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Some of the indie series I have started and really enjoyed. Most of these I haven't finished for one reason or another, but the first books have been good enough to put the next one in the series on my TBR list.
As mentioned, Hugh Howey's Wool/Silo series is excellent and was the first indie series I HAD to complete as soon as I could. I have also read the first 2 (3?) of his Molly Fyde series and they are very good too, although they are YA.
The Chronicles of St. Mary's by Jodi Taylor. I have only read the first so far, but it is a very fun time travel series, somewhat similar to Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel books (which are also excellent, but not indie).
Barry Eisler's John Rain series is an excellent action/thriller series following a CIA trained assassin and is now independently published. He has re-edited the series and changed the titles since getting the rights back from his traditional publisher.
Again, I have only read the first one (free), but Lindsay Buroker's Flash Gold Chronicles is an entertaining steampunk series. The next book will probably be my next steampunk selection when I get back in the mood for it.
G. Wells Taylor has a fun horror/zombie-ish series called the Variant Effect. There was some obnoxious repeated phrasing in the first book but it was still fun and the second one was better from an editing standpoint (I liked the story in the first better).
For space opera I would try Randolph Lalonde's Spinward Fringe series. I really liked Broadcast 0 (Origins) which is free, but I felt it got bogged down after Broadcast 4 and haven't picked it back up yet.
I got this all typed up and realized that these are almost all different genres too. And none of them are straight up fantasy which is weird for me. Maybe I need to find a good indie fantasy series to round things out.
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