10 New Romance Book Releases Dropping October 2024 That Deserve a Spot on Your TBR List

This book list and epsiode of the She Reads Romance Books Podcast of the most anticipated new romance book releases coming October 2024 is going to make your TBR list overflow so get ready for it!

These are the new romance books I recommend all romance book lovers preorder and add to their must-read list because they have the most captivating story lines, the best romance book tropes and are written from some of the best authors in the genre.

A few of these new releases are holiday romance books from my list of new Christmas romance books releasing in 2024 that I cannot wait to get my hands on but the list has a lot of variety to satisfy any romance reader.

From fake relationship to surprise pregnancy, romantasy, historical romance, and more, this book list has you covered for the best romance books worth reading this October.

For even more books to add to your reading list, check out my upcoming releases page or my previous monthly release book posts for more amazing titles.

Happy reading, because life is better with a love story…

Episode 73: My Top 10 New Romance Book Releases Dropping October 2024

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October 2024’s Most Anticipated New Romance Books

Slap Shot Surprise
by Melanie Harlow

Oops Pregnancy Romance
Releasing October 1, 2024

In my defense, I thought the plane was going to crash. Otherwise, I never would have blurted out those embarrassing things to a perfect stranger. Did I mention he turned out to be a scorching hot superstar of professional hockey? But wait, there’s more.

When the plane lands safely, I rush off, praying I’ll never have to face him again. My luck holds out for less than twenty-four hours, when I realize he’s a groomsman at the wedding I’m attending.

We end up having a drink and a good laugh about my panicked confessions, and when he invites me up to his room for some no-strings-attached fun, I say yes. After all, a headboard rattling one-night stand with a guy who knows how to put the puck in deep isn’t something a bookworm like me ever thought she’d experience.

Neither are those two little pink lines. Now what’s crashing are all the plans Joe Lupo and I had for our lives–separately. After all, we’re totally wrong for each other. He’s commitment-phobic and completely focused on his career. And I want to plant roots in my small town–with someone who chooses me.

Love? It’s out of the question. Until Joe Lupo lines up his shot and aims straight for my heart.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: It’s always a delight to sink into a Melanie Harlow romance. Throw in a hot hockey player and I’m all over it! I’ve been meaning to do a podcast episode on meet cutes in romance that occur on an airplane and this might be one I mention. It also has the oops pregnancy trope going for it which I’m not always a fan of but I cannot wait to see how these two make it work.

Related: Best Hockey Romance Books

A Very No Strings Halloween
by Kayley Loring and Connor Crais

Halloween Romance
Releasing October 4, 2024

Halloween: it’s a holiday where people shed their boring everyday personalities and become fantastic beings ready for an epic party. Well, guess what? That’s Billy Boston 24/7, 365, baby! It’s who I was before I became a millionaire and it’s who I’ll always be.

My beautiful next door neighbor, Donna, is a hardworking nurse who takes her job seriously and her fun even more so.  All she wants is a no-strings arrangement and that’s fine by me. It’s Halloween for us every time we’re together because she likes to role play. There’s no way to get attached if we’re both pretending to be someone else, right?

It’s all smooth as a good whiskey until my married cousins bet me that I can’t get a serious girlfriend by November. So, Donna and I make a deal: She’ll help fix me up to be a proper boyfriend and I’ll help fix up the farmhouse she inherited. The one she thinks is haunted.

And that’s not the scary part. Because I realize I’m falling wicked hard for Donna. For real. She’s spooked by the ghost, but I’m afraid I’ll spook her if I tell her how I really feel. We made a pact when we started this no-strings thing: If either of us gets serious, we have to end it.

I have to trick Donna into thinking she’s teaching me how to date, when really I’m treating her to dates with me.  But if I screw this up, I’ll lose the woman I’m in love with. And that’ll haunt me forever. 

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: Kayley Lorings’s Very Holiday series is such a blast and I love how she is completing the series with a Halloween romance with the hilarious Boston cousin, Billy.  You’ve seen snippets of Billy in previous books but this one can be read as a standalone if you’re in the mood for a Halloween-themed book that will have you laughing in stitches.

I’m most excited to see how “Boston” they can make Billy. It’s going to be a great one and I cannot wait to read it.

The Fake Wedding Project
by Pippa Grant

Fake Relationship Romance
Releasing October 8, 2024

Faking an engagement to my secret high school crush was not on my to-do list when I landed for a short visit home. But when Amanda Anderson announces that she’s my fiancée, I take a leap and play along with the farce.

Why? Because the Capulets and Montagues have nothing on the Andersons and Silvers of Tinsel, Michigan. In the name of bringing peace to our Christmas-themed hometown and ourselves, we’ll play the part of Romeo and Juliet.

If our relatives think we’re in love, they’ll have to end this ridiculous feud. Right? Amanda’s a professional dog walker, and I’m an engineer who loves dogs—how hard could it be to show our families what else we all have in common?

The heat and this town’s infernal holiday cheer are messing with my head, though. And once we start making our fake wedding plans, I can’t seem to keep my heart out of it.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: I adore fake dating romance books, especially those when people need to fake a relationship for the benefit of their family members around the holidays. This is a must-read new Christmas romance for 2024 especially for enemies to lovers fans and those who love a Romeo and Juliet themed romcom. I’m also a fan of the opposites attract trope so I’m excited to see what kind of chemistry brews between these two while their family members are horrified by their coupling.

The Nightmare Before Kissmas
by Sara Raasch

MM Romance
Releasing October 8, 2024

Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.

But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.

Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.

It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And it all leads to one of the sweetest, hottest, messiest, most delightfully unforgettable love stories of the year.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: This is definitely one of the top new Christmas romance books that I am counting down to read this year because of its unique storyline that ties in more than one holiday!

I love when authors give me something I haven’t read before and this MM romance that mixes Halloween, Christmas and even Easter is just the ticket to escape into something new this holiday season. I’m so ready for it and hoping it’s one of the best of the year.

Check out my review of The Nightmare Before Kissmas.

Darn Knit All
by Evie Mitchell

Friends to Lovers Romance
Releasing October 12, 2024

THEO: You might be asking yourself how a guy like me ended up on a fashion reality TV show. You may also be asking why I agreed to be a designer’s apprentice with no intelligible sewing skills.
Cake. Delicious, fluffy, flour-laden, sugary cake—the beginning of my downfall.

If it weren’t for that cake, I’d have never bribed Mai Sakamoto for more. We’d have never developed a friendship. I wouldn’t know of her dreams to become a fashion designer. And I’d sure as hell would never have ended up on a reality TV show to help her chase those dreams. Real knight in shining armor moves, right?

Our friendship was a match made in heaven… before the show put us up in a one-bed hotel room. Now my lines are blurry and I can’t help but wonder, could Mai be my perfect fit?

MAI: Every day I’m battling imposter syndrome, anxiety, and abject terror—and why?
Is it for prize money? Fame? The opportunity for my designs to be seen around the world?
Nope. It’s because of Theo. Beautiful, hilarious, frustrating Theo.

Theodore Garrett believes in me. He believes I’ve got what it takes to win this crazy competition. He quiets the doubts in my head, pushing me toward my dream life.

Only, I don’t know how to tell him that my dreams don’t include fashion shows and exclusive lines, and instead feature… him. Darn Knit All.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: I have been waiting for this book to drop as it’s been teased for a long time and it’s finally coming. I love Evie Mitchell because she has a lot of spicy books and doesn’t hold back with her NSFW book covers but she also has this incredible All Access series of which this book is a part of that features diverse characters. Mai is someone struggling with anxiety but I also love the reality TV show aspect to this book so I’m super excited to check it out this month.

Related: #OwnVoices Romance Books

The Bastard King
by Donna Grant

Romantasy with Dragons
Releasing October 14, 2024

I am fire and destruction. My very presence brings terror and panic. For most, I am the last thing they will ever see. For there is only one thing I live for — freeing my kin. Every action, every battle brings me a step closer. Nothing distracts me from my purpose.

Until she crosses my path. Brave and fearless, she holds me utterly enthralled. I have to know her. Her past and her future. But especially the secrets she keeps closely guarded.

One taste of her lips, and I’m caught. Trapped. Seized. The more I’m with her, the harder it is to leave. But I have sworn allegiance to another who promises to free the dragons.

Her or my kin. It was once an easy choice. Before my heart got involved.

Donna Grant is bringing us romantasy lovers a new book to devour that has dragons and I’m all for it. I especially love fantasy book where the strong hero is brought to his knees by the heroine who captures his reluctant heart. I’m hoping this is a keeper!

Related: Best New Romantasy Books of 2024

How My Neighbor Stole Christmas
by Meghan Quinn

Neighbors to Lovers Romance
Releasing October 15, 2024

Every Kringle in Kringletown loved Christmas a lot.
But Cole Black on Whistler Lane, unfortunately did not.

Cole was a recluse during the Kringle Christmas season.
No one knew why, no one could quite give a reason.

Martha said it was because he was alone and very single.
Mae believed it was because he was never named the town Kringle.

But to me, the reason is a storyline far too sad.
For at the age of eighteen, he lost both mom and dad.

Whatever the reason, his parents or being single,
He spends Christmas in the dark, hating the cheery people of Kringle.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: How am I not surprised that Meghan Quinn is using How the Grinch Stole Christmas as her muse for this new Christmas romance book that I cannot wait to get my hands on? Someone had fun writing that book summary, making this sound like the perfect holiday romance with a humbug to enjoy. This new Christmas romance also made my list of must-read holiday romances this year and I think it’s going to be a great one with lots of laughs.

The Beast Takes a Bride
by Julie Anne Long

Historical Romance
Releasing October 22, 2024

He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family’s fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins.

 Five years of icy separation later, a scandal—with Alexandra at the middle—reunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continent—forever. 

But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle begins—between pride and the unexpected volcanic passion stirring between them. The danger is real: Magnus rediscovers why Alexandra is the only woman who could ever break him. And even as she lays bare the beautiful heart beating beneath the battered hide of the near-stranger she married, Alexandra knows she may have already lost him—even as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: I just adore Julie Anne Long’s writing making her one of my all-time favorite historical romance authors. Her books are just incredible and I love that this new release has a sort of Beauty and the Beast angle to it but also features a married couple that finally kindles their flame. If you haven’t yet checked out her Palace of Rogues series but love forced proximity romance, then make this your first stop!

All Folked Up
by Penny Reid

Small Town Romance
Releasing October 28, 2024

Rumor has it that gruff, brooding, and solitary man-of-mystery Isaac Sylvester is back in town, and the only thing folks in Green Valley know for certain is that this prodigal son’s motives are as elusive as he is.

Hannah Townsen is no stranger to local gossip but ten years after being dubbed as a hometown-stripper-with-a-heart-of-gold, Hannah has seemingly—and finally—fallen off the gossip mill’s radar. That is, until the enigmatic Isaac Sylvester shows up at Hannah’s retirement party wanting so much more than a private dance.

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: Finally, we are getting Isaac’s story! I have been waiting and waiting for this book to release so October 28 cannot come fast enough. I’ve already fallen for this mysterious man from his cameos in Reid’s Winston Brothers series and I cannot wait to peel back his layers and understand his motivation in All Folked Up! There’s also something about a small town stripper getting her happily-ever-after so I’m excited for Hannah as well.

Throne of Secrets
by Kerri Maniscalco

Fantasy Romance
Releasing October 29, 2024

A wicked prince determined to save his kingdom. Gabriel Axton—infamous as the Prince of Gluttony, the self-proclaimed rake of rakes—has always lived for indulgence: in delicious food, in tantalizing women, and most of all, in the thrill of the hunt, where his love of danger can take over.

But when his favorite adventure takes a deadly turn, he realizes something is very wrong in his demon court. With the clock ticking, he must turn to the only one who might uncover the truth: a journalist he has spent a decade avoiding…

A reporter hell-bent on finding the truth. Adriana Saint Lucent has been on the hunt for years—if she could just report something damning enough about that no-good scoundrel Gabriel Axton, she knows others would finally see the demon as she does.

But she never expected to turn up a rumor too terrifying to be believed: could the ice dragons to the north be growing restless? Drawn into the secrets of the Underworld, Adriana’s investigation leads her into the place she dreads most…Axton’s infamous court. 

A dangerous rivalry—and deliciously twisted fairy tale. To stop darkness from falling over their kingdom, Axton and Adriana will have to unite against an escalating danger. But with each holding tight to their own secrets, can they find the truth before it’s too late? And what will they do with an equally troubling rumor: that they might not actually hate one another, after all?

Why This New Romance Should Be on Your TBR List: I devoured Maniscalco’s Throne of the Fallen last year so I’m extra excited for the next Prince of Sin. The fact that it’s Gluttony is just too good for words. Her romantasy books are full of adventure, intriguing characters and a bit of spice and this rivals to lovers romance sounds like the perfect set up.

What new romance book are YOU most excited to read this October 2024? Share in the comments below!

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