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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTemeraire: In the Service of the King
Naomi Novik · 832 pages
Ship of the Line
C.S. Forester · 323 pages
Captain Hornblower and HMS Sutherland join forces blockading the Spanish coast in the Napoleonic conflict. In a battle with the French, the Sutherland is severely damaged, and Hornblower is taken captive.
Stand into Danger
Alexander Kent, Douglas Reeman · 300 pages
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.
The French Admiral
Dewey Lambdin · 446 pages
The Admiral's Daughter
Julian Stockwin · 346 pages
Ramage & the Drumbeat
Dudley Pope · 255 pages
Midshipman Bolitho
Alexander Kent · 303 pages
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.
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.
The King's Gold
Arturo Perez-Reverte
An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon · 834 pages
Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant reb
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!
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk · 536 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial and it soon becomes clear that few people will emerge from the trial with any credit.
Rebel
John Clagett · 197 pages
A novel of the Confederate Navy, the River War, and the Coastal War. Huger, a naval academy graduate, serves on rivers and oceans, and commands a Southern ironclad. Romance with a happy ending.
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
Semper Fidelis
Ruth Downie · 330 pages
Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian.
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.
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
Poseidon's Spear
Christian Cameron · 409 pages
Brother Cadfael's Penance
Ellis Peters · 294 pages
In the fall of 1145, the younger son of Robert of Gloucester switches sides, abandoning his father and the cause of his aunt, the Empress Maud. Philip FitzRobert will not only fight on King Stephen's side, but he has turned over a chain of key garrisons, including the newly built castle at Faringdon, and its clever and unscrupulous castellan Brian de Soulis. Not all the men in that castle agree to
Sons of Thunder
Giles Kristian · 384 pages
The sequel to Giles Kristian's acclaimed historical debut, Raven: Blood Eye, this brutal, bloody and unputdownable novel continues the story of Raven and his Viking warrior brotherhood...If you betray a Fellowship you are a dead man, and Ealdorman Ealdred of Wessex had betrayed us. With revenge on their minds, Raven and the Wolfpack plough the sea road in pursuit of the traitor Ealdred. Having lef
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 307 pages
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of