Payment Deferred (novel) 1926

Brown on Resolution [Single-Handed] (novel) 1929

The Voyage of the Annie Marble (nonfiction) 1929

The Annie Marble in Germany (nonfiction) 1930

Plain Murder (novel) 1930

Death to the French [Rifleman Dodd] (novel) 1932

The Gun (novel) 1933

The African Queen (novel) 1935

The General (novel) 1936

The Happy Return [Beat to Quarters] (novel) 1937

Flying Colours (novel) 1938

A Ship of the Line [Ship of the Line] (novel) 1938

*Captain Hornblower, R.N. [†Captain Horatio Hornblower] (novels) 1939

The Earthly Paradise [To the Indies] (novel) 1940

The Captain from Connecticut (novel) 1941

Poo-Poo and the Dragons (juvenilia) 1942

The Ship (novel) 1943

The Commodore [Commodore Hornblower] (novel) 1945

Lord Hornblower (novel) 1946

The Sky and the Forest (novel) 1948

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (novel) 1950

Randall and the River of Time (novel) 1950

Lieutenant Hornblower (novel) 1952

The Barbary Pirates (juvenilia) 1953

Hornblower and the Atropos (novel) 1953

The Nightmare (novel) 1954

Hornblower in the West Indies [Captain Hornblower in the West Indies] (novel) 1958

Hornblower and the Hotspur (novel) 1962

The Hornblower Companion (criticism) 1964

Hornblower and the Crisis: An Unfinished Novel [Hornblower during the Crisis, and Two Stories: “Hornblower's Temptation” and “The Last Encounter”] (novel, short stories) 1967

Long before Forty (autobiography) 1967

‡Hornblower (videorecording) 1999

‡Hornblower: The Saga Continues (videorecording) 2001

*Comprises The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours.

†Comprises Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours.

‡Videorecordings of the 1999 and 2001 A & E Network miniseries based on the Hornblower novels (New York: Meridian Broadcasting Ltd.)