Looking for a great audiobook to listen to on your next long drive or daily commute? Check out one of these five pirate-themed books that are perfect for girls who love adventure!
These five audiobooks are sure to give you the adventure you’re looking for, while also giving you a good dose of pirate fun.
Perfect for summer reading, these stories will transport you to different worlds full of romance, excitement, and pirates!
Whether you’re looking for a light-hearted adventure or something more suspenseful and thrilling, we’ve got you covered with five amazing options.
So pull up a chair on the beach, put on your headphones, and get ready for some serious pirate-themed fun. Arrrrgh!
1. A Pirate’s Heart – Catherine Friend
By: Catherine Friend
Narrated by: Catherine Friend
Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one “thief of hearts” share a destiny beyond time.
To foil a map thief, librarian Emma Boyd searches for a pirate’s long-lost treasure map. She’s aided in her search by investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is beautiful.
The treasure map Emma and Randi seek belonged to Thomasina Farris, a pirate who disappeared from the Caribbean in 1715.
Did Captain Tommy steal an entire treasure from a Spanish galleon and escape?
Was she convicted of piracy and hanged by her neck?
Did she die of a broken heart when she lost the woman she loved? In her race to find the map, Emma learns that pirates not only steal treasure, but they also steal hearts.
When Emma discovers Captain Tommy’s fate, she must decide her own as well, choosing between romance… or revenge.
Available to listen to on Audible.
2. Compass Rose – Anna Burke
By: Anna Burke
Narrated by: Annette Romano
Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
Rose was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins.
Her uncanny sense of direction earns her a coveted place among the Archipelago Fleet elite, but it also attracts the attention of Admiral Comita, who sends her on a secret mission deep into pirate territory.
Accompanied by a ragtag crew of mercenaries and under the command of Miranda, a captain as bloodthirsty as she is alluring, Rose discovers the hard way that even the best sense of direction won’t be enough to keep her alive if she can’t learn to navigate something far more dangerous than the turbulent seas.
Aboard the mercenary ship, Man o’ War, Rose learns quickly that trusting the wrong person can get you killed—and Miranda’s crew have no intention of making things easy for her—especially Miranda’s trusted first mate, Orca, who is as stubborn as she is brutal.
Available to listen to on Audible.
3. The Mermaid The Witch And The Sea – Maggie Tokuda-Hall
By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.
Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads.
Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love.
Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself.
Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love.
Available to listen to on Audible.
4. The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy – Mackenzie Lee
By: Mackenzi Lee
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Series: Montague Siblings, Book 2
Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor—even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee’s extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning novel.
A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind—avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.
But then a window of opportunity opens—a doctor she idolizes is marrying an old friend of hers in Germany. Felicity believes if she could meet this man he could change her future, but she has no money of her own to make the trip. Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity’s way, so long as she’s allowed to travel with Felicity disguised as her maid.
In spite of her suspicions, Felicity agrees, but once the girl’s true motives are revealed, Felicity becomes part of a perilous quest that leads them from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.
Available to listen to on Audible.
5. Barbary Station – R.E. Stearns
By: R. E. Stearns
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Series: Shieldrunner Pirates, Book 1
Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew—and survive long enough to enjoy it.
Adda and Iridian are newly-minted engineers but aren’t able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space.
But when they arrive there, nothing is as expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury—they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents and shooting down any ship that attempts to leave—so there’s no way out.
Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: to destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the AI met an untimely end, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds.
There’s a glorious future in piracy… if only they can survive long enough.
Available to listen to on Audible.
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