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Read the Moonshea trilogy to learn about Bhaal, Druids, Kazgaroth and a lot more.
I ended up getting mine from ebay however, there is still a lot of stuff on there.
A PDF of it can be found here
http://www.holscher-larsen.dk/Adad Books/TSR 9460 - Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast.pdf
Maby some are free to download like the one @Darrylson provided.
There are almost 270 FR novels and at least 200 of them are worth to check out.
Parched Sea was exciting and fun and shed light to different customs and dangerous/exciting lives of Bedine people, those people in the desert. Red magic is fun because it has Thay and Red wizards in it, Edwin would approve. Crypt of the Shadow king is a Harper duo's struggle to rescue a port city from the clutches of the evil Zhentarim.
But my all time favourite is Alias series, Azure bonds. It has everything a fantasy novel needs, interesting and curious plot, well developed characters, loveable side characters, like Fearun's only halfling 'bard', a noble and exotic race, and powerful and wicked evil enemies like a mad sorceress, a lich, an assasin organisation, a red dragon, a mysterious stranger, a dead God, Demons, etc. Simply epic. After three books Azure bonds end but the story continues with Finder's Bane and my favourite is the Masquarades book, from Harper Series but continuation of Alias's story. It reallyaffected me with the Alias's conflict and quest. Most recommended.
Another resource I greatly enjoyed is Heroe's and Villain's Lorebooks. I found them as pdfs on the net. The books have character sheets of all the characters in the novels I recommended. It is fun to read about a character in a book and then open up the Lorebook to see his level, alignment, stats, inventory, skills, etc. No novel tells you directly these things, ofcourse, but as you read about a character's adventures you get to understand their traits and guess their ability scores etc. It is fun to see their original stats and compare them with what you thought of them. Like, 'I knew he was chaotic good!' 'Whoa he has only 17 dex?' '13 charisma?! But he sounds sooo cool in the book!' 'she used this skill in the book, yay!'
I had tons of geeky fun and immersion with the Forgotten Realms world with the Lorebooks. Ofcourse, character biographies in the Lorebooks are choke full of spoilers, they detail what happens in the books, so should be avoided before reading the actual novels the characters are in. Peeking at character sheets and inventory and spells are okay though, and quite fun. Lorebooks are extremely consistent with what you read in the novels, and every major character and even some minor characters have their entries. Fun!
Shadowdale, Tantras, and Waterdeep, the trilogy the chronicles the events of The Time of Troubles and where the characters Midnight (who became Mystra), Kelemvor, and Cyric come from. Great read, especially the second book, where Bhaal is a major antagonist.
I forget the name of the series (and would LOVE is someone else knows), but it involved a group of DnD players who's DM transports and traps them in their game world. Had a Fighter with seven fingers, an adolescent dragon, and a mage character who, because he doesn't actually KNOW any magic, re-invents gunpowder and becomes a gunsmith. One of my favourite lines is from that series...
*Dwarf is injured*
"Give him a healing potion, quick!"
"He's unconcious, what if he chokes on it?"
"It's a healing potion! The only way it could hurt is if you hit him with the bottle!"