The Eragon books (2 out of three out so far) and the on-going "Wheel of Time" series are awesome reads, in my opinion

EDIT: Be warned though, the WoT series is in its 12th book at the moment and still going, plus the author has out a prequel and some other things I believe. The books are over 1,000 pages long the farther in the series you get *still on book #9*