Another good series is the Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham - very different from most of what is out there. Unlike a lot of other modern fantasy, it has only a couple of major characters and very little action/violence - almost the opposite of Malazan (plus it's relatively concise and it's finished).
I thought Sword of Truth started out with some promise (albeit rather cliched) but turned awful around book 5 and I wouldn't recommend it when there's so much better stuff out there.
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