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 forthcoming in 2012. At the Essential Guides presentation at Celebration V, Pablo Hidalgo announced a third edition of The Essential Guide to Characters, with a tentative release date of summer 2012.

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.

Contents 1 First Generation 2 Second Generation 3 Third Generation 3.1 In other languages

First Generation Edit

• The Essential Guide to Episode I (Cancelled)

Second Generation Edit

Third Generation Edit

• The Essential Reader's Companion (Unreleased)
• Untitled updated Essential Guide to Characters (Unreleased)

Essential Guides
First generation Characters · Vehicles and Vessels · Weapons and Technology · Planets and Moons · Droids · Chronology · Alien Species · Episode I (canceled) Second generation New Characters · New Vehicles and Vessels · New Weapons and Technology · New Chronology · New Droids · New Alien Species Third generation The Force · Atlas · Reader's Companion · Warfare · Untitled updated Essential Guide to Characters
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