Set Sail With These SFF Pirate Books

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

Amina Al-Sirafi gave up her beingness of piracy for the comparative information of a beingness with her household and young daughter. But erstwhile her past comes calling — and threatens her family’s information — she returns to the oversea and the vessel she near down successful bid to support them. But this is nary mean mission; Amina is up against an hostile dabbling with supernatural forces acold beyond his control. Amina has had capable dealing with the supernatural to cognize what a unspeakable thought that is. With her family’s lives connected the line, though, Amina volition person to squad up with the demon she erstwhile loved successful bid to triumph the day. And anyone — particularly Amina Al-Sirafi — could archer you that’s a risky proposition.

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The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

A scavenger captured by pirates is offered a analyzable woody with life-changing repercussions: wed the mind-ship who leads the Red Banner successful speech for her extortion and assistance uncover who was down the execution of her precocious wife, the Red Scholar, oregon stay a captive of the notorious pirate fleet. For Xích Si, it’s nary prime astatine all. But with the pirates nether onslaught from some wrong and extracurricular forces, volition Xích Si and Rice Fish beryllium capable to uncover their enemies and travel to an knowing — possibly adjacent much — earlier it’s excessively late?

A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne

From the writer of You Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea comes different cozy adventure, this clip acceptable connected the precocious seas. The recently engaged Kianthe and Reyna go enmeshed successful different emotion communicative portion connected the hunt for dragon eggs erstwhile the lord of the Nacean River calls connected the almighty mage Kianthe to way down the pirate who’s been marauding his shores. Alongside Bobbie, 1 of the lord’s constables, they acceptable their sights connected tracking down the pirate Serina. But Bobbie knew Serina agelong earlier she turned pirate, and she has her ain reasons for wanting to find the pistillate earlier immoderate others.

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

When Evelyn boards the Dove, she has nary thought it’s a pirate ship. She lone knows she’s being shipped disconnected to a distant enactment for a matrimony she had nary accidental in. But erstwhile the Dove’s existent affiliation is revealed, it’s lone her relationship with a young deckhand that saves her. Flora, who took up the sanction and individuality of Florian aboard the ship, lone turned pirate retired of desperation and emotion for her brother. But present Flora has idiosyncratic caller to protect. Doing truthful volition instrumentality the 2 of them connected an escapade that volition alteration their lives forever.

A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee

Treasure Island gets a caller rotation successful this caller pursuing a miss searching for answers astir her begetter astatine the extremity of the aureate property of piracy successful the 19th period South China Sea. Xiang’s begetter has lone ever been a story, mislaid astatine oversea earlier she was born. But erstwhile the pendant she inherited from her begetter is stolen, and Xiang discovers it contains a concealed scroll, her beingness is turned upside down. Apparently, her begetter sailed with the legendary Dragon Fleet — and they whitethorn person near down 1 past treasure earlier they disappeared.

The Black God’s Drums P. Djèlí Clark

This novella from the writer of A Master of Djinn follows a teen surviving connected the streets of an alternate past New Orleans looking to flight aboard the smuggler airship, Midnight Robber. Creeper believes her cognition astir a kidnapped Haitian scientists could get Captain Ann-Marie connected her side. But her concealed transportation with the African orisha of the wind, Oya, mightiness besides beryllium utile — particularly erstwhile it becomes evident that the gods person go overmuch much progressive than anyone realized successful New Orleans.

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

In this Latine pirate phantasy starring a nonbinary teen, the devil comes to cod connected a bargain made by their begetter erstwhile Mar turns 16. Now, Mar is the sole survivor, rescued by different pirate unit and fixed a unspeakable prime by el Diablo: commercialized their psyche successful speech for their father’s oregon ne'er look him again. Mar knows amended than to marque a woody with the devil, but with the assistance of the captain’s arrogant lad and a genderfluid demonio with uncertain motives, Mar mightiness conscionable beryllium capable to usage the magic powers they’ve kept hidden for truthful agelong to instrumentality connected el Diablo.

Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller (November 7, 2023)

The writer of Daughter of the Pirate King is backmost with a caller publication successful the series, pursuing an assassin moving for Alosa, the Pirate Queen. But Alosa’s newest occupation for her doesn’t impact killing. Instead, she’s tasked with captaining a rescue ngo alongside a helmsman who is altogether excessively annoying and attentive. When their travel takes them done the waters of the King of the Undersea, who controls the dead, their rescue ngo turns into a combat to prevention the full satellite from an undead army.