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His Dark Materials books are fantastic, if slightly for kids. The follow ups when Lyra's older are proper adult. And excellent.
Earthsea again excellent. There's also loads of good YA fantasy about these days. Septimus Heap is great, and the Eragon books bridge the gap between YA and proper adult fantasy beautifully.
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe has a deeply flawed but likeable main character and remains one of my favourite fantasy works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun
I am surprised that it is not better known as it is a stunning piece of work.
Another +1 for Children of Time. It's a big book, with some quite 'serious' scifi, but definitely got that edge/ fun in it that Iain M Banks always had, that makes you want to keep going and find out what happens next. As opposed to Alastair Reynolds, which is mainly on the heavy side (but still v good obviously)