Alphabet Squadron

Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed
Many longtime Star Wars readers fondly remember the Rogue Squadron and Wraith Squadron X-Wing novels by Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston, a staple of the old Legends timeline. Now, the new Star Wars canon has a ragtag fighter squadron of its own.

Named "Alphabet Squadron" for their combination of A-Wing, B-Wing, X-Wing, and Y-Wing starfighters, and serving under a major character from the Star Wars: Rebels TV show, the group of pilots must hunt down and battle an elite TIE-fighter squadron in the months after Return of the Jedi.

For the other side of the story, check out the TIE Fighter graphic novel from Marvel Comics.

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The Aftermath Trilogy

The Aftermath Trilogy by Chuck Wendig
The first new canon stories set after Return of the Jedi! In the months after the destruction of the second Death Star, the Empire is not yet dead. But when a group of high-level Imperials convene for a secret meeting on the planet Akiva, they soon find themselves on the defensive against an impromptu collection of rag-tag rebels, who will later go on to even greater adventures! Meanwhile, Imperial Admiral Rae Sloane, an outsider to the circles of galactic power, finds herself tasked with holding together the faltering Empire.

These books have gotten a kind of "love it or hate it" reaction from readers. Written in an unconventional style. Everything is happening in third-person present tense. Many short, incomplete sentences. But we found them really entertaining, with good character development.

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Star Wars: Aftermath

Aftermath: Life Debt

Aftermath: Empire's End

These are books from the New Canon timeline! They're guaranteed to be consistent with future movies, TV shows, books, and comics (and all new stories since mid-2014).

Shadow Fall: An Alphabet Squadron Novel

Shadow Fall by Alexander Freed
The sequel to Alphabet Squadron is here! For continued New Republic fighter-pilot action in the months after Return of the Jedi, this is your next stop.

The Alphabet Squadron novels are also tied in with the TIE Fighter comic book series, telling the story from the perspective of the Imperial side.

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Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel

Victory's Price by Alexander Freed
This is the third book of Alexander Freed's Alphabet Squadron trilogy, following Alphabet Squadron and Shadow Fall to wrap up this exciting story of New Republic fighter-pilots in the months after Return of the Jedi. 

Set about a year after the Return of the Jedi movie, Victory's Price leads into the crucial Battle of Jakku, overlapping with Empire's End, the last book of the concurrent Aftermath trilogy.

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Bloodline

Bloodline by Claudia Gray
A prequel to The Force Awakens, this books follows Princess Leia six years before the film, when she was still a Senator for the New Republic. It tells the story of how she came to leave the senate, setting the stage for the formation of the Resistance.

From the author of the beloved young adult novel Star Wars: Lost Stars (though this is a regular novel, not a young adult book).

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