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Books like Heaven Official's Blessing

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2017 · China · fantasy
★ 4.50 Hardcover · 127 ratings

Xie Lian, a crown prince who became a god and was twice cast down from heaven, ascends for the third time as the laughing stock of the heavens, and meets a mysterious young man called San Lang.

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12 books for readers of Heaven Official's Blessing

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2016 · China 98% match ★ 4.40 Hardcover · 113 ratings
shares: cultivation, Chinese, series starter, danmei · speculative, deep world-building

Wei Wuxian, the reviled founder of demonic cultivation who died thirteen years ago, is summoned back into the body of a young man who wants revenge, and meets Lan Wangji, his old rival.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou · 2018 · China 98% match ★ 4.34 Hardcover · 51 ratings
shares: cultivation, Chinese, series starter, danmei · speculative, wrenching

Mo Ran, a tyrant who killed himself after ruling the cultivation world, wakes up in his younger body and plans his revenge on Chu Wanning, the master he blames.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2015 · China 98% match ★ 4.22 Hardcover · 99 ratings
shares: cultivation, Chinese, series starter · speculative, easy read

Shen Yuan, who died raging at a bad web novel, wakes up as its villain, Shen Qingqiu, the cruel teacher fated to be killed by his disciple Luo Binghe, and has to change the plot.

Thousand Autumns

Meng Xi Shi · 2014 · China 96% match ★ 3.91 Hardcover · 23 ratings
shares: slow burn romance, Chinese, queer, danmei · speculative, deep world-building

Shen Qiao, head of the Xuandu Mountain sect, loses a duel, falls from a cliff and loses his memory, and is taken in by Yan Wushi, the amoral head of a demonic sect, who wants to see whether a good man can be corrupted.

I Shall Seal the Heavens

Er Gen · 2014 · China 95% match
shares: cultivation, Chinese · speculative, deep world-building

Meng Hao, a failed scholar, is kidnapped by a cultivation sect and becomes a cultivator, a ruthless and resourceful one.

Coiling Dragon

I Eat Tomatoes · 2008 · China 94% match
shares: cultivation, Chinese · speculative, easy read

Linley Baruch, son of a fallen noble house in a world of magic and warriors, finds a ring with an ancient spirit inside and begins his rise.

The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri · 2021 · UK 93% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 42,571 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Burning Kingdoms
shares: slow burn romance, series starter, queer · speculative, deep world-building

Malini, a princess exiled by her brother the emperor to a ruined temple to repent, is waited on by Priya, a maidservant hiding the powers she was born with, as a rot spreads through the land.

Beware of Chicken

Casualfarmer · 2022 · Canada 93% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 16,015 ratings
shares: cultivation, Chinese, series starter · speculative, easy read

A modern man reborn into a world of cultivators decides he wants no part of the fighting and settles down to farm in a quiet valley, while his chickens start to cultivate.

Empire of Sand

Tasha Suri · 2018 · UK 93% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 14,267 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Books of Ambha
shares: slow burn romance, series starter, religious · speculative, deep world-building

Mehr, the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor, keeps the rites of her outcast mother's people in secret, until her gift for them draws the eye of the Emperor's mystics and she is forced into marriage with one of them.

The Black Tides of Heaven

JY Yang · 2017 · Singapore 89% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 13,948 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Tensorate
shares: Chinese, series starter, queer · speculative, deep world-building

Mokoya and Akeha, twins given as children to the Grand Monastery to settle their mother the Protector's debt, grow up apart, one with the gift of prophecy and the other drawn to the rebels against her.

The Knight and the Moth

Rachel Gillig · 2025 · US 88% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 315,961 ratings
shares: series starter, religious, romantic · speculative, romance-driven

Sybil Delling is one of six Diviners raised in the cathedral of Aisling to prophesy for the kingdom, and when her sisters begin to disappear, she sets out with a surly knight, Rodrick Rook, to find them.

A Hero Born

Jin Yong · 1957 · China 88% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 6,412 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Legends of the Condor Heroes
shares: Chinese, series starter · deep world-building, easy read

In twelfth-century China, as the Song empire faces the Jin and the rising Mongols, Guo Jing, son of a murdered patriot, grows up on the Mongolian steppe under seven eccentric kung fu masters who have staked their honour on him.