I will try to save everyones time here and list books I have already read. I guess I like books that have some elements of mystery to them but also ones where magic is in a big part. Action driven, more plot, less character based. There are probably a bunch of books missing from each category because I have not kept perfect track of all books I have tried.
Category 1, Books that I have read and liked:
Everything by Brandon Sanderson
Dresden Files
Alex Verus
Immortal Great Souls
Books by Will Wight
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Terry Pratchet
The Licanius Trilogy
The will of the many
Super Powereds
Riyria Revelations and Chronicles
Red Rising series
Name of the wind and wise mans fear
His dark materials books
Harry Potter
Category 2, books or authors I have read books from that I did finish but were either just okay or were "meh":
Tigana
Jade city
Three body problem
The curse of Chalion
Mark of the fool 1
Arcane Ascencion
Iron druid series few first books
Mother of Learning
Brent Weeks lightbringer and night angel
Painted man
Furies of Calderon
The house in the cerulean sea
Son of a liche
Joe Abercrombie (first law etc)
Son of the black sword
The Bartimaous trilogy
Hyperion
The Blacktongue thief
The Scholomance
Kings of the wyld
Category 3, books I started but did not finish:
Dawn of wonder
We are bob
Ritualist
A power renewed
Grimnoir Chronicles
Forging Hephaestus
Gideon the Ninth
The perfect run
He who fights with monsters
Cycle of arawn
Empire of silence (sun eater book 1)
A game of thrones
Malazan
Lotr
Wheel of time
Narnia
Yendi
Sabriel
Aeronauts windglass
Other books by Michel sullivan apart from riyria.
by AdhesivenessEarly793