Been on an absolute fantasy bender lately, but I've ran out of books.
I've found myself really liking stories involving parties of adventurers. Obviously the immediate instinct is to look at the LitRPG genre, but looking at the books that immediately show up with a Google search, most of those seem to essentially be Western isekai, and believe me, I am suffering from heavy isekai fatigue right now.
Some books that I've really enjoyed to maybe help provide some frame of reference:
NPCs by Drew Hayes, and the rest of his Spells, Swords, & Stealth series. Technically LitRPG, but it focuses on characters living and originating within the fantasy world and characters from our world have a limited direct involvement with the fantasy world.
Grog I-V, which I've seen called the Ebon Blades series by RW Krpoun.
The Wandering Inn webnovel by Pirateaba. Again, technically LitRPG, and of the isekai type variety, but the Earthers are very much not overpowered and even those who reach notoriety in a certain field generally aren't due to martial prowess, and still aren't exceptionally high on the power scale totem pole. Also there's often story arcs involving characters native to the fantasy world.
In general it seems I like stories of mostly average people trying to live a life, just in a fantasy world with all the troubles that entails. It's not as if I'm opposed to grand quests to save the world or political machinations and such, but I prefer my main characters swept up in such things or operating in the periphery rather than being who those events are centered around.
by TronX33