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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The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
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Stay for a Spell
Jitterbug
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Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
Bloody Black
The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
Fallen Stars (Heavenly Bodies, #2)
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
The Wicked and the Damned (Dark Inheritance Trilogy, #2)
Stay for a Spell
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
The Sea Child
Across the Ages (Timeless, #4)
This Vicious Dream (Kingdom of Death, #1)
A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea, #2)
Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
Treasure Island
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Daughter of the Siren Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #2)
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
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)
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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
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Pirates in Fantasy
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Best Pirate Adventure Books for Women
63 books — 31 voters
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Seafaring Middle Graders
158 books — 48 voters


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
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