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What to read after Pirates by Ross Kemp: 24 titles sharing themes of Maritime History & Piracy, True Crime, Sociology, and Social Science, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Blood Ransom Stories from the Front Line in the War Against Somali Piracy

John Boyle

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime • Sociology

Why We Love Pirates The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever

Rebecca Simon

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime • Social Science

Gangs

Ross Kemp

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars

Jamie L. H. Goodall

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

Pirates of the Atlantic Robbery, Murder and Mayhem Off the Canadian East Coast

Dan Conlin

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea The Mission to Rescue the Hostages the World Forgot

Colin Freeman

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • Sociology • Social Science

Philadelphia’s Lost Waterfront

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Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • Sociology • Social Science

The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket

Jennifer N. Sellitti

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

Woman, Captain, Rebel The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

Margaret Willson

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#10

The Wager A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#11

Save Our Souls The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

Matthew Pearl

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#12

Portmagee, Co. Kerry The Origins of an Atlantic Smuggling Village

Denis Casey

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • Sociology • Social Science

#13

The Punishment of Pirates Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire

Matthew Norton

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#14

The Pirate King The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

Sean Kingsley

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#15

Pirates and Buccaneers

Gilles Lapouge

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#16

The Resurrected Pirate: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Career of the Notorious George Lowther — Craig S. Chapman

Craig S Chapman

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#17

The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet

Jeremy R. Moss

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • True Crime

#18

The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson

Ólafur Egilsson

Themes: Maritime History & Piracy • Sociology • Social Science

#19

The Riders Come Out at Night Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland

Ali Winston

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

#20

Wicked Phenix City

Faith Serafin

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

#21

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

James Baldwin

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

#22

Killdozer The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage

Patrick Brower

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

#23

Maniac The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

Harold Schechter

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

#24

Gangs and the Military Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

Carter F. Smith

Themes: True Crime • Sociology • Social Science

Fans of Pirates by Ross Kemp will find 24 titles here, all united by Maritime History & Piracy, True Crime, Sociology. Authors represented include John Boyle, Rebecca Simon, Ross Kemp, Jamie L. H. Goodall, and others.