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Christina Lauren knows what makes a good beach read.
After all, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the BFFs behind the BookTok favorite author, have been churning out best-sellers like Love and Other Words, The Unhoneymooners and The Paradise Problem for well over a decade.
“It’s something that just immediately grabs you and it makes you want to just stay out and keep reading and pick it up every time you have a second,” Lauren told E! News of the perfect waterfront read in an exclusive joint interview with Christina. “I love that feeling so much of being completely absorbed in a book on the beach.”
And the rom-com queens didn’t hesitate to reveal the books think everyone needs to be packing in their beach bags this summer.