The longlist for this year’s Canada Reads debate includes 15 books that offer readers new perspectives on the world around them.

“This collection of books is an opportunity to broaden our horizons, expand our worldview, and think differently about the world around us and our place in it,” the CBC said in announcing the list.

The five panellists and the books they choose to champion in the annual battle of the books will be announced on January 25. This year’s debates will take place from March 27–30 and will be hosted by actor and comedian Ali Hassan.

The longlisted books are:

• Ducks by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler (Wolsak & Wynn)
• Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano (Penguin Canada)
• Greenwood by Michael Christie (McClelland & Stewart)
• Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye (HarperTeen)
• Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin (Harper Perennial/HCP)
• All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking/PRHC)
• Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu (HarperCollins)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey/PRHC)
• Finding Edward by Sheila Murray (Cormorant Books)
• Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press)
• We Spread by Iain Reid (Scribner Canada/S&S)
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (ECW Press)
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Harper Perennial/HCP)