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Best I ever read was The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay. Two book series called Sailing to Sarantium and The Lord of Emperors.

Extraordinary books. I re-read them every few years.

They're a fantastic re-imagining of history; the story of a mosaicist in what would have been the tail end of the roman empire around the time that the portrayal of god becomes outlawed. There are moments in those books that give me goose bumps simply recollecting them.

His trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, is more typical fantasy fare, and it's also extremely good.