This looks very much like the prime numbers; numbers that can only be divided by themselves and 1.
The continuation of your series is: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71 ... and so on.
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17?
17
you are adding 2, so its 17
These are all prime numbers. The next one is 17
42 is the next number in this sequence. This number sequence is adding the next prime number to the last number. So 1 + 2 = 3. Then 3 + 3 = 6, 6 + 5 = 11, 11 + 7 = 18, 18 + 11 = 29. The next prime number after 11 is 13, so 29 + 13 = 42. The next numbers would be 59 (42+17), 78 (59+19), and 101 (78+23)