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[quote=Anonymous]Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey.  Sex, spying, and court intrigue in medieval alternate history france.

Heralds of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey.  On the surface it seems like a typical fantasy series, what with mages and gryphons and magical talking horses.  BUT.  It features strong female protagonists, most of it [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest?from=Main.TheBechdelTest]passes the Bechdel Test[/url], and The Last Herald Mage trilogy was one of the first fantasy series to have an (extremely well written) openly gay protagonist.  Besides the Last Herald Mage, the best of the series imo are: The Vows & Honor duo plus By The Sword (which follows the granddaughter of one of the previous books' protagonists), Brightly Burning, Take A Thief, and The Arrows Trilogy.  The Collegium Chronicles aren't too bad either.

I second the rec of The Hunger Games and Divergent series.  If you do enjoy YA, Tamora Pierce is fabulous.  Start with the Song of the Lioness quartet.  It's about a girl who takes her twin brother's place and tries to become the first female knight in over a century.

The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.  Two of the three books feature Women of color protagonists (one of whom is blind too) and deals with the politics of race, gender, and religion.

If you like Urban Fantasy, I can't recommend enough The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.  It's as if Film Noir and Urban Fantasy had the world's most sarcastic baby.  Hard boiled supernatural detective stories with a down on his luck wizard set in Chicago.  Another one in a similar vein is the Felix Castor books by Mike Carey.

Patricia Briggs has a few good series too.  Her big one is the Mercedes The VW Mechanic books, about a Native American woman who is a coyote shifter that was raised by werewolves.  Also features, scary old school style fairies and vampires, and romantic subplots that don't devolve into cliche or turn our heroine into a faux action girl who constantly needs rescuing.  Her Raven duo is also really good.  Features an interesting twist on Roma culture as well as the best depiction of the Bard class outside of a D&D sourcebook.

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