Top 5 Star Wars Book Releases Of 2018

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Star Wars Books and Comics has a great list of the Star Wars related lit that is coming out in 2018. Their full list is here. I have my Top 5 from that list below.


April 24, 2018

Phasma
Delilah S. Dawson
Trade Paperback Novel [Del Rey]

For all her renown, Captain Phasma remains as virtually unknown as the impassive expression on her gleaming chrome helmet. Now, an adversary is bent on unearthing her mysterious origins—and exposing a secret she guards as zealously and ruthlessly as she serves her masters…


May 25, 2018

Most Wanted
Rae Carson
Hardback YA Novel [Disney-Lucasfilm Press]

Han Solo and Qi’ra don’t have a lot in common other than not having a lot. They’re street kids on the industrial planet Corellia, doing whatever it takes to get by, dreaming of something more. They each jump at a chance to prove themselves in the perilous world of Corellia’s criminal underbelly, only to discover they are on the same mission for the same unscrupulous boss.


May 29, 2018

Canto Bight
Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller
Trade Paperback Novel [Del Rey]

This collection of four short stories will focus on creatures from the glamorous casino world of Canto Bight.


June 26, 2018

Thrawn: Alliances
Timothy Zahn
Hardback Novel, e-Book and Audio Book [Del Rey]

Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader ally against a threat to the Empire in this new novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.
The sequel to New York Times bestseller Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances will continue to follow the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn to the heights of Imperial power—and accompany him into the past, witnessing his first encounter with the man who will one day become Darth Vader.


August 9, 2018

Rebel Rising
Beth Revis
Paperback YA Novel [Disney-Lucasfilm Press]

Jyn Erso has dedicated herself to the cause. But fighting alongside Saw Gerrera and his people brings with it danger and the question of just how far Jyn is willing to go as one of Saw’s soldiers. When she faces an unthinkable betrayal that shatters her world, Jyn will have to pull the pieces of herself back together and figure out what she truly believes in…

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