Sooo, what to reccommend...
Read The Braided Path trilogy - a lot of female characters and a female protagonist, brilliant villains, original magic system, a lot of twists, and not a fake European medieval setting, more Japan oriented actually. Has an omnibus.
Chronicles of the Black Company - one of the very few fantasies that protrays armies and characters with actually grey moral viewpoints fight (also know as Grey vs. Grey Morality), The Company is a likeable bunch and the rebels they're hired to fight aren't inherently good - they're actually right bastards, like the "bad" guys. Has a three in one omnibus.
If you want a deeper, philosphical fantasy where magic and its ideologies are implemented into the metaphysics of the world, with well-built, introspective, if not immediately likeable characters, a lot of epicness and a complex plot - try The Second Apocalypse series which consists of two trilogies so far - The Prince of Nothing and The Aspect-Emperor, with the second trilogy's last book coming out probablt late this year or early next year. You should know if you start that the protagonist is basically invincible and is more of a plot device than a character, so you don't end up whining like some people that he's a Mary Sue.
Read the classic Chronicles of Amber if you haven't! It has a badass protagonist, great worldbuilding, gorillas armed with machine-guns invading a fantasy kingdom and a lot more!
Read the Long Price Quartet, though I think someone mentioned it.
Shadows of the Apt is good popcornwise, it had some beginnings of deeper character development in book two, but it's still good as it is.
Read the newer editions of The Sandman comic series by Neil Gaiman, they're recoloured and they're amazing.
Read the Watch urban fantasy series by Sergey Lukyanenko, they have cool soc-realism, well-put moral dillemas, good fight scenes, they play on your heartstrings from time to time, but most of all they, like all the books I mentioned, just suck you in!
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KingsGambit said:
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth is pretty good, but can get a bit preachy. The first few books are great, the middle bunch not so much, then it picks up again at the end. The villains don't make much sense (think Mass Effect's "Reapers" nonsense), and fans debate that they and the heroes represent Goodkind's personal political views.
The whole series is based on a skewed version of Ayn Rand's objectivism, which is a clusterfuck in itself. He was her friend.
My personal opinion, but if you read Eragon, Shannara and the Drizzt stuff (haven't read Eddings, but heard some similiar things about him too) after a certain age, you realise how dull and repetetive they are.