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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New Releases Tagged "Pirates"

Sea of Charms (Spellshop, #3)
The Eye of Leviathan (The Sea Beyond, #1)
Gems of the Sea (Gems Rising, #1)
A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam (Six of Crows, #2.5)
When You Loved Me
Scandal of the Summer
A Prince Among Pirates
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Pasha the Storm
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
When You Loved Me
Scandal of the Summer
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Steelborn (The Steelborn Saga, #1)
Fallen Stars (Heavenly Bodies, #2)
Bloody Black
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
Stay for a Spell
The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
The Mist Thief (The Ever Seas, #3)
The Wicked and the Damned (Dark Inheritance Trilogy, #2)
The Sea Child
Into the Sunken City by Dinesh ThiruPandora by Joshua GrantThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Code by James Faro
Best Sea Adventure Novels
40 books — 45 voters
Under the Black Flag by David CordinglyCaptain Kidd by Samuel MarquisVillains of All Nations by Marcus RedikerA Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana PrestonEmpire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
True-life Pirates & Privateers
74 books — 37 voters

Rescued by the Buccaneer by Normandie AllemanDefy Not the Heart by Johanna LindseyThe Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. WoodiwissDevil's Embrace by Catherine CoulterLords of Passion by Virginia Henley
The Puffy Shirt
102 books — 33 voters
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Odyssey by Homer
Nautical Tales
754 books — 406 voters

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. ArmentroutFourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosGild by Raven KennedyA Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. ArmentroutThe Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
Sarah J. Maas Clones
105 books — 410 voters

Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
Treasure Island
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
Daughter of the Siren Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #2)
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)
The Ever King (The Ever Seas, #1)
Pirate Latitudes
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Sea of Ruin (Sea of Ruin, #1)
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

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

Brian  Andreas
There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.
Brian Andreas, Story People

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