Amazon selects the 20 best romance novels of 2024

Soledad is a Type-A fixer through and through, but her can-do nature can’t prevent a monumental betrayal from the man she loves most. When everything falls apart, a taboo man from her past reappears. You know where this is going.

Yes, reviewers say it’s a romance novel, but the book’s portrait of platonic friendship and motherhood is equally beautiful: “Soledad as a mother is fascinating to read. Everything she does is for her daughter. , instilling in them such strength, but she doesn’t lose herself in just being a mother…she shows her daughters how to love themselves as they go through their own journey. Kennedy does a great job of creating such strong women. , and takes us through their journey, which makes us as readers really reflect on our own lives and find ourselves connected to Soledad in different ways.

Daphne moves to her fiancé’s small town in Michigan just as he realizes he’s fallen in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Now stuck in a new place with no friends but trying to keep her new dream job, Daphne agrees to live with the only person she knows who now has an opening in her living situation: Petra’s ex-boyfriend Myers. They couldn’t be more different, but together they hatch a little revenge plan… that may or may not turn into something more.

We all know someone like that – someone who dates someone and then always goes on to meet their soulmate. Justin has this special gift (curse?) and somehow it ended up going viral. At this moment, Emma stretched out her hand. She had the same pattern and thought that if she and Justin could date and break up, they would be able to get out of their little predicament. So, was this really just a brief encounter, or was it fate?

A career organizer whose life is in shambles finally takes off his wedding ring, puts on his zip-up pants, and walks out of the house for the first time when he meets a hottie with rules. Ali knew she wasn’t cut out for a new relationship, but a little fling never hurt, right?

“Annabelle Monaghan has become one of my favorite romance novelists so far,” said one Amazon reviewer. “summer romance is her best work to date. Ali and Ethan’s dialogue is sharp and witty. In fact, I read this book twice because I loved their language connection so much. You really cheer for this couple.

In fact, the cover features Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore at a pottery wheel ghost is a good sign. When a professional violinist and a rock star cellist meet, a rivalry breaks out between them. But underneath this tension, some serious chemistry is brewing, and it only grows when they’re forced to create new work together.

Rainbow Rowell’s writing never disappoints, and so does this slow dance also. As best friends in high school, Shiloh and Cary never understood why everyone swore they’d end up together. Shiloh, now 33, wondered if she would run into Cary at a mutual friend’s wedding. She is now divorced and the mother of two children─does he still want to get back together? It turns out: he really, really wants to.

In Bridget and Lucy’s friendship, part of the girl code includes Lucy being uninterested in Bridget’s brother Felix and ending up in his bed every summer. But every time she visits Prince Edward Island, Lucy falls under Felix’s spell again. When Bridget calls off her wedding and heads there to find some peace, Lucy comes for support. But what will happen now that all three of them are in the same place at the same time?

Fair warning: this book won’t be for everyone, but if you like old vampire and werewolf tension, give it a try. Misery Lark, the daughter of a powerful vampire, will marry werewolf leader Lowe Moreland to cement the alliance between the two groups. Misery had her own reasons for agreeing, however, and Lo sensed something was wrong from the start.

Influencer Josephine Boateng, known to her thousands of followers as “Dr. Jojo,” is a self-love guru. However, she’s not very good at taking her own advice, which she realizes when her best friend Ezra (her crush) shows up at a party on a date with her childhood bully. Then there’s Malcolm, a feisty new writer with whom she seems to have undeniable chemistry. But when Ezra asks to be more than friends, all three of them have to draw a line.

“This book is simply delicious!!! It’s an amazing piece of storytelling that captures the heart and soul of its characters,” said one Amazon reviewer. “From the very beginning, I was captivated by the world of Dr. Jo, and her emotional journey kept me completely invested in her life. Aubey was able to draw the characters and their relationships so vividly it was incredible – I could watch To be there and feel every moment as if I was right there with them.

Weston Belmont is a heartthrob name – he’s a single dad, a horse trainer and a small-town hunk. When country music singer Skylar is having a bad PR, she happens to end up in his small town, and it seems like she might finally find the peace she’s been longing for with Weston. Amazon reviewers say audiobook cast wild eyes It’s special, the joke between the two protagonists is *Chef’s Kiss*.

We have Anna Green, a starving artist, and Liam Weston, a Stanford University professor and heir to a fortune from a large grocery chain. Anna married him while in college to get subsidized housing but never actually divorced, although the two lived single. But then Liam asks for a favor she owes him – he needs to be happily married for five years to get his massive inheritance, and he needs Anna to accompany him on a family vacation to prove their love.

Booktok Likes Carissa Broadbent’s The Crown of Nyaxia trilogy, which begins with Night Serpent and Night Wings. It won’t actually be released until July 2025, but Amazon editors clearly already think it’s going to be a big deal. In the finale, Mish must go to the underworld with Assar, the prince of the House of Shadows, to resurrect the God of Death. But the sun god she was loyal to expected her to defeat death forever. As she begins to fall in love with Ashar, Mish questions who she will ultimately choose to fight for.

If you’ve read Huang’s previous works, you’ll recognize these characters as people who have walked through other stories. Now, they’ll get two books of their own.

Donovan is a starter in the Premier League, but he’s had his share of troubles. He was recently traded to another team, putting him alongside a rival whose competitiveness cost them the title. So his coach decided to give them a summer of bonding. At this moment, he learned that the team’s coach Scully happened to be the sister of his opponent. She is charming.

A governess and ex-spy hiding her past falls in love with a soldier-turned-detective? No more to say. Zack spends his days tracking down murderers for the Metropolitan Police and his nights attending a society ball he plans to attend – involving the railway tycoon family and everyone else. He becomes smitten with a beautiful governess when she blows a kiss to him from across the room. But as they begin a romance and he begins to expose her lies, he may realize that work and play overlap in unexpected ways.

This book is set in New York in the 1960s and is about being true to yourself and the life you want. Eddie O’Leary is the new professional baseball player in town who is homesick and afraid of doing a lot of interviews. Mark Barley was reluctantly there to ask him questions – he’s an arts journalist, for crying out loud. Suddenly, the two men can’t seem to get out of each other’s orbit. But Mark vowed he would never keep a secret again, and Eddie couldn’t quit being a professional athlete. So what will they do?

Think romance, but don’t think of fairies, but of Vikings. Freya is a shield maiden blessed by the gods with the ability to repel attacks. When her husband reveals her secret, she is forced to serve the lord of her region and is guarded by his voluptuous son Bjorn. But the stakes are high. Falling in love with Bjorn means that the safety of her people and the fate of the world itself are at stake.

Rafael Lopez is a billionaire and single dad who is still guarding his heart after going through a nasty divorce. He hired Ellie Sinclair, an unemployed songwriter he’d met in high school, to babysit for him during the two-week vacation. They don’t have much in common, so why do they enjoy each other’s company so much? What happens after the vacation is over?

Emma wants to become a professional screenwriter, but spends most of her time caring for her father. When the opportunity arose to spend six weeks in Los Angeles rewriting a Charlie Yates romantic comedy—her hero—she jumped at it. But Charlie is an arrogant asshole and this script is really bad. How does she make Charlie realize what’s really important in romance? You just have to read and find out.

Meghna Raman has a crush on her writing partner and now he is engaged. And asked her to be his best man. She said yes. To move forward quickly, Meghna agreed to let her parents start matchmaking.

Kartik had agreed to his parents’ attempts at matchmaking to get them out of his troubles, and it seemed Meghna could use the fake engagement to her advantage, so he agreed. Naturally, the two grow closer and their relationship develops…yeah, you know where they’re going, right?

Our protagonists: a traveling musician with ADHD and a tattooed, obsessive Irish pub owner. The joint property Jack just inherited might need some repairs, and maybe Wren will breathe new life into it – so he offers her a job to do just that.

“This is my first time reading anything by Sarah Grund Ruiz, but I can’t wait to go back and read the rest,” said one reviewer. “The way she writes vibrant, imperfect characters is truly perfect. From the moment Wren sits down at the local bar and meets the flirtatious cat, then Olivoli, then Jack, this cast of characters I will always love you.