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. ...more

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 Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea, #2)

Vengeance of the Pirate Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #3)

This Vicious Dream (Kingdom of Death, #1)

The League of Gentlewomen Witches (Dangerous Damsels, #2)

All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)

One Piece, Volume 96: I Am Oden and I was Born to Boil!

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason (Dangerous Damsels, #3)

The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)

The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea, #1)

The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)

Soulgazer (The Magpie and the Wolf Duology, #1)

The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)

Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)

A Sea of Sorrow and Scorn (Levanthria, #2)

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)

Secrets on the Sea (The Lost Souls of Dyconia #1)

Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1)

Homicide at the Haunted House (Nightmare, Arizona #1)

La Cour des Ouragans (Vampyria : le cycle de Jeanne, #3)

All the Tides of Fate (All the Stars and Teeth, #2)

A Turn of the Tide (A Stitch in Time, #3)

Married to a Pirate (Romancing the Seas, #1)

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)

The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)

The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

Story Spinners: A Sisterly Tale of Danger, a Princess, and Her Crew of Lady Pirates

Goddess of the Sea (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #2)

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

To Treasure an Heiress (The Secrets of the Isles, #2)

Call of the Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #2)

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

Daughter of Tides (Born to Sea and Storm, #1)

Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1)

Of Sea and Song (Daughters of Eville, #3)

A Sea of Song and Sirens (The Naiads of Juile, #1)

An Heir of Frost (A Trial of Sorcerers, #4)

Of Kings and Killers (The Elder Empire: Sea, #3)

Where Oceans Burn (Where Oceans Burn, #1)

The Vengeance (The Vampires of Dumas, #1)

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“ 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

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“ Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red. ”
― Eiichiro Oda

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