Star Wars Canon is a 88-book series with 85 released primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by Terry Brooks, R. A. Salvatore, Karen Traviss, Matthew Woodring Stover, Mur Lafferty, Alexander Freed, George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster, Donald F. Glut, James Kahn, Jason Fry, Rae Carson, James Luceno, Daniel José Older, John Jackson Miller, Kevin Hearne, Paul S. Kemp, Greg Rucka, Christie Golden, Claudia Gray, Chuck Wendig, Landry Q. Walker, Sylvain Neuvel, Greg Weisman, E. K. Johnston, Beth Revis, Saladin Ahmed, Mira Grant, Ken Liu, Timothy Zahn, Delilah S. Dawson, Jody Houser, Matt Owens, Kevin Shinick, Zoraida Córdova, Cavan Scott, Rebecca Roanhorse, Sarah Kuhn, Alex Segura, Charles Soule, Justina Ireland, Mike Chen, Tessa Gratton, Sam Maggs, George Mann, Lydia Kang, Danielle Paige, Kelly Thompson, and Marc Guggenheim.
In 2014, when Disney restructured the Star Wars continuity, the existing Expanded Universe (EU) was rebranded as Star Wars Legends. These older books, comics, and stories—originally considered part of the timeline—were declared non-canon to make way for a new, unified narrative. From that point forward, all newly published books became part of the official Disney-era canon, starting with A New Dawn, and are coordinated with films, TV series, and other media to maintain consistency across the franchise.