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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,012 ratings — published 2007
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,642 ratings — published 1995
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 555,162 ratings — published 1882
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,237 ratings — published 2004
Pirate Latitudes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.53 — 57,644 ratings — published 2009
A General History of the Pyrates (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,835 ratings — published 1999
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,382 ratings — published 2009
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.63 — 386 ratings — published 2011
On Stranger Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,629 ratings — published 1987
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,240 ratings — published 2018
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.92 — 250,281 ratings — published 2017
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.94 — 180 ratings — published 2005
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,927 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.40 — 379 ratings — published
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,000 ratings — published 2007
Djibouti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.07 — 3,650 ratings — published 2010
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,731 ratings — published 2002
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 352 ratings — published 2020
The Buccaneers of America (Dover Maritime)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.77 — 813 ratings — published 1678
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,440 ratings — published 2011
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,282 ratings — published 2022
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.47 — 396 ratings — published 2019
All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.64 — 37,998 ratings — published 2020
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,802 ratings — published 2020
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 673 ratings — published 2006
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.78 — 129 ratings — published 2009
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.23 — 1,719 ratings — published 2017
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.17 — 89 ratings — published 2015
Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 82 ratings — published 1995
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.87 — 170 ratings — published 2013
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,300 ratings — published 2004
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.06 — 361 ratings — published
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,294 ratings — published 2000
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.62 — 299 ratings — published 2003
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.56 — 350 ratings — published 1983
The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.41 — 9,553 ratings — published 2026
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 90,867 ratings — published 2023
Saltblood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,943 ratings — published 2024
The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 299 ratings — published 2023
Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,469 ratings — published
The Unbinding of Mary Reade (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.42 — 787 ratings — published 2018
Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.25 — 16,328 ratings — published 2023
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.96 — 18,908 ratings — published 2023
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,989 ratings — published 2021
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 770 ratings — published 2007
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.44 — 61 ratings — published 2021
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,705 ratings — published 2021
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,871 ratings — published 2020
Sea of Ruin (Sea of Ruin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,648 ratings — published 2020
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 165,770 ratings — published 2007
“The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo – which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing “collective bargaining”, not actually mutiny, but hey – the results are the same. He tended to favor the term “piracy”, but this wasn’t the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook – at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.”
― Blachart
― Blachart
“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
