For female heroine stories, I would recommend the Sirantha Jax Series by Anne Aguirre (it's really pulpy, sci-fi-fan romance with a self-serving, snarky anti-heroine), and basically anything by Anne Frasier (Especially the Elise Sandburg Series - which is a murder-mystery procedural).
If you're a high-fantasy fan, anything by Mark Lawrence, Brandon Sanderson, or Brent Weeks basically nails it - but The Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence is Tops in my opinion (it has ties to the "real world" that will blow you away).
If you like funny stuff, the Ciaphas Cain series in the Warhammer 40K universe is pretty stinkin' tongue-in-cheek. Same can be said of The Dresden Files novels by Jim Butcher, and The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne - both have a similar tone as well.