These are things I need to re-read someday, so I can write reviews. These, along with many other books I haven't read (but wouldl like to), and other media, once made up the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Nowadays they've been rebranded as Star Wars Legends. (I have little interest in reading any books that came either before or after the EU.)

Shadows of the Empire, by Steve Perry (pub. 1996)
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I think that this is the only Star Wars book, aside from the Thrawn Trilogy (see below), that I've actually read. Now that I'm writing this little entry about it, I see on Wikipedia that it was part of a multimedia thing including comic books and a video game, which all together told the full story. This is not something I believe I was aware of when I read the book, nor do I remember feeling the story it presented was in any way incomplete. But I may have, I forget. Anyway, I liked it, and I'll probably reread it someday (though I'd probably want to get the comic books before doing so; I have no intention of ever playing the game).

The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn (pub. 1991-93)
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I've been a Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember, but before these three books (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command), I don't think I ever really read any Star Wars books. And indeed, they are generally credited with rekindling fans' interest in reading such books, and started a new trend of Star Wars books being, you know, good. Alas, I still haven't read many books in that universe other than these, but there are tons I'd like to read, eventually. Anyway, when I read these I remember really wishing George Lucas would adapt them into a new movie trilogy. But obviously, that never happened. Anyway... someday I'll have to reread them so I can write reviews. (These books kind of inspired me to create some of my own characters for fanfic... which I never got around to writing. Ah well, maybe someday....