[GreenLantern]

Drizzt books are great, Dragonlance have a soft spot for me because it was somewhere near my start of fantasy reading.

First thing you should read in this genre is Lord of the Rings, for sure. If you haven't read that it's like going to church without the bible.

(SPOILER: careful reading the wikipedia links, typically the intro paragraph of these articles is spoiler free but I did NOT proof read all of them and may contain spoilers)

Wheel of Time gets a bad rap because a lot of people get bored around book 7, and I can admit it does drag for a bit. But Brandon Sanderson has done a great job of revitalizing the series and the final 14th book comes out in early 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time

The Black Company by Glen Cook is another good series I read a few years ago. (9 books)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Company

Dark Tower by Stephen King (8)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dar...r_%28series%29

Malazan Book of the Fallen by Canada's own Steven Erikson (10)

The Malazan series is often compared both to Glen Cook's The Black Company series (to whom the seventh book is dedicated) and George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. By 2006, the series had sold 250,000 copies.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams (3)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory,_Sorrow,_and_Thorn

That should keep you busy for a few years.