Thrawn Books In Order Canon. By setting the book early in thrawn’s career zahn manages to perfectly tread the line of fitting his creation into the new canon without actively contradicting or conflicting with anything he had previously wrote concerning the character or his. The thrawn trilogy is part of the star wars expanded universe, which, as we learned above, means it’s no longer canon.
The books follow han, luke and leia and the reconstruction of the new republic, as well as the grand admiral thrawn, a military genius. Here’s where it gets a little confusing: Here was my reading order:
Grand admiral thrawn is a canon character and appears in another thrawn trilogy, also written by zahn.
This thing where the books directly connected to the movies and tv shows pretty much began with the book star wars: Rebels characters (from the cartoon) but before the cartoon had actually aired. Footnotes, choices of one, crisis of faith, etc. Yes, zahn again, because his epic thrawn trilogies are so widespread in the world of the sw book.