As autumn sets in and so too do the dreams of staying cozy, it’s important to go a little wild sometimes. Whether you’re here for romance, bromance, spice, or slice of life, we’ve got the werewolf novel to help you set the supernatural mood. Just be careful not to read too much once the moon comes out.

Good Dogs by Brian Asman

In sunny Southern California, Delia is forced to hide herself in the shadows as a werewolf. Despite being banished from society, she and others sharing her condition had managed to carve out a life for themselves in the suburbs. With Delia as the denmother, her pack were able to find a family within each other and safely live as themselves until the discovery of a severed leg in their yard which forces them to flee beyond the bounds of civilization and into the wilderness. However, instead of finding respite inside the long abandoned city of Talbot, Delia and her pack must now grapple with not being the fiercest danger.

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That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming

In the second installment of the Mead Mishaps series, Brie has many skills. Cheesemongering and business administration being the two main ones. However, what she does not possess is any excessive amount of luck, which is how she finds herself drunk, in a tavern, accidentally launching a drink straight into an unsuspecting victim who wasn’t even the one she was aiming for. Well, that “drink” happened to be a love potion, and now Brie is stuck convincing this incredibly handsome, doting man that they’re not actually fated mates.

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Blind Date with a Werewolf by Patricia Briggs

Asil is dangerous. Typically, dangerous werewolves spend much of their time alone, and it’s never been much of a bother. Through the help of some anonymous “friends,” Asil is set up on a series of five blind dates over the course of three weeks, because no one should spend the holidays alone, right? It has nothing to do with the fact that they’ve started a betting pool about how the dates will go. Enjoyable as an addition to the Mercy Thompson series or as a standalone, it will have you kicking your feet from start to finish. 

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Mate by Ali Hazelwood

In the companion novel to Bride, the first Human-Were hybrid, Serena was supposed to be a unifier. However, she’s an orphan without a pack, and what was meant to be her strength has turned her into delicious prey for Vampyres, Weres, and worse. Exhausted of all other options, Serena seeks the protection of Koen, Alpha of the Northwest pack, who will ruthlessly keep his mate safe at all costs. As Serena’s past rears its ugly head, Koen will not let her face it alone.

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Wolfsong by TJ Klune

Being told that he was worthless and would never be understood was the final parting lesson taught to Oxnard Matheson at twelve years old by his father. After some years, the Bennett family moves in next door and shakes what Ox knows to be true to its core. They’re welcoming, kind, and can shapeshift into wolves at will. Ox cannot help but be drawn into their family, and to the youngest son Joe. After a murder tears through the Bennett family, Joe flees town, abandoning Ox in his wake. Once he returns again after three years, he’s colder, more handsome, and Ox can’t seem to pull himself away.

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The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson

With a record-holding number of bad dates on file and a grandmother hounding her tail for when she’ll settle down, Mackenzie Carter is willing to settle on the first guy that walks past– until that guy is known blood-boiler Noah Taylor, a cardiologist at Denver General. An unmated alpha, Noah is almost just as desperate to put a label on the first person who walks past before his career goes up in smoke. As professionals, they come to the mutually-beneficial conclusion to fake-date for the time being. However, lines begin to blur and friends begin to gain benefits, and they both realize that they might be in love way over their heads.

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A Curse of Blood and Wolves by Melissa McTernan

In this Little Red Riding Hood retelling, Ruby knows about the dangers of her walks home alone. The burning of eyes locked on her from shadows just beyond where she can see, and the low, hungry growls she can swear keep getting louder keep her not only afraid, but intrigued. Ruby can’t help but be drawn to someone who has yet to reveal himself, despite the fear of what will happen when he does.

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How to Help a Hungry Werewolf by Charlotte Stein

What is a witch to do when a nagging werewolf shows up on her doorstep, and won’t leave her well enough alone? Well, Cassandra Camberwell remembers when Seth Brubaker ruined her high school life, and she was only supposed to be in town for long enough to clean up her grandmother’s house anyway, so she turns him away. When Cassandra learns that Seth is looking for any ease to his lycanthropic suffering, she is swayed into helping him on one condition: He teaches her more about her magic. That’s it. That’s the deal. Once they are forced into a mating bond, though, things become a little bit more complicated.

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Lobizona by Romina Garber

Manuela Azul is an undocumented immigrant living in a too-small apartment in Miami. On the run from her father’s crime family in Argentina, Manuela’s life is upended when her mother is arrested by ICE and her surrogate grandmother is attacked. With only an emblem bearing the letter “Z” to guide her, Manuela journeys into her past and discovers her place deep within a secret world steeped in Argentinian folklore. Where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is born a lobizón, Manuela traces her true heritage back to a cursed city where her strange eyes make sense, but everything else about what she knows is turned on its head.

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No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

What begins as a murder by the Boston police soon turns into the beginning of an outpour of monsters broadcasting their presence in our world. Mythological creatures of all sorts begin appearing everywhere, and their emergence is only the beginning. Chaos begins to reign, seemingly not at all related to the monsters. Professors discovering secret societies, werewolf packs fleeing into hiding, and pro-monster societies form. In the midst of it all, the world is on fire. Suicides increase along with hate crimes, and protests never cease on either side of the monster debate. The world will soon discover just why monsters are coming to the light.

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The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman

Princess Aurora is stuck in an arranged marriage and searching for any escape, but finds herself in far more perilous danger instead. The night before her wedding, Aurora spares the life of a young wolf whose life was to be sacrificed to the alpha for sport. In her the alpha sees the answer to the war between wolves and humans, and thus captures her and flees to the north with the other wolf clans. Aurora cannot fight her growing attraction, nor can she deny the alpha’s heart. As she finds herself the target of danger on all sides, there is no telling where their love story will end.

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