Reddit reviews The Book of Jhereg

Steven Brust's Jhereg books hold up very well. The series is still going (after over a dozen books), but he started in the late 70s or early 80s, I believe.

I couldn't recommend Steven Brust's The Book of Jhereg enough. It's the first collection of books in a series he's been writing since 1983. Every book is a great read, and the characters will really grow on you. I believe any fan of Zelazny will like Brust.

If you like The Dresden Files I'm pretty sure you'll like Steven Brust's novels featuring assassin Vlad Taltos. I'm in love with Vlad. He's smart and troubled and extremely funny, and he has a smartass familiar. Awesome books, and I've been following along in that universe since the 80s. It's arguably fantasy, but has the grit of SF.

Start with the first three published, which are in an omnibus called The Book of Jhereg.

• Godstalk and sequels, by PC Hodgell.
  
  
• The Riddlemaster of Hed. In fact "delightful" pretty much sums up everything by Patricia McKillip.
  
  
• The Anubis Gates and others by Tim Powers, just brought up in another thread in r/books.
  
  
• Steve Brust's Dragaera books, starting with Jhereg.
  
  
• The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay (and everything else by Kay, but this is my favourite).

No Taltos can be hard to start because the order he wrote the series in is not chronological with in the Taltos series, and it gets confusing where to start. Here is a collection of the first 3 books he wrote. Here is the earliest book in universe. I read them in published order and there was no confusion, but I also reread them in the chronological order, which was enjoyable. Sorry for the long response, but I really love this series, they are light and enjoyable and always fun to go back to, and it makes me sad when people can't figure out where to start.

One suggestion that may be worth your time is The Vlad Taltos Series by Steven Brust
Although they are never explicitly called Elves, the Dragaeran culture is an entertaining spin on the Elven civilization.

Steven Brust's Draegera series are (mostly) caper-crime novels set in a fantasy city with magic and mafiosi. A little more High Fantasy than Lynch, but he pushes a lot of the same buttons.

Start with Jhereg.

Also, Lynch is channeling Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories a lot—you can start reading these from just about anywhere, but the first collection is Swords against Deviltry

I'd check if you'd read any of Steven Brust's books, and if you hadn't, I'd send you The Book of Jherg and The Book of Taltos, as well as instructions on reading them. (He didn't write them in chronological order, which I prefer to read them in.)

That's actually not the premise of the story, it's just a little side note of the world's history. Here's the first three books in the series.

This is a pretty good overview of the world that the books are set in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragaera

If you can find a copy of this book, it has a compilation of the first three novels in a usually supercheap paperback.

Available in omnibus form!
edit: he had a falling out some years ago with Tor Books which is why a lot of his older material is out of print in single edition and only in omnibus from Ace.