Book List: Sports Romance

If I’m being honest, I couldn’t care less about sports. I find them so incredibly boring. But there are some people out there who find athletes very attractive–these book recs are for you to find your new book boyfriend/girlfriend.

• The Deal by Elle Kennedy

Genre: New Adult Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 4.27

Hannah wants to make her crush jealous. Garrett needs to pull up his GPA so he can continue playing hockey at the collegiate level. They set up an agreement: she’ll tutor him and he’ll fake date her. But when one wild night happens, Garrett can’t get Hannah out of his head.

• From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 4.36

After seventeen years of breaking bones, Jasmine knoes her figure skating career is coming to a close. But when Lukov–a guy she hates–gives her a tempting offer, she may have to reconsider.

• Puck Me Secretly by Odette Stone

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 4.15

On a plane crash, she confesses to her seat mate that she’s never had the big O. He tells her if they survive, he’d give her one. And they survived, but he left without telling her his identity. On her first day working for the Vancouver Hockey Team, she sees #33. And Max will become her secret.

• The Cheat Sheat by Sarah Adams

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 3.77

Bree is in love with her best friend, Nathan, a star quarterback. It’s fine….until Bree accidentally confesses her love to a reporter and now the tabloids think they’re together. And they signed a contract saying they’d pretend to date for at least three weeks.

• Blind Side by Kandi Steiner

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 4.12

Clay, a hot college football saftey, asked her to be his fake girlfriend to make his ex jealous. It’ll help her get noticed, too. But she also asks him to teach her a thing or two in the bedroom…

• Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese

Genre: New Adult Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 4.02

Willa is a star soccer player that shares a class with Ryder. When she misses class, the professor sends her to him for the notes. But he’s determined to drive her mad the way she drives him when she turns the classroom and the soccer field into a battle zone.

• The Studying Hours by Sarah Ney

Genre: New Adult Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 3.79

Oz is a star student athelete and a jerk. James is a class A nerd, but she’s not the prude people think she is. Oz is surprised by her, and now he’s found his weakness.

• Waking Olivia by Elizabeth O’Roark

Genre: New Adult Romance

Average Goodreads Rating: 4.23

Will struggles with a failing farm, inherited debt, and a bad track team. Then comes Olivia, a student transfer who is brilliant but troubled. And trouble. Olivia can’t escape her past or deal with her cocky track coach. Yet Will is determined to save her, and neither can deny their attraction.