My husband introduced me to his writing several years ago.  Most of what he writes takes place in the land of Midkemia, and he has greatly detailed on most of the entire world through the many books he’s written about the world.  The 1^st book that he wrote about the world, and the one I recommend reading first is Magician: Apprentice then the Magician: Master.  These are the first two books in the Riftwar Saga.

You can tell Feist really loves his characters, he really gives them a lot of depth of personality.  Many of the books of the world are about Pug, an orphan who becomes a great magician.  But the stories actually cover centuries of time, and Pug is still alive in them all.  I’m not gonna give that away, very interesting stuff ^^  But some of the books are about other people whom run into Pug at some point or other and their stories overlap, while the main focus of the book is still on the main characters, not Pug.