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Not sure if you're familiar with this chart https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html?m=1

DS9 Millennium (3 books) is good. Like a future what if end of the universe thing.

New Frontier series (at least 6) is a fun read. Follows after titan era. Not too serious, and some new characters on the fringes of federation space.

An older crossover, Invasion (4 books) is a story told through tos, tng, DS9 and voy. Was fun to see all the familiar characters dealing with the same overall problem.

The fall (5 books) was good. I was looking for something random and started at a recommended spot on the chart. I do feel like I missed a bit that they kept summing up. Probably better to start with the borg invasion if you don't want to feel like you got plopped into like season 3 of something.

The Buried Age was fun, Picard as captain of the stargazer more or less gathering the tng crew.

Can't beat an old TOS random paperback sometimes. Those can be so wacky.

Hope that helps

This is more a comic/graphic novel than a proper Trek novel, but I think Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way is possibly the best Star Trek comic I’ve ever read.

It stays true to the source material, and unlike a lot of IDW stuff I’ve read, doesn’t completely shark jump from the source material in an attempt to be mysterious, cool, or interesting just for the heck of it.

Probably the only other piece of IDW Trek I enjoyed this much was the TNG Mirror Universe, which did really well to achieve a “keep me on the edge of my seat” feeling.

I still need to read some other Trek comics, though, especially the TNG/Doctor Who crossover, which a local library branch of mine has. I also have a ton of PDFs from the recent Humble Bundle to burn through.

Diane Duane wrote some great Star Trek books - The Wounded Sky and Spock’s World are perennial favorites.

I’d also recommend Q-Squared by Peter David. Very ambitious book and does a great job of making some lore connections.

I liked the first Titan (Rinker's next ship) book, but I haven't read the others.

there's a series of in-universe biographies that ranges from good to great. The Autobiography of Mr. Spock and The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko are my favorites, they're very good looks into those character's minds and also give you a lot of cool background info on the federation inside and outside of starfleet. i definitely recommend those two and the rest of you're hungry for more after

if you're salty about how Enterprise ended, espwcially for one character in particular, The Good That Men Do is worth checking out. it reads like a fixfic because it essentially is but hey. it leads into a few other books but i haven't had a chance to read them yet

I love the work of the Reeves-Stevenses (even the Shatnerverse), and Diane Duane.

Also, in the realm of non-fiction, I’ve collected almost every volume of The Best Of Trek. It can be really enlightening to see what the fandom was talking about at their times of publication, and the intense analysis of the planet Vulcan given in the article “A World of Time” by Kenneth Reeler was probably pretty influential on me and the particular way I like to deep dive into the minutia of my favourite stories.

The lead-in novel to the first season of "Picard", "The Last Best Hope", is excellent.

The "New Frontier" series is an interesting experiment in storytelling with a (mostly) original cast.

I really like the Department of Temporal Investigations book "Watching the Clock." Very clever time travel story.

Q In Law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-in-Law