Well said Jerry.
There are already recommendations of fantasy genre pieces here on MR
I for myself think Eddings can't be recommended often enough
And of course! Sapkowskis Witcher series.
(The fact that anglophonics haven't discovered him until the rocketeering of the spinoff-games makes me wonder how many of the classical publishers gate-keepers are in fact gate sleepers only awaking when they hear "vampire" or "wizard-boy") *sigh*