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The spin off The Empire Trilogy with Janny Wurts also good.
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"Servant of the Empire" and "Mistress of the Empire" were both excellent books (but you should read the first 3 Fiest books ahead of them).
The Jasper Fford series starting with "The Eyre Affair:A Thursday Next" novel is very entertaining. There are a LOT of characters but the story revolves around Thursday. She plays a Literary Detective investigating crimes of literature. (In one chapter she discovers someone has cloned a thousand Shakespeares and locked them in a room with a bunch of typewriters.) I just finished the latest book. Jasper Ffford is .. interesting. In honor of his books they hold a festival in Swindon, UK where he entered the Jasper Fford look-alike contest ... and lost.
Glen Cook has a series of books starting with "Sweet Silver Blues" that is a favorite of mine. Take Sam Spade and Tolken and mix them up - and you get the idea.
Anything by Lawrence Watt Evans is good. Magic exists - but has rules/limits which seem to cause more problems than they solve.
(Crap - my tree-book library is in box's at the moment. There is no way to remotely scan through my ebook titles to come up with more favorites.)