5 must-read historical books like Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) by A.Y. Chao

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Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

By: A.Y. Chao

3.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-s…

"Try no to die, okay? I've become rather fond of you. "I'm very hard to kill," I murmur."

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"You named two of the' – he clears his throat – 'fiercest creatures of legend, Cutie and Puffy?"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"The next morning I am rudely awakened by cocks crowing. A lot of cocks crowing. I yank the quilt over my head and try to smother the hoarse, braying sounds. It sounds like a whole flock of cocks has settled in my bedroom. The feathered kind. The other kind do not enter my rooms."

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

If you liked the historical plot in Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) by A.Y. Chao , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1) by S. Jae-Jones

1. Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1)

By: S. Jae-Jones

3.51

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy s… read more

Similar categories in S. Jae-Jones's Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1) by Gabriela Romero Lacruz

2. The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz

3.33

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

In a lush world inspired by the history and folklore of South America, a sweeping epic fantasy of c… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Romero Lacruz's The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"I thought tinieblas were nothing but a story—just a word for shadows. Tales to scare children into obedience. Horror tales are inspired by reality."

-Gabriela Romero Lacruz, The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

3. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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4. A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)

By: Lyra Selene

3.77

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Set in a world of perilous magic and moonlit forests, this seductive romantic fantasy tells the sto… read more

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  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The joy is in the thrill of the fight, not the promise of a kill."

-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)

"If your love only destroys, let it destroy me. I am already a doomed man."

-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)

"I was made of weeds and dark water and unbreakable ice. I was not made to loose."

-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)

"I was made of frost and rot and endless things. I was not made to fear the Folk."

-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)

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5. The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1)

By: Sophie Kim

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kim's The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1) by Kika Hatzopoulou

6. Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

By: Kika Hatzopoulou

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates mus… read more

Similar categories in Kika Hatzopoulou's Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Three bodies, one soul. You go when your sisters need you. No questions asked."

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Tolerating wickedness can ensure your survival - but also cause a feeling of slow death."

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Because what is art, what is inspiration, if not the deepest, darkest secrets of the artist?"

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Io you need to go now," he breathed, eyes large and fearful. "And I promise, the moment I'm better. I'll come find you" "How?" she asked, the word breaking into a sob. How would he ever find her in t…"

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

Cover of Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) by Eliza Chan

7. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

By: Eliza Chan

3.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Chan's Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • mythology
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Faebound (Faebound, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

8. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The City of Stardust by Georgia  Summers

9. The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Summers's The City of Stardust book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1) by Thea Guanzon

10. The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

By: Thea Guanzon

3.66

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The heart is a battlefield. All Talasyn has ever known is the Hurricane Wars. Growing up an orp… read more

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  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I did it,"

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

"And what, pray tell, are you still doing here?"

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

"She bristled. “You are my consort. You don’t get to order me around."

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

"Yes, he's dead, the fool," sighed Daya Odish. "What a pity, I will miss him."

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

Cover of Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1) by Mariely Lares

11. Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)

By: Mariely Lares

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving… read more

Similar categories in Mariely Lares's Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"When no one is around to talk in your ear, then you can hear the only voice that really matters. Your own."

-Mariely Lares, Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)

Cover of Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) by A.Y. Chao

12. Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

By: A.Y. Chao

3.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-s… read more

Similar categories in A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Try no to die, okay? I've become rather fond of you. "I'm very hard to kill," I murmur."

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"You named two of the' – he clears his throat – 'fiercest creatures of legend, Cutie and Puffy?"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"The next morning I am rudely awakened by cocks crowing. A lot of cocks crowing. I yank the quilt over my head and try to smother the hoarse, braying sounds. It sounds like a whole flock of cocks has …"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

Cover of Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) by Nicki Pau Preto

13. Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

By: Nicki Pau Preto

4.21

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a d… read more

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  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn’t it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"He wasn’t disappointed or hurt. He was livid. Let him be. She’d take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

Cover of The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1) by Kylie Lee Baker

14. The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

By: Kylie Lee Baker

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold a… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Lee Baker's The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Your ducks weren't rude to me. I don't want to eat them." "I do." Yufei whispered..."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

"I am offended,"" he said, making a show of crossing his arms and turning away. ""I may forgive you if you kiss me, though."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

"Ahead of us, a man was pulling a cart of cabbages out into the street. I grabbed three chunks of amethyst in one hand and slammed my other palm into the cart. It burst in to wood splinters, cabbage l…"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

"Uncle Fan had busied himself making lots of míngqì to bury them with—soft baby lambs and tiny ponies and wise teachers. They will be well taken care of, where they’re going, he’d said. My cousins gre…"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

Cover of If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun

15. If I Have to Be Haunted

By: Miranda Sun

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn in this thrillingly romantic, irresistibly fun YA contemporary fanta… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Sun's If I Have to Be Haunted book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Curse of Saints (The Curse of the Saints, #1) by Kate Dramis

16. The Curse of Saints (The Curse of the Saints, #1)

By: Kate Dramis

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Has she been sent to save the realm or destroy it? As Spymaster to the Queen, Aya's blood oath e… read more

Similar categories in Kate Dramis's The Curse of Saints (The Curse of the Saints, #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1) by June C.L. Tan

17. Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1)

By: June C.L. Tan

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Jade Fire Gold author June CL Tan, Darker by Four is the launch of an epic, sweeping contempor… read more

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  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1) by Kathryn Purdie

18. The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1)

By: Kathryn Purdie

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists... "Tell me again, Grandmère, the story … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Purdie's The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1) by Chloe Gong

19. Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)

By: Chloe Gong

3.53

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"This is tenderness. And she is more afraid of it than anything else"

-Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)

"Given Anton's childhood, a natural assumption would be that he couldn't handle bloodshed. But blood is faultless. Blood is only a consequence. Better to draw blood before it can be drawn from you; be…"

-Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)

Cover of Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1) by Gabi Burton

20. Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1)

By: Gabi Burton

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this dark and seductive YA fantasy debut, a siren must choose between protecting her family and … read more

Similar categories in Gabi Burton's Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1) book and A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

  • romance
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1) by Ehigbor Okosun

21. Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

By: Ehigbor Okosun

3.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new voice brings a brilliant new debut author Ehigbor Okosun’s first book in an action-… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Fear is a strange master. It makes monsters from the simplest of men."

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

"Revenge is a poison, Dèmi. Drink it and you can destroy your enemies, but you will die long before you see them take their last breaths."

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

"My father once told me that truth has many faces, mouths that help us see more clearly. But justice has only one face—a sword for those who warrant it, whether they be the victims of yesterday or the…"

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

"The first queen spared the life of her brother, reasoning that a good ruler must be willing to die for the people and show mercy when needed. It’s a beautiful story . . . but this is an ugly day. The…"

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

21 must-read fiction books like Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) by A.Y. Chao

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3.51

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Gabriela Romero Lacruz

3.33

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S.T. Gibson

3.66

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Danielle L. Jensen

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