Adams and Asprin are enjoyable, but I'd say that Pratchett has the greatest overall breadth and depth. If you've got a particular affinity for certain elements in a book (mystery, farce, philosophy, romance, fairy tales, vampires, musicals, cross-dressing, police procedurals, action adventure), at least one volume in the series is likely to fit your criteria.
Oh, and +1 for John Morressy's Kedrigern series, which is excellent.
Wish that Meisha Merlin had finally printed that 3rd planned volume which would have collected up some of the remaining short stories *and* the printed-in-Polish-only work finally in the original English. But they imploded, and Morressy died, and then his wife who inherited the rights died, and now everything is in limbo, unfortunately.
Though I will kind of vaguely mention that if you happen to read Polish and go looking, the internet seems to provide.
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