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Books like The Bromance Book Club
The best books like The Bromance Book Club are Normal People, Pride and Prejudice, and A General Theory of Love. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams is about masculinity and vulnerability, marriage and repair, friendship and community. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Normal People
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen · Classics
Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences in English literature and immediately establishes its ironic mode: a truth universally acknowledged turns out to be a social pressure universally imposed.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology
A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen · Classics
Two sisters, dispossessed by the legal mechanics of entail after their father's death, move to a smaller house in Devonshire with reduced means and reduced prospects.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - One Day in December
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Josie Silver · Romance
Laurie spots a man through the window of a London bus in December and feels an immediate, overwhelming certainty that she knows him — that he is, in some uncomplicated way, meant for her.
Both dig into second chances.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway · Literary fiction
A Farewell to Arms is set during the First World War in northern Italy and follows Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.
Both dig into masculinity and vulnerability.
Read the summary → - Persuasion
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Jane Austen · Classics
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven, no longer considered beautiful by her family, and living with the private knowledge that she turned down Captain Wentworth seven years ago because she was persuaded to — by her godmother, by social pressure, by the reasonable argument that he was too poor and too uncertain a prospect.
Both dig into second chances.
Read the summary → - Reminders of Him
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Kenna Rowan is released from prison after serving five years for a drunk driving accident that killed her boyfriend Scotty.
Both dig into second chances.
Read the summary → - The Thursday Murder Club
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Richard Osman · Mystery
The Thursday Murder Club is set in Coopers Chase, an upscale English retirement village, where four residents — Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron — meet weekly to examine unsolved cold cases from the files of Elizabeth's late-policewoman friend.
Both dig into friendship and community.
Read the summary → - Happy Place
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Emily Henry · Romance
Harriet and Wyn were the couple everyone else wanted to be.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - Hook, Line, and Sinker
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Tessa Bailey · Romance
Hannah Bellinger has always been the dependable one — her sister Piper's anchor, the practical twin who keeps things running.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - It Happened One Summer
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Tessa Bailey · Romance
Piper Bellinger is LA royalty — or at least she was until a very public, very filmed party incident lands her in her stepfather's office facing consequences.
A kindred romance read.
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Books like The Bromance Book Club: quick answers
What are the best books like The Bromance Book Club?
The best books like The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams are Normal People by Sally Rooney, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, One Day in December by Josie Silver, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Bromance Book Club, such as masculinity and vulnerability, marriage and repair, friendship and community.
What should I read after The Bromance Book Club?
A natural next read after The Bromance Book Club is Normal People by Sally Rooney. A kindred romance read. Other strong choices are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
What books are similar to The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams?
The Bromance Book Club centers on masculinity and vulnerability, marriage and repair, friendship and community. Books with a similar feel include Normal People by Sally Rooney, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, One Day in December by Josie Silver, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
