As the title says, I'm looking for some of the best Star Trek books to read. I've read both of The Eugenics Wars books and quite enjoyed them, so was looking for some other good ones. I don't really care what time period they're in, just as long as they're Trek and pretty
A Stitch in Time has been on my list ever since I saw the news about Andrew Robinson voicing it. Una McCormack's stuff looks interesting though! I'll have to check it out, especially the DS9 stuff
The two recent series that stick out for me are IKS Gorkon by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Typhon Pact.
If you liked the Klingon-centric episodes of DS9 and were left wanting more, the Gorkon series fills that void.
Typhon Pact salvages the Ezri Dax character, has a lot of good Riker bits, and features "the Romulan Star Empire, the Breen Confederacy, the Tholian Assembly, the Gorn Hegemony, [&] the Tzenkethi."
DeCandido’s ‘A Singlular Destiny’ follows directly from Mack’s Destiny Trilogy. Then, the main Relauch novelverse moves through the Typhon Pact books.
Ezri Dax starts evolving as she integrates Dax’s former hosts and wrangles them in some earlier DS9 books. But she really takes off as one of the 4 hero captains of Destiny.
For those who want to start the Relaunch books from some of the deep political turning points, Mack’s two books in the ‘Time to…’ series are the key ones. They take place between the TNG movies Insurrection and Nemesis, putting dynamics in play that run right up to the end of the Relaunch novelverse in Coda.
(And yes I’m still grieving the end of the Relauch alternate timeline.)
If you're not just looking for novels I would like to highly recommend two non-fiction books: "The Fifty-Year Mission: The first 25 years" and "The Fifty-Year Mission: the next 25 years" by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. The books tell the oral history of Star Trek up until 2016. They consist entirely of interview snippets from cast and crew, sorted chronologically and thematically. It's a super interesting look behind the scenes.
The Wounded Sky (IMO better across the galaxy instant drive story than Discovery)
My Enemy, My Ally
Doctors Orders
The Invasion series
Uhuras Song
Black Fire
The Romulan Way
Yesterday's Son
Time for Yesterday
Probably not the best, but I enjoyed the novelization of Star Trek IV. You get to actually see what the probe is thinking from its point of view, which was fun and super interesting.
Star Trek: Year Five - four-volume trade paperback (from the comic books)
Outstanding pacing, art, and characterization. Uhura really gets a chance to show her expertise in communications. Several connections to the original series, but they don’t feel like they’re just awkwardly-forced name checks.