Hornblower audiobooks in order
Horatio Hornblower rises from seasick midshipman to admiral through the Napoleonic wars, doubting himself at every step. Forester wrote the career out of sequence, which is why the order question exists.
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Which order should you listen in?
Chronological order below, which is how the books are now sold: The Happy Return was written first but sits in the middle of Hornblower's career. Hornblower and the Crisis is the fragment Forester left unfinished at his death, so expect it to stop short.
Before you buy a run: Hornblower in the West Indies has no UK audiobook we could find.
Hornblower in chronological order
- 1Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
- 2Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
- 3Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
- 4Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)
- 5Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
- 6The Happy Return (1937)
- 7A Ship of the Line (1938)
- 8Flying Colours (1938)
- 9The Commodore (1945)
- 10Lord Hornblower (1946)
- 11Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)