ARRRR You Ready to Talk Like a Pirate?
September 13, 2021 – Kayla Thompson, Adult Services
Ahoy! September 19th is international “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” This holiday was started as a joke by two friends, John Baur and Mark Summers, after one said “Arrrg” after an accidental sports injury in 1995. The two made the joke about “Talk Like a Pirate Day” but it wasn’t made official until the two wrote about it to an American humor columnist, Dave Barry in 2002. It stuck and has been celebrated internationally ever since.
So, in honor of “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” here are some of the interesting pirate books we have here at the Cape Girardeau Public Library:
Adult Fiction:
• We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler
• The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates by James Haley
• A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 by James Haley
• The Pirate Devlin by Mark Keating
• Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
• Captain Blood: His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini
• The Bloody Black Flag by Steve Goble
• The Nature of a Pirate by A.M. Dellamonica
• The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan by Robert Hough
• Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
Adult Non-Fiction:
• Pirates: the Truth Behind the Robbers of the High Seas by Nigel Cawthorne
• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade
• Black Flags, Blue Waters : the Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Dolan
• Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars by Jamie Goodall
• The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man who Brought them Down by Colin Woodard
• Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
• Pirate Women: the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Duncombe
• The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea by Barbara Sjoholm
• The Golden Age of Piracy: the Truth Behind Pirate Myths by Benerson Little
• Enemy of All Mankind: a True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
Teen Fiction:
• The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara
• Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
• Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman
• The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
• Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar
Teen Non-Fiction:
• A Pirate’s Life for She by Laura Duncombe
• Flowers in the Gutter: the True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers who Resisted the Nazis by K.R. Gaddy
Juvenile Fiction:
• Pirate Curse by Kai Meyer
• Pajama Pirates by Andrew Kramer
• The Pirates of Pompeii by Caroline Lawrence
• Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carson
• Roger, the Jolly Pirate by Brett Helquist
• Lintang and the Pirate Queen by Tamara Moss
• How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell
• All Paws on Deck by Jessica Young
• Peter and the Star Catchers by Dave Barry
• Princeless vol. 3: the Pirate Princess Jeremy Whitley
Juvenile Non-Fiction:
• Pirates by Stewart Ross
• Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure by Myra Weatherly
• Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen
• A Pirate’s Life for Me! by Julie Thompson
• The Book of Pirates: A guide to Plundering, Pillaging, and Other Pursuits by Jamaica Rose
• Real Pirates: the Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate by Barry Clifford
• Pirate by Ritchard Platt
• Pirateology: the sea journal of Captain William Lubber, pirate hunter general, Boston, Massachusetts by Dugald Steer
• Who was Blackbeard? By James Buckley
