THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES! Yes! Sll twelve of the core books! They're all amazing reads. It's as realistic as a fantasy series can be. You care about all the characters, and you really want to see what happens next. Robert Jordan was (is, seeings as he left plenty of notes, partial chapters, and notes for the end of the series before his death) extremely descriptive of the cutures and places in the book, but is by no means dry, as some people found Tolkien's writings (not me, I loved Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion). The series flows so very well. He made it feel like you were living in their world.
It'll take you a month or two to get through them all, as some of the books top close to a thousand pages. But you wont realise how long you've been reading until there's nothing left but to wait for the last two installments.