Reviewing The Aubrey–Maturin Series

  1. Master and Commander (1969)
  2. Post Captain (1972)
  3. HMS Surprise (1973)
  4. The Mauritius Command (1977)
  5. Desolation Island (1978)
  6. The Fortune of War (1979)
  7. The Surgeon’s Mate (1980)
  8. The Ionian Mission (1981)
  9. Treason’s Harbour (1983)
  10. The Far Side of the World (1984)
  11. The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
  12. The Letter of Marque (1988)
  13. The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989)
  14. The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
  15. Clarissa Oakes (1992) – (The Truelove in the US)
  16. The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
  17. The Commodore (1995)
  18. The Yellow Admiral (1996)
  19. The Hundred Days (1998)
  20. Blue at the Mizzen (1999)
  21. 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)