The Most Anticipated 2024 Book Releases by Month

1. House of Flame and Shadow (3) by Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan is stranded in a strange new world. She’s going to need all her wits about her to get home again and return to everything she loves. But that’s no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust.

Meanwhile, Hunt Athalar is back in the Asteri’s dungeons. Stripped of his freedom and the happiness he’d fought so hard for, he’s without a clue as to Bryce’s fate. Hunt is desperate to help his mate, but until he can escape the Asteri’s chains, his hands are quite literally tied.

Release date: 30th January

2. Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.

A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour – and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.

Release date: 30th January

3. The Concierge by Abby Corson

I suppose it would be fitting to explain that I am talking into a dictaphone and the lovely Helen will be typing out my story for you to read. She will have a certain amount of creative control—sorting out moments when I get a bit tongue-tied or slightly muddled—but I have told her to leave in as much as possible, so as not to miss any of the important bits.

This is my account of the Cavengreen Hotel murder, best we get that bit in early on.

Release date: 31st January

4. The Fury by Alex Michaelides

On a small private Greek island, former movie star Lana Farrar – an old friend – invites a select group of us to stay. It’ll be hot, sunny, perfect. A chance to relax and reconnect – and maybe for a few hidden truths to come out.

Because nothing on this island is quite what it seems. Not Lana. Not her guests. Certainly not the murderer – furiously plotting their crime…

But who am I? My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard.

Read my review of The Fury here.

Release date: 1st February

5. Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Read my review of Bride here.

Release date: 6th February

6. The Work by Bri Lee

Lally has staked everything on her Manhattan gallery; Pat is a scholarship boy trying to carve out a place in Sydney’s antiquities world. When they meet at the Armory Show in New York, their attraction is immediate—an argument about art and politics their foreplay.

Across oceans and careers, each wrestles with the uneasy bargains of ambition and ethics, commerce and creativity. Lally grows rich from being the gatekeeper of talent; Pat can scarcely pay his rent. Both are drawn toward choices that could undo the very lives and careers they are building.

Release date: 3rd April

7. Funny Story by Emily Henry

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Read my review of Funny Story here.

Release date: 25th April

8. Daydream by Hannah Grace

Daydream follows Henry Turner, a college hockey captain struggling to balance his demanding new role with a difficult class that threatens to derail his plans. When he accidentally stumbles into Halle Jacobs’ book club, he finds an unlikely ally in the ambitious writer and academic who offers to tutor him.

As Halle helps Henry navigate his coursework, he inspires her to break out of her comfort zone and overcome her writer’s block. But with their growing connection challenging the rules they’ve set for themselves, the pair must decide whether they can keep things strictly platonic or risk falling for each other.

Read my review of Daydream here.

Release date: 4th June

9. Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again.

Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy’s presence keep appearing in Ethan’s backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?

Release date: 2nd July