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Top 10 SPICY Booktoks To Fuel Your Fantasies!

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Recently my friend mentioned that she had just discovered “booktok” or more specifically… “spicytok” while scrolling on her feed, and she was swooning over how wild and spicy some of them were. 🥵🔥 As soon as she linked me an example, my Tiktok algorithm completely switched up and I quickly started seeing so many recs on the steamiest romance reads that everyone’s buzzing about.

It seems that the spicytok wave has gotten so many of us girlies hot and bothered (in the best way possible). Even just reading little snippets of some chapters and listening to samples of the audiobook was enough to get me curating my very own list of books to devour.

Here’s the catch – I really don’t have the time at the moment to read and indulge in all the passion and drama leaping off the pages. BUT… I wouldn’t mind listening to the audiobook versions since we girlies are so great at multitasking anyway!

Whether you’re looking to fit in a chapter or two while commuting to work, to de-stress during your break, or to unwind and get lost in the sauce on the weekends, audiobooks are your best friend! And I don’t know about you, but to me there’s also something so tantalizing about immersing yourself in a fiction world through audiobook narrations (ESPECIALLY with steamy romances) – they’re a completely unique experience on its own. ❤️‍🔥

I get that it may not be for everyone – but don’t knock it till you’ve tried it! I certainly changed my mind many moons ago after my first audiobook experience. Best of all, you can try out for free with Audible’s 30-day free trial. And if’s not your cup of tea, then it’s not your cup of tea.

After researching top recommendations by the spicy booktok community, I’ve gathered the list of 🌶 Top 10 Spicy Booktok Audiobooks 🌶 below in no particular ranking. So if you’re ready for some sizzling romance drama, let’s dive right into these juicy audiobooks that will make your heart race:

NOTE: These audiobooks are recommended for an adult audience. Please read author warnings on book content for any trigger warnings.

1. PRAISE (SARA CATE)

Publisher’s summary: He calls me perfect. His flawless pet. His good girl. Broken down, and wounded by my emotionally neglectful ex, I wanted someone to tell me I was good enough. Then, I stumbled into a new job with a boss who brought me to my knees – literally. He has me do things a real secretary would never do. Emerson Grant tells me I’m more than just good enough. I’m worthy of his praise.

There are a million reasons why I should stay away. The owner of the Salacious Players’ Club is not just my new boss – he’s twice my age. And my ex-boyfriend’s father…. With him, I am treasured. I am adored. I am his. I’m a good girl, but I’m falling for the wrong man. Emerson Grant knows what he wants – and he wants me.

So, how far will I go to hear his approval?

2. BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD (BRYNNE WEAVER)

Publisher’s summary: A friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and spice, unlike anything you’ve heard before. Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country.

But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?

3. TWISTED LOVE (ANA HUANG)

Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.

But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: A crack. A melt. A fire that could end his world as he knew it. Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember. But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world . . . including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want.

Her brother’s best friend. Her neighbor. Her savior and her downfall.

Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen—but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both . . . and everything they hold dear.

4. THE RITUAL (SHANTEL TESSIER)

Publisher’s summary: Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. My entire life has been planned out for me. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. He offered me what no one else ever had—freedom.

I chose to be his. He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want. After being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. But like all things, what started out as a game soon became a fight for survival. And the only way out was death.

5. FAKING WITH BENEFITS (LILY GOLD)

Publisher’s summary: WANTED: Three fake boyfriends. Must be tall, handsome—and willing to teach me how to kiss. My name is Layla Thompson, and I am undateable. Seriously. I’m 28 and I’ve never had a boyfriend. And with my 30s rapidly approaching, I’m starting to lose patience. Lucky for me, I have three best friends who are eager to help hone my dating skills. Zack, the rugged ex-rugby player. Josh, the sweet boy-next-door. And Luke, the silver-haired divorcee… who just so happens to be my old professor.

After a bad date leaves me crying on their shoulders, the three men are determined to help me find a guy. Together, they agree to be my “practice boyfriends” and come up with a lesson plan packed with fake dates, make out sessions, and classes on flirty texting. It’s not long before I realize that their friendship isn’t enough for me anymore. I want more.

The guys have been teaching me how to get a boyfriend, and now it’s time I put their lessons to the test. Three times over.

6. NEON GODS (KATEE ROBERT)

Publisher’s summary: Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.

With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her – for a price.

Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close….

7. LILAC (B. B. REID)

Publisher’s summary: I, Braxton Fawn, am the luckiest girl alive. Or so the world keeps telling me. Every so often, gods walk the earth. This time they came as musicians. When Bound loses its lead guitarist, yours truly is chosen to fill his shoes. From dive bars to the big stage, my instant claim to fame is nothing short of a fairytale. The only problem? My new bandmates.

Jaded, gorgeous, and ridiculously talented—they’re determined to turn my dream into a nightmare. It’s no secret I wasn’t their first choice. I wasn’t even their last. The label wants a new image, Bound wants me gone, but I’ve got my own agenda. To succeed I have to survive a world tour, public scrutiny, and idols turned enemies. But the biggest threat of all isn’t a meticulous frontman, a narcissistic bassist, and a drummer with too many secrets.

It’s me. Somehow, I must resist the temptation of Houston Morrow, Loren James, and Jericho Noble. It seemed easy enough when I boarded their tour bus, but it only took one city for the lines we’d drawn to blur. Only ninety-nine more to go.

8. CREDENCE (PENELOPE DOUGLAS)

Publisher’s summary: Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere. And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she?

Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of 18. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them.

And as a part of them. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her.

But he…. He’s going to keep her.

9. DARK NOTES (PAM GODWIN)

Publisher’s summary: They call me a slut. Maybe I am. Sometimes I do things I despise. Sometimes men take without asking. But I have a musical gift, only a year left of high school, and a plan. With one obstacle.

Emeric Marceaux doesn’t just take. He seizes my will power and bangs it like a dark note. When he commands me to play, I want to give him everything. I kneel for his punishments, tremble for his touch, and risk it all for our stolen moments.

He’s my obsession, my master, my music.

And my teacher.

10. TEMPT ME (K. A. TUCKER)

Publisher’s summary: I ran from home to escape heartbreak, only to deliver myself into the hands of a wolf. Henry Wolf, that is. Heir to a luxury hotel chain, infamous playboy, arrogant bastard…and my new boss. Why he wants me, Abbi Mitchell – a girl who lacks experience on every front that would matter to him – as his personal assistant, I cannot fathom, especially when I keep messing up in the most spectacular way.

Did I already mention he’s a bastard?
A beautiful, moody one, who’s quick to demand, slow to apologize. And toying with me every chance he gets. Testing me.
Screwing with my head in a way that makes my body crave him.

He knows it, and he doesn’t hide the fact that he enjoys doing it.
He says he doesn’t want me for more than my mediocre computer skills and color-coding flair.
He says he’s not willing to risk losing his empire for a tangle in the sheets with “the help.”

But I’m beginning to think that’s a big, dirty lie.

I hope these spicy booktok audiobook recs live up to the hype! Let me know if there’s any other audiobooks that should be on the list – I’d love to know!

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