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Start with Flashman and continue through all 12 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by George MacDonald Fraser • Published 1969
The first of the Flashman Papers finds the disgraced Rugby bully buying a cavalry commission, seducing the wrong woman and being shipped to India. Posted to Afghanistan, he endures occupation, betrayal and the disastr...
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Flashman Papers reading order
Ends with Flashman on the March
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Book 1:Flashman
George MacDonald Fraser • 1969
The first of the Flashman Papers finds the disgraced Rugby bully buying a cavalry commission, seducing the wrong woman and being shipped to India. Posted to Afghanistan, he endures occupation, betrayal and the disastr...
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Book 2:Royal Flash
George MacDonald Fraser • 1970
Inspired by the intrigues of 1848, this adventure sees Flashman blackmailed by Bismarck and entangled with Lola Montez. Forced to impersonate a German prince in the duchy of Strackenz, he must survive revolution, a pe...
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Book 3:Flash for Freedom!
George MacDonald Fraser • 1971
A rigged card game and a furious father in law land Flashman on a slave ship bound for West Africa. From Dahomey to Mississippi plantations and the Underground Railroad, he poses under false names, meets a young Abrah...
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Book 4:Flashman at the Charge
George MacDonald Fraser • 1973
Trying to dodge a posting to Crimea, Flashman is instead given charge of a royal cousin and rides straight into the Charge of the Light Brigade. Captured in Russia, he stumbles onto a scheme to invade India and is dra...
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Book 5:Flashman in the Great Game
George MacDonald Fraser • 1975
Ordered to investigate rumours of mutiny in India, Flashman finds himself disguised among native cavalry as the 1857 uprising explodes. From Meerut to Cawnpore and Lucknow he witnesses massacres, sieges and desperate...
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Book 6:Flashman's Lady
George MacDonald Fraser • 1977
Flashman's talent for cricket pulls him into London society, then a rich merchant's obsession with Elspeth leads to kidnapping, piracy and slavery. Chasing his wife to Borneo and Madagascar, he falls into the hands of...
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Book 7:Flashman and the Redskins
George MacDonald Fraser • 1982
Fleeing New Orleans with a brothel owner and her girls, Flashman heads west on the overland trail and crosses paths with scalp hunters and Apaches. Decades later he is dragged back into the world of the Plains tribes...
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Book 8:Flashman and the Dragon
George MacDonald Fraser • 1985
From Hong Kong into the heart of civil war China, Flashman agrees to escort what he thinks is opium and finds himself running guns for the Taiping rebels. Drawn between rebel leaders, British diplomats and a dangerous...
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Book 9:Flashman and the Mountain of Light
George MacDonald Fraser • 1990
Sent to the Punjab as tension rises with the Sikh kingdom, Flashman is ordered to spy on the Lahore court and the feared Khalsa army. Intrigue, open war and the fate of the Koh i Noor diamond leave him juggling loyalt...
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Book 10:Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
George MacDonald Fraser • 1994
Flashman is kidnapped and shipped to America, where abolitionists, pro-slavery plotters and politicians all try to use him in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. He only wants to escape the gallows, but ends up an unw...
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Book 11:Flashman and the Tiger
George MacDonald Fraser • 1999
Three later episodes from Flashman's career show him meddling in high politics and scandal. He rides the first Orient Express into a plot against Emperor Franz Josef, witnesses the royal baccarat affair, and much late...
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Book 12:Flashman on the March
George MacDonald Fraser • 2005
On the run after a Mexican escapade, Flashman is recruited to help Britain's 1868 expedition to Abyssinia. Between carrying silver to the army, courting rival queens and falling into Emperor Theodore's hands, he once...
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Flashman Papers FAQ
What is the best order to read the Flashman Papers series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Flashman.
How many books are in the Flashman Papers series?
There are 12 books currently listed in the Flashman Papers series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Flashman Papers series?
New readers should start with Flashman, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Flashman Papers series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 1969 to 2005.