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I read them, yes. I've read so many, I don't have a clue what the number would be now. Great books, although some of them, I admit, are boring. Like Vector Prime, that turned me off from the New Jedi Order series, as it was boring. It took the whole book to sum up something that could be written in 5-10 chapters.
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I don't like the ones after Return of the Jedi, so all the ones I've read were before A New Hope.
The han solo ones, by wossname and Ann C. Crispin were good, though.
(I can't remember what wossname's name was, but they were stuff like Han Solo at Stars' End and such)
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My favourites are Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command (these three novels also known as the Thrawn Trilogy), because there are memorable characters and a good story that's faithful to the Star Wars saga. Some of the Star Wars novels I've read have been quite good, and others have been awful, but I've liked reading most of them nevertheless.