Patrick O'Brian audiobooks in order
Everything Patrick O'Brian has on this site: 1 series, 21 books published 1969–2004.
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Where to start
Publication order, which is also the internal order — O'Brian wrote the series straight through. The last entry is the fragment published after his death: a short listen for people who have finished everything else, not a place to stop.
Series in order
Every book, in order
All 21 books across 1 series. Each links to its Audible listing.
- 1Master and Commander (1969)
- 2Post Captain (1972)
- 3H.M.S. Surprise (1973)
- 4The Mauritius Command (1977)
- 5Desolation Island (1978)
- 6The Fortune of War (1979)
- 7The Surgeon's Mate (1980)
- 8The Ionian Mission (1981)
- 9Treason's Harbour (1983)
- 10The Far Side of the World (1984)
- 11The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
- 12The Letter of Marque (1988)
- 13The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989)
- 14The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
- 15Clarissa Oakes (US: The Truelove) (1992)
- 16The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
- 17The Commodore (1994)
- 18The Yellow Admiral (1996)
- 19The Hundred Days (1998)
- 20Blue at the Mizzen (1999)
- 21The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004)
Who reads Patrick O'Brian
Ric Jerrom, unabridged, on every finished novel; the unfinished final fragment is available only as an abridged reading by Robert Hardy.
Other authors
Agatha Christie2 series
Andrzej Sapkowski1 series
Ann Cleeves2 series- Anthony Horowitz1 series
Anthony Trollope2 series
Arthur Conan Doyle1 series
Portraits — Agatha Christie: Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo · CC0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Andrzej Sapkowski: Photo: Niccolò Caranti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Ann Cleeves: Photo: TimDuncan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Anthony Trollope: Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Arthur Conan Doyle: Photo: Walter Benington · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.