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Books That Had Me in a Chokehold (2024)
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items These books owned me in 2024 — no skips, no notes. Think angsty love interests, juicy drama, unhinged plot twists, and main characters who live rent-free in my head. You’ve been warned. 💅📖🔥
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February
👠 Reality TV Romance | Body Positivity | Modern Fairytale Fresh out of design school, Cindy dreams of making her mark in the fashion world—but instead finds herself on Before Midnight, America’s hottest reality dating show. As the only plus-size con...
If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
March
🎭 Murder Mystery Party | Light & Clever | Pip’s Origin Story Kill Joy is short, sharp, and just plain fun. It’s Pip before the podcast, before the trauma, before everything. A simple dinner party turns into a spark that lights her detective fire...
Kill Joy - Holly Jackson
✈️ Fake Relationship | Office Romance | Wedding Chaos Catalina Martín needs a date for her sister’s wedding—fast. Her little white lie about having an American boyfriend has spun out of control, and her ex, his fiancée, and her entire family will be ...
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
April
🔍 Cold Case Mystery | Academic Project Gone Rogue | Young Adult A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is where it all begins. Pip takes on a five-year-old murder case for a school project—but what starts as research turns into a full-blown investigation tha...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
📚 Friends-to-Lovers | Fake Romance | Writer’s Block & Sparks Rosie Graham’s life just collapsed—literally—when the ceiling of her New York apartment caves in. With her secret career as a romance writer hanging by a thread, she finds herself relu...
The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas
📚 Workplace Romance | Fairytale Retelling | Opposites Attract At twenty-five, Izzy is stuck—still an editorial assistant, still underpaid, and still searching for her voice in publishing. When she’s sent to track down reclusive author Beau Towers an...
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
🧠 Psychological Horror | Is It Real or in His Head? | Chilling Mind Games The Night House is eerie, twisted, and unsettling in the best way. When a young boy disappears under bizarre circumstances, Richard is the only witness—but no one believes him...
The Night House by Jo Nesbø
🎾 Workaholic Heroine | Forbidden Attraction | Slow-Burn Romance Olivia Charlton’s life is perfectly planned—until sexy Frenchman Lucas Lamaire moves into her building. As attraction ignites, she must navigate desire, secrets, and past trauma in a sl...
Heart Match by Allane Milliane
🏈 College Romance | Second-Chance Love | Slow-Burn Chemistry Indie’s carefully planned future collides with the boy who once walked away. As Sebastian steps back into her life as her tutor, sparks fly, old feelings resurface, and the tension between...
Trouble by Meghan Hollie
May
🎙️ True Crime Podcast | Found Family | Secrets That Won’t Stay Buried Good Girl, Bad Blood turns the volume up. Pip’s a podcaster now, but when a friend’s brother goes missing and no one takes it seriously, she jumps back into detective mode. The st...
Good Girl, Bad Blood - Holly Jackson
⚽ Small-Town Soccer | Redemption Romance | Slow-Burn Chemistry Adalyn’s big-city career comes to an unexpected halt when she’s sent to coach a struggling kids’ soccer team in tiny North Carolina. Between tutu-wearing players, mischievous goats, and a...
The Long Game by Elena Armas
⛳ Sports Romance | Grumpy Golfer & Fangirl | Slow Burn Wells Whitaker was golf’s golden boy—until he quit the game and left his biggest supporter heartbroken. Josephine has always believed in him, but now she’s faced with a surprising offer: beco...
Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey
🏎️ Sports Romance | Second-Chance Crush | Formula 1 Sparks Willow Williams has always had a crush on her brother’s best friend, Dev Anderson, but now their worlds collide professionally when he enlists her help to salvage his racing career. As they ...
Cross the Line by Simone Soltani
⚾ Sports Romance | Second-Chance Love | Baseball Sparks When her ex lands the job as her new assistant coach, she’s forced to face the past she thought she left behind. Nathan Pierce is baseball’s all-star with a devilish smirk, a knack for stirring ...
The Problem with Players by Brittainy C. Cherry
🎢 Billionaire Boss | Enemies to Lovers | Workplace Romance Rowan Kane has the world at his fingertips—theme parks, production companies, five-star hotels—but his plans start to unravel the moment he hires Zahra. A kiss, a secret text, and a revelati...
The Fine Print by Lauren Asher
🌸 Family | Memory | Bittersweet Farewell Grandpa and Noah sit together on a bench in a magical, shrinking square filled with the treasures of their lives: a stuffed dragon, fragrant hyacinths, and memories of love lost and cherished. As they share j...
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
June
🖤 Vigilante Vibes | Obsession Spiral | Darker Than Ever As Good As Dead is the descent. Pip’s being stalked, her trauma is catching up to her, and the only way out might mean becoming something she swore she wouldn’t. This book is intense, heavy, an...
As Good as Dead - Holly Jackson
🥅 Hockey Romance | Fake Engagement | Roommate Sparks After fifteen years as Boston Rebels’ star goalie, he’s used to scoring wins—but not falling for his new roommate. When a spontaneous kiss turns into a viral “engagement,” Jules and he are forced ...
Fake Shot by Julia Connors
🍷 Small Town Romance | Second Chance | Enemies-to-Lovers Hallie Welch never forgot Julian Vos, the grumpy genius who stole her heart as a teen. Now back in town and hired to revamp his estate’s gardens, she’s met with sparks, chaos, and undeniable c...
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
💔 Second Chance Romance | First Love | Heartache & Healing Ryder James broke her heart twice—once as a teen, and again as a young adult. Seven years later, old sparks reignite, unanswered questions linger, and the chemistry between them is impos...
Come Break My Heart Again by C.W. Farnsworth
✉️ Enemies-to-Lovers | Pen-Pal Romance | Slow Burn Naomi and Luca have been trading witty insults through letters since fifth grade, turning their rivalry into a surprisingly deep connection. But when the correspondence suddenly stops, Naomi is left ...
Hate Mail by Donna Marchetti
💍 Billionaire Romance | Fake Marriage | Unexpected Love Declan needs an heir to secure his inheritance, and Iris volunteers to be his perfect solution. What starts as a contract—rules, boundaries, and a marriage of convenience—slowly blurs when pret...
Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
❄️ Isolated Thriller | Redemption Arc | Atmospheric and Haunting Midnight Sun is a slow-burning stunner. Set in a remote Scandinavian village where the sun never sets, it follows a man on the run from the criminal underworld—until he finds unexpected...
Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbø
July
🎤 True Crime Doc Vibes | Long-Lost Mother | The Lies That Built a Family The Reappearance of Rachel Price is twisty in all the right ways. When Bel’s mom—missing for sixteen years—walks back into her life on camera, everything unravels. It's a sharp...
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
⚾ Opposites Attract | Slow-Burn Romance | Baseball Sparks Camille, a princess hiding from her royal duties, never expected working alongside Ryker—the focused, all-baseball-all-the-time guy she’s crushed on for years—would be this intense. Drawn toge...
Keep Me by Carlie Jean
💈 Small-Town Romance | Bad-Boy Barber | Unexpected Guardianship Knox, a gruff, solitary barber, prefers life simple and drama-free—except when a stranded runaway bride lands in his town. Naomi arrives unexpectedly, left with a surprise niece and no ...
Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
🏒 Second Chances | Friends-to-Lovers | Hockey Romance After a devastating heartbreak, he’s sworn off love and focused solely on hockey—until Luna Johnson, his longtime friend, warms the frozen corners of his heart. Reconnecting sparks desire, tests ...
Frozen Over by Ruth Stilling
❄️ Billionaire Romance | Second Chance | Forbidden Attraction Alex Volkov has built walls around his heart, shaped by tragedy and vengeance. But when Ava, his best friend’s sister, enters his life, those icy defenses begin to crack. As their worlds c...
Twisted Love by Ana Huang
🍷 Enemies-to-Lovers | Marriage of Convenience | Napa Romance After losing her job and fiancé, Natalie Vos proposes a mutually beneficial marriage to a man she can barely stand—August Cates, a vineyard owner struggling to save his late friend’s legac...
Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
🏞️ Second Chance Romance | Small Town | Billionaire Heir Callahan Kane returns to Lake Wisteria to fulfill his grandfather’s will—but the last person he expects to see is Lana Castillo, his childhood best friend and the only woman he ever loved. Six...
Final Offer by Lauren Asher
🛡️ Romantic Suspense | Bodyguard Romance | Protection & Danger Bree Hart is trying to rebuild her life while a stalker lurks nearby, but even a fake relationship with a Hollywood playboy can’t hide the fear she feels. Her only safe harbor is Vin...
The Road Less Traveled By by Emily Tudor
August
👑 Bodyguard Romance | Royalty | Forbidden Love Rhys Larsen lives by two rules: protect his clients at all costs and never get emotionally involved—until Princess Bridget von Ascheberg challenges every one of them. Stubborn, fiery, and utterly irresi...
Twisted Games by Ana Huang
⚾ Enemies-to-Lovers | Fake Relationship | Baseball Romance Ace pitcher Whit O’Rourke is focused on reclaiming his career and reputation—until the good girl who ruined him reappears. Forced into a fake-relationship arrangement to fix a fresh scandal, ...
A Little Irresistible by Bree Fleming
🚐 Locked-Room Thriller | Six Teens, One RV | No One's Getting Out Clean Five Survive is tense. A spring break trip goes off the rails when six friends get stranded—and someone’s hunting them. Every character has secrets. Every hour ramps up the pres...
Five Survive - Holly Jackson
📚 Contemporary Romance | Summer Romance | Fake Relationship After her fiancé leaves her for his childhood best friend, Daphne relocates to Waning Bay to start fresh and takes in scruffy, chaotic Miles Nowak as a roommate. What begins as a summer of ...
Funny Story by Emily Henry
🏈 Marriage of Convenience | Sports Romance | Drunken Mistake Turned Love After a wild night she barely remembers, she wakes up married to her sister’s ex-fiancé—a pro football player. What started as a strategic move to claim her family vineyard and...
Wedding the Wide Receiver by Lisa Suzanne
🏒 Friends-with-Benefits | College Sports Romance | Rivalry & Heat When Isabelle’s volleyball comeback collides with Nikolai, her brother’s rival and last summer’s secret fling, sparks fly both on and off the court. As old chemistry reignites and...
Wicked Serve by Grace Reilly
⛸️ Enemies-to-Lovers | Figure Skating Romance | Second Chances Jasmine Santos has spent years chasing her dreams—and avoiding Ivan Lukov, the arrogant skater who’s been both her rival and obsession. When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity forces them t...
From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata
🏒 Sports Romance | Surly Single Dad | Quirky Nanny Tallulah’s chance to earn a living as a live-in nanny for hockey veteran Burgess seems perfect—until she discovers he’s as gruff as he is irresistible. Between his surly attitude, his daughter’s mat...
The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey
💍 Small-Town Romance | Fake Engagement | Romantic Comedy Josie Moore’s complicated love life takes an unexpected turn when Matthew Flanagan stumbles into Green Oak and ends up posing as her fiancé. What begins as a messy misunderstanding and a PR st...
The Fiancé Dilemma by Elena Armas
🏈 Sports Romance | Music Star Meets NFL MVP | Second Chance Sparks After a Super Bowl halftime disaster, global pop sensation Willow retreats from the spotlight, while MVP quarterback Tripp Owens adjusts to a new team and city. When fate reunites th...
Your Play to Call by Rachel LaBerge
🌅 Second Chance Romance | Small-Town Summer | Friends-to-Lovers Persephone Fraser thought she’d left Barry’s Bay—and Sam Florek—behind for good, but a call home for a funeral forces her back to the lakeside town of her youth. Six summers of friendsh...
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
September
✈️ Sports Romance | NHL Hockey | Enemies to Lovers Flight attendant Stevie is used to keeping her distance from athletes—until she’s assigned to Chicago’s most infuriating hockey player, Evan Zanders. Between penalty boxes, private planes, and nonsto...
Mile High by Liz Tomforde
📱 Secrets & Scandals | The Breakfast Club but Deadly | Prep School Drama One of Us Is Lying is twisty, smart, and full of drama. Five students walk into detention, but only four walk out alive. Think Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars, but wi...
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
⚓ Small-Town Romance | Opposites Attract | Self-Discovery Piper Bellinger’s wild-child reputation finally catches up with her, sending her from the glitz of LA to her late father’s dive bar in Washington. Tasked with responsibility—and forced to live...
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
🔬 Fake Relationship | Enemies-to-Lovers | Academic Romance Olive Smith never believed in lasting love—until a white lie to appease her best friend lands her kissing Stanford’s notorious hotshot professor, Adam Carlsen. What starts as a fake relation...
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
⛸️ Sports Romance | Hockey & Figure Skating | Fake Relationship Ex-Olympic figure skater Liora James teams up with New York’s notorious hockey star Riley Huntington for a high-stakes TV show—and a fake romance meant to fix their careers. But as o...
Rinkmates by Nova Banks
🏈 Sports Romance | Forbidden Attraction | Steamy One-Night Stand When the coach’s daughter finds herself sitting beside star tight end Asher Nash at a high-profile charity ball, sparks fly—literally. One night of irresistible passion sets the stage ...
Tempting the Tight End by Lisa Suzanne
🔥 Enemies-to-Lovers | Enemies-with-Benefits | Steamy Romance Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn’t charm—until Jules Ambrose. Their mutual animosity ignites one unforgettable night, leading to a no-strings-attached arrangement with strict rule...
Twisted Hate by Ana Huang
🏒 Enemies-to-Lovers | College Hockey Romance | Slow Burn Summer Preston’s academic ambitions and Aiden Crawford’s hockey captain duties couldn’t be more different—until a forced research project collides their worlds. What starts as mutual annoyance...
Collide by Bal Khabra
October
🎵 Billionaire Romance | Small Town | Forbidden Attraction Ford Grant, the world’s hottest billionaire, has his life carefully controlled—until Rosie Belmont, his best friend’s fiery little sister, storms back into town. Tasked with navigating father...
Wild Love by Elsie Silver
🏞️ Second Chance Romance | Small Town | Summer at the Lake Fern Brookbanks never forgot the one perfect day with Will Baxter, even if he didn’t keep their pact. Now, years later, he shows up at her struggling lakeside resort, offering help—and reign...
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
🦀 Small Town Romance | Friends-to-Lovers | Fisherman’s Life Fox Thornton is Westport’s notorious ladies’ man, until Hannah Bellinger comes along—immune to his charm but full of spark. As they navigate living under the same roof, platonic rules quick...
Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
💎 Billionaire Romance | Summer in the Hamptons | Enemies-to-Lovers America’s It girl Lili Kensington and Britain’s charming duke Charles Marlborough collide during a glamorous Hamptons summer. Public appearances demand perfection, but behind closed ...
False God by C.W. Farnsworth
🧠 Enemies-to-Lovers | Scientists at NASA | Slow-Burn Romance Bee Königswasser thrives on logic, neuroscience, and Marie Curie-level brilliance—but working alongside Levi Ward, her tall, dark, piercing-eyed archenemy, might just throw all her formula...
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
🏎️ Friends-to-Lovers | Formula 1 Romance | Slow Burn Josie Bancroft just wants to focus on herself after a breakup, but working closely with Formula 1 heartthrob Theo Walker proves far more distracting than she expected. Between high-stakes races an...
Drive Me Wild by Carly Robyn
🕵️♀️ Copycat Crimes | Found Family Feels | Small Town Paranoia One of Us Is Next ups the stakes with a dangerous game of Truth or Dare—only this time, someone isn’t bluffing. Bayview is still haunted by Simon’s legacy, and when anonymous texts star...
One Of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
November
❄️ Second-Chance Romance | Holiday | Snowbound Jamie Malek never expected to run into Marc, her best friend’s brother and the one who got away, on a snowy Christmas night. Trapped together by a blizzard, the warmth of the fire and the spark between t...
Cruel Winter with You by Ali Hazelwood
🎄 Holiday Romance | Firefighter | Festive Flirtation When a kitchen mishap lands Everleigh Dangerfield in Griffin Brantley’s arms, sparks fly in more ways than one. With a holiday full of unexpected moments and Griffin always on call, Everleigh may ...
Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur
🎄 Holiday Romance | Neighbor Crush | Mistletoe Magic Evie Cruz has a short list for Christmas: a nap, ornaments, and maybe a little festive fun with her sexy upstairs neighbor. When a Santa-themed party and a surprise mistletoe give her the perfect ...
Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria
🐂 Enemies-to-Lovers | Bull Riding Romance | Steamy Slow Burn Rhett Eaton is the golden boy of professional bull riding—until a public brawl shatters his image. Now he’s stuck under “full-time supervision” with his agent’s sharp-tongued, irresistible...
Flawless by Elsie Silver
🎭 Double Lives | Past Comes Back | High-Stakes Twists One of Us Is Back is a finale that delivers—dark, emotional, and explosive. When someone from the Bayview crew disappears, the past and present collide in dangerous ways. The mystery is layered, ...
One of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus
December
🏈 High School Romance | Friends-to-Lovers | Flirty Banter Rowan Lancaster’s senior year was supposed to be the best—until a football injury sidelines him. But there’s one bright spot: Arabella Hartley Thomas. Beautiful, quirky, and impossible to ign...
Keep Me in Your Heart by Monica Murphy
🎄 Cinnamon-Roll Hero | Small Town | Holiday Novella Catalina’s only plan for the winter wedding is to support her sister—even if it means being around her ex. But Luke Darling, the charming best man and ex-best-friend of her ex, complicates everythi...
My December Darling by Lauren Asher
💼 Billionaire | Age Gap | Steamy Romance Christian Harper is a dangerous, impeccably dressed billionaire with no use for love—until Stella Alonso, sweet, shy, and untouchable, becomes his obsession. When circumstances force them into a fake-dating a...
Twisted Lies by Ana Huang
💌 Second Chance Romance | Small Town Love | High School Sweethearts Olivia Hart thought she had her life figured out—until Tristan West, her first love, returns to town and turns everything upside down. From passing notes in class to letters written...
The Road Not Taken by Emily Tudor
🎮 Enemies-to-Lovers | Spicy Video Game Romance | Audio Exclusive Viola Bowen is finally getting her dream project: designing a video game based on her favorite book series. There’s just one problem—her co-lead is Jesse F-ing Andrews, the nemesis she...
Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood
🎲 Romantic Comedy | Fake Relationship | Gameshow Fun Cleo is all about her anthrozoology research, with no time for romance—until Javi’s quirky dating profile and a beloved gameshow reboot sweep her off her feet. Pretending to be newlyweds on nation...
Know Your Newlywed by Hillary Nussbaum & Heather Taylor
💌 Contemporary Romance | Fate | Secrets & Heartbeats Daphne Bell has always trusted the universe’s numbered slips, predicting exactly how long each romance will last—until Jake shows up without an expiration date. As their connection deepens, Da...
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
🏀 Fake Relationship | NBA Romance | Slow Burn Ryan Shay, the newest captain of the Chicago Devils, didn’t expect his sister’s best friend, Indy Ivers, to move in—and even less to pretend to be his girlfriend. What starts as a calculated ruse to prov...
The Right Move by Liz Tomforde
⚽ Enemies-to-Lovers | High School Soccer | Rivals & Romance Austin Keller just landed his dream spot on Frost Lake High’s championship soccer team—but one dare changes everything. Tasked with kissing the captain’s ex-girlfriend, he sparks a rival...
Stealing for Keeps by Rebecca Jenshak
🏠 Enemies-to-Lovers | Scientist vs. Lawyer | Slow-Burn Romance Mara, an environmental engineer, never expected her new living arrangement to spark romance…especially not with Liam, her annoyingly hot nemesis and big-oil lawyer roommate. Tasked with ...
Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood
💰 Contemporary Romance | Enemies-to-Lovers | High Stakes Kris hires a charming actor to sabotage her father’s fiancée—but the deal comes with an unexpected twist: a kiss, whenever he chooses. What starts as a risky game of money and manipulation soo...
If Love Had a Price by Ana Huang