I also suggest The Wheel of Time books and Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. If only my local library wasn't retarded and having books 1, 2, 5, 7 of that series. Brings to mind when we had a Sam Goody, if they had a dvd series, they always NEVER had #4, and were also missing a few others in the series. But that's off topic.
I also like the Wayfarer's Redemption series by Sara Douglass.
Laura Resnick's In Legend Born, The White Dragon, and The Destroyer Goddess (in that order). Good books.
Elizabeth Hayden's Rhapsody series was also a good read for me.
I also agree with the Dragonlance books. I found those to be better than any Forgotten Realms books, especially any that included Drizzt (he's almost as bad as Rhonin).