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(USA) Books About Black Women Being Loved Properly 🤎

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Lizzyellah

I’ve been craving stories where Black women aren’t just surviving, but deeply loved, cherished, and adored. So I put together a list of romance books that celebrate us at the center of love stories. Whether it’s second-chance romance, small-town cozi...

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If you love Gregory and Janine from Abbott Elementary, you're gonna love this one!

This book is such a warm hug in romance form. It follows Lily, a shy aspiring children’s book editor who starts an anonymous email friendship with her favorite fantasy author… not knowing he’s her new neighbor. What makes this story so good is how te...

The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest | The Greene Sisters: Book 1 of 3

I love a story where love sneaks back into your life when you least expect it, and this one is chef’s kiss. Violet is living her best life as a celebrity stylist, but her personal life? A complete mess after a public breakup. Then out of nowhere she ...

The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest | The Greene Sisters: Book 2 of 3

This book hits all the right notes if you’re looking for a story about love, second chances, and finding your rhythm again. Iris Greene has been through so much, including love, loss, and single motherhood, but she’s thriving in her career and raisin...

The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest | The Greene Sisters: Book 3 of 3

My Shaylaaaaa 😭🤎 I absolutely love this book. Yasmen and Josiah’s love story is messy, real, and impossible to put down. Life tore them apart, but now they’re co-parenting, running a business together, and discovering that the pull between them hasn’t gone anywhere....

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan | Skyland: Book 1 of 3

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one w...

This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan | Skyland: Book 2 of 3

Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry's rarefied air. Your vision board? She’s probably living it. She’s a woman with goals, dreams, am...

Can't Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan | Skyland: Book 3 of 3

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous...

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert | Brown Sisters: Book 1 of 3

Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, a...

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert | Brown Sisters: Book 2 of 3

Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. So she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), ...

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert | Brown Sisters: Book 3 of 3

Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer. Shane Hall is a reclusive, award-winning novelist. When the two meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one...

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams | A Novel

A reality star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery in this sweet and sexy romance from Jamie Wesley, Fake It Till You Bake It. Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turni...

Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley | Sugar Blitz: Book 1 of 2

August Hodges was supposed to be the silent partner in Sugar Blitz Cupcakes. Emphasis on silent. That is until his impromptu feminist rant about how women bakers are the backbone of the industry and baking cupcakes isn’t a threat to masculinity goes ...

A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley | Sugar Blitz: Book 2 of 2

Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is conspiracy-theory-obsessed...

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Cherry Neita is thirty, flirty, and done with men. As far as she can tell, they're overrated, overpaid, and underperforming-in every area of life. But a girl has needs, and the smoking-hot stranger she just met at the office seems like the perfect on...

The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert

Two best friends. Seven years of pining. One explosive summer... Romance is weakness, and Jasmine Allen doesn't have time for either. Lifelong cynic Jas is the queen of one-night things-until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves her t...

The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert

Quinn keeps lists of everything—from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud” and all the boys she’d like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That i...

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney

Monique is a preacher’s daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can’t have sex. After two years of trying and failing...

Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joyna Gaffney

Nikki can’t wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career . . . After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue he...

My Week with Him by Joyna Goffney

When Iris DuPree crosses paths with future NBA star August West, their chemistry is undeniable. But timing is cruel, and Iris's life is already entwined with another—the league's most beloved player, who hides his dark side well. As Iris's world spin...

Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan | Hoops: Book 1 of 3

If Jared Foster had a dollar for every time Banner Morales made his heart skip a beat—the heart everyone assumes is frozen over—he'd be richer than he already is. He's found success as a sports agent by always assuming "no" means "I'll think about it...

Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan | Hoops: Book 2 of 3

She's not the plan he made, but she's the risk he has to take. A single, divorced dad in the final years of his basketball career, Kenan Ross's perfect life has blown up in his face. He's still picking up the pieces when he meets Lotus DuPree. A wil...

Hook Shot by Kennedy Ryan | Hoops: Book 3 of 3