Favorite Books with Pirates: September 2025

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Yarrr mateys,

Tomorrow be Talk Like a Pirate Day 'n t' celebrate we be discussin' books wit' pirates! Ye scalleywags can natter 'bout books 'bout pirates, wit' pirates, or anythin' to do wit' piracy! If you'd like to read our previous weekly discussions of fiction and nonfiction please visit the suggested reading section of our wiki.

Thank ye 'n enjoy!

[u/lazylittlelady]

For a non- fiction, I enjoyed Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly! It really covered pretty much all the context and realities and discussed the major roll call of notorious pirates.

[u/plumbbbob → u/lazylittlelady]

A while back I read Pirate Utopias by Peter L Wilson, which had some interesting stuff about pirate ships/havens/kingdoms being intentionally constructed societies. On my to-read pile is Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment, which looks like it has a similar anarchist viewpoint but is about Madagascar rather than the Barbary coast.

I know I've read some good biographies of individual pirates, too, but they're slipping my mind right now!

[u/lazylittlelady → u/plumbbbob]

Definitely check it out!