Before you started the community, I hadn't actually read many of the books at all. I'd read the novelisations of Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back (and Han/Leia may actually have been my first ever ship as a result), and I had copies of the Thrawn trilogy and some of the New Jedi Order novels, so I think I'd probably read them, but they're stickered up by a secondhand book stall in a market I used to go to but which I haven't visited in 25 or so years, so if I have read them, I don't remember anything.
I read the Marvel UK comics that came out when I was a kid for years and years and at least one of the stories really stuck in my head, and over the last 18 months I've been using Marvel Unlimited to read through as much of the Dark Horse-published Star Wars comics as I can; I finally reached the end of that list last month, and I'm now starting to catch up with the Marvel High Republic comics. This is the reading list I used, so that I was reading the comics in in-universe chronological order rather than publishing order: https://comicbookreadingorders.com/other/star-wars-dark-horse-reading-order/. Reading that reminds me I need to go back and read the Republic comics I couldn't find originally because they changed name part way through... (It went from being simply "Star Wars" to "Star Wars: Republic" about 45 issues in.)
I think the Knights of the Old Republic comics are some of my favourites, and I really like the Rebel Heist limited series. The Dark Times stories were often good but also pretty painful in places, as they revolve around the Jedi who survived Order 66 mostly being hunted down by Vader and the Empire. There are also some interesting bits and pieces in runs like the Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire arcs where you get to see stories around people within the Empire, some of whom are loyal and some of whom aren't, and I found I liked some of these stories much more than I expected to. For example, there's an arc revolving around the commanding officer of the biggest Imperial officer academy, a former Clone Wars era general, attempting to lead a coup against the Emperor early after the formation of the Empire that I thought was very interesting, even if you obviously know how things are going to end up going!
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I read the Marvel UK comics that came out when I was a kid for years and years and at least one of the stories really stuck in my head, and over the last 18 months I've been using Marvel Unlimited to read through as much of the Dark Horse-published Star Wars comics as I can; I finally reached the end of that list last month, and I'm now starting to catch up with the Marvel High Republic comics. This is the reading list I used, so that I was reading the comics in in-universe chronological order rather than publishing order: https://comicbookreadingorders.com/other/star-wars-dark-horse-reading-order/. Reading that reminds me I need to go back and read the Republic comics I couldn't find originally because they changed name part way through... (It went from being simply "Star Wars" to "Star Wars: Republic" about 45 issues in.)
I think the Knights of the Old Republic comics are some of my favourites, and I really like the Rebel Heist limited series. The Dark Times stories were often good but also pretty painful in places, as they revolve around the Jedi who survived Order 66 mostly being hunted down by Vader and the Empire. There are also some interesting bits and pieces in runs like the Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire arcs where you get to see stories around people within the Empire, some of whom are loyal and some of whom aren't, and I found I liked some of these stories much more than I expected to. For example, there's an arc revolving around the commanding officer of the biggest Imperial officer academy, a former Clone Wars era general, attempting to lead a coup against the Emperor early after the formation of the Empire that I thought was very interesting, even if you obviously know how things are going to end up going!