- Master and Commander (1969)
- Post Captain (1972)
- HMS Surprise (1973)
- The Mauritius Command (1977)
- Desolation Island (1978)
- The Fortune of War (1979)
- The Surgeon’s Mate (1980)
- The Ionian Mission (1981)
- Treason’s Harbour (1983)
- The Far Side of the World (1984)
- The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
- The Letter of Marque (1988)
- The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989)
- The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
- Clarissa Oakes (1992) – (The Truelove in the US)
- The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
- The Commodore (1995)
- The Yellow Admiral (1996)
- The Hundred Days (1998)
- Blue at the Mizzen (1999)
- The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004) – (21 in the US)
Film Review: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
The Horatio Hornblower Series by C.S. Forester
British writer Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) went by the pen name “C. S. Forester.” Born in Cairo he was educated in London before eventually settling in California where he penned his remarkable series about Horatio Hornblower, a Midshipman in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
The list below is organized by narrative order rather than publication date.
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
- “Hornblower and the Hand of Destiny” (1941, short story)
- “Hornblower and the Big Decision” (1951, short story)
- Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
- Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
- Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)
- Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
- The Happy Return (1937)
- A Ship of the Line (1938)
- “Hornblower’s Charitable Offering” (1941, short story)
- Flying Colours (1938)
- The Commodore (1945)
- “Hornblower and His Majesty” (1941, short story)
- Lord Hornblower (1946)
- Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)
- “The Last Encounter” (1967, short story)