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Anna McCaffey - Pern series I guess is epic fantasy, I know there is like 20 books, but the dragonriders series is a good start.

I also missed His dark marterials, by Pullman which levite mentioned earlier.

Name of the wind Patrick Rothfuss, I will say again totally amazing first book!

Scott Lynch - Lies of Locke Lamora

Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn series

And I can not believe Tad Williams - Memory Sorrow Thorn is not on here.

Now I said C.S Friedman Black Sun rising trilogy is dark fantasy, I can argue as well that it is definitely epic fantasy as well.

Joe Abercrombie - The Blade itself


Jordan was great, his first few books, he loses it with the men vs female being idiot concept, and his tapestry got so big he could not keep a hold on the story that it stunk.

Goodkind at the beginning seemed like a copycat, his first few books was amazing, and he lost it as well, story got to big. His stories also began to end the same way last second as a war wizard he automatically knew to do a,b,c and bam problem solved, but by solving it he broke rule #x which will lead to the next book.