The Han Solo Adventures

Brian Daley's The Han Solo Adventures was a much better read than I thought it would be. Set a few years prior to A New Hope, this trilogy of loosely-connected books is about Han and Chewie jumping from scheme to scheme, trying mainly to make enough money to keep the Falcon flying. It's fast paced, witty, and full of memorable supporting characters. One thing I especially like is how each of the books takes place in sectors of space beyond Imperial control. The description of the Corporate Sector is quite well done and a really interesting place for original Star Wars stories (I've used the Corporate Sector as the setting for the current story arc in the role-playing campaign I'm directing and it succeeds in getting players to think differently about what will and won't work).