I second the thing about Courtship. I think someone's already mentioned The Truce at Bakura, which rocks mightily for Leia purposes.
The Thrawn trilogy (Heir to the Empire and...um...its two sequels...shut up, I haven't read any of them in like five years!) kicks all kinds of character ass, in between making me yawn with space-naval stuff that borders on hard SF. It's interesting in the sense of being glaringly obviously Zahn's way of reconciling for himself the way the battles go, which really doesn't make much sense if you look at it too closely. Since lots of people are unable to not look at it too closely, he's done them a great service by coming up with an in-universe explanation and spinning pretty cool plot stuff off of it. But I still tend to skim all the chapters that focus on the Impie characters.
That trilogy also marks the debut of Mara Jade, who is the most popular character original to the EU for a slew of very good reasons. Some later authors have done terrible things to her (one of the main reason I quit reading two or three books ino the New Jedi Order arc), but I loves me my Mara.
It's sad, but I devoured so many books in such a big rush after TPM, I honestly have very little idea what happened in which one and who wrote it. I have a vague sense of liking the Jedi Academy trilogy, but that's mostly because I'm such a hopeless little Jedi wannabe from childhood. *g* And I think a lot of it has been hopelessly blasted into AUness by canon developments in Eps I - III.
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The Thrawn trilogy (Heir to the Empire and...um...its two sequels...shut up, I haven't read any of them in like five years!) kicks all kinds of character ass, in between making me yawn with space-naval stuff that borders on hard SF. It's interesting in the sense of being glaringly obviously Zahn's way of reconciling for himself the way the battles go, which really doesn't make much sense if you look at it too closely. Since lots of people are unable to not look at it too closely, he's done them a great service by coming up with an in-universe explanation and spinning pretty cool plot stuff off of it. But I still tend to skim all the chapters that focus on the Impie characters.
That trilogy also marks the debut of Mara Jade, who is the most popular character original to the EU for a slew of very good reasons. Some later authors have done terrible things to her (one of the main reason I quit reading two or three books ino the New Jedi Order arc), but I loves me my Mara.
It's sad, but I devoured so many books in such a big rush after TPM, I honestly have very little idea what happened in which one and who wrote it. I have a vague sense of liking the Jedi Academy trilogy, but that's mostly because I'm such a hopeless little Jedi wannabe from childhood. *g* And I think a lot of it has been hopelessly blasted into AUness by canon developments in Eps I - III.