The series are unrelated so you might do better to pick a time/subject that interests you. I'm actually reading them in parallel along Dumas' d'Artagnan romances (Three Musketeers is the first of a series), Worall's Charles Edgemont, Stockwin's Thomas Kydd, Russell's Charles Hayden, Pope's Ramage, Kent's Richard Bolitho, Peter's Brother Cadfael (some great 12th century political intrigue between Empress Maud and King Stephen behind the scenes of these murder mysteries), and Forester's Horatio Hornblower. I've already read or listened to all of O'Brian's Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin. I also intersperse a variety of classics like Poe, Dickens, Conan-Doyle, Hugo, Shelley, Stoker, H.G. Wells, Asimov, Clarke, etc. I'm presently reading Cervante's Don Quixote. Toss in the occasional modern mystery or scifi and I have a lifetime worth of reading yet to do.
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