Frank Herbert's dune saga
his son's coninuations
The chronicles of Amber
Dragonlance (favorite non hickman/weiss was Lord Toede)
Anything by Alfred Bester
Honor Harrington saga
Xwing set from starwars
Thomas covennent the unbeliever saga
Lord of the Rings
Do Andriod's Dream of Electric Sheep?
some others I can't think of right now
Didn't say it before, but Bountyhunter has reminded me, my absolute favourite author is David Weber for his superb Honor Harrington series. Although he does now need to change the focus to having the long promised war against Earth, the second Crown of Slaves book likes it will sort that out.
I have heard many good things about George R R Martin, I'll have to check him out.
Getaway the houdini of the transformers universe nobody can defeat him......except Rodimus Prime, Cyclonus, Starscream, Deathbringer, Thunderwing, Dreadwing........
Beyond that-
Flight of Dragons- by Peter Dickenson
The Last Unicorn - Peter Beagle
Dragonlance (already mentioned)
Elfquest (series) - by Wendy and Richard Pini
Animals of Farthing Wood (series)- by Collins (but not available in the US)
Redwall (series) by Brian Jacques
Secret of Nimh / Mrs. Brisby by O'Brien
I like the Dragonlance series a lot (I actually enjoyed Summer Flame as much as any of the others in Chronicles/Legends... my favorite "other" DL book was The Siege of Mount Nevermind)
(Especially) The (first 5) Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny were great as well, and all available relatively inexpensively in one volume.
Some of my favorite sci-fi short stories are Rod Serling's adaptations of his Twilight Zone scripts. Also available are collections of short stories which were bought and turned into teleplays for the show.
Though I haven't finished all of it, Stephen King's Dark Tower series is a masterpiece. And I haven't read nearly all of it, but I found the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan to be very enjoyable as well.
I actually still love the Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, much more so than LoTR. I like the Va Dinci Cod, by Adam Roberts though it's stupid and a parody book. Bad sense of humour maybe. The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo is another favourite.
Originally posted by Getaway I have heard many good things about George R R Martin, I'll have to check him out.
Do it! You won't be able to enjoy any other fantasy series after reading Martin's work, because it's so much better than anything else out there. I used to be a big Robert Jordan fan, but after reading Martin, I'm not even interested in Wheel of Time anymore.
My favourite one-shot novel is Memoirs of a Geisha
While my fav series are
Animorphs by K.A Applegate
Earth's Children by Jean M. Auel
The Landover series by Terry Brooks
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques
Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce
The Immortals quartet by Tamora Pierce
Young Jedi Knights by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
"So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave" - Captain Mal Reynolds