AOS Privateer Fiction Book List

During the Age of Sail a privateer, also known as a Letter of Marque, was a private vessel authorised by a government to attack and capture an enemies ships in time of war. Books which feature such vessels will be very similar to naval fiction. This listing is for novels where the primary ship featured is a privateer.

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• Andre Norton
  • Yankee Privateer
• Andrew Hepburn
  • Letter of Marque
• Barry Warburton
  • Chasseur & St Lawrence
• Brad Koch
  • Privateers and Kings
  • Privateers of 1812
  • Revolutionary Privateers
  • The Privateers Riflemen
• Bruce McMinn
  • Prize of War
• Charles E. Friend
  • The Privateers
• David Donachie
  • A Game of Bones
  • A Hanging Matter
  • An Element of Chance
  • The Devil’s Own Luck
  • The Dying Trade
  • The Scent of Betrayal
• David O'Neil
  • Privateer
• Fleming Macliesh & Martin L. Krieger
  • The Privateers: A Raiding Voyage to the Great South Sea
• Frederick Marryat
  • The Privateersman
• Gordon Daviot
  • The Privateer
• Harry Collingwood
  • The Log of a Privateersman
• J. E. Taylor
  • At Close Quarters
  • By Force of Arms
• James Otis
  • Captain Tom, The Privateersman of the Armed Brig Chasseur
  • The Armed Ship America: or, When we Sailed from Salem
  • The Charming Sally: Privateer Schooner of New York. A tale of 1765
  • The Cruise of the Comet
  • The Cruise of the Pickering: a boy's story of privateering in 1780
• Julian Stafford Corbett
  • For God and Gold
• Mark M. McMillin
  • Gather the Shadowmen
  • Napoleon's Gold
  • Prince of the Atlantic
• Marsha Canham
  • Across A Moonlit Sea
  • The Following Sea
  • The Iron Rose
• Michael Hagen
  • Sail to Caribee
• Richard Woodman
  • The East Indiaman
  • The Guineaman
  • The Privateersman
• Robert H. Fowler
  • Jeremiah Martin: A Revolutionary War Novel
  • Voyage to Honor: A Historical Novel : The War of 1812
• Stephen W. Meader
  • A Blow for Liberty
  • The Cape May Packet
• William Clark Russell
  • An Ocean Free-Lance: From a Privateersman's Log 1812