Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies. It's the second in the Gentleman Bastard Sequence. Though I suppose it could stand alone, I'd recommend reading the first one, The Lies of Locke Lamora.
Red Seas Under Red Skies is not a pirate book, per se, but a significant portion of it does take place on a pirate ship and in a pirate port town. As con artists, the main characters are anti-heroes, but likeable. The setting is fantasy, though there are no elves, hobbits, or the like.
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