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I was a huge fan of Piers Anthony. (Only saying was because nowadays he doesn't write much that is worth a whole lot.) Incarnations of Immortality is his best series. Next for me was the Mode series (which I still haven't read the last book) and then the Apprentice Adept series (at least the first three books.) I also liked his Bio Of A Space Tyrant series, even if it is a thinly veiled metaphor for world politics.
One issue you will run into with Anthony is that usually when he extends a series, the quality tends to go down. For example, the first trilogy of Apprentice Adept is good, the second trilogy is ok, and the last book is crap. As for Xanth, that probably continues because the books sell and it is the only series book publishers will buy from him anymore. As others have said, it is pretty much the same thing over and over again. (tho, occasionally he can write a Xanth novel that rises above the fray, like "Yon Ill Wind", which was better than average.)
The only Anthony book I didn't enjoy was his Battle Circle series. I just couldn't get through it.
The nice thing about Anthony is that big on releasing his stuff on eBooks. For the stuff he has the rights to, he self publishes and it is redily available on Fictionwise. He occasionally writes new stuff that he can't sell to publishers (I've read the first two CHROMagic books, which aren't bad, but doesn't really break new ground for Anthony.)
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