Okay, I got thinking, and I figured most non rabid Star Wars fans haven't checked out the novels/comics because there's so many now it's friggin overwhelming.
And keeping them in order without shelling out $19 for the (yet to be released) essential chronology or being blessed with a Krazyfool's brain for continuity, well forget about it.

Well, it occured to me there aughtta be a pared down timeline.

I mean, of course bantam will just show you the whole entire timeline, they want to sell books.

Not all the books are vital to the post Return of the Jedi timeline to know what's going on.
The non-vital ones also...well they aren't exactly masterpeices.
Surely Black fleet crisis can be trimmed to get back to Tim Zahn and his characters.
I mean, Luke Skywalker falling for and marrying Mara Jade is more momentous and interesting an event than some rogue alien senators kicking up some dust.

So, I took the ones I consider to be the creme de la creme by the best writers, as well as the ones that depict vital parts of the sequil story and also kept in the back of my mind the whole thing should block out into trilogies because, well Star Wars should just block out into trilogies and that's that.

So, including the original and upcoming movies, this is as tight as I could crunch it down.

Phantom Menace
Episode II
Episode III
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Shadows of the Empire
Return of the Jedi
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Heir to The Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
Dark Empire
Dark Empire II
Empire's End
I, Jedi
Spectre of the Past
Vision of the Future
Union