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Sometimes you need to just know that a book is going to deliver on the romance. Remove that uncertainty! I could go all coffee shop hipster and argue that all stories are love stories, but only the best romance novels have that secret sauce that turn your insides to mush through the power of the written word alone. Looking forward to falling over and over in the new year? Here is a sampling of the best, or in some cases the most anticipated, romance novels of 2024. We've got supernatural pairings, contemporary, historical period, young adult-ish, and tropes galore.
One easy way to know what you're going to be putting on your TBR pile in 2024 is if a book happens to be from an author you love or part of a series you're already invested in. There are plenty of those coming out in 2024. Check them out!
Release date: January 9
At some point, we're going to have to call a moratorium on contemporary romance novelists titling their work after Taylor Swift lyrics (Alban's companion book in this series is You're The Problem It's You) but until then let's have fun! This period piece is about two debutantes who decide to set their parents up so that they pressure will be off them to get married. The fact that they're falling in love with each other is, uhh, just a complication!
Release date: January 30
The third in the Crescent City series is finally here. Check out the continuing adventures of Bryce, a half-fae, and a fallen angel named Hunt. Spoiler alert if you haven't kept up with the series, but this new installment they're separated. The yearning!! Can you stand it? And one of them is in a dungeon? Oh no.
Release date: February 6
More supernatural romance for 2024! This one's between a werewolf and a vampire. It's about time those two species put aside their differences and got along it on, don't you think? And it doesn't stop there for fans of the Love, Theoretically author. Hazelwood also has another, modern-day and not supernatural (so...natural?) romance coming out this summer called Not in Love.
Release date: February 13
A bad boy...golfer?? Now I've seen everything! Tessa Bailey's latest is launching a whole series about grumpy professional athletes and their sunshine devotee love interests. In Fangirl Down our heroine goes from a parasocial relationship to the employee of her favorite golfer. What's a good romance without a little (or a lot) of conflict?
Release date: February 13
Trying to make it work after getting Vegas married is risky enough. Add a judgmental, massive family to the mix and you've either got a recipe for disaster or... read and find out! If you like this, author Victoria Blue has the second book in the Bombshells of Brentwood duology, Mentoring Maye, coming out in April as well.
Release date: March 19
A hot neighbor wants you to pose as his girlfriend to make his ex jealous... in the Caribbean? Sounds perfect. If only the heroine of this anticipated romance novel hadn't accidentally promised her boss that she wouldn't date because she was that dedicated to The Work.
Released: April 30
This is the fourth installment in the King of Sins series. (Get it? There are seven deadly sins. The fourth is sloth.) It's about the billionaire heir falling in love with, despite golddiggers around every corner, his publicist. Ohhh you just know there's gonna be banter.
Release date: June 4
Hannah Grace's Maple Hill series is back with book 3. This is a college-set romance between a hockey player and a girl in a book club he finds himself part of by accident. But of course, if you loved Icebreaker and Wildfire you're already well familiar with this educational institution.
Release date: July 23
I could not be more excited for Rainbow Rowell's first novel for adults in forever. (Genuinely no offense to Simon and Baz of the Carry On series. I love them!) It's about an Always Be My Maybe-type relationship with a pair who reconnect at a mutual friend's wedding. I'm already swooning and crying.
Release date: August 13
Tweet Cute author Emma Lord has two books coming out in 2024. There's this summery romance about old friends who think they're immune from ye olde fake dating trope (and don't we all). There's also The Getaway List, out in January, about two teenagers set loose in New York City the summer after graduation. You won't be hurting for something to read and warm your heart all year!
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