What to read after “The Bromance Book Club” by Lyssa Kay Adams: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.
LaRynn and Deacon married young, divorced, and hoped never to see each other again. When they inherit a crumbling building that must be renovated before it can be sold, they are stuck working side by side and confronting why they failed the first time.
Jasmine's pairs figure-skating career is nearly over when her former partner leaves. The only skater willing to take her on is Ivan Lukov, her longtime rival, and she has no choice but to accept. Months of gruelling shared training force them past years of resentment and into reluctant trust.
Ballet dancer Bree has been secretly in love with her best friend Nathan, a football star, for years. When a publicity plan calls for Nathan to have a girlfriend, Bree agrees to play the role, risking the friendship she cannot imagine losing.
Georgie, the party clown her family never takes seriously, has loved her brother's best friend Travis for years. When the injured former baseball star needs a respectable image and she wants to be seen as an adult, they fake a relationship, and the act starts feeling far too real.
Pro quarterback Dean, restless and disillusioned with his gilded life, picks up a hitchhiker in a beaver costume on a Colorado highway. Blue, a broke portrait painter running from her past, takes the ride, and their uneasy road trip leads to a Tennessee farmhouse where two guarded people begin to build a life and a makeshift family.
Vanessa spends years as the assistant to Aiden Graves, a silent, demanding football star, and finally quits. He then turns up at her door to ask her back and follows it with a bigger request: a marriage of convenience that helps his immigration case. The practical bargain and the time it forces them to spend together wear down his reserve.
Harriet and Wyn broke up months ago but still have not told the friends they spend every summer with. Sharing a room at the Maine cottage for one last week, they pretend to be the happy couple they used to be, hiding their split while old feelings refuse to stay buried.
In college, Matt and Grace were inseparable neighbours in their NYU dorm who fell in love, until lost contact after graduation pulled them apart. Fifteen years later, a missed-connections post brings Grace back into his life, and the two have one chance to understand what happened and decide whether their story is really over.
Anna Jones is focused on finishing college, not on the star quarterback who keeps staring at her. Drew Baylor has fame, trophies and a clear plan: persuade prickly Anna to give him a chance. A no-strings arrangement suits her better, but neither of them is prepared for feelings that refuse to stay casual.
Exes Addie and Dylan are forced to share a car to a friend's wedding in Scotland when their journey goes wrong. Crammed together with strangers and old wounds, they retrace how they met, why they broke up, and whether anything is left to salvage.
Stevie takes a job as a flight attendant on a hockey team's private plane, determined to keep her distance from players. Evan Zanders, the team's most disliked star, seems equally determined to provoke her. Long road trips and shared flights blur the line between irritation and attraction, even though both have reasons to stay away.
As teenagers Macy and Elliot spent every weekend trading books in a closet and slowly falling in love, until one night tore them apart. Eleven years later they meet again in San Francisco, and the friendship and heartbreak they buried come rushing back as they decide whether to try once more.
Jamie and Ryan were best friends at hockey camp until Ryan cut him off four years ago. Now they meet again as college players and take summer jobs coaching at the same camp. Working together forces Jamie to question what he wants, while Ryan tries to hide the crush he has carried since that last night.
Corey arrives at college in a wheelchair after the accident that ended her hockey plans. Across the hall lives Adam Hartley, a hockey player with a broken leg and secrets of his own. Their friendship grows through shared meals and video games, then shifts into something neither is sure the other wants.
Jennie Beckett has always been off limits: she is the younger sister of Garrett Andersen's best friend and teammate. When Jennie moves into Garrett's building, their easy friendship turns into a secret arrangement, and Garrett must decide how much he is willing to risk for her.
Hockey captain Garrett needs a passing grade, and quiet music student Hannah needs the courage to approach her crush. They strike a deal: she tutors him, he pretends to date her. Studying late into the night, the fake arrangement deepens into trust and a real attraction neither of them expected.
Every summer Persephone stayed at the lake and grew up alongside Sam, the boy next door, until one mistake ended everything. Twelve years later she returns for a funeral and finds Sam again, reopening the past they both buried.
A rink scheduling clash forces competitive figure skater Anastasia to share the ice with the hockey team and its captain, Nate. What starts as irritation grows into friendship and then something more as she chases a national title and he tries to hold his team together.
Casey Hicks, a cheerful young hockey star who talks to everyone, shares a house with Landon Stackhouse, the quiet, prickly backup goalie newly called up to the Calgary team. A season of games, small routines and slow trust turns the unlikely roommates into something neither of them expected.
Lily moves to Boston, opens a flower shop and falls for Ryle, a confident neurosurgeon. Their relationship seems perfect until she notices patterns she recognises from the house she grew up in, and the return of her first love, Atlas, makes her question what she is willing to accept.
In 1932 North Carolina, mill worker Noah Calhoun and wealthy Allie Nelson fall in love during a summer together, but her family separates them. Fourteen years later, with Noah back from the Second World War and Allie on the eve of her wedding, she returns to find him and must choose between two very different futures.
Dex and Tripp are best friends and teammates on a Las Vegas hockey team, and Tripp has loved Dex for years. A wild night ends with the two of them accidentally married, and they stay wed to manage the publicity, forcing Dex to face feelings he never knew he had.
Rhett Eaton is the face of professional bull riding until a scandal forces him to accept a minder: his agent's daughter, Summer Hamilton. She has no patience for cowboys, and he resents being watched. Travelling the rodeo circuit together, their arguments soften, and a hotel booking mix-up leaves them with one bed.
Summer Heyward-Di Laurentis transfers to Briar University and moves in with her older brother's hockey friends, including Colin Fitzgerald, the quiet player she has crushed on since they met a year earlier. Fitz knows she is off limits, but living together makes his resolve harder to keep.
What should I read after “The Bromance Book Club”?
Start with “The Co-op”, “From Lukov with Love”, “The Cheat Sheet”: they are the closest to “The Bromance Book Club” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “The Bromance Book Club” these are Sports Romance, Second Chance Romance, Secret Society), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “The Co-op”, “From Lukov with Love”, “The Cheat Sheet”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
