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Fwiw, and may be no help but my current plan is to alternate between binge-reading Pratchett and binge-reading Banks forever, in between everything else.
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This isn’t in-genre, but the Master and Commander series is 20 books of essentially Austen-on-sea. It’s funny and absorbing, makes you care about the characters, and is generally delightful. Perhaps too much talk of foremast futtock-shrouds for some, but it wears it lightly.
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You do have to let yourself in for O'Brian's very, very thorough knowledge of 19th century life at sea. Slightly less technical (but still good fun and Napoleonic Wars-based) are Bernard Cornwall's "Sharpe" series.
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