I am a big reader as well. Mostly Fantasy, Tolkien and Dragonlance; however, I still read the Redwall series By Brian Jacques because I started reading them when I was young. I have started reading the Wheel of Time series as well. A friend of mine turned me on to them, although I am only on book 3 right now. I was talking to this friend the other day when I heard that Robert Jordan had passed away and he said he had done some research about the 12th book and it seems that Robert Jordan has left all of his notes and information in capable hands and it will get finished (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan for reference) Some other series I have read would be the Dark Sword Trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, as well as The Inheritance trilogy (still waiting on book three to come out.) By Christopher Paolini