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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Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
Treasure Island
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
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)
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

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

Philip Pullman
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. ...more
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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