AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

To Glory We Steer

Alexander Kent · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Ramage & the Drumbeat

Dudley Pope · 255 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

The Gun Ketch

Dewey Lambdin · 400 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Quarterdeck

Julian Stockwin · 332 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

The Golden Lion

Wilbur Smith, Giles Kristian · 402 pages

"The son of pirate and merchant Sir Frances Courtney, Henry "Hal" Courtney was raised at sea. When war broke out between the English and the Dutch empires, his father, fighting for the English crown, attacked a fleet of Dutch East India Company ships off the coast of Africa. That bravery was met with betrayal, and Sir Francis was executed. His heartbroken son witnessed his death and dedicated his

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Lieutenant Hornblower

C.S. Forester · 306 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Stand into Danger

Alexander Kent, Douglas Reeman · 300 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Pirates of the Levant

Arturo Perez-Reverte · 288 pages

"Alatriste is back - this time on the high seas! Accompanied by his faithful companion Inigo, the captain joins a Spanish galleon and sets sail from Naples towards the east on a journey that will take them to Melilla, Oran, and finally Malta where they must struggle against the Turk. On board they will have many adventures, including an encounter with The Moor Gurriato. Now seventeen, Inigo is sti

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

The Mauritius Command

Patrick O'Brian · 348 pages

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourth book in the series. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command -- until his f

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

The Time of Terror

Seth Hunter · 396 pages

"Nathan Peake, an officer in the British Royal Navy, fights against the French during the French Revolution"--Provided by publisher.

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

The Wolf Sea

Robert Low · 352 pages

Washed up in a hostile city, battle weary and out of luck, the Oathsworn lie waiting for their reluctant leader to bring them back to wealth and warfare. But Orm's prized sword is gone.

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

False Colors

Alex Beecroft · 333 pages

For his first command, John Cavendish is given the elderly bomb vessel HMS Meteor, and a crew as ugly as the ship. He’s determined to make a success of their first mission, and hopes the well-liked lieutenant Alfie Donwell can pull the crew together before he has to lead them into battle: stopping the slave trade off the coast of Algiers. Alfie knows that with a single ship, however well manne

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareHistorical FictionSwashbuckling Adventure
❤️

Sharpe's Trafalgar

Bernard Cornwell · 293 pages

PerfectBound e-book exclusive extra: "Sharpe's Skirmish: Richard Sharpe and The Defence of Tormes, August 1812," a short story.Sharpe's Trafalgar is a dazzling nautical adventure that finds ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history's most spectacular naval engagements: the battle at Cape Trafalgar off the coast of Spain, in 1805.

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Shōgun

James Clavell · 979 pages

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and free

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Odin's Wolves

Giles Kristian, Dzhailc Kristian

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Take, Burn or Destroy

S. Thomas Russell, Sean Thomas Russell · 434 pages

Embarking on a mission to destroy a French frigate and gather intelligence during the height of the French Revolution, Charles Hayden of the HMS Themis discovers plans for an invasion of England before being captured by a French squadron.

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall · 659 pages

This book is great for a middle school class. This book is based on the movie MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY!

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Empire of Ivory

Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik's stunning series of novels follow the adventures of Cpt Laurence and his dragon Temeraire as they travel from the shores of Britain to China and Africa.Laurence and Temeraire made a daring journey across vast and inhospitable continents to bring home a rare Turkish dragon from the treacherous Ottoman Empire. Kazilik dragons are firebreathers, and Britain is in greater need of protecti

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Blood Eye

Giles Kristian · 448 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages

KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound

Ocean and ShipsAdventureHistorical FictionSoldiers and Warfare
❤️

Silver

Andrew Motion · 404 pages

July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, murder and revenge, black spots and buried treasure - and of a man with a wooden leg. Late one

Ocean and ShipsAdventureHistorical FictionSwashbuckling Adventure
❤️

South by Java Head

Alistair MacLean · 272 pages

A classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia. February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman,

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
❤️

Poseidon's Spear

Christian Cameron · 409 pages

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Privateersman

Andrew Wareham · 208 pages

Ocean and ShipsAdventureHistorical FictionSwashbuckling Adventure

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.