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The novels written after DS9 and prior to the release of PIC represent a significant effort to create a combined universe in within fiction, this series of novels became retconned by the release of PIC and as such a three part series called coda was written to tie up stories and create a suitable conclusion to the novel universe. the coda series depicts a multi-verse event and establishes the novels within their own alternative universe subsequently refered to as the first splinter timeline.
The First Splinter timeline concept was introduced in the closing installment of Coda, Oblivion's Gate, as a way to retroactively encompass the continuity of various Star Trek prose series and spinoffs. This implies that aspects of the continuity of those series may be "intact", although future developments could clarify that not to be the case. The concept was established to encompass the continuity of crossover-oriented Pocket Books prose taking place after the finales of the respective series, including the novels and works of the New Frontier, SCE, Titan, and Prometheus series, which may have been affected by this timeline.
!!!IMPORTANT!!! You can pick ANY book and start anywhere!
The author always includes any background info you need in the book so the story makes sense. Don't feel obliged to start at the beginning!
Not sure where to begin reading? Here are a few common suggestions....
- If you want to start from a fairly recent up to date story then there is a five part crossover series called 'The Fall' (starting with Revelation and Dust) which touches on many branches of the 'trek-lit-verse' including TNG, DS9 and the USS Aventine (Ezri Dax commanding).
- Another big jump in point is the Destiny trilogy. This series features TNG, the Dominion, the Borg, and the USS Titan (Riker commanding).
- For a bit more info you can jump back before Destiny and read Articles of the Federation to give some more political backstory.
- If you like DS9 you can jump in with the Avatar series set after the series finale. If you want to jump a bit further ahead Rough Beasts of Empire is set after the aforementioned Destiny trilogy.
- If you like TNG the 'Time' series is a set of 9 books starting with "A Time to Be Born" that leads up to Nemesis. Or you can start after Nemesis with Death in Winter.
- For TNG you can also branch out to the USS Titan novels featuring Riker which starts with Taking Wing
- For Voyager fans its first post-Endgame stories start from Homecoming, but the series got something of a second start later with Full Circle.
- For TOS, 23rd century fans can start the Vanguard series with the novel Harbinger. There is also a small run of TOS stories set after The Motion Picture, those start from Ex Machina.
Much of the information, and the below chart in this post has been pulled from The Trek Collective as well as credit to AgentZeus for the original thread here and to NeoTrident for providing the opening two paragraphs, giving the changes that Picard has had on the series.

You can pick ANY book and start anywhere!
Don't feel obliged to start at the beginning!