What should be my next series?

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I obviously enjoy historical fictions

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Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes.

In Hughes' book, Flashman is the notorious bully of Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness. Twentieth century author George MacDonald Fraser had the idea of writing Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier": experiencing many 19th century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in British army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and oh yes, a toady." Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, gambles and boozes enthusiastically, and yet, through a combination of luck and cunning, ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.

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The books are like James Bond set in the 19th century -- and hilarious to boot. Flashman experiences (always against his will) The Charge Of The Light Brigade (which he somehow ends up leading!), The Sepoy Mutiny, the Taiping Rebellion, Little Big Horn and other great moments of history, all the while getting mixed up with Queen Victoria, Bismarck, Wild Bill Hickok, Lola Montez, Lincoln, The Empress of China, Oscar Wilde, John Brown the abolitionist and other such immortal personages.

My favorite book in the series is the third, Flash For Freedom (which takes place in pre-Civil War NO and Mississippi), but I'd start out with the first, Flashman. After that you can really read them in any order. There are 12 books in the series; I reread them every 4 or 5 years.

That does sound entertaining. I'll check one of them and see what I think.

This series is a great read!

Second Master and Commander.

If you want to dive into the deep end-
Buy the Nautical Encyclopedia that is a companion to the series. It makes reading the books far more enjoyable.

Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles.

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I obviously enjoy historical fictions,

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I’m really enjoying Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series right now.

Rage of Dragons series. Book 1 is very similar to book 1 of Red Rising series. Only 2 books of the RoD series are out right now and I think I read somewhere that book 3 will be out early 2022.

Rage of Dragons Book 1 Thread

Link is a short thread about RoD that this board had. A couple of direct quotes from book 1 are in the thread, but nothing that spoils it.

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Only 2 books of the RoD series are out right now and I think I read somewhere that book 3 will be out early 2022.

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Man, I am so snake bit by the likes of George RR Martin and Scott Lynch I don't even want to start a series unless its been completed already.

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Go fantasy. I could argue that this is better than GRRM and close to Tolkien.

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I wish I had amnesia so I could reread all of the First Law books and standalones again. The sequel trilogy is good but not as good as the original. The twist at the end of the third book of the original trilogy stands the whole trilogy on its head.