Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hornblower Companion | 1964 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 2 | A Pawn Among Kings | 1924 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 3 | The Paid Piper | 1924 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 4 | Payment Deferred | 1926 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 5 | Love Lies Dreaming | 1927 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 6 | The Wonderful Week | 1927 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 7 | The Shadow of the Hawk / The Daughter of the Hawk | 1928 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 8 | Brown on Resolution | 1929 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 9 | Single-Handed | 1929 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 10 | Plain Murder | 1930 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 11 | Two-and-twenty | 1931 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 12 | Rifleman Dodd / Death to the French | 1932 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 13 | The Gun | 1933 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 14 | The Peacemaker | 1934 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 15 | The African Queen | 1935 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 16 | The Pursued | 1935 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 17 | Marionettes at home | 1936 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 18 | The General | 1936 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 19 | The Earthly Paradise | 1940 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 20 | The Captain from Connecticut | 1941 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 21 | The Ship | 1943 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 22 | The Sky and the Forest | 1948 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 23 | Randall and the River Of Time | 1950 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 24 | The Good Shepherd / Greyhound | 1955 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
| 25 | The Barbary Pirates | 1956 | C.S. Forester | Buy |
This listing gathers twenty-five works from C.S. Forester’s broader bibliography alongside the Hornblower reference material. The collection spans from Forester’s earliest novels — A Pawn Among Kings and The Paid Piper, both from 1924 — through his major standalone works like The African Queen (1935), The General (1936), and The Good Shepherd (1955).
Many of these are standalone novels rather than strict nonfiction, reflecting the overlap between Forester’s Hornblower-adjacent work and his independent fiction. The Hornblower Companion (1964) serves as the primary nonfiction entry, providing maps and background for the main series.