John 
I’m reading 3 books at the moment - it’s good to sit by the fan, reading & getting cool - although I’m tending to read Hornblower before sleep at night. (I’ve 10 books more in the #HoratioHornblower series to get through yet!)
Jason Pettus 
Read my ★★★★★ review of #CSForester's 1938 #ShipOfTheLine, book #2 in my attempt to read all eleven #HoratioHornblower novels, set within the British Navy of the late-1700s Napoleonic Wars. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6583467882
Jason Pettus's review of Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7)
5/5: THE GREAT COMPLETIST CHALLENGE: In which I revisit older authors and attempt to read every book they ever wrote Currently in the challenge: Margaret Atwood | JG Ballard | Clive Barker | Christopher Buckley | Jim Butcher's Dresden Files | Lee Child's Jack Reacher | Philip K Dick | Ian Fleming | CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower | William Gibson | Michel Houellebecq | John Irving | Kazuo Ishiguro | Shirley Jackson | John Le Carre | Bernard Malamud | Cormac McCarthy | China Mieville | Toni Mo...
FrankTIL: The #VehicularCycling-Forester John is the son of the #HoratioHornblower-Forester C.S.
&yLet’s say I’m interested in (re)reading all the historical novels from the “Age of Sail, naval warfare” sort of category. So definitely the Aubrey/Maturin, Horatio Hornblower, and the Thomas Kydd books. Probably also the Temeraire series (even though it’s not quite “historical” … because dragon combat can be at least as interesting as box-hauling a sloop to avoid a lee shore.)
What other novels/series am I missing?
#AubreyMaturin #ThomasKydd #HoratioHornblower #Temeraire #BrianLavery
Edited because the phone decided to capitalize “lee.”
AmgineMay I also commend, as additions to your itinerary,
* #CSForester 's #HoratioHornblower
* #ArthurRansome 's #SwallowsandAmazons (and Racundra's First Cruise, which is not fiction)
* #ErskineChilders 's #TheRiddleOfTheSands
grantimatter@monostich
I have taken a break between the fifth and sixth of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower books.
They've been published in chronological order, starting with him as a young midshipman, but Book 6, _Beat to Quarters_, is actually the first one written, so I'm really looking forward to it. Savoring it.
Feels a little like a guilty pleasure, but I'm into it. Old fashioned boys' adventure, Royal Navy propaganda, the crack of the lash and the creak of the rigging. #HoratioHornblower
I have taken a break between the fifth and sixth of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower books.
They've been published in chronological order, starting with him as a young midshipman, but Book 6, _Beat to Quarters_, is actually the first one written, so I'm really looking forward to it. Savoring it.
Feels a little like a guilty pleasure, but I'm into it. Old fashioned boys' adventure, Royal Navy propaganda, the crack of the lash and the creak of the rigging. #HoratioHornblower
Read my ★★★★★ review of #CSForester's 1937 #BeatToQuarters, in which I officially announce the addition of his #HoratioHornblower #British #Napoleonic #Navy #thrillers to my ongoing #Great #Completist #Reading #Challenge. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4990842641
Jason Pettus's review of Beat to Quarters
2022 reads, #47. THE GREAT COMPLETIST CHALLENGE: In which I revisit older authors and attempt to read every book they ever wrote Currently in the challenge: Margaret Atwood | JG Ballard | Clive Barker | Christopher Buckley | Jim Butcher's Dresden Files | Lee Child's Jack Reacher | Philip K Dick | Ian Fleming | CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower | William Gibson | Michel Houellebecq | John Irving | Kazuo Ishiguro | Shirley Jackson | John Le Carre | Bernard Malamud | Cormac McCarthy | China Mie...