Can't recommend the Dragonlance series highly enough!
I have read pretty much everything from the series over the years but can strongly suggest:
Dragon Chronicles:
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Then the Meeting Sextet and Preludes series is a good series of stories outlining the lives of the Chronicles cast before the War of the lance.
Next the Preludes is another great series as it tells of the lives of the villains before the war of the lance.
Legends:
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
Kang's Regiment:
The Doom Brigade
Draconian Measures
Tales Anthologies 1 & 2
Magic of Krynn
Kender, Gullydwarf and Gnome
Love and War
Reign of Ishtar
The Cataclysm
War of the Lance
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As for Forgotten Realms, a good place to start is:
The Cormyr Saga is very Game of Thrones-y
Cormyr: A Novel
Beyond the High Road
Death of the Dragon
For Elminster (Merlin/Gandalf of the FR world)
Elminster - The Making of a Mage
Elminster in Myth Drannor
The Temptation of Elminster
Elminster in Hell
Elminster's Daughter
Elminster Must Die
Bury Elminster Deep
Elminster Enraged
The Pools Trilogy is a much smaller scale adventure
Pool of Radiance
Pools of Darkness
Pool of Twilight
Shandril's Trilogy is very interesting about a girl with the power to absorb magic and spill it out as Spellfire.
Spellfire
Crown of Fire
Hand of Fire
The Finders Stone Trilogy (a strangely unlinked series but even as stand alone books they're pretty goof but Azure Bonds is the highlight.
Azure Bonds
The Wyvern's Spur
Song of the Saurials
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