I've always found it interesting, being a Trek and Wars fan, that while there was always a devout fan base for the Star Wars EU, and even debate about whether it fit into continuity (it's called "Legends" now. Ask me if I care), no one ever seemed to give a crap about Star Trek novels. Possibly because there was already so much to devour with Star Trek (took me 10 years to watch it all, pre-Discovery), and the shows and movies already covered such a wide berth of the characters' lives, whereas with Star Wars there was just 6 films, and the books fulfilled the wish to know what happened for the rest of the characters' lives. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations.
Also, I counted the number of Star Wars novels before Force Awakens and the Disney reboot (ask me if I care about anything after that), and it was over 100, short of 200. I don't know if anyone's ever tried to read all the Star Trek novels or had an accurate list of how many there are.
Let's start here!
[Will be editing to include suggestions from subsequent posts]
The Eugenics Wars by Greg Cox
Final Frontier by Diane Carey
To Reign in Hell by Greg Cox
Spock's World by Diane Duane
The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane
The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre
How Much for Just the Planet by John Ford
Ishmael by Barbra Hambly
The Lost Years by D.J. Manly
Q-Squared by Peter David
Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Twist of Fate collection
Voyager: Homecoming
Enterprise by Vonda N. McIntyre
Vendetta
Lost Era novels
The Enterprise War by John Jackson Miller
The Immortal Coil
Planet X
New Frontiers series
Titan series