Recs if you like Curvy Girl Summer...

Books with fat and plus size main characters. (leave a comment with recommendations!)

Black people falling in love written by Black people

Because Curvy girls get railed in carriages, too. These are the recs from our three curvy heroines episodes.

ׂ╰┈➤ 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅·˚ ༘

Black love in all its glory

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝑻𝑩𝑹 ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

Fat ladies finding love! (The ones worth reading in my opinion)

A nonexhaustive list of romance featuring black women.

82 (and counting!) Fated Mates recs that you can get DRM-Free from Bookshop.org. This means you actually own the book forever and you can read it on any device. Huzzah!

Romances with ticking clocks and clear time frames, about how this impacts conflict and makes books more breathless, and of course about the books that deploy this strategy perfectly. Inside, you'll find road trips and adventures, vacation romances and romantic suspense, house parties and that classic romance chestnut: "I have 30 days to get pregnant."

These books include Black Romance, Urban Romance and some spicy reads 💞

FMCs with under represented body shapes If you have suggestions throw them in the comments and I’ll add!

These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically don’t reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.

This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.