I have the whole book series (big surprise) and I love all the books! But I think that the best ones were The Outsider and The Salvation.
For those who haven't read them yet, The Outsider is much like the pilot of Roswell and The Salvation chronicles the ending of the book series like Graduation. I find the original series better than the later ones like Little Green Men and Shades. I find those harder to read. The later ones follows the development of the show but the original series is very different from the show from the second book, The Wild One onwards.
I guess the best thing for us Tess haters is that there is no Tess in the books! However, in the later books there is something that makes Max and Liz grow apart, which is called the consciousness. Other differences are that the aliens can sense the auras of people and also change their faces by molding it with their hands. Plus, there are way more alien teenagers like them, like Nikolas a bad boy type of alien who later became Isabel's boyfriend. All I can tell you is that he is definitely more interesting than Jesse. Another alien is Adam, who was caught by Sheriff Valenti (who BTW is totally evil in here) and a secret organization called Project Clean Slate and kept away in a underground location.
Plus, Michael actually has a brother here named Trevor!
So, which are your favourite Roswell High books?

Alien Stalker- Um... there are several books on the TV show Roswell. Roswell High came before the books and although the tv show is based on it, thy are anything, but the same. There's another bok series that kinda follows the TV show. Th Loose End's Series... they have a few books out and more are coming. Hope that helps.

Alien- Hehee . . . That's funny! Anyway, you could probably imagine how they looked like. Max is supposed to be blue-eyed and blond (weird imagining him looking anything other than on the show, huh?) Michael is supposed to be muscular (that made you happy, didn't it?) and he's more cheery in the books too.
Another thing is that the gang are portrayed as being even closer in the books than in the show! Hmm. . . I wonder why is that?

Yeah I didn't like how Max looked like in the books. The blue eyes and blond hair just didn't go with the brooding mysterious characteristics of Max. And I didn't like Michael much in the books... he was muscular and everything, but then he isn't like the Michael in the show, who is barely ever happy, who doesn't get sappy, who isn't completely nice. He's not a total stonewall in the books.

I love reading about their auras.
Liz-Amber
Max-Jade Green
Michael-Brick Red
Maria-Sparkling Blue
(Unfortunately, Isabel's aura is the best)-Rich Purple
Alex-Screaming Orange

Kyle and Valenti are evil, so no aura. At the end *spoiler* Kyle was in a mental hospital.

ITA Dreambehr, that books 1 & 10 were the best.
If anyone wants to read the archived Compare & Contrast the Show & the Books Threads, they are here:
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Thread 3/4
Thread 5
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This is OT, But I am supposed to come here & post where I uploaded Cyane's transcripts. They are here:
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Goodnight all!
--shapeshifter

Hi Shapeshifter! Welcome back! I know I've already seen you around!

I Michael-Stonewall-Guerin, so please, no weird experiments with his character, okay? Looks like I won't read the books after all. Happy Michael is something I can't bear. (Poor guy...someone should give him a break, now his worshippers don't even want him to be happy anymore... )

The show is based on the Roswell High Books. There's 10 of them out.

But the other books series that's out called Loose Ends, that's based on the Tv Show.

Yeah, I've thought the same thing about not reading the books. It seems more on a junior high type level. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but just not my cup of tea.

And I am curious, as well, how the original books ended.

I haven't read any of the Roswell High books, but I have read some of the later ones. They were pretty good.

Susan