Star Wars Novels (Canon + Legends) in Order

Here’s the full Star Wars Timeline with Canon Novels, Legends Novels, TV Shows, and Movies, organized chronologically by in-universe date. Each item is labeled by type, so you can track how stories fit together across all media. As of March, 2025, per ChatGPT

📜 Key

• 🟦 Canon Novel

• 🟥 Legends Novel

• 📺 TV Series (Canon)

• 🎬 Movie (Canon)

  
  

🕰️ Star Wars Complete Story Timeline (Canon & Legends)

~25,000–5,000 BBY | Ancient Jedi & Sith

• 🟥 Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void

• 🟥 Lost Tribe of the Sith stories

  
  

~5,000–1,000 BBY | Sith Wars & Old Republic

• 🟥 Tales of the Jedi (Comics)

• 🟥 The Old Republic novels:

  • Revan, Deceived, Fatal Alliance, Annihilation

• 🟥 Darth Bane Trilogy

  
  

200–82 BBY | High Republic Era (Canon)

• 🟦 The High Republic novels (multiple phases)

• 📺 The Acolyte (upcoming, ~100 BBY)

  
  

82–32 BBY | Decline of the Republic

• 🟦 Dooku: Jedi Lost

• 🟦 Master & Apprentice

• 🟦 Queen’s Peril, Queen’s Shadow, Queen’s Hope

• 🟥 Cloak of Deception, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Darth Plagueis

  
  

🎬 32 BBY | Episode I: The Phantom Menace

• 🎬 Episode I: TPM

• 📺 Tales of the Jedi (Canon, Young Dooku & Ahsoka arcs)

• 🟦 Padawan

  
  

22 BBY | Episode II: Attack of the Clones

• 🎬 Episode II: AOTC

• 🟦 Brotherhood

• 🟥 Approaching Storm

  
  

22–19 BBY | Clone Wars

• 📺 The Clone Wars (Canon TV series)

• 🟦 Dark Disciple (based on unproduced Clone Wars scripts)

• 🟦 Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy (parts)

• 🟥 Republic Commando, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

  
  

🎬 19 BBY | Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

• 🎬 Episode III: ROTS

• 🟦 Ahsoka

• 🟦 E.K. Johnston's Queen’s Trilogy (wraps here)

• 🟥 Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader

  
  

19–10 BBY | Early Empire & Rebellion Begins

• 📺 The Bad Batch

• 🟦 Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

• 🟦 Tarkin, Thrawn (Canon trilogy)

• 🟦 Lords of the Sith

• 🟦 A New Dawn

• 🟥 Han Solo Trilogy, Death Star, Last of the Jedi

  
  

📺 10–5 BBY | The Rebellion Builds

• 📺 Obi-Wan Kenobi

• 📺 Andor

• 🟦 Rebel Rising

• 🟦 Leia: Princess of Alderaan

• 🟦 Thrawn: Alliances, Thrawn: Treason

• 📺 Star Wars Rebels (5–1 BBY)

  
  

🎬 0 BBY | Rogue One / A New Hope

• 🎬 Rogue One

• 🎬 Episode IV: A New Hope

• 🟦 From a Certain Point of View (ANH)

  
  

3 ABY | Empire Strikes Back

• 🎬 Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

• 🟦 From a Certain Point of View (ESB)

  
  

4 ABY | Return of the Jedi

• 🎬 Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

• 🟦 Shadow of the Sith

• 🟥 Truce at Bakura, Tatooine Ghost

• 🟥 Thrawn Trilogy, Jedi Academy Trilogy

• 🟦 Aftermath Trilogy

• 📺 Forces of Destiny (overlaps several eras)

  
  

5–10 ABY | The New Republic

• 📺 The Mandalorian (9 ABY)

• 📺 The Book of Boba Fett

• 📺 Ahsoka (9–10 ABY)

• 🟦 Alphabet Squadron Trilogy

• 🟥 Hand of Thrawn, Corellian Trilogy, etc.

  
  

25–30 ABY | Peace Era & Dark Nest

• 🟥 New Jedi Order series (Yuuzhan Vong war)

• 🟥 Dark Nest Trilogy

  
  

40–45 ABY | Jedi Civil War & Beyond

• 🟥 Legacy of the Force

• 🟥 Fate of the Jedi

• 🟥 Crucible

  
  

28 ABY (Flashbacks from later Canon)

• 🟦 Bloodline by Claudia Gray (Leia post-senate)

  
  

34–35 ABY | Sequel Trilogy

• 🎬 Episode VII: The Force Awakens

• 🎬 Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

• 🟦 Resistance Reborn

• 🎬 Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

• 🟦 The Rise of Skywalker – Expanded Edition

• 🟦 Shadow of the Sith (pre-TROS)

  
  

137 ABY | Far Future

• 🟥 Legacy Comics (Cade Skywalker, descendant of Luke)