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Sue Lynn Tan · 2022 · Malaysia · fantasy · romance
Book 1 of 2 in The Celestial Kingdom
★ 4.05 Goodreads · 137,996 ratings

Xingyin, the secret daughter of the moon goddess Chang'e, flees her home to escape the Celestial Emperor's wrath and fights her way up through his court as an archer, hoping to win her mother's freedom.

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12 books for readers of Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Immortal

Sue Lynn Tan · 2025 · Malaysia 97% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 19,952 ratings
shares: romantasy, Chinese, mythological, romance · earnest, speculative

Liyen, newly crowned heir to a mortal throne after her grandfather's death, wants to free her kingdom from its debt to the immortals and avenge him, and when she is summoned to the Immortal Realm she forms a fragile alliance with the God of War, whom she should not trust.

The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 188,665 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Wrath and the Dawn
shares: lush, romantasy, retelling, romance · earnest, romance-driven

In a retelling of A Thousand and One Nights, sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid, the boy-king of Khorasan who executes each new bride at dawn, determined to survive the night and avenge her dearest friend.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 4,653,884 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
shares: romantasy, retelling, magic, romance · earnest, speculative

Nineteen-year-old Feyre kills a wolf to feed her starving family, and a beastlike faerie comes to claim her life in payment, carrying her across the wall to his court in Prythian, where a blight is spreading through the fae lands.

Lightlark

Alex Aster · 2022 · US 96% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 382,388 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Lightlark
shares: love triangle, romantasy, magic, romance · earnest, speculative

Every hundred years the island of Lightlark appears for the Centennial, a deadly game in which the rulers of six cursed realms compete to break their curses, and Isla Crown, young ruler of the Wildlings, arrives with secrets of her own.

Once Upon a Broken Heart

Stephanie Garber · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 787,070 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Once Upon a Broken Heart
shares: love triangle, lush, magic, romance · earnest, easy read

When the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister, Evangeline Fox strikes a bargain with Jacks, the immortal Prince of Hearts, and must pay for his help with three kisses of his choosing, in a kingdom where fairy tales hold dangerous power.

Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor · 2017 · US 95% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 140,340 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Strange the Dreamer
shares: mythology, lush, quest, romance · earnest, speculative

Lazlo Strange, an orphan and junior librarian who has spent his life dreaming of the lost city of Weep, gets his chance when a hero from that city arrives seeking help with a problem no one will name.

One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig · 2022 · US 95% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 785,659 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Shepherd King
shares: romantasy, quest, magic, romance · speculative, earnest

In Blunder, a kingdom shut in by a magic-sickened mist, Elspeth Spindle hides an ancient spirit in her head that she calls the Nightmare, and joins a treasonous highwayman, the king's own nephew, on a quest to gather the twelve Providence Cards that could cure the land before Solstice.

Spark of the Everflame

Penn Cole · 2023 · US 95% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 339,805 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Kindred's Curse
shares: mother daughter, romantasy, magic, romance · speculative, easy read

Diem Bellator, a healer in Emarion, where cruel demigods called the Descended rule over mortals, goes looking for her missing mother and uncovers a secret that ties her family to the Descended, while the heir of the dying king takes an unwelcome interest in her.

An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · 2017 · US 95% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 111,724 ratings
shares: lush, romantasy, magic, romance · earnest, speculative

Isobel paints portraits for the fair folk, who pay her in enchantments, and when she paints the autumn prince Rook with human sorrow in his eyes, he carries her off to stand trial at his court for the insult.

Wild Reverence

Rebecca Ross · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 90,415 ratings
shares: romantasy, magic, mythological, romance · earnest, speculative

Matilda, the youngest goddess of her underworld clan, carries letters between the realms, and ten years after a mortal boy she knew from dreams prayed to her for help that never came, she tumbles through his window with a letter that will change both their fates.

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: love triangle, quest, magic · speculative, easy read

Just as she turns sixteen, Meghan Chase learns that her little brother has been taken and replaced with a changeling, and that she is the half-human daughter of a faery king, and she follows her best friend Robbie into the Nevernever to bring him home.

Gild

Raven Kennedy · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 431,614 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Plated Prisoner
shares: romantasy, retelling, romance · speculative, easy read

Auren is King Midas's favoured, gold-touched by him as his possession and kept in his castle of gold in the frozen mountains of Highbell, and when war comes and a deal is struck, her faith in the man who pulled her from the slums begins to crack.