Nice breakdown. I haven't read all the books and it has been awhile. Thanks for putting this together.

I find that our tastes are wildly divergent, though our reasons are not always dissimilar. My ranking looks more like this: Assault at Selonia Ambush At Corellia Shield of Lies Before the Storm Showdown at Centerpoint Tyrant's Test I, Jedi (I dislike first person narration, and Corran is an obnoxious cad. There are good ideas that went underdeveloped.) Children of the Jedi Splinter of the Mind's Eye Tales From the Empire Tales From the New Republic Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina Tales From Jabba's Palace Courtship of Princess Leia Planet of Twilight (I have always loved this story, particularly Daala's entrance, the adventure of the droids, and a Hutt Jedi gone bad.) Spectre of the Past Dark Force Rising (I am generally biased against the middle book of any series.) Vision of the Future Crystal Star (Weird but fun, particularly the twins) Heir to the Empire (I always struggle when starting this book, however I will redeem myself later.) Truce at Bakura Dark Apprentice Jedi Search Darksaber (Have I mentioned that I have always loved Admiral Daala as a character?) New Rebellion (Leia's scene at the end of the book immediately after the climax has always saddened me, even as a boy.) Shadows of the Empire Champions of the Force Last Command (just a great climax to the series) Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Star Wars: A New Hope (This was the novelization, with an insert of colored photographs from the movie, that began my long journey as a Star Wars fan. I said that I would be redeemed in the end. 😁) I enjoyed your rankings, even if I suffered a few triggered twitches. Lol

Iron Fist was an exceptional conclusion to numerous character acts, the deceipt at the end worked fine.

Why am I not surprised by your children of the jedi. Also BASED for putting Paradie Snare as number 1 that is my fav. Looking forward to yout tanking of the NJO & CWMMP novels

Excuse me Isards revenge has my favorite Booster moment where he beats Borsks ass.

Aaron Allston made Capital Ships *Scary* again after their underperformance in Stackpole's work (And massive underperformance in KJA'S)

Dengar's was my favorite story of the Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Manaroo best waifu.

Just found your channel not long ago and I’m really glad I did even though our opinions on the Bantam Era differ greatly lol. My opinions are totally based on childhood nostalgia though lol. The Jedi Academy, I, Jedi, and most especially The Young Jedi Knights captivated me while I couldn’t have cared less about the X-Wing books or any of the Tales books. I need to refresh my memory on Truce, Courtship, and the Callista books though since those are the ones I remember the least to see if I agree with you lol. Anyway yeah the only series we seem to be in agreement on is anything with Thrawn in it lol

Children of the Jedi is fine as a spooky mystery story right up until the end.

Death of Crix Madine and his agents turned a great comedic A-plot into a bit of a fizzle. Dorsk's death worked well. (I also did not like his space battles at all, powerscale was all over the place)

I had very few of these books. The only one I remember is Jabba's Palace ... received for Christmas one year, read it by New Year's!

Reading sheild of lies. Yes, definitely structured differently which doesnt help it any. Was so excited to read it after before the storm then I got a thrird of the way through sheild of lies and was like, wth? Totally agree with Hamblys book ratings lol. Darksaber is the only book out of the Callista trilogy worth a darn. Actually surprised I, Jedi made it so high on your list. No trigger warning needed in my opinion. Everyones entitled to their own opinion and I enjoyed yours even it would differ from my own. Great video!

I'll always love Vader having Xizor killed.

your last place choices makes me thankful this is a completely subjective ranking. Children of the Jedi was actually a good read, pretty funny even if it messes with Aaron's portrayal of Piggy and the supposed inability of gamorreans to speak basic. There was no weird robot sex, Callista is a jedi, it was literally their spirits intimately connecting. the fact that you put this book, still not the greatest, but definitely not the worst, below black fleet says something.

Vision of the Future spent FAR too long fucking around in caves.

I highly disagree with the tales from jabbas palace being bland

Interesting, the first Black Fleet Crisis book was the worst in my opinion, it made Leia too dumb.

Planet of Twilight i SOOOOO much worse than Children of the Jedi. The setting planets are more boring, the villain plot is more nonsensical. (Why would the arch plaguebug return to his prison planet and only leave a few smaller Droch on Leia's ship to spread to the galaxy? He had no reason to stick to Seti and Beldorion's plot. (Though Beldorion was cool as an antagonist)