What are you guys reading to get inspired? I'm guessing many of you are history nerds like me. If you're at all interested in the history of the British isles, I cannot recommend Ian Mortimer's "Time Traveler's Guide" books enough. He's good at architecture and technology and agriculture, and all those little details that make good slice-of-life stuff. We're of course going to be tweaking things in the world, but a lot of this is still going to be quite useful.
Tell me what you're reading. I need to fluff out my TBR list.
For non-fiction, I recommend:
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool
Bitch in a Bonnet, by Robert Rodi
The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, by Elizabeth Kantor.
For fiction, I recommend:
Jane Austen's novels (I like Mansfield Park especially for getting a sense of societal expectations, what was considered scandalous, etc)
The Fearless Fairwells series by Augustine Lang (I'm not a romance genre fan, but I love her novels)
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (historical fantasy set during the Napoleonic Wars)
The Jane Austen Mysteries series by Stephanie Barron
Austenland by Shannon Hale is a fun one, though set in modern day
For more recs and reads, I'd refer you to my friend Misty's blog (she ran an annual Austen in August celebration of regency-flavored lit and history for many years): http://www.thebookrat.com/search/label/jane%20austen
Also throwing in a rec for the webseries adaptations of Jane Austen's work, if you haven't watched them, especially From Mansfield With Love and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (both on YouTube).