Stack Your TBR: The Best 2026 Plus Size Romance Reads from January to June

Maddie Kowalczk arrives at Astra University fresh from a breakup, ready for a new start. A chance encounter with handsome ecology professor Bram Loe — whose parking spot she stole — sparks instant chemistry. When fate reunites them the next morning, Maddie becomes both his family’s nanny and his new colleague. Desperate for income, she accepts his offer despite the obvious tension between them.

As their arguments blur into something more charged, the reserved professor and the spirited adjunct discover their push-and-pull dynamic might be leading somewhere neither of them expected.

Reese Remington has worked her entire life to become Major League Baseball’s first female team owner, but the public sees only her gender, not her qualifications. Under relentless scrutiny, she can’t afford distractions — especially her infuriating field manager, Emmett Montgomery. A former All-Star accustomed to running things his way, Emmett initially clashes with his new boss. But close quarters reveal the fire beneath her composure and the heart behind her ambition.

As tension transforms into undeniable chemistry, both must decide whether protecting their careers is worth denying what’s growing between them.

Skylar manages chronic illness on her own terms, preferring her online pain support group over real-world romance. When a chaotic group night lands her in a fake relationship with broody, poetry-loving Pike, she’s surprised to find someone who doesn’t flinch at her reality. What she doesn’t know: Pike is a famous snowboarder quietly unraveling after a career-ending injury. Pretending to love Skylar becomes the brightest part of his difficult days.

But when paparazzi expose their arrangement, public scrutiny threatens to destroy something that had quietly, unexpectedly become very real.

Jackson Clark thrives on routine from his radio booth; Delilah Stewart lives for spontaneity in the field. Opposites in every way, their history is littered with clashes and disasters. When they’re reluctantly paired to cover a historic snowstorm, Delilah proposes a deal: she’ll help him rediscover fun if he helps her nail the assignment.

What begins as an uneasy truce softens into unexpected friendship — and something warmer beneath the surface. But as feelings complicate their partnership, both must decide whether what sparked in the mountains can survive the real world.

Jazmyn Payne escaped her hometown the moment she graduated, leaving behind years of fatphobia and cruelty. Her safe harbor has always been her Aunt Addison — who, facing a health scare, pushes Jazz to finally embrace life and take some chances. Romance is the last thing on Jazz’s mind until Lamar Anderson slides into the seat beside her at a sports bar: sexy, easygoing, and refreshingly uncomplicated. With him, everything feels possible.

But when the past creeps back in, Jazz must decide whether she’s ready to accept the love she’s always deserved.

Quinn Riley loves Rome, her career counseling job at Billings College, and her best friend Colton — feelings she’s trying hard to keep strictly platonic. When a summer study abroad program brings them together in Rome, Quinn faces a faculty test that could destroy her beloved job, while Colton quietly battles a decade of unrequited feelings while chasing tenure. But shared apartments, charged moments, and one impulsive night shift everything.

Surrounded by Roman romance, both must decide whether risking their friendship for something deeper is worth everything they stand to lose.

Clover Walsh has one mission: earn her degree, conquer business school, and escape a lifetime of financial struggle. When her housing grant collapses days before semester, she discovers a loophole — married couples share a dorm for one student’s cost. Desperate, she proposes to the last person she’d ever choose: Bennett Graves, coffee empire heir and the boy who once broke her heart.

He owes her, so he agrees. But sharing a dorm — and one bed — with someone you can barely tolerate has a way of quietly, dangerously feeling like home.

Cherry’s husband Tom is in Hollywood — and not coming back. His wildly successful webcomic features a character unmistakably based on her: wide-hipped, double-chinned Baby. Strangers recognize Cherry at the grocery store while Tom collects fame and internet adoration. Meanwhile, she’s stuck in Omaha, rebuilding an identity that existed before him.

One night out to see her favorite band changes everything. Across the room stands Russ Sutton — someone who knew her before Tom, who genuinely likes her, and who has never once heard of Thursday.

Chris Kingman can lead a championship team without breaking a sweat, but wedding planning is an entirely different game. When the venue is a farm animal sanctuary — his bride’s beloved workplace — Chris’s need for perfection sends him deep into groomzilla territory. Trixie adores his big heart, even as he spirals over seating charts and whether a rooster named Luke Skycocker can behave near an altar.

Between chaotic animals and opinionated family, the road to their wedding day is gloriously messy. But love was never about perfection — just choosing each other anyway.

After a very public breakup, Willow wants a fresh start — and a chance to redo the milestones her first relationship defined. Dog-sitting at her deployed brother’s place, she finds an unexpected ally in Deacon, her brother’s best friend. He promised Cruz two things: watch over Willow, and keep his distance.

The Re-Do list starts innocently enough, but as firsts become seconds and thirds, neither can deny what’s growing between them. With Willow’s time in town limited and Cruz returning, Deacon must choose between his oldest loyalty and the woman he loves.

Josie has one rule as the Stoneheart MC’s lawyer: never get close to a client. Especially not Stone, the commanding, dangerously compelling club president who pulled her close eight months ago — then walked away. She got the message. But when a cartel hitman puts her in his sights, Stone refuses to let history repeat itself.

With Josie under his roof and enemies closing in, the walls between them crumble fast. He swore she was too good for him. Now he’ll burn the world down before he lets anyone take her.

David Kingsley has one rule: no relationships while his daughter is young. It kept them stable for seven years — until he kisses Nora Harrison, his daughter’s principal, in her kitchen during a crisis, then panics and runs. Nora spent fifteen years shrinking herself for a man who made her feel invisible. She doesn’t have a routine for wanting someone like David.

But his ex-wife has returned after seven years, armed with attorneys and a billionaire husband, demanding custody — and a relationship with Nora could cost David everything.

Ani Avakian needs this wedding to go perfectly. After a devastating setback, she’s staking her reputation on planning an indie actress’s dream wedding at a stunning Armenian winery. The owner, Raffi Garabedian, is infuriatingly smug — despite being undeniably attractive. Then comes the real shock: the bride’s fiancée is Kami, the woman who broke Ani’s heart two years ago. Raffi’s floored too — Kami is his ex as well.

Bound together by shared history and professional necessity, Ani and Raffi must navigate crackling tension without letting it derail someone else’s happily ever after.

After a traumatic experience at work, plus-size ER nurse Lexie West escapes to New York City to house-sit for a friend — and walks straight into the kitchen of Callum Russo, a professional fixer who solves powerful people’s problems by any means necessary. They strike a deal: she stays, she keeps quiet.

But staying out of Callum’s world proves impossible, especially when her nursing skills pull her into the thick of it. As danger draws them closer, their undeniable attraction grows — but surviving his world may cost more than either expected.

Behind a motorcycle helmet, NFL quarterback Joey Kingman is just a guy — no famous last name, no expectations. So when he rescues Clover and her cat from a tree, he keeps the helmet on. She gives him her number. He feels brilliant. He is, in fact, an idiot — because Clover is the Tigers’ new Dance and Cheer coach, and she figures out his identity before he can come clean.

Now they’re fake dating to uncover a team saboteur, while Clover fights to build the league’s first body-diverse cheer squad against powerful people betting she’ll fail.

Daisy Emmett has despised romance author Caleb Miller since college, and the feeling is entirely mutual. Agreeing to manage his PR disaster was already a bad idea — then they end up trapped together on an endless book tour road trip, bickering at every stop. Things get worse when strangers mistake Daisy for the muse Caleb dedicates every book to: his great love, who doesn’t actually exist.

Forced to keep up the fiction, every fake kiss and staged embrace blurs the line between enemies and something neither of them is prepared to admit.