As far as fantasy goes, I'm not terribly interested in it. However, a friend turned me on to a series by Stephan R. Donaldson titled The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever. Wonderful series! Six books in total, though you
could be content reading the first three. They take place both in the modern world, and an alternate world. They're about a man who suffers from leprosy who suddenly finds himself in some strange new world, and to top that off, he's supposedly the man who saves that world, though he's generally uninterested in doing so.
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He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero....
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Another fantasy series that I've heard nothing but wonderful things about is The Wheel of Time series. I haven't read any of the books, but the same friend said I absolutely HAD to read them, and I've heard the same from numerous others.