You may remember a while back we did a couple articles on the Star Wars books and comics canon timeline. While it was nice to have those, the one issue was that you had to go back and forth between two articles to get the information you wanted. So I thought why don’t I make it easier and just put the whole list all together. So, here it is the updated Star Wars movies, books, and comics canon timeline.
The Canon Star Wars Timeline
To make this list a little easier to follow, I will list the books and comics as they take place throughout the canon movie timeline (all movies will be in bold). I will also list when each was or will be released. So, here you go the Star Wars canon book timeline:
All movies books & comics up to Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith
- The High Republic: Light of the Jedi (January 2021)
- The High Republic: The Rising Storm (July 2021)
- The High Republic: A Test of Courage (January 2021)
- The High Republic: Into The Dark (February 2021)
- TV SERIES – Star Wars: The Acolyte (exact timeline date unknown, release date unknown)
- Dooku: Jedi Lost (April 2019)
- Master & Apprentice (April 2019)
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (September 2020)
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (May 2021)
- Age of Republic (Comic Series Dec. 2018 – Mar. 2019)
- Darth Maul (Comic Series Feb. 2017 – Jul 2017)
- Queen’s Peril (June 2020)
- Movie – The Phantom Menace (May 1999)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin (Comic Series Jan. 2016 – May 2016)
- Queen’s Shadow (March 2019)
- Movie – Attack of the Clones (May 2002)
- Jedi of the Republic – Mace Windu (Comic Series Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2017)
- Movie – The Clone Wars (Animated Aug. 2008)
- TV Series – The Clone Wars (Oct 2008 – 2014 & 2020)
- Catalyst (November 2016)
- Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars (Comic Series May 2020 – present)
- The Clone Wars Stories of Light and Dark (Sept. 2020)
- Dark Disciple (July 2015)
- Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir (Comic Series May 2014 – Aug. 2014)
- Kanan (Comic Series Apr. 2015 – Mar. 2015)
- TV Series – Star Wars The Bad Batch (2021)
- Movie- Revenge of the Sith (May 2005)
All movies, books and comics up to Rogue One
- Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith (Comic Series Jun. 2017 – Dec. 2018)
- Ahsoka (October 2016)
- Lords of the Sith (April 2015)
- Tarkin (November 2014)
- Jedi: Fallen Order – Dark Temple (Comic Series Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2019)
- Age of Rebellion (Comic Series Apr. 2019 – June 2019)
- Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game Nov. 2019)
- Most Wanted (May 2018)
- Movie – SOLO: A Star Wars Story (May 2018)
- SOLO – Novelization (September 2018)
- SOLO (Comic Series Oct. 2018 – Apr. 2019)
- Han Solo – Imperial Cadet (Comic Series Nov. 2018 – Mar. 2019)
- Lando: Double or Nothing (Comic Series May 2018 – Sep. 2018)
- Rebel Rising (May 2017)
- Thrawn (April 2017)
- Thrawn (Comic Series Feb. 2018 – Jul. 2018)
- A New Dawn (September 2014)
- Lost Stars (September 2015)
- TV-Series – Obi-Wan Kenobi (release date unknown)
- Battlefront: Twilight Company (November 2015)
- Rogue One – Cassian & K2-SO (Comic Series 2017)
- Cassian Andor Series (release date unknown)
- TV Series – Star Wars Rebels (Oct 2014 -Mar. 2018)
- LEIA: Princess of Alderann (September 2017)
- Thrawn: Alliances (June 2018)
- Thrawn: Treason (July 2019)
- Vader – Dark Visions (Comic Series Mar. 2019 – Jun. 2019)
- TV Series – Visions (release date unknown)
- TV Series – A Droid Story (release date unknown)
- Guardians of the Whills (May 2017)
- Rogue One – Novelization (December 2016)
- Rouge One (Comic Series Apr. 2017 – Sep. 2017)
- Movie – Rogue One (December 2016)
Make sure to head over to page 2 to check out the rest of the Star Wars canon timeline.
Holy Crap this is like the BEST timeline haha. Everything I’ve read online is so convoluted. This lays it out nice and simple. Please keep this updated, I’ll be coming back to this timeline regularly! Bookmarking this page now!
This is incredible…starting to read some star wars comics and novels. Just curious though, are the comics necessary to understanding movies and tv shows? Because I want to watch the mandalorian but it took place after return of the jedi but before force awakens. Does it connect to these comics or novels in anyway?
the Mandalorian is meant to stand as a entry point for new fans but also allow old fans the gratification of having followed along all this time, in short, no, you don’t need to read the novels or have seen the movies but it does help. You’ll just be in the same position as Din Jarin, clueless :-p
So if I don’t have time to read the star wars novels and the comics, which one is more interesting or useful to understanding the star wars world?
the immortal VR glasses game Vader is canonical of the star wars timeline. It goes between Episode III and Episode IV but it’s not here on the list, apparently.