The Essential Guides are a series of reference books published by Del Rey yearly since 1995. The only exceptions to this are The New Essential Guide to Droids and The New Essential Guide to Alien Species in 2006, with none being published in 2008, 2010, and 2011. The Essential Guide to Warfare and The Essential Reader's Companion are the latest books in the series, each released in 2012. At the Essential Guides presentation at Celebration V, Pablo Hidalgo announced a third edition of The Essential Guide to Characters, with a release date of April 2014.^[1]

Each book covers different aspects of the Star Wars universe. The series started over to cover newer aspects of the Star Wars Universe in 2002 and again in 2007.

First Generation Edit

The Essential Guide to Characters

The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels

The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology

The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons

The Essential Guide to Droids

The Essential Chronology

The Essential Guide to Alien Species

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• The Essential Guide to Episode I (Cancelled)

Second Generation Edit

The New Essential Guide to Characters

The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels

The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology

The New Essential Chronology

The New Essential Guide to Droids

The New Essential Guide to Alien Species

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Third Generation Edit

Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force (real-life book)

The Essential Atlas

The Essential Guide to Warfare

The Essential Reader's Companion

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• The Essential Characters (Unreleased)

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