These are a list of authors series and books that I read and actually remembered. This is quite an accomplishment given that I read literally at 100 pages per hour (that means I finish a 250 page book in, yes, two and a half hours). Even in my current busy state I still read 2-3 books a week. So any book that I remember was probably unusual or well-written enough to merit my attention. Individual books are in italics, series are bolded. If I mention a series it means that I am recommending the whole series and any books within the series that I further mention are personal favorites within the series.

Fantasy List
Janny Wurts-The most poetic, magical author I have ever read, and that's saying something.
The Cycle of Fire
To Ride Hell's Chasm
The Wars of Light and Shadow
Hosts of the Vastmark
Traitor's Knot

Patricia A. McKillip-classic fantasy writer
Riddlemaster of Hed
Heir of Sea and Fire
Harpist in the Wind

Robin McKinley
The Blue Sword
The Outlaws of Sherwood

Ursula K. Leguin
Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Farthest Shore

David Weber-Mostly a scifi writer, but he is a good enough writer overall that he shines in fantasy too, a good explanation of paladins, even though he calls them champions
Oath of Sword's
War God's Own
Wind Rider's Oath

David Drake-Also a borrow from scifi, but his stories are crafted with such excellence, that its simply good to read them. He has the ability to craft a very complex storyline, with over six branching plotlines, and yet bring them back together in a single book with a conclusion that actually satisfies, unlike some other authors fond of complexity (cough, cough, Goodkind, cough) Also, his Northworld saga, you'll see it in my scifi list, is probably the most complex story I've ever read.
The Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles
Queen of Demons
Servant of the Dragon
Mistress of the Catacombs
Goddess of the Ice Realm
Master of the Cauldron
Fortress of Glass
The Mirror of Worlds
The Gods Return
The Dragon Lord

Anne Bishop
Dark Jewels Trilogy
Sebastion (the first book in the Emphera duology)

Ilonya Andrews
Magic Burns
Magic Bites

Mercedes Lackey- I especially like the ley line based magecraft of her Valdemar World, though her conceptualization of Underhill in the overlapping world of SERRAted Edge and Bedlam’s Bard also bears mention.
The Valdemar World
The Owl Trilogy (Darian’s Story)
SERRAted Edge-Elves and fast cars
Bedlam's Bard -Elves and bards

Terry Brooks
A Knight of the Word
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara

Gordon R. Dickinson
The Dragon Knight
The Dragon on the Border
The Dragon in Lyonesse
The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent

Patricia Bray
Devlin's Luck
Devlin's Honor
Devlin's Justice

Joanne Bertin-Talented Author wrote two good books and just quit, so disappointing
The Last Dragonlord
Dragon and Phoenix

Steven Brust
Vlad Taltos
Issola
Dzur
Dragon


And so we step out of fantasy and into the realm of Science fiction by changing the superhuman powers possesed by the characters from “magic” to “psionics”… Hehehe it does permit certain more “refined” attitudes (read: effette, overcivilized, feminazist, liberal, and of course lay-down-and-die-tolerant) and my sociopolitical stands are now revealed…
Not that said attitudes aren’t blithely inserted into fantasy stories, they simply lack any reason at all for existing in medieval level tech societies, instead of the bad reason of being part of the corruption, decadence, and other signs of decline that have marked every “modern” society the human race has ever had.
You notice that this list is much shorter…

Alan Dean Foster
The Flinx Series
The Tar-Aimyn Krang
Flinx in Flux

Anne McCaffrey
The Dragons of Pern
Dragonflight
All the Weyrs of Pern
The Talents
Damia
The Tower and the Hive

Roger Zelazny-This book really pushes out the limits of psionics, I mean when you have hundreds of people who can imitate their said hindu god or godling because their psychic powers are so advanced, the difference between this series and something set in an ancient magic filled India is fuzzy.
The Lord of Light


Military Scifi-Which is quite different from other science fiction. Though these books are about human drama as I suppose almost all stories are, they portray the wierding vision of relationships and deeds on a very specific backdrop that of the wartime individual. That individual, whether they be man, woman or child; soldier, warrior, or beleagered civilian; are shown under the “ultimate darwinian environment” of the battlefield, they are changed by it forever, marked and scarred and almost alien compared to those who have not been touched by the horrors of war. And yet… for all its horrors, for all the terrible, sickening, awefulness of the battle there is also loyalty, fealty, and a greatness of spirit that can only be found "in death ground".
It is an interesting conundrum to me that as I writer, I lament that I am unable to properly understand and use the powerful images and struggles of war, for they are so compelling… and yet as a human I accord those who have fought the respect that is the least of all the things they deserve, and am desperately, even pitifully grateful, that at the end of the day, I don’t understand, and God willing may never have to. So it is both as a writer and as a man that I give respect and enjoy the the passion of spirit shown under the harshest of circumstances told by men who have been there and done that.


David Weber-The King of Space Opera, a scifi version of Horatio Hornblower and all that jazz, the funniest thing is that most of his bestselling books have female main characters
Honor Harrington- A navy series about a female captain set in the far future
In Fury Born/The Path of the Fury-the vengeance of a female commando
Prince Roger
March Upcountry
March to the Sea
March to the Stars
We Few
The Stars at War I & II
Empire From the Ashes

David Drake-The man who made military scifi what it is, and is still the best at it, add to that his complexity and the excellence of his craftsmanship he makes a very good read. WARNING David Drake is bloody, very bloody, he will make characters and keep them around just long enough for you to like them and then kill them off, it matters not if you think that this person is a major character, though to be fair, I don't think he's ever killed off the Main Main character, but I swear at times I think that he just randomly draws names out of a hat to find out who dies in the battle and then makes the story work any way he has to.
The Hammers Slammers-This is the series through which David Drake showed people what military scifi could be
Northworld -Like I said before, the most complex story I've ever read that worked as a story. This is another book that pushes the boundaries between scifi and fantasy, basically its the old nordic epics, retold from the point of view of a hardened cynical
soldier.
Redliners- The bloodiest of all of David Drake's stories, but strangely its not depressing. Its largely supposed to be based around the spirit and times of the Vietnam War, which I wasn’t born for, so I probably didn’t get the full impact of it.
The Daniel Leary Series
With the Lightnings
Lieutenant Leary Commanding
The Farside of the Stars
The Way to Glory
Some Golden Harbor
When the Tide Rises
The Belisaurious Saga-Alternate History
An Oblique Approach
In the Heart of Darkness
Destiny’s Shield
Fortune’s Stroke
The Tide of Victory
The Dance of Time

Kieth Laumer
Bolos
Retief

Eric Flint-The 1632 universe is an alternate history story, but the thing that makes it unique is the amount of authors that have collaborated in it, there has been five different major authors who have worked in this universe, and dozens of minor authors that have put articles in the Grantville Gazette, its almost like the Star Wars books. Truly an impressive amount of collaboration between authors
1632
1633
1634:The Baltic War
1634:The Gallileo Affair
1634:The Ram Rebellion

With K. D. Wentworth
The Course of Empire

John Ringo
The Legacy of the Aldenata
Gust Front
A Hymn Before Battle
When the Devil Dances
Hell's Faire
The Council Wars-This is a world that proves the phrase that sufficiently high technology is indistinguishable from magic
There Will Be Dragons
Emerald Sea
Against the Tide
East of the Sun and West of the Moon

An impressive list of stuff! Have you ever tried reading slowly?

Which of Janny Wurts' series would you recommend to read first?

I think that To Ride Hell's Chasm would be a good book to start with. Its the best of her standalone books in my personal opinion. Ships of Merior in her Wars of Light and Shadow was even better but thats the second book in a at last count seven or eight book series (depending on which edition of the second book you have).

And I have tried reading slowly, but I seem to simply read at about that speed, I can stop and reread purposely but my speed as such doesn't really change.
(and I assure you that that is not scanning. I know how to scan and I can go much faster)

Of all the authors you listed, Ringo is my favorite. If you like the Aldenata series, I recommend "Watch on the Rhein" as well. It shows the Posleen invasion from Europe's point of view.

Weber is worth reading because he is so damn solid. I haven't read that much by him, was planning to rectify that now over the coming months. I've read just enough by him to know he keeps a consistently high quality. And everyone can learn from the way he don't narrate events, but rather build up predictions about minor events, then quickly dialogues through a summary. Good way to not tell more than you have to yet still give a solid feel of characters, situations and backdrops.