18 books like Hornblower and the Atropos

What to read after Hornblower and the Atropos — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Flying Colours C.S. Forester · 1938 · ★ 4.2 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Hornblower faces charges of violating the laws of war and probable execution by Napoleon's French forces. Shares: Napoleonic wars, Naval History, English literature

The Wing-and-wing: Or, Le Feu-follet. A Tale James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 487p · ≈ 16h · Challenging The year is 1799. Admiral Caraccioli of Naples is about to be executed from the yard-arm of Lord Nelson’s flagship in the Mediterranean. Young and in love with Carccioli’s daughter, the spirited French privateer, Raoul Yvard, and his wily sailing master, Ithuel Bolt, harass the British fleet against all odds. Yvard is captured but cunningly escapes, setting up a showdown at sea against the… Shares: Napoleonic wars, Great Britain

War Lord Bernard Cornwell · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” –George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of ThronesThe final installment in Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling Saxon Tales series, chronicling the epic story of the making of England—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS…The epic… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

The Evening and the Morning Ken Follett · 2020 · ★ 4.4 · 876p · ≈ 29h · Moderate 1 New York Times BestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of 2020 The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages"Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series." --The Washington PostIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian · 1969 · ★ 4.1 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of… Shares: Napoleonic wars, Naval History

The Hundred Days Patrick O'Brian · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Set in the days succeeding Napoleon's escape from Elba, where Aubrey and Maturin are in the thick of Europe's attempt to prevent the French Emperor from regaining his power, by attempting to turn Napoleon's secret link to the Islamic world against him. Shares: Napoleonic wars, Naval History, Great Britain

H. M. S. Surprise Patrick O'Brian · 1973 · ★ 4.5 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." —Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find… Shares: Napoleonic wars, Naval History, English literature

Quarterdeck Julian Stockwin · 2003 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797, Thomas Kydd must now sit an examination to confirm his rank—or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only the first of many obstacles for a man who was pressed into the King's service and discovered a calling for the sea. Kydd is from humble origins, yet he attains the lofty heights of the… Shares: Naval History, Great Britain

Hornblower in the West Indies C. S. Forester · 1958 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small… Shares: Naval History, English literature

Throne of Jade Naomi Novik · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the second novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, the Napoleonic Wars take Captain Will Laurence and his dragon to China on a perilous mission.“Full of wonderful characters with real heart.”—Peter JacksonWhen Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo—an unhatched dragon's egg—Captain Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the… Shares: Napoleonic wars, Great Britain

Vittorio the Vampire Anne Rice · 1999 · ★ 3.8 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out… Shares: Historia, Novela

The tide of war Seth Hunter · 2009 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Newly-promoted Captain Nathan Peake is despatched to the Caribbean to take command of the British navy's latest frigate, the 32-gun Unicorn. But the Unicorn already has a tragic history of mutiny - and murder. And her previous captain has washed up in New Orleans with his throat cut. Meanwhile the Revolutionary authorities in Paris have sent the best frigate in the French fleet, the 44-gun… Shares: Naval History, Great Britain

Dragon Keeper Carole Wilkinson · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate set in China in 141 B.C. In a remote western palace, Ping, a slave girl of unknown origin, serves the emperor's Dragon Keeper, an incompetent drunkard who neglects the two last-known dragons in his charge. When one of them dies and an evil hunter threatens to kill the other for his magical body parts, the old dragon, Danzi, escapes with the girl. He entrusts Ping with his precious and beautiful… Shares: Historia, Novela

The time of terror Seth Hunter · 2008 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "Nathan Peake, an officer in the British Royal Navy, fights against the French during the French Revolution"--Provided by publisher. Shares: Naval History, Great Britain

Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell · 1936 · ★ 4.3 · 824p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century. It is one of the most popular books ever written: more than 28 million copies of the book have been sold in more than 37 countries. Today, more than 60 years after its initial publication, its… Shares: Historia, Novela

Morgan's Run Colleen McCullough · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Analyse: Roman historique. Roman d'aventures. Shares: Historia, Novela

La Fiesta del Chivo Mario Vargas Llosa · 2000 · ★ 4.4 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "Novela histórica sobre los últimos días del general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo en la República Dominicana en 1961. El hilo conductor de la novela es el retorno a la isla de Urania Cabral, hija de un senador del régimen trujillista, luego de muchos años de la muerte del dictador. Mientras Urania visita a su padre moribundo, la narración reconstruye el fin de una era haciendo un recuento de… Shares: Historia, Novela

Inés del alma mía Isabel Allende · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World. Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After… Shares: Historia, Novela

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