Lucky Seed

If you liked the family-knives-out energy of Succession but wish it were funnier and messier, Lucky Seed is your next read. Justinian Huang — whose debut The Emperor and the Endless Palace already had people talking — goes full dark comedy here: a billionaire Taiwanese-American dynasty, the Sun Clan, decides the family fortune can only survive if they wrangle a male heir out of the one relative they’ve mostly written off, the gay black sheep of the family. It’s been pitched as "Crazy Rich Asians meets Succession," and honestly that undersells how chaotic and sharp it gets. I won’t give away where it goes, but the schemes stack up fast. If you want a soapy, wickedly funny family saga with real teeth, grab this one.