Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28324586-20160428030159/@comment-3361105-20160428165815

As a casual Green Lantern fan, I would recommend the following if you want to know about Hal Jordan:


 * - I'm pretty sure it's been collected into one omnibus. It's one of the first depictions of Hal with an actual personality, thanks to Denny O'Neil. These stories are the source for the often referenced "Hard Travelling Heroes" era of Green Lantern and Green Arrow.


 * Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn is a retelling of Hal's Origins, post-crisis.


 * Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight is the story of Hal going nuts and becoming Parallax in the lead-up to Zero Hour.


 * Zero Hour won't make much sense to you if you haven't been paying attention to other 1994-ish era books, but it's Hal's story as Parallax.


 * Green Lantern: Rebirth is the return of Hal Jordan.

And then basically, you just have to read all of, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, and #1-20 of to get the key stories.

Pretty sure we also have a Green Lantern Recommended Reading page...