Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books about pirates:

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

The Madman and the Pirate- R.M. Ballantyne

Blackbeard Or, The Pirate of Roanoke.- B. Barker

The Pirates of Malabar- John Biddulph

Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea- James O. Brayman

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver- Brantz Mayer

The Pirate Island- Harry Collingwood

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton- Daniel Defoe

The Pirates' Who's Who- Philip Gosse

The Ghost Pirates- William Hope Hodgson

The Ghost Ship, A Mystery of the Sea- John C. Hutcheson

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea- Charles H. L. Johnston

The Pirate of the Mediterranean- W.H.G. Kingston

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates- Peter B. Kyne

The Pirate- Frederick Marryat

Blackbeard: Buccaneer- Ralph D. Paine

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson