Best Trek books

[Lapis Exilis]

What are the best Trek books? I'm wondering if there's any consensus in fandom on this question.
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I have a hearty love of old Trek novels, The Entropy Effect; Uhura's Song; My Enemy, My Ally; Spock's World are a few faves. But I've also read and loved newer ones (Survivors; The Lives of Dax), though I feel a bit out of the loop for the past several years.

But I've read nearly as much Trek commentary, from the old Best of Trek books (collections of articles from Trek magazine 1974-1994 or thereabouts; I could rarely get my hands on the actual mag), but also loved Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek and I'm just starting Star Trek: The Human Frontier.

How about you?

 

[Kilana2]

I guess this is something for the Literature forum......

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I love "ST: Department of Temporal Investigations - Watching the Clock"

Christopher Bennet wrote that lovely piece of literature.

 

[1001001]

Moving to Trek Lit

 

[Kilana2]

1. Sarek - TOS
2. Yesterday's Son - TOS
3. DS9 - Terok Nor Trilogy
4. The Neverending Sacrifice - DS9
5. Fallen Heroes - DS9
6. The Three-Minute- Universe - TOS
7. Q-in-Law - TNG
8. Dragon's Honor - TNG
9. Crucible - McCoy - The Provenance of Shadows
10. Unity - DS9
11. Section 31 - Control
12. A Time to..... books, especially the last three novels
13. The Left Hand of Destiny I+II, DS9
14. Star Trek Destiny Trilogy
15. All of the Vanguard novels.

Just to name a few of my favorites.....

 

[DS9forever]

A Stitch in Time & The 34th Rule from DS9.

 

[Kilana2]

A Stitch in Time & The 34th Rule from DS9.

How could I forget these two books? DS9 simply has many great novels.....

 

[Nyotarules]

Star Trek Vanguard series
The Never ending sacrifice
Star Trek Destiny series
Star Trek New Frontier series
Star Trek Myriad universe books
Worlds of Star Trek series
Star Trek Mirror universe books

 

[Jinn]

All of Vanguard. Vanguard is pretty much the only TrekLit series I ever recommend to non-Trek fans.

 

[Reanok]

Ditto the whole Vanguard series is good. TNG Imzadi by Peter David. Diane Duane's Romulan book series is one of my all time favorite series of novels. Spock's World.Also the Myriad Universe books too.

 

[USS Firefly]

Star trek Destiny
Star Trek Vanguard series
The lost Era novels
And the early DS9 novels set after the show

 

[XCV330]

Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual.

 

[JD]

What are the best Trek books? I'm wondering if there's any consensus in fandom on this question.
Fiction
Non-fiction

I think there are just way to many books, and way to many fans with vastly different tastes for there to ever be a consensus on one, single best Trek book ever.
As for my favorites:
The Titan series
The Vanguard series
The Myriad Universes series
The Mirror Universe series
TNG: Imzadi
TNG: Q-Squared
The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins
The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible
The Lost Era: The Buried Age
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
The Destiny series
A Time to Kill/Heal/War, Peace
Articles of the Federation
The early DS9 Relaunch
The second phase of the Voyager Relaunch

 

[Thrawn]

Vanguard
Destiny
The Voyager relaunch once Kirsten Beyer takes over

I recommend all three of these to non-Trek fans and they pretty universally love them. The only thing about Beyer's Voyager books is you have to realize that she spends the whole first novel picking up the pieces from a bunch of other books that came before and putting them away so that at the end she can start her own stories. If you're willing to just go with it for one book, then the rest follows from there beautifully and is one of my favorite novel series ever.

 

[NCC-73515]

Engines of Destiny.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Fiction:
Too many to count, but...
Prime Directive
Crossroad
Dreadnought!
Final Frontier
The Lost Years
Q-Squared
Vendetta
Dark Mirrror

Nonfiction Fiction:
Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise
The Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology
FASA TNG Officer's Manual

Nonfiction:
Inside Star Trek

 

[Reanok]

Enterprise The good that man do By Andy Mangels and Micheal A. Martin.

 

[thribs]

The Q Continuum trilogy
No Time like the Past
The First half of the New Frontier novels

The Enterprise novels are good as well. Love how they try and make everything fit into the lore. I hope we get more in the future.

 

[GaryH]

Anything by Una McCormack is really good as well.
I also agree with the Early New Frontier and Mirror Universe recommendations.
The Enterprise War is a recent Discovery novel that you can pick up in most book stores if you want a fun in print story

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

In no particular order and missing other amazing books:

Star Trek: Destiny trilogy
Star Trek: Titan - Orion's Hounds
Star Trek: Titan - Synthesis
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma series
Star Trek: Crucible Book One: Provenance of Shadows
Star Trek: New Frontier - Stone and Anvil