At risk of repeating myself, I write book reviews over on fantasybookreview.co.uk, which you can find here.

I personally haven't been a fan of fan fiction, or even licensed works set in preexisting universes, even for things I'm a major fan of in Rl like Doctor who.. This is sort of ironic, given that I once tried to fan novelise the playstation Rpg xenogears myself, however, I've tended to find that fanfics, and to a lesser extent canonical licensed books in starwars, startrek etc, spend most of their time either trying to repeat the main works of the series, send series characters off into directions the author wants, or have the author's own characters there just to out do established ones, being more powerful, more evil, more handsome or beautiful etc.

Personally, I just like a good story like Harry potter which starts and stops, and even for something like Doctor who I'd much rather just something that puts the doctor and companions in an interesting situation, EG in a culture or time they haven't visited or encountering new aliens, than in suddenly fighting the greatest threat to the universe ever, or a species that are eviller than the daleks, or suddenly finding that historical figure of the day wants to make the doctor's companion his queen or whatever .

So all of this is to say, for myself I've read far more new and established book series, than fanfics, or even licensed books, and am happier to have done so.

As to what to recommend, well it's difficult to say since you have given a very broad criteria.

Off the top of my head, George R R Martin, Tad williams, Robin Hobb, Patric rothfus or Brandon Sanderson for High fantasy although Williams and Sanderson have written stuff in very different genres too.

Tad williams again for cyberpunk near future sf, Niel Gaimon for modern fantasy and twisted fairy tales, Julian May, Lowis MCMaster Boujald for space opera, Stephen King for Horror and more cross over fantasy, China Nieville for steampunk and stuff that is very grim and Justin Cronin or Anna Smail for post appocalyptic.

There are probably a bunch more that I could suggest, but that is what occurs to me at the moment.

trackers, by Nicholas Sansbury Smith.

@2, Fanfiction has various sub-communities. Some of them hate the things you mentioned, especially the author creating their own overpowered characters. Some of them embrace it and that's why they write fanfiction in the first place. IT's all about what you read, and considering that Harry Potter is one of the largest fandoms in the world, there's quite a lot of different categories of things you can read. In general though, I agree with the first post that fanfic gets stale after a while, once you've pretty much read most things that people recommend. There are maybe 10000 good completed fanfics in Harry Potter, and the other half a million suck, aren't in English, or are abandoned forever.

@4 I've been meaning to read Trackers as well, and all of Smith's other books. I've been reading the Hell Divers series first, but all of his other stuff seems cool as well. Hell Divers is a gritty post-apocalyptic action/adventure story primarily, so if you're into that, you could give it a go.

Yeah Lucas. I have red hell divers, trackers, extinction cycle and sons of war by Nicholas. I loved them all.

the half orks siris, buy daivid dalglish

Dark, in the Hell Divers series, hell divers are people who parachute down from airships into the wasteland to gather supplies to keep the ships in working order. Without those people, the airships, which are the presumed only remaining humans in the world, would crash and everyone would die. Arguably a more badass job befitting a badass name, I think.

thank you everyone. I’m gonna get started on this right away. I have to agree with the previous post, the tag dark fantasy intrigued me and I think I will be starting with it

@Lucas1853, definitely more badass than the people in the red rising series, who just tell everyone they're badass because the main character is an egotistical arsehole .

As to the red rising series, I wrote detailed reviews of the first three boks which can be found here on fantasybookreview.co.uk

roughly speaking the reasons I hated them were the fact that the main character was an extreme succeedinator aka Mary sue, succeeded at everything, had a monumental ego, constantly telling the reader how awesome he personally is, as welll as a purile sense of humour, and the tendency to be a down right scuzbag and cause the kinds of torture and mass murder usually associated with villains, accept that the main character constantly praises himself for it even while he decries others.

Combine this with blatant inconsistencies in the writing, dialogue which constantly reads like big power speeches from eighties cartoons, and general shallow characterisation and plotting (even going as far as blatantly damselling female characters just so the big hero can literally carry them off), and you have something which was all around pretty terrible! not, the worst I've ever read, but some of the lowest review scores I've ever given.

It's a shame, I really liked some  aspects of the world like the colour based society, and at least the vague attempt at a future history and bizantine politics (when not rather blatantly doing a hunger games ripoff). And The main character's going from slave to liberator might have been  cathartic, if  he actually felt like someone who'd ever been a slave rather than just constantly telling us how great he himself is (as I said, even making working in a mine sound badass). Had there actually been a vague possibility the good guys might loose or that the main character felt anything but his own awesomeness, some of the action sequences and battles might have been fun to read, indeed I liked a couple of the battles featuring other people.

I kept hoping the series would improve, but after the third book, which seemed to be the end of the trilogy, and featured random mutilation and a disguise plot as hackneyed it might as well have come out of the old scooby doo cartoon, and I said enough was enough!

Again, if others like the series for the action and world building, and don't mind a main character who is a boarderline psychotic narcissist with an ego the size of Olympus mons, fair enough, but personally I always find heroes more heroic when firstly they don't know they're heroic, and secondly where they feel underpowered.

Indeed, to quote one of my own reviews, it doesn't matter if the author has a main character who must fight a thirty foot tall, fire breathing, zombie mecher Godzilla from Hell, with his bare hands, if the main character is literally so invinsible there is absolutely no possibility he will lose, because he is the best fighter in the author's entire universe! .

@camlorn, I have no problem with "rule of cool", if there is something to back it up or if I like the character enough to want to see them succeed.

Likewise, I've read plenty of YA books I liked with big battles and lots of awesomeness, James Dashner's maze runner, heck, I recently gave Rachel Aaron's second heartstriker's book a pretty high rating for exactly the same thing.

With Daro in the red rising books though, he was just such an invincible and insufferable arse that I was rarely if ever on his side, and there just wasn't enough else to hang the series on, since basically it all revolved around him and his habit of solving issues by Daro ex machina.

Again, if people liked the series, fair enough, but even for a Ya novel which is an action romp, I just need a character I can actually want to see succeed, especially if we're in that character's head all the time.

Unfortunately, recent Dresden Files really sucks now.  IMO it stops being fun after Changes.

well can someone recommand   abook in which one of the characters is nihilistic but at the same time he or she wants to find inter order, but he or she bings chaos. I would want to find a book with bypolar character someone who is nither hero nore villan. Where some characters believe in  a perfect reallity while others want to turn the world in to it's crwelest form. is there such  a book?

@Camlorn, I was pleasantly surprised with peace talks, since though it had the patant Dresden winjing and acquiring more power, it had far more setup and danger and actually progressed both relationships and the world, indeed it feels like we're actually heading into an endgame scenario here with potentially world changing events, assuming Butcher doesn't just retcon things in the next book.

Lol, wing of Eternity, you pretty much describe game of thrones there ;D.
Though also, if you want to see series with no actual villains, but a lot of moral viewpoints causing problems, including people going to extreme lengths to support their own ideas, check out the gallactic Milieu by Julian May.

It's a slow series, with a lot of world building, psychic powers, weird aliens and family drama, and so not for people who want intensive action, for all it does have a intensive action scenes here and there and even psychic battles, but the concepts and ideas it gets into are fantastic, particularly because May definitely has a sense of humour.

to say one character literally goes from hiding his pregnant mother from bureaucratic aliens who have forbidden her from reproducing in the first book, to literally experimenting on self aware foetuses and destroying entire planets in the third book, and yet none of what he does ever feels inconsistent or jarring with his previous character or philosophy.

She's written a hole bunch of books set in the same universe, indeed Galactic Milieu is both the end and the beginning of the series (time travel paradoxes are fun), and my lady and I really want to read more of them.

Also, check out Library at Mount char by Scott Hawkins if you really want alien and morally ambiguous protagonists who have a completely different view of reality and what good and evil actually are.

I'm also sort of tempted to suggest Octavia Butler's Lilith's brude, as a trilogy where literally nobody is entirely right, accept that the third book really went off the rales in terms of going from coping with a different morality, to applauding actions which are pretty reprehensible, also, her generally universally awful view of humanity as a hole even made me wince, and cross over  line from coping with alien circumstances, as in her novella Bloodchild, into glorying in humanity itself being exploited, changed beyond recognition and literally destroyed as a species.