Books like 'To Feed the Bears'
Readers who enjoyed To Feed the Bears by Elizabeth Silver also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Hopelessly Bromantic by Lauren Blakely
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA sexy, passionate, utterly addictive, roomies-to-lovers MM romance from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely!Look, when I met the sexy, witty Brit on the streets of London last night, I had no idea who he was. He was just that hot guy I wanted to have a drink with so I asked him out for my first evening in town. One thing almost led to another... -
Frank and Red by Matt Coyne, James Killeen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEstranged from his friends, son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate, Frank is a reclusive curmudgeon whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. Then six-year-old Red moves in next door. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of his mum and dad, a new school, and the demonic school bully, Red is curious, smart, and talkative. And he has a trampoline... -
Christmas Flings and Wedding Rings by Beth Rain
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Christmas, Lucy Brown turned to her best friend and found the love of her life staring back at her. One year later . . .She’s got a wedding to organise…An entire village to cook Christmas dinner for…And she’s sure she’s forgotten something… oh yeah, her wedding dress!But Lucy’s determined to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch… especially when it comes to getting hitched... -
Main Dish by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix months have passed since Carrie Maynard walked into D&B’s Steakhouse and collided with its owner, Devon Brine. Life has been a mixture of sweet, savory, and sour. While both women deal with the realities of owning a business, Carrie finds herself playing the role of parent to her four-year-old goddaughter, CJ... -
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The Case of the Brokenhearted Bartender by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the private files of Nora Sutherlin, The Mistress.Kingsley Edge, owner of the 8th Circle BDSM club, has ordered her to compose client profiles so the other Dominatrixes in his employ can learn from her expert erotic encounters. She’s the best Dominatrix at the club and her clients always leave satisfied.. -
Short Stack by Lily Morton
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat happens after the happy ending?Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about the much-loved men from her Mixed Messages and Finding Home series. Follow them through awkward marriage proposals, birthdays, a fraught babysitting job, and a very drunken Eurovision Song Contest party... -
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, PlaysTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s... -
Letters to Cupid by Miranda MacLeod
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn American celebrity chef and an Italian chocolate maker cook up a magical recipe for true love. In a tiny village in the hills of Tuscany is a statue of Cupid with the power to grant the deepest desires of the heart to all who ask. The village is home to single mother Valentina, who runs a struggling chocolate shop... -
Make Music Together by Ariella Zoelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt all started with a song. Two neighbors singing duets in the shower finally meet at an open mic night. Sparks fly, but will it lead to true love?Levi BenowitzThe walls in my new apartment are so thin that I can clearly hear my neighbor singing in his shower... -
营业悖论[娱乐圈] Fanservice Paradox by Zhichu, 稚楚
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuplicate, to be deleted by a super-librarian... -
Amid Our Lines by Zarah Detand
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRealising your new boss is the adult star you fancied as a teenager? Awkward.In the snow-kissed Swiss Alps, Adrian’s world is a high-wire act of old-world charm and new-world problems at the Gletscherhaus Hotel. Enter Eric, an undercover London songwriter, seeking a mental break in a place where the Wi-Fi is as patchy as his past relationships... -
Trash Trio: Three Screenplays by John Waters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScreenplays for Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, and the unmade sequel Flamingos Forever... -
Damon Ich by Aaron D. Key
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDamon Ich, an introverted and lonely workaholic, lives in a paradise with power to do anything, and to go anywhere, at any time. He uses this gift to help people in need.One night, he rescues a man who is revealed to be the founder of his way of life - and suggests a rescue mission he can't refuse. The meeting and the rescue set off a train of events that shatter everything... -
Tied in Knots by Z.B. Heller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoses are red, violets are blue. They tied the knot, what kind of crazy will ensue? Ryan Keller and Brandon Ford have promised to be Tied Together forever. Seven years later, life is moving along according to their plan. Ryan gave up his job as a television producer to be a stay at home dad to their son, while Brandon works long hours as an OBGYN at the hospital... -
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When You Know by Kiki Archer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"When You Know," is the sequel to Kiki Archer’s best-selling lesbian fiction novel, "One Foot Onto The Ice." Teacher, Susan Quinn, and Club Ski instructor, Jenna James, have finally found love. True love. Real love. Breathless love. There’s chemistry. There’s passion. There’s a future... -
In Absentia by Kelli Jae Baeli
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition - ASIN: B00IVX77EKA Rain Falls Romantic Dramedy, book 2Dammit, but a happy ever after should last more than a few months. Not that India and Tegan are thinking too much about the future - they're having far too good a time exploring, well, each other, and that idyllic life neither thought would ever be theirs... -
Avocado Asks: What Am I? by Momoko Abe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvocado is feeling just fine in the fruit and veg aisle at the supermarket - until a young customer asks a difficult question: "Is an avocado a fruit or a vegetable?" Avocado doesn't know the answer either - and the question won't seem to go away!A brilliantly funny book about identity and being confident in your own skin - featuring the world's most popular... -
The Girl Who Couldn't Come by Joey Comeau
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is a book of dirty stories. They are weird and fun and often bewildering, like sex itself... -
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlaying off "The Wheels on the Bus," this dazzling nursery rhyme book covers all the ways drag queens "work it," by one of the drag queens from the nationally acclaimed Drag Queen Story Hour.The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are... -
Mammother by Zachary Schomburg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe people of Pie Time are suffering from God's Finger, a mysterious plague that leaves its victims dead with a big hole through their chests. In each hole is a random consumer product... -
Binding Devotion by Kiki Archer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“What’s more important … the bond of marriage or the pull of desire?” “But what’s more powerful?” Andi Armstrong is the 29-year-old CEO of the UK’s largest LGBT campaigning organisation, Proud Unity. She’s a public figure, an empowering speaker, a devoted boss and a loyal wife. Or so she thought... -
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike... -
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character... -
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Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe dead aren’t really gone, they persist as phone numbers, social media accounts, newsletter recipients, and as members of fan-fiction forums. Digital ghosts move and connect us: we feel we know people we have only seen online just as corporations masquerade as familiar friends... -
Princess Kevin by Michaël Escoffier, Roland Garrigue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis year, Kevin is going to the school costume show as a princess. His costume is perfect but he knows that the best costumes are authentic. So he is outraged that none of the knights will partner with him and complete the look. Things don't go quite a smoothly as he planned. Next year, there is only one thing for it. He will just have to be something even more fabulous... -
Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace... -
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence... -
Straight Expectations by Calum McSwiggan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you were granted one wish, what would it be? Seventeen-year-old Max has always been out and proud. But every time he looks around his small school, he sees straight couples everywhere. It’s everything he’s ever wanted for himself, but there are few queer boys to choose from... -
Seminar on Youth by Aldo Busi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Seminar on Youth" is an account of the adventures of a young peasant from northern Italy who becomes a homosexual prostitute in Milan and Paris. For money or company he pursues relationships, most memorably with an insecure French girl, and through her, with her circle of bourgeois women friends... -
Design Flaws of the Human Condition by Paul Schmidtberger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs can only happen in New York, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger-management class, where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of an eminently justifiable meltdown on a crowded flight, whereas Ken got caught defacing library books with rude (but true!) messages about his former boyfriend. The boyfriend that he caught in bed with another man... -
Les Sentiers de neige by Kev Lambert
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsC’est le premier Noël depuis la séparation. Les parents de Zoey se sont fait un calendrier du temps des fêtes pour la garde partagée. Sa mère souffre que son garçon passe le 24 décembre loin d’elle. Zoey sera avec son père au Lac-Saint-Jean, elle l’aura après... -
Leap Year by Peter Cameron
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Leap Year attests to Mr. Cameron’s blossoming satiric gifts and his instinctive feeling for the confusions of a generation.” —The New York Times As the curtain falls on the vibrant, gritty New York of the 1980s, just-divorced David and Loren Parish watch their lives come apart—but not before one last year of self-absorbed fun... -
The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Collector Collector takes a conventional boy-meets-girl story and turns it into a brilliant comic romp. The hero of Tibor Fischer's tale is an antique bowl that comes into the possession of a lovelorn, young London art appraiser named Rosa... -
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Ości by Ignacy Karpowicz
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCzłowiek bez k-ości, realia współczesn-ości, wiele możliw-ości…Najnowsza powieść Ignacego Karpowicza – laureata Paszportu Polityki – o zagmatwanej naturze relacji międzyludzkich, pełnych gier i sądów. Czasem pół-, a czasem serio. I bardzo dobrze. Bardzo.Kot Bury zdechł. A to dopiero początek zamieszania… Maja oskarża Szymona o romans... -
You Were Made For Me by Jenna Guillaume
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYA author Jenna Guillaume is back with a modern feminist twist on the 1985 pop cult film Weird Science.Sixteen-year-old Katie Camilleri can’t believe she’s accidentally created a teenage boy. A boy six-feet tall with floppy hair and eyes like the sky on a clear summer’s day. A boy whose lips taste like cookie dough and whose skin smells like springtime. A boy completely devoted to Katie... -
Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person by Daniel Zomparelli
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn these unconventional, interconnected stories of first-person narratives in an age of text messages and Instagram posts, gay men look for love, steal office supplies, hook up on Grindr, bake pies, see therapists, have threesomes with ghosts, and fear happiness... -
Balladyny i romanse by Ignacy Karpowicz
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaureat Paszportu Polityki 2010Sprawy na Ziemi nie idą najlepiej.Starych, potężnych bogów wyparli trywialni, ale i bezwzględni bożkowie popkultury. Świat globalnej wioski nie daje poczucia stabilności i bezpieczeństwa. Osamotnieni ludzie już dawno stracili nadzieję na odmianę losu, żyją z dnia na dzień, apatyczni i znudzeni… na domiar złego zaczyna brakować kawy... -
The Sensualist by Ruskin Bond
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Sensualist is the story of a man enslaved by his libido and spiraling towards self destruction. Gripping, erotic, even brutal, the book explores the demons that its protagonist must grapple with before he is able to come to terms with himself... -
Self by Yann Martel
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEdgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in the sudden shocking news of an accident abroad... -
The Wig, the Bitch & the Meltdown by Jay Manuel
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown is a satirical look behind the scenes of Model Muse, a fictional reality model competition show and global phenomenon. Seen through the eyes of our moral compass Pablo Michaels-the heart of production in the helter-skelter world of Model Muse-we see behind the scenes and backstage shenanigans of the fashion/reality TV world...
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