Top 5 Star Wars Legends Series Ranked

In this video, I rank my top 5 Star Wars Legends Book Series. I do not discuss any stand alone books; those will be covered in a future video. Enjoy!

[PepsiPepe]

Timothy Zahn understands the characters so well. Every moment each character always feels so genuine and true to their motives/personality

[huskiefan]

I'm also gonna say the overall best I've read so far is the Darth Bane trilogy by Drew karpyshyn. The way the author leads you to sympathize with Banes situation and decisions, although cruel, is WHY I READ, man. Challenging your previous or current beliefs is part of gaining wisdom and part of life, and using banes sad story, drew puts you in that situation whether you like it or not, because you see why he does what he does, even though he's evil. I'm definitely looking into the x wing series you recommended, thanx

[pavlemilatic]

Finding your channel is such a treasure fr. I've never seen your video before until only few days ago when I decided to start reading Star wars and stumbled upon this gem

[redfivestandingbye]

The Hand of Thrawn is AMAZING! Honestly it might be my favorite Star Wars story. The Disney AU is mostly cool and it's definitely growing. But for me the original six film's and the Legends EU will always be the Star Wars universe I prefer.

[salvadorcantu]

So far Ive only read the Timothy Zahn trilogy from the early 90's. I didnt like the end of the last command (particularly how "easy" Thrawn dies) book. But other, than that I felt in love with the Series. He actually understands the characters perfectly and gave us some fresh new content with awesome new characters. Should've been episodes 7, 8 and 9.
I want to read the Yuuzan Vong Books, but 19 books is quite intimidating. So I want a shorter alternative before that series. Thanks for the video.

[AceLM]

Great video and a good list. I love the first 4 X-Wing books, but once it switched to Aaron Allston as the writer, it just felt more like a chore. Not that the writing is bad, it was just mildly disappointing that I had to get used to a new Squadron of characters. However, I'm at least glad that Allston decided to make a new Squadron to tell his stories rather than take Stackpole's characters and do things that might have been to the dismay of fans. And the logistics of why Wraith Squadron was formed did make sense.

I wish more people would talk about the Jedi Academy trilogy, I feel it's underrated. I did a review on "the Callista trilogy, " and I expressed how mediocre it was.

[PepsiPepe]

OMG yes ! You are THE GUY. X-wing series is my 2nd favorite ! I enjoyed the first 4 books. I stopped midway through book 5 the change of authors really threw me off and to some aspect Wedge didn’t feel the same to me. I’m currently doing a re-read of the series and will plan to finish it all
Dark Force Rising is a recent read for me and it was so amazing

[rileyralph]

I think you have really good content and I enjoy listening to your knowledge! Keep it up!

[dreamingflurry]

Thrawn-Trillogy is not "basic" - the space-battles alone are great (hell, the use of Interdictors to pull your own ships out of hyperspace to enable very precise micro-jumps? That's GENIUS! Normally Interdictors are to trap the enemy, here they serve dual purpose!)...hell, Heir to the Empire was my first ever Star Wars novel and I still LOVE it! I red that at about 8 or 9 years old and I was not much of a reader before getting my hands first on Perry Rhodan and Ren Dhark (German science fiction series!) and then Star Wars books :)

[ferrr]

Great video John!! Greetings from Spain!

[RosLanta]

Your top 5 is basically my top 5 too with the exception that my favourite of the X-wing books are the Wraith Squadron arc. I love the whole series but it's those 3 books that I have read more than any of the others.

I agree about Rebel Dream being the strongest book in NJO. I also really liked Dark Journey.

[rickkrueger]

I just found you and love your love and understanding of Star Wars

[GringoBanditoTV]

Reading through x-wing books now, finished the thrawn trilogy earlier this year.. such good content

[Revan-skqx]

I’ve just found your channel through these Star Wars videos—great stuff! I’ve been diving into a lot of the books this year (both canon and Legends) and it’s been so much fun. There are lots of awesome stories

So far my favorite series would be the Darth Bane books. The Old Republic series and Thrawn trilogy are awesome as well. I’ve also been enjoying New Jedi Order and Republic Commando, but I haven’t finished those yet

[larryankenmanjr]

YOU SHOULD DO THE RANKINGS FOR THE ESSENTIAL LEGENDS COLLECTION

[jamiehenry]

This video is very informative and helpful. Got my sub. Thank you. ✌️

[jayt]

I have a list, and it is rather different compared to yours.

5) Darth Bane

4) Fate of the Jedi- I can not rate this higher as if follows Legacy of the Force and Dark Nest. Second it felt like the first few novels were of mediocre quality with writing that improved as time progressed, with the last two or three being very good reads.

3) The Shadow Academy arc of Junior Jedi knights- This was and remains a favorite read with the only uneven novel being Lightsabers.

2) Jedi Academy- If this selection were not obvious from my prior selection, I really have notning to say. Lol

1) New Jedi Order- What can I say? It is dark, mature, fun, heartbreaking, inspirational, depressing, and fairly realistic. It also brings in a very large cast of characters from the Bantam era and just went all in. I just would have loved a confrontation between Palpatine and Shimraa, and seeing Vader oppose Tsavong-Lah in combat. Massive series, and I believe I again own most of the novels.

[iamdarthketa]

love your choices im going to have to get reading these myself i think lol

[xk]

The New Jedi Order was too dark and depressing for me, I gave up on the first book.
I would recommend instead the Darth Bane trilogy. Or, for Mara Jade fans, the duology Allegiance + Choices of One.

[Lemonkois]

Hello there I’m new to your channel, I was just curious do you have a video on your top 5 favorite Star Wars comic series? If not would you consider doing one? Loved the video btw!!