Order of C.S. Forester Books

C.S. Forester was the pseudonym of English novelist Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966), renowned for his naval adventure novels and stories. He is most famous for the Horatio Hornblower series and the novel The African Queen, which was adapted into a film by the iconic director John Huston in 1951. While residing in Washington DC during World War II, Forester met intelligence officer Roald Dahl, whom he encouraged to write about his Royal Air Force experiences. Forester's writing career began in 1924 with the novels The Paid Piper and A Pawn Among Kings. His final original work, Hornblower and the Crisis, was published in 1967. Below is a list of C.S. Forester’s books in the order of their original release:

C.S. Forester became a published novelist in 1924 with the novel The Paid Piper. Below is a list of C.S. Forester's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Horatio Hornblower Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Happy Return / Beat to Quarters	(1937)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ship of the Line	(1938)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Flying Colours	(1938)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Commodore / Commodore Hornblower	(1945)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Hornblower	(1946)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower	(1950)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lieutenant Hornblower	(1952)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hornblower and the Atropos	(1953)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies / Hornblower in the West Indies	(1957)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hornblower and the Hotspur	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hornblower During the Crisis / Hornblower and the Crisis	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Horatio Hornblower Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower	(1950)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lieutenant Hornblower	(1952)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hornblower and the Hotspur	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hornblower During the Crisis / Hornblower and the Crisis	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hornblower and the Atropos	(1953)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Happy Return / Beat to Quarters	(1937)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ship of the Line	(1938)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Flying Colours	(1938)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Commodore / Commodore Hornblower	(1945)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Hornblower	(1946)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies / Hornblower in the West Indies	(1957)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Horatio Hornblower Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Hornblower Companion (With: Samuel Bryant)	(1964)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Captain Hornblower R.N.	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Hornblower Companion	(1964)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Paid Piper	(1924)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Pawn Among Kings	(1924)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Payment Deferred	(1926)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wonderful Week	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love Lies Dreaming	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Shadow of the Hawk / The Daughter of the Hawk	(1928)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Single-Handed	(1929)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brown on Resolution	(1929)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Plain Murder	(1930)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Two-and-twenty	(1931)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rifleman Dodd / Death to the French	(1932)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Gun	(1933)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Peacemaker	(1934)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The African Queen	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Pursued	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Marionettes at home	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The General	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Earthly Paradise	(1940)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Captain from Connecticut	(1941)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ship	(1943)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sky and the Forest	(1948)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Randall and the River Of Time	(1950)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Good Shepherd / Greyhound	(1955)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Barbary Pirates	(1956)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Nelson	(2025)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
African Queen	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Children's Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Nightmare	(1954)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Man in the Yellow Raft	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gold from Crete	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Plays Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Poo-Poo and the Dragons	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
U 97	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Napoleon and His Court	(1924)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Josephine, Napoleon's Empress	(1925)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Louis XIV: King of France and Navarre	(1928)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Nelson / Nelson	(1929)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Voyage of the Annie Marble	(1929)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Adventures of John Wetherell	(1954)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Naval War of 1812 / The Age of Fighting Sail	(1957)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Age of Fighting Sail	(1957)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hunting the Bismarck / Sink the Bismarck / The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Long Before Forty	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fatal Fascination: A Choice of Crime (With: Christopher Sykes,Eric Linklater,Nigel Balchin)	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

If You Like C.S. Forester Books, You'll Love…

Patrick O’Brian
Bernard Cornwell
Alistair MacLean