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I liked Federation, Imzadi, and Q-Squared (it's important to note that I haven't read all that many of them).
SW books:
Zahn, Stackpole, and Allston are pretty good. Kevin J Anderson is an author who I always felt was inconsistent; he could write some really good stuff and then some unreadable stuff.
Other books:
Yes yes, the classics are good. I can read Ender's Game over and over. Gateway by Frederick Pohl is phenomenal. You can't go wrong with Harlan Ellison or Theodore Sturgeon. Sa'ar-I definitely have that nine hundred plus page "book" (if the word applies) as well as Heinlein's seven to eight hundred page collection. One of my favorite short story books is called "Masterpieces", edited by Orson Scott Card, and it's a book of short stories that are flat-out brilliant.
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