C.S. Forester

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1932
  • Latest Book:
    July 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Horatio Hornblower

1 - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
2 - Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
3 - Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
4 - Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
5 - Beat to Quarters // The Happy Return (1937)
6 - Ship of the Line (1938)
7 - Flying Colours (1938)
8 - Commodore Hornblower // The Commodore (1945)
9 - Lord Hornblower (1946)
10 - Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1957)
11 - Hornblower During the Crisis // Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Death to the French

    • / Action Adventure
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    Separated from his regiment during a retreat, Rifleman Matthew Dodd of Wellington's army engaged the French single-handedly and eventually causes their retreat. If you liked "The Gun," you will love this book....

  • The African Queen

    • / Action Adventure
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    First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic st...

  • Beat to Quarters // The Happy Return

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 5

    The dauntless and courageous Captain Hornblower finds himself on his most harrowing mission in this thrilling fifth adventure in the world-renowned naval saga. On a grueling voyage to the Pacific aboard the frigate Lydia, he risks mutiny, death and t...

  • Flying Colours

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 7

    Captive of the French, the blazingly incomparable Captain Hornblower confronts his most impossible challenge in this raging seventh adventure in the world-famed saga of the sea. Imprisoned, with no hope of pardon, he brilliantly escapes execution and...

  • Ship of the Line

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 6

    It is 1810, and Wellington has yet to crush Bonaparte. The Peninsular Campaign rages on, with Spain in Napoleon's bloody clutches. Sailing his ship of the line to join the blockade off the Spanish coast, Hornblower sets the Mediterranean abroil in a ...

  • Hornblower Takes Command

  • Commodore Hornblower // The Commodore

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 8

    With the fate of Europe hanging on the outcome of his mission, the indefatigable Horatio Hornblower returns to sea with the rank of commodore. Aided by a small but powerful squadron, he sails to the bloody vortex of a nightmare to sway alliances and ...

  • Lord Hornblower

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 9

    It is the fall of 1813. The redoubtable Sir Horatio Horn- blower faces challenges more perilous than ever before. He must embark on a most delicate and dangerous assignment: the recapture of the eighteen-gun brig Flame from her mutinous crew, who hav...

  • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 1

    In this, the first book of the classic Hornblower saga, we meet the indomitable young Horatio, and discover firsthand how he rode the seas to become the sterling old seadog of the Royal Navy and one of the greatest fictional heroes of all time. It...



  • Lieutenant Hornblower

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 2

    This volume is the second book in the continuing saga of Horatio Hornblower, the most extraordinary naval hero in all fiction. In this story we experience the heartbreak and violence of life on board the fighting ships of the Napoleonic era. It is...

  • Hornblower and the Atropos

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 4

    Here is the fourth exciting novel in the world-acclaimed saga of Horatio Hornblower, the most famous naval hero in all fiction. He's a captain now, in command of HMS Atropos, a sloop of war, admittedly the smallest ship in the British navy, but as fa...

  • The Good Shepherd // Greyhound

    Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower seriesThe mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect...

  • Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 10

    Surging with the roaring excitement of the sea, this tenth novel in the magnificent naval saga of Horatio Hornblower is the most thrilling yet. On foreign waters still churning with intrigue in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, the valiant Hornbl...

  • Hornblower and the Hotspur

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 3

    The newly promoted Commander Hornblower faces his most trying assignment in this, the third episode in the world- famous Hornblower saga. Ignoring the lure of prize money, he risks death to defend the British Atlantic Fleet from a French warship many...

  • Hornblower During the Crisis // Hornblower and the Crisis

    • / Action Adventure
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    Horatio Hornblower - 11

    It is December, 1805. Napoleon's invasion barges have massed on the French coast. En route to Plymouth, after being relieved of his first command, The Hotspur, young Captain Hornblower helps take a French brig by ruse. Among the enemy captain's paper...

  • Gold from Crete

    • / General Fiction
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    9 of these 10 stories were written during World War 2, as entertainment and to explain some of what was happening with British sailors, airmen, and tank crews battling for freedom and liberty. You have five stories about the courageous men of the HM...

  • Sky and the Forest

    Loa was not just king of his Central African tribe, he was a god to his people. He controlled life and death in his village. Then he turned outward and conquered his neighbors. He felt very fierce.

    But this was not to last. Europe was on the march...

  • Payment Deferred

    Forester's masterpiece of suspense. A middle-aged bank clerk with a mountain of debt and an extravagant wife commits a murder in secret. Later, a profitable investment brings him a fortune. Haunted by his crime, he suffers an ironic fate in a final t...

  • Hornblower in Captivity



  • Brown on Resolution

    For all his young life Albert Brown had known that he was to join the Navy, and the beginning of the First World War finds him a Leading Seaman. Alone on the barren island of Resolution in the South Pacific, he fights against the might of a German ba...

  • Hornblower's Triumph

  • Randall and the River of Time

    In Randall and the River of Time we're taken along on a young man's journey from a naïve child to a mature, experienced adult. Although just a teenager during WWI, Charles Randall learns quickly how to stay alive during battle. During his first ...

  • The Captain from Connecticut

    No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody, U...

  • The General

    The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’The most vivid, moving " and devastating " word-portrait of a World War On...

  • The Ship

    The Ship is the heroic tale of a few hours in the life of a British light cruiser in World War II, and of the men on it. Before writing The Ship, C.S.Forester spent several weeks on a similar warship, and has given us a very clear picture of the actu...

  • Plain Murder

    An excellent story, told in style: Three advertising men decide to kill a colleague to avoid dismissal and the grim prospect of joblessness. Their leader acquires a taste for crime, but eventually gets his comeuppance....

  • Sink the Bismarck!

    In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate a...

  • The Barbary Pirates

    C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes young readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That’s where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by "pirates” who snat...

  • The Peacemaker

    In one of London's outer suburbs lived a shabby insignificant schoolteacher with a repulsive, drunken wife. Experimenting with his secret invention was his only escape--until a headmaster's pacifist daughter brought sex and idealism into his life. Th...



  • Love Lies Dreaming

    First published in 1927, Love Lies Dreaming is one of C.S Forester's earliest novels. Told in the voice of a young writer struggling to pen his next novel and therefore superficially preoccupied with the art of novel writing, at its true core this is...

  • Marionettes at Home

    Inspired by a marionette show he saw, C.S. Forester, a novelist and theatre lover, decided to create his own puppet theatre at home. In Marionettes at Home, first published in 1936, he shares his experience and enthusiasm for amateur puppeteering and...

  • The Gun

    • / General Fiction
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    It is the time of Napoleon. The place is Spain, where his troops are busy propping up Joseph, Napoleon's brother, as king. Spaniards hate a master, and rebel. They fight a desperate, protracted, bitter and merciless guerilla war.Into the hands of a g...

  • Plai Murder

    • / General Fiction
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  • Rifleman Dodd

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Head and the Feet

    in The Unspeakable People
    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.S. Forester has published 35 books.

C.S. Forester does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Marionettes at Home, was published in July 2013.

The first book by C.S. Forester, Death to the French, was published in January 1932.

Yes. C.S. Forester has 1 series.
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