[Lord Killjoy]

If you want to go by the timeline form return of the jedi and onward start here:

Truce at Bakura

Then the three book series and next to the bounty hunter trilogy the best books:

1. Heir to the empire

2. Dark force rising

3. The last Command

then go on from there.

At the beginning of the books there was very little communication between authors as far as the story line goes so you can skip truce at bakura and have no problems reading the trilogy but truce at bakura is chronologically speaking the first book after the movies.

My personal Favorites are the bounty hunters trilogy.

I don't like Skywalker I think he's a pansy but I love star wars go figure. So I try to stick to the books that don't mainly involve him.