I  finished "The Wine Dark Sea," the 16th book in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.  The movie "Master and Commander" with Russell Crowe is loosely based of 3 or 4 of the books.

  They are the best nautical fiction I've read, share my top spot for historical fiction with the Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, and I'd actually recommend them to someone who likes Jane Austen too.  The series is more of a story about the friendship and lives of the two main characters rather than a nautical adventure.  If you just want swashbuckling read Bolitho, if you want the spying read Ramage, if you want something that feels like a period piece theres Hornblower, but I honestly feel like O'Brian did all of those things better.

I would recommend anyone thinking of reading them to get two companion books.  The first is "A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian" and "Harbors and High Seas".

The first will explain the words and provide general knowledge about the period.  The second allows the reader to see the route the books follow and gives information about the places they visit. 

I'm taking a break from my third time reading though O'Brian's masterpiece to read "Gin & Cologne in the Wearable Tech Apocalypse" by RT Swindoll (grandson of THAT Swindoll).  Its a scifi romp, a bit farcical. There are some references to Asimov's Foundation Series that scifi fans will enjoy.  Im about halfway though and the book has been quite enjoyable so far.  There are  a robot with a cowboy's personality that thankfully gets the treatment of Chekov's Gun, a megalomaniacal titan of industry,  the Singularity, along with murder, mayhem and a fair bit of cynical humor. 

My wife just finished reading the print and I'm going though the audiobook read by the author on Spotify.  She's a published author herself and said it was well written and I have to say Swindoll performs it well too.