Talk:List of Star Wars books

message: Per this archived discussion at Talk:Star Wars canon, the arrangement of this list by eras and in-universe dates is obviously a problem. I know consensus and policy agree with me, but I wanted to document and discuss things on this talk page before I attempt any overhaul (which will not be a quick task).
I think the table format works; chronological by real-world publication date, probably broken up in four or five sections based on real-world time periods like what we have in these versions of Star Wars expanded universe or Star Wars canon. The tables themselves would look like the "list of canon works" in Star Wars canon. The question is, what from the current table at List of Star Wars books#Star Wars should be preserved, and what should not:
* Title-Date-Author = Yes.
* Publisher? Not sure.
* Maturity rating and audiobook? I am not a fan of these, but I don't know that we've actually discussed them
* In-universe dates, or "eras" = No. We have a link to the Wookieepedia timeline of canon media. Most books are linked to individual articles with more details.
* Description and/or Notes: I can think of a few instances where we should identify, for example, that a work is a novelization of a film, or a short story anthology, or part of Journey to Star Wars.
* Legends vs. canon: The lead already establishes that pre-2014 works are Legends, so canonicity will be obvious by the chronological layout of the article without us having to beat it over readers' heads. If for some reason we go with one large table though, we could possible add a Legends column.
Thanks! — TAnthonyTalk 04:15, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. A list on Wikipedia should first and foremost be based on real-world information. The list should be modified to reflect an organizational structure based on the factual information, before the fictional. Organizing a long and complicated bibliographic list of works solely by fictional criteria seems unhelpful if not outright confusing. Morgan Riley (talk) 03:54, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a moot point (or soon will be) for the most part, as the list is being reorganized into tables, which can be sorted either way. UpdateNerd (talk) 17:45, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

text: Strongly agree with merging them into one table. Not so concerned about a series category since that can be included in the title. I'm not sure they need an Era category either, since that can be inferred from the place in the timeline. UpdateNerd (talk) 00:54, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: The in-universe thing

message: I suggest that the novel and short story collections be split off, separated from the reference works and RPG manuals. This article is already very long, and will only get longer.
-- 70.51.201.106 (talk) 02:56, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the initial proposal (but not to a separate page for Legends books). However, I think the new article should be split out as List of Star Wars reference books, and leave the novels here. UpdateNerd (talk) 08:53, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Split off novels and anthologies

message: Can we please move away from the fan-fiction-like habit of marking everything with (Y) and (A)? I agree that, despite George's insistence that all of Star Wars is for children, we can identify de facto "children's books" by looking at the vocabulary and page count. But there are better ways to do so.
* First, there is no series that only has some of the books aimed at younger readers. It's all or nothing. The one counter-example claimed by the article looks dubious.
* Second, there is no stand-alone youth novel. They all have sequels or prequels. There only appear to be isolated examples in this article because it's disorganized.
Therefore, I propose that we just list books normally and when we get to a series by e.g. Jude Watson, we just write that it's accessible to young readers in prose. Connor Behan (talk) 00:49, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age categorization 

message: The Mandalorian novel has been canceled (confirmed by Del Rey on March 9th), so it needs to be removed from the list.75.170.205.211 (talk) 00:50, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Mandalorian Novel Canceled 

message: Is it worth mentioning that this now has a physical paperback version published by Del Ray books?NickWX28 (talk) 22:11, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea how I messed up formatting so bad here. Lol. AdmiralAckbar1977 (talk) 03:27, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dooku: Jedi Lost