I'm abusing my library card this year--they are on overdrive/libby with a great wishlist/holds setup and Kindle integration. So instead of commuting this year, I'm reading more.
So I'm bouncing between Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series (no completed) and his Genesis Fleet series, Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay series (now complete), and finally timed availability right to start reading James Corey's The Expanse series.
The Lost Fleet series flew by for me, and I'm enjoying the Genesis Fleet follow-on. Military sci-fi, so not super deep plotlines, but it's good escape for a while.
Tales of the Ketty Jay was recommended as a Firefly-like series and it does have a flavor of that. It is sometimes a bit difficult, and the first half of the first book took me a while to get into. Worth the reads, and the series tied things up nicely at the end. I also read James Lovegrove's Firefly books; those read like an episode of the TV series, though I struggled through the last one, The Ghost Machine.
I've wanted to watch the Sharpe's Rifles series for a while, so reading the original books is a good start. Being a longtime history buff and war gamer, this is an easy series to jump into.