Six Books Our Publishing Team Is Picking Up this Spring
by Marisa Papa
Whether you’re a fan of rom-coms, celebrity memoirs, or whatever book Reese Whitherspoon has chosen for the month, our publishing team here at LPR has a recommendation for you. We have the opportunity to work closely with our clients to promote their biggest & best releases for the season, so our heads are always in the pages.
Members of our publishing team have rounded up 6 titles they can’t wait to check off their TBR lists this Spring to kick off a summer of reaching our reading goals, experiencing new genres, and simply getting lost in a good book.
Christie’s Can’t-Waits
Anita De Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
A Reese’s Book Club Pick, New York Time bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Moving back and forth through time and told from multiple perspectives, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive … It was unputdownable!” – Oprah Winfrey. From the New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
Marisa’s Must-Reads
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Named a Most Anticipated book of 2024 by TIME, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Today.com, and more, Funny Story is a shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He was really good at telling it… right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation. Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you can win it all. Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves.
Polly’s Picks
Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey
Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award-winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. McConaughey took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story to his life so far. This is fifty years of his sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. It’s a love letter. To Life. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights – and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
A Reese’s Book Club Pick, Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher – but then, Evie has always liked a challenge…