While we’re spending most of this season discussing classic children’s literature, today Chelsey and Sara break from form to share our most anticipated spring book releases. Spring is a busy time in the publishing cycle and we will topple your TBR with feel-good fiction, literary books from favorite writers, and a surprising number of intriguing nonfiction titles, all releasing between late February and early May. Today is all about those new releases, but if you want to hear us offer backlist pairings for these anticipated buzzy titles, head over to our Patreon community to get that bonus content delivered to your podcast feed. To shop for all of the titles mentioned in today’s episode while supporting our show, head to our Bookshop.org affiliate storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/novelpairings

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Books mentioned:

• I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

• The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest

• Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson 

• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

• In Springtime by Sarah Blake

• How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna 

• Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera

• Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

• Above Ground by Clint Smith

• Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

• Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal

• Greek Lessons by Han Kang

• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

• Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah