Read-alikes

Books Like The Empire of Gold

The Empire of Gold is enemies to allies, morally grey & found family — sweet (1/5), multi-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Daevabad has fallen to Manizheh's brutal conquest, stripping the ancient djinn city of its magic and leaving Nahri and Ali exiled in Cairo, scrambling to reclaim what they have lost. As Dara reckons with the atrocities he helped commit, alliances shift across warring tribes and old debts come due in the final confrontation for the city's soul. The Empire of Gold is the culmination of the Daevabad Trilogy — a sweeping, morally complex epic steeped in Islamic mythology and the weight of inherited violence.