9 Spicy Basketball Romance Books For Fans Of Sports Romances

Published in 2024, this story follows Julie, a high school basketball coach, and Elle, one of the players' new foster parents, who is also a former University of Tennessee basketball star.

While Julie is forced to give up her career in the WNBA due to an injury, she believes her job as a basketball coach could be what bridges the connection between her and Elle.

Will their relationship affect her ability to coach, or will it risk her job altogether?

Published in 2023, this story by USA Today Bestselling author Aliyah Burke follows Mitchell and Hope, whose first interaction takes place on the edge of a cliff in Hope’s overturned car during a snowstorm. Together, they decide to check into an inn to wait out the storm, where they are forced to share the last remaining room.

Will ex-pro basketball player Mitchell be able to stay on his side of the court when it comes to crossing the line with Hope, or will she let him play with her feelings?

Published in 2019, this story follows Gabby, who has spent the last several years as a shut-in after an accident left her wanting nothing but to hide.

As her best friend encourages her to make the best of the time they have left at their university, she finds herself with Zeke, a familiar face from the college basketball team.

When their friend group goes home for spring break, will they make the most of their alone time stuck on campus together?

Published in 2024, this sapphic basketball romance follows Khadijah, an athletic trainer, and Shae, a player on the Atlanta Cannons basketball team.

After a hot one-night stand, Shae and Khadijah believe they’ll remain strangers but soon come to find they’ll be more like co-workers.

Published in 2023, this romance book took the world by storm. The story follows Indy, a flight attendant living with her best friend's brother, Ryan, who happens to be the new captain of the Chicago Devil’s NBA team.

After Indy is invited to a wedding with her ex-boyfriend in attendance, she wants Ryan to be her date, not just because her ex-boyfriend is a superfan… Meanwhile, Ryan is being judged as the lone wolf captain of his team, who has no life off the court.

Both of them need a relationship to change other people's perspectives of them, so they choose to share more than just a roof over their heads. Will Indy be able to change Ryan once and for all?

Published in 2018, this story by USA Today Bestselling author Kennedy Ryan follows Jared and Banner. Jared is a sports agent who can’t take no for an answer, and Banner is trying to excel in a male-dominated field but can’t seem to get around Jared.

With a complicated history, all Jared wants is another chance at anything with Banner, while all she wants is anything but to give him another chance… even if that means going against how he makes her feel.

Published in 2023, this college romance story follows Kendall & Vincent as their college lives collide when basketball player Vincent needs book recommendations from the library for a class he can’t seem to care about.

Kendall, on the other hand, works the graveyard shift at the school library and loves nothing more than to spend her days in any spicy romance book she can.

When she meets Vincent, she can’t help but feel like she’s falling into her very own romance story. Will Vincent be her happily ever after, or just another chapter in her story?