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Red Rising has a bit of a rough start because of how the first book was edited, but it's a fun Warhammer 40k with ancient Greeks type experience.

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Good fantasy:

Lower end fantasy, less genre fiction.
Borges - absolutely top tier of all writers in the 20th century. Fictions is a good place to start. Library of Babel is a classic.

Pelevin - popular Russian author. Stories are in a modern setting but have magical elements. I didn't like the werewolf book as much but Helmet of Horror and Homozapiens is excellent.

Murakami - weird Japanese fantasy. IQ84 is a cool sprawling epic about a parallel 1984.

I'm also a big fan of 100 Years of Solitude, a classic magical realism book.

More genre fiction focused -
Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before is my absolute favorite genre fiction. It's less literary than Wolfe, with more roots in the classical mold of the genre.

Hyperion is sci-fi but there are some fantastical elements there too. It's a retelling of the Canterbury Tales, quite good.

For more of a historical fiction type experience, Game of Thrones is actually pretty good, even if the show fell apart.

Also a big fan of pic related although it's not very literary, just fun.

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