Star Trek

YES spock must die was a great book. highly recommend it!!

 

Everyone's contributions have been spot on.  Here are some I have not seen listed (forgive me if I missed some that were in fact listed) and that I have enjoyed.   In no particular order:

The Return of the Phoenix 

The Fate of the Phoenix (both by Culbreath & Marshak)

Spock Must Die! By Blish

The Lost Years by Dillard

Ex Machina by Bennett (occurs right after The Motion Picture)

Garth of Izar by Sargeant

Prime Directive by Reeves-Stevens

Ashes of Eden by Shatner

The Return by Shatner

Star Trek Collision Course by Shatner

ST:TMP novel by Roddenberry

Forgot to add The Eugenics Wars trilogy by Cox....

I like the documentary books about Star Trek. There're also those 12 of TOS by James Blish. Also the 10 ones of the animated series by Alan Dean Foster. I met him once.

Another two I liked was 'The Galactic Whirlpool' and 'The Abode of Life'. I also thought those 2 had similar stories.

There're those by William Shatner, of Kirk, like 'Spectre'.

Documentary books about Star Trek, that I mentioned, are mainly books like: The ethics of Star Trek, Living with Star Trek, Star Trek the human frontier, Boldly live as you've never lived before, Star Trek in myth and legend, Star Trek lives!, I am not Spock, and I am Spock. Those sort of books.

All the original books are Great but my favourite is , " Uhura's Song" by Janet Kagan. If anyone has read it, they'd know why its such a good novel

All 4 books in the Lost Years series

Crucible McCoy

That Which Divides

Read the entire Vanguard series in order starting with Harbinger and ending in Storming Heaven.  It reads like a DS9 story arc set in during the years of TOS.  it provides a lot of TOS back story but develops completely original characters in an original and interesting plot.

Vanguard is probably the best work of Trek literature ever.

As you read my list- please pay mind to the fact that I'm not really a HARDCORE fan. LOL Also, if you know these books- maybe, you'll be able to see a pattern.

Sarek

Ishmael

Yesterday's Son

Time for Yesterday

Prime Directive

Strangers From the Sky

Vulcan Academy Murders

IDIC Epidemic

Vulcan's Heart

Vulcan's Glory

Vulcan!

Spock Must Die

Pandora Principle

Troublesome Minds

Mindmeld

Unspoken Truth (if you liked Pandora Principle, I recommend this one as a follow up)

That's a lot of reading for someone who is NOT a hardcore fan!