Romance Books to Movies and TV Series Coming in 2024

Wondering which romance books to movies and TV shows you need to watch in 2024? I’ve got the definitive list of all the romance books to movies of 2024 below so you don’t miss a single one! (Last updated September 2024).

Every year I scour the internet to determine which romance books to movies are coming to the big and small screen. This list includes the romance books being adapted for movies or TV series in 2024 with a release date as well as those I anticipate releasing, plus it includes those that are in the works and coming soon.

Things are always changing in Hollywood so I will continually update this list throughout the year as more book-to-movie adaptations are announced and dates solidify. This year it remains to be seen how many romance book adaptations will debut since the writers’ strike put a lot of films and series on hold, but here’s what we have to look forward to so far!

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Romance Books to Movies Coming in 2024

It Ends With Us
by Colleen Hoover

Release Date: August 9, 2024 in Theaters

Summary: Lily, who after growing up in Maine, going to college and starting her own business, finds herself thinking that her life is too good to be true. Now living in Boston, Lily meets gorgeous neurosurgeon, Ryle Kincaid. Ryle develops a soft spot for Lily but has a complete aversion to relationships.

But while Lily’s relationship with Ryle unfolds, she can’t stop thinking about Atlas Corrigan, her first love. Atlas was her kindred spirit, her protector, and when he suddenly reappears in her life, everything Lily has built with Ryle is questioned.

Justin Baldoni, actor and filmmaker, is leading this romance book to movie adaptation and starring as Ryle in the film alongside Blake Lively as Lily and Brandon Sklenar as Atlas. This is probably the most anticipated romance book to movie of 2024, especially for all the Colleen Hoover fans!

Stay up to date on the movie with my guide on the It Ends With Us movie where you can view the movie trailer!

Beautiful Wedding
A Beautiful Wedding
by Jamie McGuire

Release Date: January 24 & 25, 2024 in Theaters

Summary: This novel and movie follows Abby and Travis, who after a crazy night in Las Vegas, discover they are married. They head to Mexico for a honeymoon with friends and family.

This movie sequel follows the movie Beautiful Disaster which released in 2023. That movie was rated R so it’s safe to assume this sequel will have the same rating.

Related: Beautiful Disaster Series: The Complete Guide

The Idea of You
by Robinne Lee

Release Date: May 2, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video

Summary: Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she’s more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle.

The last thing Solène expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous boy band August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attraction is immediate. That he is all of twenty years old further complicates things.

When Solène and Hayes’ romance becomes a viral sensation, and both she and her daughter become the target of rabid fans and an insatiable media, Solène must face how her romantic life has impacted the lives of those she cares about most.

Fans of age gap romance have devoured this rock star romance between divorcee and boy band star.

Cast for this book to movie includes Anne Hathaway as Sophie, Nickolas Galitzine as Hayes, and Reid Scott as Dan. Robinne Lee is one of the writers of the film and Michael Showalter is directing.

Check out my list of books like The Idea of You and my list of movies featuring Nickolas Galitzine.

Through My Window: Looking at You
Through My Window
by Ariana Godoy

Release Date: February 23, 2024 on Netflix

Summary: Raquel Álvarez is hard-working and serious about her future. It’s always just been her and her mom and that’s kept Raquel on the straight and narrow. After all, she’s only got one goal—to become a psychologist. Well, that and to get Ares Hildago to notice her.

For as long as Raquel can remember, she has been obsessed with Ares—known to everyone as the rich, hot, popular playboy. Even though he lives next door, Raquel has never spoken to Ares. Yet, she can’t help thinking there’s more to him . . . and she can’t help imagining what it’d feel like to kiss him.

After a chance encounter reveals her crush is anything but unrequited, their steamy attraction grows into what can only be described as hands-down hot. They fall hard and fast for one another.

Raquel is all in with Ares. But Ares can’t, or won’t, commit, as his struggle with personal and family responsibilities leaves little room for falling in love. What burns bright burns fast, but for Ares and Raquel, can it last?

This movie is part three in a franchise which began with Through My Window which released in 2022, followed by Through My Window: Across the Sea in 2023. These movies are in Spanish but available with subtitles.

Someone Like You
by Karen Kingsbury

Release Date: April 2, 2024 in Theaters

Summary: Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened.

Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world—Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves her new job and fiancé, rejects her family’s requests for forgiveness, and moves to Portland to find out who she really is.

Dawson Gage’s life was destroyed when London Quinn, his best friend and the only girl he ever loved, is loses her life in an accident. In the hospital waiting room, London’s mother reveals that London might have had a sibling. The frozen embryo she and her husband donated decades ago.

When Dawson finds Maddie and brings her to Portland, the Quinns—her biological parents—welcome her into their lives and hearts. Maddie is comforted by the Quinns’ love and intrigued by their memories of London, who was so much like her. Is this the family and the life she was really meant to have?

Now it will take the love of Dawson Gage to help Maddie know who she is…and to help her find her way home.

Get your tissue boxes ready for this romance book to movie adaptation to hit theaters in 2024. Starring Sarah Fisher, Lynn Collins and Jake Allyn. The screenplay is written by the author Karen Kingsbury with Tyler Russell who directs the film.

Wallbanger
by Alice Clayton

Release Date: April 11, 2024 on Passionflix

Summary: Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a fantastic zucchini bread recipe, and no O.

She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O. Adding insult to O-less, she also has a neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Every moan, spank, and—was that a meow?—punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has—yep, you guessed it—no O.

Enter Simon Parker. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has…well…mixed results.  Because with walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick. A delicious mix of silly and steamy, this is an irresistible tale of exasperation at first sight.

Passionflix is still very much in the romance book-to-movie adaptation business and is continuing with Wallbanger for 2024. Casting has already begun with filming set to start in November 2023.

Check out my complete guide to the Passionflix movie list.

This Time Next Year
by Sophie Cousens

Release Date: June 3, 2024 in the UK

Summary: Minnie and Quinn were born on the same day at the same hospital on New Year’s Eve just minutes a part and ever since Minnie believes her New Year’s birthday to be unlucky. When Minnie unexpectedly runs into Quinn at a New Year’s party on their mutual thirtieth birthday, she sees only more evidence that fortune has continued to favor him. But if Quinn and Minnie are from different worlds, why do they keep bumping into each other? And why is it that each fraught encounter leaves them both wanting more?

This movie wrapped up filming in Italy in 2023 and features a strong cast including Lucien Laviscount (from Emily in Paris), Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Golda Rosheuvel (Bridgerton), and more.

Related: Best Romance Books About New Year’s Eve

A Man’s Promise
by Brenda Jackson

Release Date: October 10, 2024 on Passionflix

Summary: A man’s word is his bond. His family is his strength. His heart is his own.

Superstar musician Caden Granger has spent years running from love, commitment and family. Yet despite his fame and fortune, he knows the kind of respect and adoration he needs can only come from one person—the very woman who wants nothing to do with him.

Charity volunteer and owner of a wine boutique, Shiloh Timmons finally got her life on track once her relationship with Caden ended, and she’s in no hurry to revisit a romance with the man who believes she left him standing at the altar.

If Caden can’t have Shiloh by his side, all the success in the world will mean nothing. Now he has a chance to renew his promises but is it too late?

Passionflix is cranking out the romance book-to-movie adaptations this year continuing with A Man’s Promise set to release in October 2024.

Check out my complete guide to the Passionflix movie list.

Lick
by Kylie Scott

Release Date: Expected December 2024 on Passionflix

Summary: Evelyn Thomas’s plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man in her room, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all happened.

One thing is certain, being married to one of the hottest rock stars on the planet is sure to be a wild ride.

Passionflix has one more romance book-to-movie adaptation for 2024 with Scott’s infamous rock star romance, Lick.

A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
by Laura Taylor Namey

Status: In Production as of 2022

Release Date: Anticipated 2024 in Theaters

Summary: For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela’s role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. But then the Trifecta happened, and everything—including Lila herself—fell apart.

Worried about Lila’s mental health, her parents make a new plan for her: spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and reset. But what would be a dream trip for some feels more like a nightmare to Lila until she meets Orion Maxwell.

A teashop clerk with troubles of his own, Orion is determined to help Lila out of her funk, and appoints himself as her personal tour guide. Soon a new future is beginning to form in Lila’s mind—one that would mean leaving everything she ever planned behind.

Production on this romance book to movie began in 2022 in Yorkshire, England so hopefully we will see this film in 2024. Cast includes Kit Connor (of Heartstopper, the romance graphic novel to TV series) as Orion Maxwell and Maia Reficco (of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin fame) as Lila Reyes.

Romance Books to TV Series in 2024

Bridgerton Season 3
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn

Release Date: Part 1 Releasing May 16, 2024; Part 2 Releasing June 13, 2024 on Netflix

Summary: Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend’s brother forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret.

Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown.  But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same, especially Penelope Featherington!

The girl who was always simply there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams. When he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide – is she his biggest threat or his promise of a happy ending?

Fans of the Bridgerton series have been waiting a LONG time for season 3’s debut which will now release in two parts beginning in May 2024 and concluding in June 2024. This season skips a book in the Bridgerton series moving onto book four, Romancing Mr. Bridgerton. Bridgerton has already been renewed for season 4, so stay tuned for news on its production!

Related: Books Like Bridgerton to Fall For

Maxton Hall
Based on: Save Me
by Mona Kasten

Release Date: May 9, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video

Summary: Ruby attends the private school Maxton Hall on scholarship and unwittingly witnesses a secret she was never supposed to know. Millionaire heir James Beaufort is determined to keep Ruby silent despite the spark between them.

Maxton Hall is a TV series based on the book series by Kasten. Both the book and TV series are in German but the TV series will have English subtitles.

My Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Release Date: June 27, 2024 on Prime Video

Summary: My Lady Jane is a young adult fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.

At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane gets to be Queen of England.

It stars Emily Bader, Edward Bluemel and Jordan Peters and eight episodes in the season.

Watch now on Prime Video.

Outlander Season 7: Part 2
An Echo in the Bone
by Diana Gabaldon

Release Date: November 22, 2024 on Starz

Summary: Jamie Fraser is already certain that the Americans will win the rebellion, but he has no wish to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—across the battlefield.

Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though—not if she has anything to say about it.

Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters.

Season 7 of Outlander was extended for a total of sixteen episodes after season 6 was shortened. The first eight episodes of Outlander season 7 released in the summer of 2023 so you can watch them now while you wait for season 7 part two to premiere this year.

Caitriona Balfe (Claire Randall Fraser), Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser), Sophie Skelton (Brianna Randall), and Richard Rankin (Roger Wakefield) are all set to reprise their roles.

Joining them are Izzy Meikle-Small (Snow White and the Huntsman) and Joey Phillips (Billy Elliot) as Rachel Hunter and Dr. Denzell Hunter.

Related: Outlander Books in Order Plus Lord John Novels

Heartstopper Season 3
Heartstopper #3
by Alice Oseman

Release Date: October 3, 2024 on Netflix

Summary: Charlie didn’t think Nick could ever like him back, but now they’re officially boyfriends. Nick’s even found the courage to come out to his mum.

But coming out isn’t just something that happens once – there’s Nick’s older brother, and a school trip to Paris, not to mention all the other friends and family – and life can be hard, even with someone who loves you by your side. As their feelings for each other get more serious, Charlie and Nick will need each other more than ever before.

Author, Alice Oseman, said the actual cliffhanger at the end of season 2 is not something that is in the comics,” so we will see what happens with the start of season 3! Season 3 will contain 8 episodes.

The LGBTQ+ positive TV show was renewed by Netflix for two more seasons in May 2022, so anticipate a season 4 coming as well.

Related: Heartstopper Books in Order

Virgin River Season 6
Virgin River
by Robyn Carr

Status: In Production

Release Date: Anticipated Fall 2024 probably early 2025 on Netflix

The popular Virgin River TV series released season 5 in September 2023 but it was already announced in May 2023 that Virgin River was renewed for season 6. Writers were back to work in the writer’s room as of October 2023 so fingers crossed we will see season 6 in 2024 but it’s more likely it won’t be until 2025!

Related: Virgin River Books in Order

Ransom Canyon Season 1
Ransom Canyon
by Jodi Thomas

Status: In Development

Release Date: Sometime late fall 2024 on Netflix

Summary: Rancher Staten Kirkland is the last descendant of Ransom Canyon’s founding father, and when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O’Grady.  Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prize—college, but one night, one wrong decision, will set his life on a course even he hadn’t imagined. Yancy Grey is running hard from his troubled past. The lives, loves and ambitions of four families converge in Ransom Canyon, set against a landscape that can be as unforgiving as it is beautiful, where passion, property and pride are worth fighting for.

This new family Western series features Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly and is planned for 10 episodes for its first season that is set to follow the first book in the series. Fans of Virgin River and Yellowstone will want to check this one out!

Related: Ransom Canyon Series Order

Sullivan’s Crossing Season 2
Any Day Now
by Robyn Carr

Status: Renewed

Release Date: Anticipated 2024 on CTV and The CW

Summary: For Sierra Jones, Sullivan’s Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She’s put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn’t yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. 

Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives and she quickly finds herself bonding with Sully, the quirky campground owner who is the father figure she’s always wanted.

But when her past catches up with her, it’s a special man and an adorable puppy who give her the strength to face the truth and fight for a brighter future. In Sullivan’s Crossing Sierra learns to cherish the family you are given and the family you choose.

Season 1 of Sullivan’s Crossing, which is the adaptation of the Sullivan’s Crossing series by Robyn Carr, debuted on CTV in 2023 and started its weekly airing in the United States on October 4, 2023 on the CW. The series has been renewed for season 2 on CTV Canada but a filming start date is yet to come.

Cast for this romance book series to TV series includes Morgan Kohan as Maggie, Chad Michael Murray as Cal, and Scott Patterson as Sully.

Sweet Magnolias Season 4
Welcome to Serenity
by Sherryl Woods

Status: Renewed

Release Date: Anticipated 2024 on Netflix

Summary: When Jeanette Brioche helped launch The Corner Spa in Serenity, South Carolina, she found a whole lot more than professional satisfaction. She discovered the deep and loyal friendships that had been missing from her life. But even the Sweet Magnolias can’t mend the terrible rift between Jeanette and her family or persuade her that the holidays are anything more than a season of misery.

Pushed into working on the town’s much-loved annual Christmas festival, Jeanette teams up with the sexy new town manager. Tom McDonald may be the only person in Serenity who’s less enthused about family and the holidays than she is.

But with tree decorations going up on the town square and a bit of romance in the air, Jeanette and Tom take a fresh look at the past and a hopeful look into the future. Together they discover that this just may be a season of miracles after all.

Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias was renewed in late 2023 so get ready for it to hopefully drop in late 2024. Executive producer Sheryl J. Anderson returns as showrunner, with EP Dan Paulson and co-EPs Norman Buckley and Matt Drake also back for the new season.

Related: Sweet Magnolias Book Series in Order

Black Dagger Brotherhood
Dark Lover
by J.R. Ward

Release Date: Anticipated 2024 on Passionflix

Summary: As the world’s only purebred vampire and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who took the lives of his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is ended—orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate—Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful woman into another world.

It was a huge announcement in early 2023 when Passionflix released the news that it is adapting Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series into a TV series. With over twenty books in the series of material, lovers of vampire romance books are going to want to settle in and watch this!

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Know of a romance book to movie or TV series coming in 2024 that didn’t make the list? Share in the comments below and then check out the past lists of romance books to movie adaptations:

• Romance Books to Movies in 2023
• Romance Books to Movies in 2022
• Romance Books to Movies in 2021
• Passionflix Movie List: The Complete Guide
• Romance Movie Hub

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