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