I'm just getting in to the genre, I've read the LOTR and some Harry Potter but the others on the list are new to me. I am currently reading Mythago Wood, which so far I'm enjoying.
I'm reading some J.G. Ballard at the minute because it's architectural but also seems like science fiction/fantasy too and it's really enjoyable. ASOIAF is great, it's more enjoyable that LotR in my opinion as it seems to be a lot more accessible. It may as well have been set in New York gangs instead as the fantasy element is just a setting and it's the politics that drive the narrative. If you're unsure of it you could check out the TV show which I watched first, and subsequently ordered all the books and read them in quick succession (no internet to distract me either).
Audible: 1 credit a month for $15 a month, 2 credits a month for $22.95 a month. Rule of thumb, books over 1000 pages are 2 credits, most other books are 1. And then, they often do "2 for 1" and things like that. I've been an Audible member for four years now. I have 48 days of audiobooks. Granted, by my math I've given them something like a thousand dollars... which makes me feel not particularly bad about ripping lots of things down to mp4 so I can lend them out. I'd upload Game of Thrones except I generally keep my audiobooks at stupid-high resolution so it's 2.9 GB. Sorry.
Cool, I'll check out that series it received some pretty high praise on Amazon.