years before the Battle of Yavin. If it is the years before the Battle of Yavin then all the timeline dates would be 37 the years after the battle of yavin, which isn't right. User:Jedi6 9-27-05 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jedi6 (talk • contribs) 14:58, September 27, 2005 (UTC)

Spacing

OK, I see your point on the spacing of the individual books, I won' remove the lines again then. The Wookieepedian 15:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Short story anthologies

The official Star Wars page calls them "Tales of" [1] so shouldn't we put that?--User:Jedi6 November 27, 2006

I don't think there's a need to repear things verbatim from Star Wars pages. First of all, all but one of the books listed begins with Tales From, not Tales of; secondly, that page is not without its errors—they don't capitalize From consistently. So I don't know how reputable it is, and on such a small detail, I don't think it matters a whole lot. – Mipadi 23:24, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Your right. Also short story anthologies makes more sense than Tales of too. I wonder why the Star Wars site has it as Tales of?--User:Jedi6 November 28, 2006

Format

I disagree with the new format by The Wookieepedian. While I like some of the stuff he did I don't think we need a heading for every book. It has the heading and then all the information again. I think the heading should only be used for series. The list is now even more confusing with all the titles. Also he got rid of all the dashes and spaces I had that signified a change in time. Remember to propose major changes before doing it. Discuss

I reorganized the page mainly to improve the appearance of the sections and organize the books into their own sections. The books that didn't fall into a series seemed as though they needed some sort of section of their own to let the reader know they were single books, rather than part of something. The Wookieepedian 06:09, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
When you reverted you destroyed all my links and time spaces. Oh well. I changed a few things to make it easier. I also added the links and time spaces back.

User:Jedi6 9-26-05

The horizontal rules and bolding really need to go; not only does it make the page more cluttered and less readable, but it also defies standard Wikipedia formatting guidelines. I think that what is good for the rest of Wikipedia is good for this page, too. – Mipadi 23:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I see no particular reason why. Bolding doesn't seem to matter either way and the dashes help by signifing differences in the time scale. I don't see how it makes it more unreadable and cluttered. I think it adds organization. Can you link to this Wikipedia rule and maybe then I'll understand better?--User:Jedi6 11-08-2005
The headers already signify the time shifts; why do we need an extra horizontal rule? Furthermore, the header styles are already in the proper font; they do not need to be bolded.
How to edit a page and Manual of Style specify how pages should be formatted. Unless there is a strong reason to keep inconsistent formatting on this page (which there has not been a strong reason yet brought forth), I see no reason to keep it. – Mipadi
00:23, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I agree with the bolding but not the horizontal dividing line. No where does it say to not use it, just in moderation. Also the official guidelines for lists never say you can't do this. Unless you can find another method of differencing time changes I say keep the lines. On another note why do headings get bolder has they continue down in order?--User:Jedi6 11-09-2005
The headings delineate the time changes. We don't need the horizontal rules; they are redundant and just increase the clutter and disorganization of the page. Why have them if we have headers to set off the time changes? – Mipadi 02:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason? – Mipadi 00:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry I had an unexpected leave of absense. When I worked on this page I could find nothing else to signify small time changes like the official Star Wars timeline has. If you have something else that can be used then I would be glad to here it. If not I say keep the horizontal lines. We seem to have an disagreement in opinion. I think the lines make it look more organized while you think the lines make it seemed more cluttered.--User:Jedi6 11-17-2005
As I've stated, the headers delineate differences between books. That's why we have headers in the first place. The years are even in the headers. The horizontal rules are superfluous, cluttered, and defy Wiki formatting. There's no reason why the formatting used on the rest of Wikipedia is not good enough for this page. – Mipadi 05:43, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I've looked at the rules and I haven't seen any where that specifically states we can't do this.--User:Jedi6 11-17-2005
Are there any other articles, even similar "list"-type articles, that divide sections up in such a way? – Mipadi 15:45, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
You have to start somewhere. You are clearly a strict interpetor where if Wikipedia doesn't say you can do something it must be illegal. I am a loose interpetor where unless Wikipedia forbides something I think it is legal.--User:Jedi6 11-18-2005
Let's look at the facts: Fact 1, the page is cluttered; Fact 2, horizontal rules are superfluous when used in conjunction with headers; Fact 3, this is not standard Wiki markup guidelines. Unless you can provide a solid reason why they were there in the first place, a purpose that is not also achieved by other, standard markup (such as headers), they should and will be removed. The page looks too cluttered and unprofessional with them, and frankly, I have standard Wiki markup guidelines on my side.
This is the problem I see with a lot of Star Wars pages. A few fans become attached to them, and suddenly feel that they deserve some sort of special formatting. They don't. They might be important and they might be interesting, but they are not so much more important than the rest of Wikipedia that they need to defy Wiki markup guidelines. – Mipadi 06:51, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
I wish you stop assuming that I have gotten attached to this page and I am defying Wikipedia guidelines. I just want a reason other than opinion to change the page. Can you show me the exact page where it says this is against the guidelines?--User:Jedi6 11-18-2005
All you need to do is look at other pages—none use horizontal rules to break up sections. That's what the section headers are for. Why do we need section headers and horizontal rules? – Mipadi 06:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
You have a point there, there is no reason to have it. I originally created the horizontal rules because I wanted to have something to seperate time changes. I've come to see your point on keeping a standard template for lists. Someone should make not using horizontal lines like this a guideline.--User:Jedi6 11-18-2005
I believe that the horizontal lines help, not hinder, organization of the list. The lines make very clear the major eras in the Star Wars universe.--User:TychoZzyx 12-14-2005
This timeline is very flawed. There was one a while back that was a lot better. That is why it must be reverted 12-23-2005
If you are referring to the one the anon added, I agree. I'm pretty sure the Empire wasn't formed 0 ABY. --
(talk) Contribs
18:23, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Reason for Revert

I reverted back for two reasons

  1. The Anon IP pretended to be me but was not.
  2. This is a list of books so the books should take pretense over the events in the contents. If you want to make it by event try the Star Wars timeline.
  3. Incorrect data. Many of the things changed was incorrect. For example all the Eras changed were not what they are officially called. Jedi6 21:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Character listings

I think lists of the characters in the novels should be included. This will help provide a clear understanding of what the novels are about. However, I don't want to brake any rules or upset anyone. Does anyone dissagree with me?

The listing of characters would be put on the individual pages for the books. Jedi6-(need help?) 22:48, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Dark Tide: Onslaught was the first novel to implement the character lists, so a lot of the novels don't have character lists. But, if you think I shouldn't, I won't.
Go ahead, just make sure to add them to the individual books articles, not this page itself. Jedi6-(need help?) 20:40, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
The X-wing novels had a Dramatis Personae. But I don't think all characters for each book need to be listed. – Mipadi 00:44, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Star Warped?

What's this Star Warped under Non- Canon Books? I think it's a parody game, or a parody movie. Star Warp'd is the name of a parody movie. But either way, I'm pretty sure it doesn't belong here. --Skope 18:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

You are probably right, how did I miss that one? Jedi6-(need help?) 20:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I merged
List of Star Wars authors
into this article...

...per this AfD. The result was to merge into List of Star Wars books. Ian Manka Talk to me! 04:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Split

This list is already pretty long and there are still hundreds of books missing(we haven't even stratched the surface of the roleplaying gamebooks). So I suggest we split the article into three lists,

List of Star Wars novels, List of Star Wars reference books and List of Star Wars roleplaying gamebooks. That along with List of Star Wars comic books will make a list of every piece of Star Wars literature. As long as there is no objections I will split it soon. --Jedi6
05:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd rather not be hasty about splitting the book lists. We'll be locked into them for a long time. Haste makes waste, and all that. Is a novels/reference/comic/RPG split really the best possible split? Perhaps the RPG and references could be combined, or perhaps the novels could be combined with the comics. --
(talk) contribs
05:12, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
There are more than 60 reference books, 48 comic books, 40 roleplaying gamebooks and near 200 novels. I don't want to split them that much either but this list is going to get insanely long. Jedi6 05:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Again, what's the hurry? I haven't heard that Wikipedia is under any hard and fast deadline yet, and the list isn't crashing browsers yet. --
(talk) contribs
05:50, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I mean, we split a few character articles, but this is just a general skeleton list, so Maru has a good point. I'm neutral. Deckiller 05:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok I'm undoing my split nomination since we can do it laterif needed. Jedi6 05:59, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Aren't we planning on merging this list with List of Star Wars references, anyway? – Mipadi 20:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
We are moving all the info from the list of references to here but its a long process since there is alot of books that don't have any info on wikipedia except for the ISBN number. Jedi6 23:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Don't just blame Wikipedia in this matter; Wookieepedia is pretty sorry in this regard as well- I found their article on, say,
(talk) contribs
23:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Yeh, only the most popular or recent books have an enough info. Hopefully that will change with the Wiki project starting up. Jedi6 23:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Definately. I've read most of the old school books and the JA series (I don't read this new stuff, I have so much to catch up on....), and I'm sure some of the project's members have as well. Unfortunately, I'm sick right now, so I can't write the plot summaries I wanted to write today :( Deckiller 23:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

The list of references page has been deleted, and should not be recreated without a very good reason. Ian Manka Talk to me! 04:57, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Merging

I firmly agree with merging the List of Star Wars references into the List of Star Wars books. The List of Star Wars books has all the same information as the List of Star Wars references and more. The List of Star Wars books is also better formatted. We should redirect the List of Star Wars references to the List of Star Wars books. Jedi6 October 23, 2005

I agree with merging too (obviously. I was the one who put up the templates). But your idea of merging, Jedi6, is very bad. The List of Star Wars books is (for books which do not have their own article) missing quite a bit of data List of Star Wars references has, like, say, ISBNs. --
(talk)
23:48, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Sorry. But do we really need ISBNs on the page. Why not one the individual book pages. People who use the list aren't likely looking for the ISBNs. -Jedi6 October 24, 2005
*sigh*. You did see the part where I said "(for books which do not have their own article)" in reference to adding ISBNs etc. to the list, right? --
(talk) Contributions
03:19, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

The list of references page has been deleted, and should not be recreated without a very good reason. Ian Manka Talk to me! 04:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Inside the Worlds of Revenge of the Sith

Although it makes sense for a book like this to have been printed (and in fact Complete Locations contains the material from what was presumably a draft of it), the book doesn't exist. I've removed it.Beganback 19:51, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Dark Forces Trilogy

What abouy dark forces trilogy? Why isn't inside. I mean i found that one on net, but i dont see it inside of here? And could nowhere find anything about it, except on amazon. Is it rejected, disc, or what? IggoRZ 11:05 PM 15. November 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.169.218.69 (talk) 22:05, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Jedi Prince is not canonical

Jedi Prince isn't canonical because I've never even heard of Trilcus before I read the article it's never been in the list of all books in the begining either Jamhaw 18:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)jamhaw

Is it non-canon or secondary canon? (see
Star Wars canon#The Holocron. I've never read the series, but from what I hear, it is chock-full of contradictions to the EU. If it's non-canon, just make a different heading for the series below The Legacy Era or Cancelled Books. If it's secondary canon, just leave it in the list as is, but without the disclaimer. It's already marked as secondary canon in the infobox in the articles themselves. —Skope (talk)
21:01, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

OR, add a tag, like (NC) or something like that, for the "non-canon" series such as Jedi Prince and Galaxy of Fear. —Skope (talk) 03:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

JUST BECAUSE YOUVE NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE DOESNT MEAN There N OT Canonical. I actually own these books. And I have read them. And will be reading them soon. I also own some of the Galaxy Of Fear books and some of the books clearly dictate when THEIR EVENTS ARE HAPPENING. I'm completely disappointed in you peopole. Just because youve never read or never heard doesnt meant its not part of the time-line. Unlike most of you I actually own ALMOST EVERY Star Wars Book. I will read them again and tell you to my best estimation when they happened. And as far as i can remember Galaxy Of Fear takes place after Yavin was first destroyed by the Death Star. I am currently in the process of reading every b ook From start to finsh in the actually correct timeline. I can help you if you like. And I can even re-read some for Character Descriptions and ISD, Mon Cals, Pre-ISD. At Which major battle they were a part of. And some of the Star Wars books have been given the honor of being put to graphic novel, AND Yes The Comic Timeline should be included itd be a massive list but itd at least all be on one page.-Balefor —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balefor (talk • contribs) 01:36, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Jedi Prince is clearly canonical because the events that happened in those books are in the New Essential Chronology, the official reference book for events that happened in the Star Wars universe.172.171.127.170 (talk) 02:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Can someone lock this page or a decision be reached on this issue? I'm tired of seeing people copy + paste the Jedi Prince stuff back and forth. Sag969 (talk) 17:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, a decision should be reached. Considering that there is a clear source stating that Jedi Prince is canonical, the Star Wars New Essential Chronology, people should stop removing it from the canon list without presenting some sort of counter-evidence.

But it's obviously not canon! there is no reference to Triocolus or grand prophets or anything like that in the other books. The series has spent a long time in the non-canon section, and I'm left wondering why it has suddenly been moved. 172.163.149.167 (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

J. J. Gardner and Larry Weinberg

There are several Star Wars books by Gardner and Weinberg for sale on Amazon.com but I can't find any information about them on Wikipedia or Wookieepedia. They seem to children's books or possibly comics. 218.215.136.95 (talk) 03:15, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Junior Novelisations

What happened to the kiddie novelisations of the movies and Clone Wars? I think they should either be included here or have their own list article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.59.190 (talk) 11:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Organization

This list needs to be better organized. Currently it's ordered by date within the Star Wars universe; it would be very helpful for the list to be able to be organized by author, publishing date, and alphabetical order. Since this is primarily a list of books, its primary mode of organization shouldn't be the order in which the events of those books take place. --Hydrokinetics12 (talk) 17:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Patricia Wrede

Aren't there Youth novels for the new trilogy by her? 62.47.46.49 (talk) 06:02, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Request for comment on articles for individual television episodes and characters

A request for comments has been started that could affect the inclusion or exclusion of episode and character, as well as other fiction articles. Please visit the discussion at

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) 11:14, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Jedi Prince series

Where the heck is the Jedi Prince series? --Victory93 (talk) 11:27, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Needs a complete revert

I suggest that this list be reverted to its former state. The inclusion of juvenile fiction novels is important because they are canon (save for Galaxy of Fear) and many adult SW readers enjoy them. I fail to see the logic in trimming this list so closely. Before it was a comprehensive, organic account of all Star Wars books (both published and forthcoming) in universe chronological order. Now, it is very sparce with many detrimental deletions. Before the edit, I consulted this list to stay abreast of future books.

I have a Word version of the list that is similar to the old version that once resided here. If anyone wants it, they may use it and therefore fix this list the way it was before.

It's a shame this has happened. Paladoris (talk) 05:40, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree completely with Paladoris. I was crushed when I opened up the list to find that, among other things, the expected release dates for future books were no longer conveniently listed next to the title. This list was arguably the only comprehensive and easily readable source of information for future releases and it has now been completely stripped of this facet of it. Very, very poor choice.

Bmcguir2 (talk) 05:17, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Why did anyone let this list get updated to the format it is in now?! I completely agree with Paladoris.

Release dates

It would be nice if the release dates could be beside the titles for easier reference.

talk
) 17:21, 28 May 2009 (UTC)jamhaw

Jedi Prince series is not non-canon

The Jedi Prince series is not non-canon. The series has been retconned so it fits in the continuity and is canon. --Victory93 (talk) 02:01, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually I think it is. It is not included in the list of Star Wars books from the latest novels. Neither is Galaxy of Fear.

operation: infobox-ification

I think I got infoboxes into all of the existing articles. I created the pages for the articles that didn't have any yet, and they're ripe for you article-writing professionals out there. I threw in some publisher's descriptions here and there to give some of them some fiber, but I won't be pissed if you write a good summary and feel it's redundant and delete it. It was just some quick copy and paste work. I might hop on the stuff at the bottom of the list sometime, or I might skip on over to the List of Star Wars comic books. --Skope 06:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Good job! Jedi6-(need help?) 22:02, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Note that this article lists Galaxy of Fear as non-canon but the infoboxes for those books list them as canon. Either this article is wrong or the individual ones are.172.164.236.118 (talk) 07:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Crosscurrent book link is not correct

Clicking on the Crosscurrent book link results in linking to a music album of the same name. If someone more technically minded could adjust this, please do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.87.13.2 (talk) 07:54, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

continuity

yeah im not sure if anyone really cares but i got confused at first. im tryin to read all the books in cronological order and so far im only just starting. but it makes it seem as if the legacy of the jedi and secrets of the jedi are after the jedi aprentice which is not so. but i think it should be edited to show the certain parts the first few parts of legacy are before the jedi apprentice but the last few are during and after. and the secrets of the jedi is similar as far as i know. just figured id throw it out there for you guys to decide and possibly deal with cuz i dont know how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.213.10.5 (talk) 21:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


As an addition I just read "Cloak of Deception" and it chrono should be before the Darth Maul books. It refers to Monchar and he was killed in the Darth Maul book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.187.96.93 (talk) 15:38, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Imperial Commando

What's all this about book 2 in the series being cancelled? I looked at the article for book 1 but it is so badly written I couldn't discern anything useful from it. Sheavsey33 (talk) 01:22, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Wildlife of Star Wars

Not sure how to add books to the list, so I will leave it to someone to add "The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide" which seems to be missing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.122.8.141 (talk) 03:19, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Dark Empire, and Graphic Novels in general

Should graphic novels be listed on this page? Dark Empire is also listed on the List of Star Wars comic books -Skope 04:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

anything in book form (like trade paperback). I'm not too knowledgable in this area though. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:48, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
well a Graphic novel is defined as a long-form comic book here on wikipedia. I just consider the novels listed on here to tell the story in text-only, and comics to tell it, well, in comic form. -Skope 05:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
YOur right, when I originally made this list I found Dark Empire listen as a trade paperback so I got confused by the term. I never remembered to remove it until now. Jedi6-(need help?) 05:09, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Who's put it back? If it's already under comics, and no distinction has been made for Graphic Novels here (anyway, it was originally published as a series) then it shouldn't be here. I'm removing it. Sheavsey33 (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Secrets of the Jedi

The Secrets of the Jedi novel is currently placed twice on the list. The first time is a 2nd book in the Legacy of the Force series, and the second is as a stand alone novel. The only place that I can find any info on the issue is on wookieepedia (where it states it is a stand alone novel), which I don't think is going to be ok for a reference site. Can someone please verify which it is?

Thanks173.166.99.77 (talk) 14:05, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Creation

I've only added in the ones I've read/heard about. I found a site giving the chronology when I wasn't sure of it myself (http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/timeline.html), and got the authors from (http://www.amazon.com) when I didn't know them. I guess I might fill in more if I have time, but this seems like a good start.--

Kyle Dantarin
17:42, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, since the way the heading system works, maybe it would be better to scrap adding singletons in chronological order and just have them under a seperate ordered list of "Stand Alone Books"

I think I will have to do it that way. I'm going to try and find datings for each book so I can have Title/Author/Date

What about the

New Jedi Order? I know the books are listed there, but you could always move or duplicate them. DevastatorIIC
07:18, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

  • Yeah that sounds like a good idea for now. Maybe there'll be notions to merge stuff later, but for now let's just get it all on here. --
    Kyle Dantarin
    08:36, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

The Truce at Bakura needs to be added Jun 26 2005

The Lando Calrissian series is also missing. By L. Neil Smith. Del Rey did an omnibus reprint of them. --emb021

erm where have so many of the books gone? Can someone explain or I'm just going to revert this :/ --

Kyle Dantarin
21:09, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

I am adding all the books. I will be done by the end of the week so please refrain from editing until then---jedi6 (8-29-05)

  • It's a really good job jedi6, nice one :) --
    Kyle Dantarin
    09:12, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

stupid vanadals---jedi6

  • Books missing from the list: Star Wars Journals and Star Wars Missions. I don't want to mess up any formatting adding them...

superman 04:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I could add them both, but I'm also hesitant to mess with the format. They're all over the place. Does anyone have any suggestions? ... Also, what does everyone think of the short stories published in Star Wars Gamer and Star Wars Insider? For example...
Path of Destruction (1000 BBY)
--Skope 07:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Short stories are not books so they should be left out. If you want to add the journels make a section on the bottom called journals and I'll format it. Jedi6-(need help?) 18:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Alright. I added what I've got --Skope 23:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Lost Tribe of the Sith serise is missing, and before it was there was no mention of the upcoming books in the serise, including the upcoming collection of all 9 books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.88.38.117 (talk) 22:51, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Table format

Hi if anyone is interested I started putting this list together as a table in date order which I will most likely never finish. So if anyone is interested in continuing the work it is located here: User:Salavat/Sandbox2. Salavat (talk) 05:10, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Russian version

There is Russian variant of the "Star Wars" book. This book was released in 1991th ant contains a free literature translation of IV..VI episodes from the movie. You may look some pages at http://sfrolov.livejournal.com/115655.html Author of translation is unknown. I don't know, how I may correctly insert information of this book to the main article page. --Sergei Frolov (talk) 18:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Splinter of the Minds’ Eye

Is there a reason Alan Dean Foster's 1979 creation isn't listed, which is THE 1st Star Wars novel ever written? In addition it is evidently a discarded Lucas script, which he rejected in favor of the broad-sweeping Empire Strikes Back. Anyone know? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.102.87 (talk) 09:30, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Audiobooks

(A) has been added to many, many books where it does not belong - many of the books were never released in any audio book format. It appears someone added lines and kept the (A) without knowing. Lost Tribe of the Sith, Lando Calrissian and others are examples of this. I have limited bandwidth and can't check them all but I wanted to let people know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.231.231.63 (talk) 00:31, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Addition

I added "The Lost Jedi", a single volume collection of two "adventure gamebook" style Star Wars stories (source [2]). I'm not sure if the stories were ever published singularly. Apparently the book was never published in the USA, so I'm adding this note to prove that the addition is bona fida.

McPhail
19:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Missing the Tales of the Jedi series with Tales of the Jedi and Dark Lords of the Sith. While these may be Comic Books, they exist as Audiobooks and should thus be listed here, probably under Legends - the Old republic Era. Adacus12 (talk) 20:23, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Novelizations

So am I to understand that while the seven films are obviously canon, the original novelizations of the first six are not? Please comment at Talk:Star Wars canon#Novelizations.— TAnthonyTalk 22:13, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Some Star Wars books articles are too short

There's articles about some Star Wars books, whom are too short, really is just a sentence and the ISBN, we should fuse them so their articles describe their respective book series as a whole rather than just an article for only one sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosvel92 (talk • contribs) 03:56, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Can you be more specific as to titles? I think we'd prefer that notable book stubs be expanded, but I'm sure there are some that would better collected in "series" articles like Young Jedi Knights. Not that I know whether any books in that series deserve their own articles or not LOL.— TAnthonyTalk 15:09, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

I'll suggest for merge as many stubs as possible, here's 2 suggestions:

I'll be suggesting more so keep checking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosvel92 (talk • contribs) 00:32, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


can someone Correct the book list comic books do not belong with a list of paperback novels

the Jedi Tales should have their own sections and not be in with the Novel section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GorionZ (talk • contribs) 13:48, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Order of titles

Why on earth is this list in chronological order? Every book has the chronological date, but no real world date of the first publication. Why? I thought Wikipedia should be based on real world facts. 78.92.15.169 (talk) 17:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I think that's a good question. If the book has its own article, then the publication data should be there, but for those books without, it should be here. I confess to being addicted to these books; I get them from the public library. They are simple, full of humor, they sometimes have what seem to be enormous plot holes, they steer clear of sex while recognizing romantic love, there is an enormous number of them, and generally they are the 21st century version of the Oz books for juveniles and adults. 24.27.31.170 (talk) 00:15, 23 August 2011 (UTC) Eric
Wookieepedia has a [list of books by release date]. Perhaps a link should be added to it for folks wanting to know and/or read these books in publication order rather than duplicate that list here. Bassaf (talk) 20:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
If I'm not mistaken I started this question. I just think that chronological order has no real world importance. What if there's a flashback or a flashforward. What if stories happen at the same time or are interwoven? Or if there's a much longer story that compasses millennia inworld. This article doesn't help at all the people who want to find out about Star Wars novels. I mean, if it was a single series, I would understand putting them into chronological order, but it's not. It's a franchise. You can't start with the first book on this list. There is no real world use for this ordering, it only helps the fan who already read some novels to put them into timeline. It's an intellectual game, nothing more. Even an alphabetical order would be more useful. Now that I think about it, the best solution would be a table where anybody could order it by clicking on the proper header. 1st column: title, 2nd column: series, 3rd column: first publication, fourth column: number of pages, fifth column: color code of the main title on the cover, sixth column: number of star destroyers in the book, seventh column: place in timeline. 188.142.191.147 (talk) 08:09, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
The guideline you're looking for is
WP:INUNIVERSE. This list violates it. And frankly is fanboyism run amuck. And I say this as a lifelong fan. oknazevad (talk
) 14:08, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Yes I mentioned this list and List of Star Wars comic books in this discussion, but haven't had a chance to even attempt an overhaul. I'm also not sure about the new table, there is something about the format that bothers me.— TAnthonyTalk 14:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Fantasy Flight Games RPG books

Now, I know the books for Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars RPG line are listed on their own page, but I am wondering why they aren't listed on this page, at least, in some fashion? If both the West End Games and Wizards of the Coast Saga line are listed, I think FFG's line deserves some kinda of mention. Eric42 (talk) 03:38, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Cancelled books

I've removed the following list of "never published" works from the article as it is unsourced, and of dubious notability. Since there are no sources, it is unclear how far along these works may have gotten. In any case, they may be reintroduced to the article when sources have been identified. Since they are uncompleted works, a prose paragraph is probably a better format, so that the nature of the works can be better explained.— TAnthonyTalk 21:15, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Old Republic era
  • Untitled Old Republic era novel by Elizabeth Hand
  • Mandorla by Alex Irvine (3980 BBY) (Cancelled: February 29, 2012)
Rise of the Empire era
The New Jedi Order era
Legacy era
George Lucas's Monsters and Aliens
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