Me, too. I’m currently re-reading them.
CJ Cherry’s Morgaine.
The Smokey Barret series by Cody MacFadyen. Barret is a female homicide detective, specializing in serial killers and is still haunted and traumatized by her past encounter with a killer during her childhood.
Well written and fun characters. Highly recommended.
CJ Cherryh’s Chanur series is an old favorite of mine, and written from the viewpoint of a felinoid female ship captain. Think “lion people”, basically.
Yeah, the progression from ‘fun action and corrupt politicians to overcome and exciting intrigue’ to ‘here’s another bunch of people at a conference table, after an intro consisting of multiple pages explaining the history of the table that has no relevance to anything else’ runs pretty linearly.
What killed the Honor Harrington series for me was when I picked up one in a bookstore, and wasn’t sure if I’d read it yet. So I read the blurb on the back… and still wasn’t sure if I’d read it yet.
Definitely a bad sign.
I really enjoyed both Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. In fact, they’re probably among my favourite novels (it’s longish list, granted).
Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Engdahl.
Clan of the Cave Bear and a couple of its sequels, by Jean Auel.
For something a little more modern than a lot of posts here, I submit Sunny Randall.
I’m a big fan of Robert B Parker (Jesse Stone, Spencer for Hire); Parker developed a female detective character that I really enjoyed. At one point Helen Hunt was supposed to turn her character into a movie franchise; but unfortunately it fell through. 
R. A. Heinlein, Friday
I never noticed that those zipper pulls were penii until someone recently mentioned it.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned Sharon Shing’s stories, especially the four “Blessings” book that could have been titled (but weren’t) Zoe’s Tale, Josetta’s Tale, Corene’s Tale, and Leah’s Tale. A fifth book is required to complete the series, but the author claims she has no plans for one. It could be Celia’s Tale and take place 17 years later when the heroine has turned 18, been named Crown Princess, and her parents have undertaken to find an appropriate mate, which she, as a creature of Wood, will fiercely resist.
Let me second the Tuesday Weld series and also Terry Pratchett’s witches and the Tiffany Aching stories. What a loss, was Pratchett’s death.