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Favourites include Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, Susanna Clarke's Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings series, Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish cycle.
Currently reading Le Guins Dispossessed.
Dispossessed is among one of my favorite books. You're in for a really interesting time. I feel like it's one of the few rare fiction books which manages to show non capitalistic systems quite well. I really love it! Plus Le Guin was apparently based as hell, too
I have read it before but a very long time ago and I think a lot of the societal points passed me by at that younger age. I'm definitely enjoying re-reading it with a more mature eye.
I always came down on the Hornblower side. Have you read that series? How do they compare?
Hornblower is OK. I enjoy some of it but O'Brian has a knack for humour and tragedy thats mostly absent in the Hornblower series.