My Top 10 Book Boyfriends of 2024
If youโre looking for the best book boyfriends of 2024 then look no further because Iโve got all the best romance heroes of the year in this book list.
Every year I set out on a new mission to collect as many new book boyfriends as I can and through my journey of reading over 140 romance books in 2024, a few book boyfriends stood out among the rest as my favorites.
Below are my top 10 book boyfriends of 2024 who are the romance heroes that captured my heart and just honestly havenโt let gone since reading their happily ever-after love stories. Get ready to swoon and claim these book boyfriends as your own (although I already have!) because they are my favorites of the year.
For even more book boyfriends, check out my Book Boyfriend Hub for my past annual lists and book lists of favorite heroes.
Donโt forget to also grab your copy of the Romance Book Reading Journal which has specific pages to help you keep track of your own favorite book boyfriends as you find them throughout the coming year.
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The Best Book Boyfriends of 2024
Isaiah Rhodes
Play Along
by Liz Tomforde
Best Husband Book Boyfriend
Kennedy Kay -the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors professional baseball team, is desperate to land her dream job with a new team next year.
But a crazy night in Las Vegas finds her married to the teamโs shortstop, in the morning. Isaiah Rhodes has been crushing on Kennedy for years so of course he will pretend to be a real couple to save her job and to give him the chance to convince her to give them a real shot.
I knew Isaiah was top book boyfriend material when I fell for him in Caught Up (his brotherโs story) but man did he exceed all my expectations with his own love story.
This is a man who is the life of the party and who strives to lighten things up for everyone around him even when heโs got his own struggles. I loved the devotion between him and his brother Kai. I loved the relationship he has with his coach and teammates but I loved the man he was for Kenny.
His patience, kindness, love and his โteachingโ in the bedroom since she didnโt like to be touched were everything that makes him top book boyfriend material. I wanted to stay in these pages with him and Kenny forever.
Jaxon
Fall With Me
by Becka Mack
Best Playboy Book Boyfriend
Jaxon Riley is a hot hockey player and a known playboy on his NHL team. Despite taking a random girl on vacation, he ends up having a one night stand with the woman next door in the honeymoon suite only for her to turn up weeks later as the teamโs new photographer.
Itโs never hard to fall for a hockey stud but there was so much more to Jaxon beyond his prowess on the ice and in the bedroom. As someone who was constantly traded and never felt wanted in his personal or professional life, I loved how he became the perfect roommate and โboyfriendโ to Lennon when he thought he thought he was keeping his distance.
His kindness, attention, and caring were the sweetest all the while he didnโt think he deserved any of those things in return. I loved when he showed up for her when she needed him most and how is teammates didnโt let him shirk their friendship. I adored this man!
Ethan
Summer Romance
by Annabel Monaghan
Best Friendโs Brother Book Boyfriend
Ali Morris is a professional organizer whose own life is a mess as she struggles with her motherโs passing and balancing life as a single mother. But a spark with a man at the dog park who seems to see beyond her mess changes everything.
Ethan is one of those book boyfriends that Iโm still thinking about long after finishing this book. I mean itโs been months since I finished Summer Romance but I still think of his patience, the calmness he brought to Aliโs world and his ability and desire to make a fool out of himself for her benefit. I mean the man dressed in a leisure suit for a mediation meeting!
Ethan is a man who is dependable. And while that doesnโt sound hot on its own, he was also that and more. He proved that he was there for Ali, her kids, the kids at the skate park, his neighbors and so many others without asking a thing in return.
Annable Monaghan made me fall in love with this skater dude and I love her for it.
Wells
Fangirl Down
by Tessa Bailey
Best Grumpy Book Boyfriend
Wells Whitaker was once the hottest golfer on the tour and he was followed by mega-fan Josephine Doyle until the day he has a meltdown and leaves the tour and his fangirl behind. But the grumpy golfer starts to miss seeing Josephineโs face and when he sees that sheโs in money trouble, he asks her if sheโll become his caddy if he returns to the tour.
Wells is the grump to Josephineโs sunshine I didnโt know I needed in my life and he easily soared to being one of my favorite book boyfriends. Sure, he was gruff but he was also a man who listened, didnโt mansplain, and actually took Josephineโs advice. He also truly saw her and took care of her without treating her with kid gloves like everyone else in her life.
Heโs top book boyfriend material because he is both a confident and alpha man while also being a supportive partner in more ways than one. I love him so much.
Lowe
Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
Best Enemies to Lovers Book Boyfriend
Misery Lark, only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman who has been an outcast her entire life, becomes an outcast once again when she enters a marriage of convenience with Lowe, an Alpha of a Were pact in hopes of forging an alliance between their two kinds.
Lowe stepped right into favorite book boyfriend territory just by being an Alpha werewolf. ๐ While his kind didnโt trust the Vampyres, he was willing to sacrifice his own happiness for the good of the pact and his family and marry an enemy.
I LOVED his fierce loyalty and love for his younger sister and how he came to unravel Misery from her shell. He was such a great leader but who could also see the individual. The way he made his feelings and vulnerabilities known despite being the Alpha just made my heart swoon for this man.
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Charlie
Business Casual
by B.K. Borison
Best Secret Book Boyfriend
Charlie Milford is staying in town as the temporary head of Lovelight Farms despite having an investment job in the city. He loves the small town he secretly wants to be a part of. He also loves his flirtations with Nova, the woman looking to open a new tattoo studio, which give life to a secret, friends with benefits relationship that both try and fight from turning into more.
Charlie instantly became a favorite book boyfriend because he was the sweetest cinnamon roll yet also a man who could also let loose with some hot and heavy wants in the bedroom.
He is just the sweetest man to everyone in their small town yet continues to think that he is separate and not enough. He’s also the best big brother who sends his sister on an epic honeymoon while he works himself into the ground.
His โbusiness casualโ relationship that soon warped into more with such honesty and the best banter and flirting was epic. Plus, donโt even get me started on the manโs tattoos and his willingness to embrace of all surfaces for spicy times. He is amazing.
Justin
Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
Best Fake Book Boyfriend
Justin is a man who believes that he is cursed because every woman he dates goes on to find their soulmate after they break up. And, he just so happens to connect with Emma on Reddit who believes that she has the same curse. In an effort to cancel out their respective curses they decide to fake date each other for a time and then break up to finally break their curses.
I loved every single thing about this hero who stepped up not only for his siblings but for Emma time and time again in this deeply moving romance. I definitely have a thing for heroes with wounded hearts and you soon find out that thereโs a heaviness that was weighing down Justinโs shoulders.
But I think what attracted me most to this man and what made me fall so hard for him is the way that he let Emma go when she needed to put herself first and start her healing process. That could not have been easy with everything else in his life but he was so patient.
Hands down one of the best book boyfriends of 2024, written like only Abby Jimenez can write them!
Wyatt
Nine Month Contract
by Amy Daws
Best Mountain Man Book Boyfriend
Grumpy mountain man, Wyatt is ready to become a single dad so heโs on the hunt for a surrogate to give him a baby. Only his nosy brothers (and sweet niece) bud in and end up finding him the perfect someone. But baby making and keeping things professional go right out the window once he meets Trista.
Wyatt is absolutely top book boyfriend material. Not only was he super hot wanting to become a dad even if he was single, but he was the best uncle, a strong brother and a devoted lover to Trista.
I adore how he loves Trista for the woman she is and the body she has and shows her every chance he can get. Acts of service is truly this manโs love language.
It didnโt hurt that he is also one amazing dirty talker because you know how I love those. Wyatt is proof that itโs not just the closed off alphas or the wounded heroes that earn the spots as best book boyfriends, but also the charming, funny and kind heroes as well.
Coal
The Nightmare Before Kissmas
by Sara Raasch
Best Cinnamon Roll Book Boyfriend
Nicholas โCoalโ Claus used to love Christmas until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR faรงade. To escape the spectacle, he has a hot make-out session with a nameless, beautiful man one night.
But when the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess, a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princessโs handโฆhis mysterious one-night hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.
It was so easy to become completely obsessed with Coal while reading this book. I loved this man who definitely came across as a hot mess in the beginning but also as someone who truly loved the joy of Christmas.
His self-discovery and growth throughout the book was just beautiful. It broke my heart how he viewed himself initially, but I loved how he pushed through his self-doubt and negative self-talk and worked to save Christmas.
And as a lover to Hex, he was so understanding, patient and tender. He also gives the perfect example of what it means to get and give consent. I totally fell for this cinnamon roll of a book boyfriend in this MM romance that was one of the best surprises of the year.
Hades
The Games Gods Play
by Abigail Owen
The Best Fantasy Book Boyfriend
Lyra is set to destroy Zeusโs temple on the eve of the 100 years old game the Gods play with mortals to find the next leader of Olympus. But sheโs stopped in her task by Hades who then turns around and and picks her to be his Champion for the games. Her task โ to stay alive and win.
What is it about Hades that we romantasy readers love so much? Whatever it is about the broody, secretive god, Abigail captitalized on it and then some in her portrayal of the Greek God. Sure, heโs still just as dark and mysterious as youโd expect but I loved the layers to Owenโs Hades and the ultimate reason why he decided to participate in the games this year.
I loved how he could seem so aloof and yet he was always looking out for Lyra. His protectiveness, even his anger, were SUPER hot which is why he is top book boyfriend material. I cannot wait to get more of him in this series.
EXTRA: Favorite Throwback Book Boyfriend
You got my list of favorite book boyfriends from new romance books released in 2024 above but I couldnโt NOT include this hero below, from one of the throwback titles on my reading list this year. He was just too incredible to keep off this list!
Lorcan
How to Tame a Wild Rogue
by Julie Anne Long
Best Historical Book Boyfriend with the Best Proposal
Feared and fearsome, battered and brilliant, nothing shocks Lorcan St. Legerโnot even the discovery of an aristocratic woman escaping out a window near the London docks on the eve of the storm of the decade. They find shelter at a boarding house called the Grand Palace on the Thamesโonly finding themselves needing to pose as husband and wife to share the only room available.
This book and these characters are why I read historical romance. Julie Anne Long has SUCH a way with words and can make a scene where just a simple touch to the thigh is so sensual or a manโs quietly uttered words of longing to kiss her upper thigh is just heart pounding.
Lorcan was not a gentleman and yet he stepped in to help Daphne every step of the way since meeting the woman outside a window one night. I loved that he never pushed and didnโt have to because he was irresistible and so freakinโ HOT.
Plus, he gives the best proposal speech Iโve ever heard from a man who truly knows the woman heโs fallen for. He is hands down top book boyfriend material.
Related Lists:
- Best Book Boyfriend Hub
- Best Book Boyfriends of 2023
- Best Book Boyfriends of 2022
- Best Romance Books of 2024
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