Aubrey–Maturin audiobooks in order
Jack Aubrey commands and Stephen Maturin doctors, spies and collects beetles, across the whole of the Napoleonic war at sea. The friendship is the subject; the battles are what happens to it.
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Which order should you listen in?
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.
Aubrey–Maturin in publication order
- 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)