8 Essential Star Wars Books for Beginners

The Star Warsfranchise is one of those multimedia franchises so iconic and so foundational to modern pop culture that you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone unfamiliar with it, and just as unlikely to find someone who has never consumed any piece of Star Wars media in any capacity. However, while there are countless casual fans of the galaxy far, far away out there, only a few of them have fallen in love with the franchise deeply enough to dive into the world of Star Wars books. It’s an interconnected universe, that’s for certain, but one so huge that it feels like a whole universe unto itself.