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Have you seen the two TV series yet? The Clone Wars and Rebels? I'd recommend you go from them. You're going to see a bunch of things in The Clone Wars you might remember being mentioned in Catalyst.

• The Clone Wars (chronological order)
  
  
• These 8 more The Clone Wars unfinished episodes
  
  
• Kindred Spirits (short story included at the end of the Dark Disciple paperback)
  
  
• Dark Disciple (novel that serves as the ending for one storyline from The Clone Wars, because the show was cancelled before it could be finished)
  
  
• Episode III happens here
  
  
• Catalyst happens here
  
  
• Orientation (short story included at the end of the Lords of the Sith paperback, read between chapters 4 and 5 of Lords of the Sith)
  
  
• Lords of the Sith (Darth Vader and the Emperor go to a planet to deal with an early Rebel cell themselves)
  
  
• The Rise of the Empire (Collects two books: Tarkin and A New Dawn. Tarkin begins where Catalyst left off, only it does not have any mention of Krennic, because the book was written before Rogue One (it works, trust me), it tells two stories: how Tarkin grew up and how he became a Grand Moff. A New Dawn is a direct prequel to Rebels and features two main characters from the show. Also includes 3 short stories, which you can read where they're in the book, but I'd save the last one to before you read the Aftermath Trilogy)
  
  
• These 4 Rebels shorts
  
  
• Rebels Season One
  
  
• TK-426 (short story you can get for free with ties to Tarkin and Rebels)
  
  
• Leia, Princess of Alderaan (came out yesterday, introduces a character and a planet you'll see in Episode 8 later this year while telling the origin od Leia in the Rebellion)
  
  
• Rebels Season Two
  
  
• Ahsoka (takes place well before this, but uses many plot elements only introduced in Rebels Season Two, which I don't want to diminish the reveal of in Rebels)
  
  
• Thrawn (origin of the main villain of Rebels Season Three, inline with Catalyst and Tarkin as far as Imperial stories go)
  
  
• Rebels Season Three
  
  
• Rebels Season Four (starts sometime later this fall)
  
  Of these, only A New Dawn I concider not as good. It's still a good book, but the other ones are better. You might enjoy it. I'd still buy The Rise of the Empire, instead of either book separately, even if you only want to read one of them, because the short stories are awesome.
  
  Some other great books outside of the Rebels chronology are:
  
  
• Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (Prequel to the new videogame, has nothing to do with Twilight Company. And elite team of Imperial Special Forces take down the remenants of Saw Gerrera's Partisans from Rogue One)
  
  
• Battlefront: Twilight Company (very gritty war novel about a company of Rebels around the time of the Battle of Hoth)
  
  
• Lost Stars (Star-crossed lovers tell their perspective on the events that happened in the Original Trilogy. Easily one of my favorite books of all time.)
  
  
• Bloodline (the same author as Leia, Princess of Alderaan or Lost Stars tell a story of Leia in the New Republic Senate, trying to unravel a major conspiracy)

You think thats bad try buying a hard back of Tarkin, at the start of the year I started my Star Wars collection quite seriously and initially wanted to buy everything in hardback but when Tarkin costs £90 its difficult to justify, especially for a book I had already read the e-book of.

Hardbacks are becoming more difficult to get your hands on thanks to how the industry is changing, for Amazon its cheaper and easier to stock paperbacks which in general have a bigger print run than hardbacks. This effect is only compounded with the move to ebooks and the result really is that nowadays hardbacks are really only for collectors, academic texts and library's so that makes them harder to come by. It sucks but for me part of collecting this stuff is the thrill of the chase.

My advice for buying hardback books though is as follows....

Buy the books on release if you can, even if you don't plan on reading right away, I have a hard back of queens shadow, I haven't read it yet though, but I knew it was better to get it when the hardback was a at a reasonable price. Failing that my next bit of advice would be to buy second hand. Third party sellers on Amazon are pretty good, I have had luck on Ebay and I even managed to complete my hardback Aftermath collection with a charity shop (all be it with a less than mint cover).

Anyway....before someone snipes it you can buy the book here on Ebay or here on Amazon although Amazon is slightly more expensive.

Hope that helps.

I think it was an amazon exclusive, that’s where I got mine, but they sold out really quickly. There’s a few third party sellers with it still available on Amazon

I really enjoyed Kevin J Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy . Now Legends material... but perhaps it may be what you are looking for. https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Jedi-Academy-Trilogy/dp/1568651201

It’s listed on Amazon as the 3rd.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529124794/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_CP9KDb79JM84E

You're referring to this one, right? I mean that it isn't from the publisher, the paperback release for Master and Apprentice isn't for awhile. This is something someone else printed and is selling.

They've released updated canon paperbacks of the original OT novelizations, but not for the PT. That'll probably happen soon though.

A New Hope

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

EDIT: By updated I mean updated to reflect the current canon. Fixed character descriptions, ship sizes, added references to Scarif, etc..

If you're more into world-building than story, I think you'd really enjoy some of the reference books. I'm especially thinking of the visual dictionaries which expand on the characters, planets, and tech from the movies. There's also the Galactic Maps and Complete Locations books too, which really are world building books.

The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary

Rogue One Visual Dictionary

The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary

Star Wars Galactic Maps

Star Wars Complete Locations

The Phantom Menace.

Dooku:Jedi Lost happens between Episode 1 and 2. It won't appear on Youtini because you'll have to turn on the "audio drama" section too. There's a script-version that's been published on Amazon if you'd prefer that tho.

https://www.amazon.com/Dooku-Jedi-Lost-Cavan-Scott/dp/1529124794/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Dooku+Jedi+Lost&qid=1571330095&sr=8-2