Urgh, in all the things I've read? Female--well, Vin's pretty awesome, but so was Sarene. Male--oh sparks. Cody, David, Elend, Zane, Sazed, Spook, Kaladin...yeah. I have a hard time picking faves, in case you couldn't tell. xD
The whole fabrial/soulcaster thing's pretty amazing, but I'd probably lean towards Aon Dor. That is, assuming you were looking for a purely Sanderson answer.
Also I did my research and I think I'll abstain on the cookies for now, tempting though they might look.
Tolkien, the classics (love Jane Eyre and anything by Oscar Wilde), a select few Christian authors like Janette Oke and George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard's historical adventures, and then recently I've been sampling YA fiction since it's supposedly for roughly my age group. Don't like Divergent (though I'm still gonna finish the series), Artemis Fowl's not bad aside from the crude humor, love Gail Carson Levine and Shannon Hale, probably not going to try Hunger Games but who knows...yeah. I'm nearly as much an omnivore in the fictional sense as I am in the culinary sense. And I'm sorry if that was way more than you wanted to know, I can go on for a while about books. xD