31 of the Best Kindle Unlimited Romance Books in 2023

How about a medieval romance with two plus size characters? A lady swaps places with a barmaid to get closer to the champions coming to town for the big tournament. And she meets a big ol’ cinnamon roll. Also only one bed!

Honestly, fix your life if you’re not reading Jeannie Lin. This novel kicks off her Tang Dynasty series with an action-packed road trip romance pairing a princess on the run from her wedding and a “barbarian” outsider enlisted to protect her.

Are you into the idea of historical menage? How’s this for a premise: a woman answers an ad for a mail-order wife in the Wild West of Montana. Turns out she’s going to meet two inseparable former Union soldiers who want to add a third.

Isn’t it amazing, the range of historical periods you can find among the best Kindle Unlimited romance books? This is a cold war romance, unfolding over decades, in which a soviet agent and and an FBI agent work together and fall in love. It’s a unique novel, a slow burn with so much pining, and definitely not your usual enemies-to-lovers story.

This incredible and critically beloved series is entirely available on KU! Run, don’t walk. It’s a Civil War–set romance following a Black female spy with an eidetic (a.k.a. photographic) memory who meets another Union spy. The two team up to take the Confederacy down and fall in love in the process.

Kennedy Ryan’s romances are like ocean journeys. Expansive, with huge swells of emotion, and wondrous every single time. This one follows the romance between a director and an actor who both know better than to tangle business and pleasure, but they connect so deeply their feelings are undeniable.

This second chance romance shines with talent. When an Oscar-winning screenplay brings a writer and a rap star back into each other’s orbit, they get another chance at love — if their shared grief doesn’t get the best of them first. 

Art crimes! A rich southern art thief steals a painting to catch the attention his crush, a starchy FBI agent who investigates art crimes. On paper this relationship should end in an arrest, but this is one of the softest enemies-to-lovers Kindle Unlimited has to offer.

You have to love a contemporary marriage of convenience story. An heir to a tulip farm marries the sexy farmer next door to secure her inheritance. He’s always loved her, he’s a single dad, it’s a slow burn, and I know you want to read this right now.

This whole series is SPECTACULAR! Please read it now. It kicks off with a scientist who went in with her friends on a lottery ticket and hit the jackpot. She wants to maintain her steady life with the addition of buying a fixer-upper to finally call home, but a corporate recruiter makes her question everything.

Yes to romances with older characters! In this wintry wonder, a tightly-wound woman trying to save her family’s ski slope business meets an ex-grunge rocker trying to find good jobs for the folks living in the sober home he runs. It’s an emotional and compassionate opposites attract romance. 

In this sapphic small town romance with impeccable fall vibes, a woman flees the gossip mill after she bails on her groom at the altar and moves to a new town. When she finds her childhood friend there, the two women rekindle their relationship and transform it into something new and beautiful.

Seriously, romances that revolve around art and artifacts are like catnip to me. Here, an art curator is trying to convince a millionaire to part with his collection. He stubbornly refuses, and in her efforts to win him over, he ends up tearing down the carefully built walls surrounding her heart.

How about Magic Mike XXL, but a romance? In this novel with a laundry meet cute (the dream, right?), a woman discovers she’s received her neighbor’s clean laundry delivery thanks to the appearance of the spangly thong he dances in. Such a fun and sexy romance ensues.

What about polyamorous monster romances? This one features a woman looking to reject her birth family and their reputation who meets a gargoyle who already has two other mates. What follows in in equal parts sweet and smutty.

I feel fairly confident this is the only romance between a woman and her sleep paralysis demon! While this is novella-length, the detailed world building and the careful exploration of healing from trauma make it a memorable read.

If you don’t want to choose only one kind of monster for your romances, here’s the pick for you. A woman takes a position at a house of ill repute, and then bangs monster after monster. Despite the…plethora of characters, they are all distinct and there is an emotional arc to the story.