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Black History Month may be coming to a close, but it's important to read and celebrate stories by Black creatives and centered on Black characters year round! Here are six picks you can jump right into as a Star Wars fan interested in reading about Black characters! Books with a "*" in the heading were written by a Black author! Servants of the Empire Technically cheating a bit with this one as it's a four-book series rather than just one book, but the books are super short

One of my most anticipated Star Wars books in 2025 was Kwame Mbalia's The Last Order , and it was definitely worth the wait! While the marketing of the book (in my opinion) over-promised it as a post- The Rise of Skywalker story because the book is mostly flashbacks to Finn and Jannah's time as stormtroopers, it's still one any fan of these characters would enjoy! We get a strong arc for Finn that explores more of the damage that the First Order did to him and his convictio