📚 Pirates

Real crews and their articles, from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean — and the fictional afterlife that made them fashionable.

Below are the 23 works carrying the subject pirates in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A General History of the Pyrates	Captain Charles Johnson	1925	56
	Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts	Frank R. Stockton	1898	27
	The Pirates own book	Charles Ellms	1837	26
	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates	Captain Charles Johnson	1724	20
	Pirates	Claud Lovat Fraser	1915	15
	Pirates	Will Osborne	2001	15
	The history of piracy	Philip Gosse	1932	14
	Pirates Ships Flags Treasure Weapons Lore	Philip Steele	1997	9
	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates	Captain Charles Johnson	1814	9
	Pirate	Richard Platt	1994	8
	Pirates	David Cordingly	1920	6
	Pirates	Gail Gibbons	1993	6
	The Pirates (The Seafarers)	Douglas Botting	1978	5
	Pirate	Deborah Lock	2005	5
	Sea queens	Jane Yolen	2008	5
	ONE PIECE PIRATE RECIPES	Sanji	2012	4
	Under the black flag	David Cordingly	1996	3
	The Republic of Pirates	Colin Woodard	2007	3
	Peter Pan	J. M. Barrie	2006	2
	Cofresí y Ducoudray	Ursula Acosta	1991	1
	The voice of the sea	Paul Anders	2002	1
	Complete idiot's guide to pirates	Gail Selinger	2006	1
	Pirates in the Age of Sail	Robert Antony	2006	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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