Pirate fantasy fiction books?

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After posting about The Guns of Ivrea, it got me thinking about where in the fantasy genre I might find pirates. Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders series comes to mind, Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies, and The Princess Bride. After that, I get a little stumped.

Considering the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, I thought we might have been flooded with pirate fantasy novels by now. But I'm struggling to identify any. Anyone care to make any suggestions of what I've missed that may be enjoyable?
 
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers is very good.
 
Vince W said:
Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard.
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Are you averse to peoples having relationships? You know, like peoples do?

If not, Ten Ruby Trick

By me :D

It is more fantasy than romance (in fact it does not count as romance at all) but there are some feels
 
Most Pirate stories are Fantasy!

"The Last of the Sky Pirates" (Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell) I just read it. Quite fun.
(Not really any piracy in it though!)
"Missiee Lee" Arthur Ransome
"Peter Duck" Arthur Ransome
"Swallows and Amazons" Arthur Ransome. OK, Peggy and Nancy are only pretending!
The Princess Bride isn't a Pirate story, but cracking fantasy with Dread pirate Roberts! Book and Film.
Maybe
Pirates of the Thunder Jack L Chalker, I have this, but it's so long since I read it, I can't remember what it's about at all!

On Gutenberg
  • "Coral Island" R.M. Ballantyne
  • "Treasure Island" R. L. Stevenson (Inspired by Coral Is.)
  • "The Book of Buried Treasure" R. D. Paine
  • Various Robert E. Howard stories
  • Almost a pirate story, The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper. He wrote it because he had slated Walter Scott's Pirate story (I don't know what title is, and folks said prove you can do it better. He actually did know about Ships, he served as a Misdshipman, and also there are other autobiographic features. The Pilot is John Paul Jones, regarded as a Pirate by UK (he was Scottish), but he served in US and Russian navies. AFAIK, the story is fiction, fantasy. Though the real life exploits were crazy enough.
  • One of the "Works of Edgar Allan Poe" (five volumes) on Gutenberg has a pirate story.
  • Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling

also
"Starship Chief" (Ray McCarthy) disguised as SF, I just wrote it, it's only 29K and sort of Treasure Is. + pre-Shakepeare King Lear :D

Films
Ice Pirates
 
I think Hugh Cook's The Warwolf and The Walrus falls under this category.
 
I think that you could maybe toss in The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Redick. I'm sure that I've read a few with Pirate aspects but not a lot. I started Sam Sykes first book and it was a little piratey. I did stop reading after the first 100 pages as much as I wanted to like it.
 
The House of the Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer (YA)
The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser - easily the funniest book I've ever read and one I've always kept on my shelves no matter how often I've purged my book collection.
 
Erm....Peter Pan?

Q. how did Captain Hook die?
A. Crotch itch.
 
Yes, I was going to say the Kitty Jay books. Super fun and definitely pirate books as far as I'm concerned. All buckles are fully swashed.
 
The Pirates of Boskone in the Lensman books by EE Smith. Strictly speaking SF.
 
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