Most Read This Week In Pirates

Fiction or non-fiction books involving pirates, those who engage in acts of robbery or criminal violence at sea. A sub-genre of the Maritime and Adventure genres.

Piracy has existed from ancient times to the modern day, but much literature focuses on the "Golden Age of Piracy" from about the 1650s to the 1730s. Many of the common tropes in the pirate genre originate in "A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates" (1724) by Charles Johnson and "Treasure Island" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Pirates"

Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
Bloody Black
Stay for a Spell
The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Fallen Stars (Heavenly Bodies, #2)
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea, #2)
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
The Sea Child
This Vicious Dream (Kingdom of Death, #1)
Across the Ages (Timeless, #4)
The Treasure Hunters Club (The Treasure Hunters Club #1)
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #3)
Nightweaver (Nightweaver, #1)
Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)
Ignore All Previous Instructions
Tea You at the Altar (Tomes & Tea, #3)
The League of Gentlewomen Witches (Dangerous Damsels, #2)
Scandal of the Summer
Abysses, tome 1 (Abysses, #1)
Abysses, tome 2 (Abysses, #2)
Isle of Ever (Isle of Ever, #1)
Venice (Portal to Nova Roma #2)
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason (Dangerous Damsels, #3)
Blade Breaker (Realm Breaker, #2)
An Accident of Dragons (Tales of Summer, #1)
A Wrecking of Salt and Fire (The Nostos, #1)
Voice of the Ocean
Drowned in the Name of Love (Piracy for Lovers, #1)
Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker, #3)
One Piece 巻九十九 〝麦わらのルフィ〟
ONE PIECE 106 天才の夢
Scorched Earth (Dark Shores, #4)
ONE PIECE 100 覇王色
One Piece 巻九十八 〝忠臣錦〟
Never, Never (Villains, #9)
ONE PIECE 114
ONE PIECE 103 解放の戦士
From Tormented Tides (From Tormented Tides, #1)
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
ONE PIECE 107 伝説の英雄
ONE PIECE 105 ルフィの夢
Jitterbug
Rise of the School for Good and Evil
ONE PIECE 104 ワノ国将軍 光月モモの助
ONE PIECE 102 天王山
Silence (Unbound #2)
Ship of Spells
ONE PIECE 101 花形登場
Saint (The World of the Narrows, #0)
The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
Married to a Pirate (Romancing the Seas, #1)
Dance of a Burning Sea (Mousai, #2)
The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)
The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
All the Tides of Fate (All the Stars and Teeth, #2)
The Pirate Queen
Of Song and Scepter (Sirens of Adria #1)
Homicide at the Haunted House (Nightmare, Arizona #1)
Saltblood
Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
Soulgazer (The Magpie and the Wolf Duology, #1)
How to Tame a Wild Rogue (The Palace of Rogues, #6)
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Gilded Serpent (Dark Shores, #3)
The Blood Phoenix (Fall of the Dragon, #2)
Devil of the Deep
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
The Isles of the Gods (The Isles of the Gods, #1)
A Land of Never After (Curses of Never, #1)
Oathbound (The Royal Rose Chronicles, #1)
The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)
When Fate is Cruel: A Short Story Collection
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe
Saltswept (The Earthsalt Duology, #1)
Wendy's Ever After
Capitana (Capitana #1)
A Sea of Sorrow and Scorn (Levanthria, #2)
Black Tide Son (The Winter Sea, #2)
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
A Sea of Song and Sirens (The Naiads of Juile, #1)
La Cour des ouragans (Vampyria, #3)
On Twisting Tides (From Tormented Tides, #2)
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
The Sunken City (The Sunken City #1)
The Salt Bind
The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver
Hex and Hexability (Best Hex Ever, #3)
Fire Sword and Sea
Cello's Gate (The Sky Pirates of Imperia #1)
Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea, #1)
The Stolen Crown (The Ever Seas, #4)
The Adventures of Mary Darling
Pay the Piper

L.A. Meyer
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say ...more
L.A. Meyer, Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

Billie-Jo Williams
Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.
Billie-Jo Williams

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