December 2024 Book Releases
I am so excited to read the December 2024 book releases. This is a list of the books Kirsten and I cannot wait to read. You will find everything here to make this the season of your best reading yet.
Every month, Kirsten and I scour the internet to find the books we are the most excited to read. We look through publishers’ lists, our personal lists of advanced reader copies (ARCs), as well as a few other sources. I cannot give away all our secrets, can I?
From this list of hundreds of books, we look through the picks and decide which are our most anticipated books for December 2024. I have divided the books by genre to help you decide which books to add to your TBR! If you are looking for more tips on how to choose your next book, check below. I am happy to help with that as well.
Most Anticipated Books for December 2024
Most Anticipated Fiction
Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin – Click here for a book description
Most Anticipated Historical Fiction
The Champagne Letters by Kate Macintosh – Click here for a book description and more books in this category
Most Anticipated Fantasy
The Shadowed Land by Signe Pike – Click here for a book description and more books in the category
Most Anticipated Mystery
What the Wife Knew by Darby Kane – Click here for a book description and more books in the category
Most Anticipated Romance
A Five Letter Word for Love by Amy James – Click here for a book description and more books in the category
Most Anticipated Nonfiction
The Cure for Women: Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi….by Lydia Reeder – Click here for a description of the book and more books in this category
Most Anticipated Young Adult
What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould – Click here for a description of the book and more books in this category
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Fiction Book Releases
Eddie Winston is Looking for Love
Author: Marianne Cronin
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: December 31, 2024
More info: Author of One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Plot
This is a story of friendship, kindness, and finding love. I cannot wait to read this book. Eddie Winston is 90 years old and has never been kissed. He is a romantic who spends his days volunteering at a charity shop. When he meets Bella, a 24-year-old who just lost the love of her life, she learns of his situation and decides to help Eddie find love and get his first kiss!
Private Rites
Author: Julia Armfield
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: December 3, 2024
More info: Award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea
Plot
This book from the December 2024 book releases is a reimagining of King Lear. Three sisters have not spoken to each other in a while when their father dies. When Isla, Irene, and Agnes come together, it is a time to sort through family secrets.
Plot
Eve is a single, forty-something who is still mourning the loss of her father a year ago. When she is preparing for her younger sister’s wedding, she remembers the idea of a Golem and decides to make the mess of her life into a rom-com. While things start off great, things quickly take a much messier turn.
Plot
Amelia Grant is an actress who is offered the role of a lifetime as the star of a movie about the world-famous author, Gloria Diamond. Gloria is famous for using her love story as the inspiration for her best-selling romance novels. Amelia cannot wait to prepare for the rule by spending a week with Gloria who turns out to be not what Amelia expected. She is unfriendly and covering up secrets.
Historical Fiction: December 2024 Book Releases
The Champagne Letters
Author: Kate Macintosh
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: December 10, 2024
More info: Perfect for my list of The Best Fiction Books about Wine
Plot
This dual-timeline fiction from the December 2024 book releases. In 1805 Barbe-Nicole Clocquot lost her husband but still wanted to make a name for herself in the champagne business. In the present day, Natalie Taylor has uprooted her life to Paris after a terrible divorce. There, she finds the Widow Clicquot’s letters and uses them to help go after her dreams and be brave. When things take a turn, Natalie must ask herself what would the widow do.
Kingdom of No Tomorrow
Author: Fabienne Josaphat
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: December 3, 2024
More info: Literary Award Winner
Plot
In 1968, Nettie Boileau joined the Black Panthers’ Free Health Clinics in Oakland. There she meets Melvin Mosely and the two fall in love. They head to Chicago to help launch the Illinois Chapter where they find themselves targets of J. Edgar Hoover’s campaigns against civil rights leaders. She also begins to discover that civil rights movements and women’s equality are not synonymous.
Fantasy/ Sci-fi: Most Anticipated
The Shadowed Land
Author: Signe Pike
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Release Date: The Lost Queen Book 3
More info: Check out The Lost Queen in our post Best Books About Scotland
Plot
This is the epic finale of The Lost Queen Series based on the Legend of King Arthur. This is medieval magical realism, unlike anything you have read before. Languoreth, Angharad, and Lailoken have been reunited with Artur mac Aedan. They must decide what they are willing to do in order to be heroes.
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Author: Chelsea Iversen
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Release Date: December 3, 2024
Plot
Harriet Hunt is too strange for Victorian society- preferring her garden to grand balls. Her garden is unlike anything else in London and it makes her vulnerable- even more so since her father’s disappearance months ago. Now Harriet will have to be brave and embrace the magic within her if she wants to save herself and reveal the plot of her father’s disappearance
Under Loch and Key
Author: Lana Ferguson
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Release Date: December 3, 2024
More info: For more posts like this, check out my post: The Best Adult Fantasy Romance Books
Plot
Keyanna “Key” MacKay is going to Scotland after her father’s death. She is looking for her estranged grandmother and answers to family secrets. Lachlan Greer has his own secrets. Now, both their secrets collide and they both might be holding the answers for each other. Can they break a family curse? Maybe not all monsters are something to be afraid of.
Thrillers and Mysteries for December 2024
What the Wife Knew
Author: Darby Kane
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: December 10, 2024
More info: #1 International bestseller of Pretty Little Wife
Plot
Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a surgeon and national hero who tragically died after a fall down the stairs. Everyone thinks that the newest Mrs. Doughtery, Addison, had something to do with that fall- especially since Dr. Doughtery had two accidents before this in the short time they were married. Now, the first Mrs Doughtery will try and prove Addison is a murdered and Addison will stop at nothing to unravel Richmond’s true legacy.
Booked for Murder
Author: P.J. Nelson
Genre: Mystery
Release Date: December 10, 2024
More info: An Old Juniper Mystery #1
Plot
When Madeline Brimley finds out that he beloved Aunt Rose has passed away and left her a bookstore located in a Victorian mansion in a small college town, she decides to start over. When she arrives at The Old Juniper Bookstore, it is not what she is expecting. She is also not expecting threats to burn the place down. When someone is murdered in the store, she has to find out who did it before she becomes the primary suspect.
Plot
Zoe has dreams of becoming a writer when her first book fails and her boyfriend Zach ghosts her. Three years later, Zaxh is a successful actor when Zoe, who works at a florist shop, makes a delivery to Zach’s house. The two immediately reconnect and when a photo of them is leaked, her first book goes viral. The problem? Zach has a stalker who starts reenacting the violent events from Zoe’s thriller book one at a time.
Romance: December 2024 Book Releases
A Five-Letter Word for Love: A Novel
Author: Amy James
Genre: Romance
Release Date: December 3, 2024
Plot
I am obsessed with doing Wordle and this adorable romance is right up my alley. Emily has a 300-day Wordle winning streak but on a day with one guess left, she needs to turn to a co-worker, John, for help. As they try and reach a 365-day goal, they may have found more than success at the New York Times game.
Plot
Rosie wants to make it in New York as a writer and ends up in class with her ex-crush and archnemesis, Aiden Hunter. Their constant fighting in class causes the teacher to give them an ultimatum- stay in class and write a novel together (one that blends romance with literary fiction) or leave the class. Now, the writing duo may find that life mimics fiction in this new romance from the December 2024 book releases.
How to Get a Life in Ten Dates
Author: Jenny L. Howe
Genre: Romance
Release Date: December 10, 2024
More info: For More books like this, check out our Friends to Lovers Romance Books
Plot
Haleigh has had enough of dating and is ready to stop and take a break. She challenges her friends and family to set her up on 10 blind dates. She figures that when none of them work out, they will finally let her live her life in peace and quiet. When her best friend Jack throws himself in as one of the ten dates, Haliegh is thrown for a loop. Will they live happily ever after or lose a best friend?
Pick-Up
Author: Nora Dahlia
Genre: Romance
Release Date: December 3, 2024
More info: Check out our Enemies-to-Lovers Books for more picks like this
Plot
Sasha is having a hard enough time co-parenting with her ex without Ethan, an entitled dad, stealing the last spot in the school parking lot. Ethan, on the other hand, can’t stop thinking about Sasha, When they end up on a private island for a job, they must keep things professional, even if there starts to be some attraction.
Nonfiction December 2024 Book Releases
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever
Author: Lydia Reeder
Genre: Nonfiction
Release Date: December 3, 2024
Plot
I cannot wait to get my hands on this fascinating book. It is the story of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi who conducted the first ever scientific research on women’s reproductive biology. Her findings went against everything that doctors were taught about women and was the first study to combat the sexist science that still haunts us today.
The Art of Danish Living
Author: Meik Wiking
Genre: Nonfiction
Release Date: December 31, 2024
More info: Research-Backed Guide
Plot
The Danes are some of the happiest people in the world and have a work-life balance the rest of the world strives to emulate. Based on a new study from the Happiness Research Institute, this book shows how we can reduce stress and live happier lives.
Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
Author: Olivia Campbell
Genre: Nonfiction
Release Date: December 31, 2024
Plot
Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücken were all eminent physicists who were forced to leave Germany in the 1930s because of their Jewish heritage or anti-Nazi sentiments. They escaped to Sweden and the United States where they made huge advancements in physics. This is a nonfiction story of survival!
Best YA December 2024 Book Releases
What the Woods Took
Author: Courtney Gould
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: December 10, 2024
More info: Yellow Jackets meets Girl, Interrupted
Plot
Devin Green wakes up in the middle of the night to two men in her room. Without a fight from her foster parents, they grab her and shove her into a van in the Idaho woods. There, she is told that she has been enrolled in a 50-day hike with two counselors and other troubled teens. They are supposed to return as better versions of themselves. But when the counselors go missing, monsters who up in the dark, and the teens must fend for themselves, they will have to depend on each other or die alone.
Plot
Gemma always thought that it was just her and her mom. She had no ties to her Taiwanese culture until she found out her grandfather just died and sent her on a treasure hunt. Now she must travel to Taiwan and discover her prize which may turn out to be more about finding her cultural roots and love than about money.
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Expert Tips
Looking through 30 books can be daunting if you are trying to add some books to your TBR. Remember that this list is for fun. You may add books to your TBR stack and never read them. That is OK! I have two tips to help narrow down the choices for you.
- If you do not want to look through 30 descriptions, I selected a top pick from each genre. I narrowed it down for you!
- If you have a favorite genre that you like to read, head over to that section and pick from those books.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is your most anticipated December 2024 book release?
This is such a hard choice! I cannot pick only one December 2024 book so I will choose one fiction and one nonfiction. My fiction choice is Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin and my nonfiction pick is The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder
Epilogue
I hope you love this list of most anticipated December 2024 book releases. If there is a book you want to read and don’t see on this list, please let me know. You can also tell me which books you look forward to reading.
