Erin Lorenz's Top Ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels

1. Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula LeGuin
2. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein (includes the Hobbit).
3. Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey
4. Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey.
5. The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey (YES - ALL of them:)
6. The DarkOver novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley (YES - ALL of them:)
7. R.A. Salvatore's The Sword of Bedwyr series - it's also called the Crimson Shadow series.
8. J.V. Jones' series The Book of Words trilogy - includes The Baker's Boy.
9. The Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn.
10. Tanya Huff's Quarter series

I COULD go on and on - there are at LEAST 10 other favorites including ones by Barbra Hambly, Andre Norton, Julian May, Melanie Rawn and Janny Wurtz - just to name a FEW more authors:)