Top 10 Spicy BookTok Books in 2025 (No Spoilers, Just Smut Level Reviews)

Filthy Fiction Club’s Official Heat-Level Breakdown

📍 Updated for: USA + Canada readers • Trending on BookTok • Book Club Favorite

Welcome to your ultimate no-spoilers guide to the top 10 spicy — no, smuttiest — reads lighting up BookTok right now. Whether you’re curating a spicy book club night, refreshing your Kindle library, or plotting your next morally-gray obsession, this list is certified filth-forward by the Filthy Fiction Club.

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📚 1. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: College athletes, forced proximity, he falls first
Soft doms + spicy locker room vibes.

📚 2. Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Grumpy x Sunshine, small town, insta-daddy vibes
Comes for the feels, stays for the steamy bathtub scene.

📚 3. Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Stalker romance, obsession, dark and depraved
A cult favorite for fans of dubious consent and emotional destruction.

📚 4. Twisted Games by Ana Huang

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Bodyguard romance, forbidden love, British dom
When “don’t touch her” becomes “choke her lovingly.”

📚 5. Praise by Sara Cate

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Age gap, ex’s dad, praise kink
If your book club has a daddy issues theme... she’s the main event.

📚 6. Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Reverse harem, dark academia, zodiac magic
Warning: Your Kindle may combust by book 3.

📚 7. Hooked by Emily McIntire

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Peter Pan reimagining, villain x heroine
Not your childhood fairytale. And thank goddess for that.

📚 8. The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Reverse harem, fantasy smut, dark Peter Pan
You came for the fae — you stayed for the group scenes.

📚 9. Credence by Penelope Douglas

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Taboo romance, remote cabin, age gap(s)
Unhinged, forbidden, wildly controversial — aka perfect for your book club.

📚 10. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Spice Scale: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (and climbing)
Tropes: Dragon academy, enemies to lovers, fantasy war
Spice level might not be insane (yet), but the tension?? Ferocious.

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✍️ Final Thoughts

We’re not here to gatekeep — we’re here to review the spice, drop the tropes, and get filthy with you. Bookmark this post. Share it with your book club. Then hit up the merch — because your tote bag should be just as unhinged as your bookshelf.