Most Anticipated Books of 2024
The Bullet Swallower
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.
Release date: January 23
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
by Avery Cunningham
When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago. The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue rages on every shore with Chicago at its beating heart.
Debut author Avery Cunningham’s stunning novel is at once an epic love story, a riveting historical drama, and a brilliant exploration of Black society and perseverance when the ‘20s first began to roar.
Release date: January 30
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
by Janice Hallett
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels, the cult that brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared. Now, true crime author Amanda Bailey is looking to revive her career by writing a book on the case. The Alperton baby has turned eighteen; finding them will be the true-crime scoop of the year. But rival author Oliver Menzies is just as smart, better connected, and also on the baby’s trail. As Amanda and Oliver are forced to collaborate, they realize that the truth about the Angels is much darker and stranger than they’d ever imagined, and in pursuit of the story they risk becoming part of it.
Release date: January 23
House of Flame and Shadow
The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath.
In this sexy, breathtaking sequel to the #1 bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City series reaches new heights as Bryce and Hunt's world is brought to the brink of collapse-with its future resting on their shoulders.
Release date: January 30
The Women
by Kristin Hannah
15 hours
The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
Release date: February 6
Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.
Release date: February 6
Lore of the Wilds
by Analeigh Sbrana
A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together.
A library with a deadly enchantment.
A Fae lord who wants in.
A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power.
Release date: February 27
Bloodguard
by Cecy Robson
Author (and registered nurse!) Cecy Robson operates at the crossroads between fantasy and romance. Her latest tells the tale of Leith, a hardened gladiator in the treacherous Kingdom of Arrow. Will Leith’s heart finally soften when the elven royal Maeve offers him a chance to win his freedom? There will be blood.
Release date: March 5
This Could Be Us
by Kennedy Ryan
In this stirring new love story from romance great Kennedy Ryan (Before I Let Go), a woman finds her life upended by a monumental betrayal. In its aftermath, Soledad Barnes must keep a roof over her daughters' heads and rediscover herself at the same time. That doesn't leave any time for a hunky (but forbidden!) man to enter the picture—or does it?
Release date: March 5
How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.
Release date: March 26
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
by Holly Jackson
From the author of the multimillion bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth about her missing mother while filming a documentary on the unsolved case.
Release date: April 2
The Prisoner's Throne
by Holly Black
The highly anticipated conclusion to the Stolen Heir duology by #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.
After the shocking events of The Stolen Heir, Prince Oak is in deeper trouble than ever before. As his situation grows more precarious, Oak is desperate to find a way out, before all of Elfhame is caught in the coming storm.
Release date: April 2
Funny Story
by Emily Henry
A-list romance author Emily Henry (Beach Read) kicks off the new year with a mischievous riff on the old opposites-attract template. Daphne is feeling rather adrift since her ex-fiancé bailed. Her new roommate Miles has an interesting connection to all that, actually. Is Daphne really falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex? Funny story…
Release date: April 23
You Like It Darker
by Stephen King
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.
Release date: May 21
The Grandest Game
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Inheritance Games saga is getting a reboot with this new installment of the crazy-popular YA mystery franchise. The setup focuses on billionaire Avery Grambs and the Hawthorne brothers as they ramp up a new gauntlet of puzzles for the next generation. But with fame and fortune on the line, not everyone is playing fair.
Release date: July 30
The Life Impossible
by Matt Haig
A remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Library
The Life Impossible is a story of wild adventure, deep transformation and gloriously heart-warming characters. It shows how a new outlook can burst into life at any moment and change everything.
Release date: September 3
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