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 Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
Ignore All Previous Instructions
The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
An Accident of Dragons (Tales of Summer, #1)
Stay for a Spell
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
Scandal of the Summer
The Sea Child
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
Fallen Stars (Heavenly Bodies, #2)
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
Across the Ages (Timeless, #4)
Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)
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
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviThe Beast of Cretacea by Todd StrasserBloody Jack by L.A. MeyerPirates! by Celia ReesBoston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm
Seafaring Middle Graders
162 books — 49 voters
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Swashbucklers
587 books — 520 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonKidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonSweet Vengeance by Elizabeth St. MichelDread Pirate Arcanist by Shami StovallColiseum Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Best Books Featuring Nasty PIrates
29 books — 10 voters
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieCurse of the Black Avenger by Eddie       Jones
Pirate Books
76 books — 47 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Maritime Classics
277 books — 97 voters


Sam Conniff
Rulebreakers are like great artists, sometimes we don’t recognise what they give us until it’s too late.
Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

Kathy Acker
I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates kno ...more
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