Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program.

1. The Spawning Grounds by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Knopf Canada)
2. The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
3. The Parcel by Anosh Irani (Knopf Canada)
4. Darktown by Thomas Mullen (Atria/Simon & Schuster)
5. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d by Alan Bradley (Doubleday Canada)
6. The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee (ECW Press)
7. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam (Flatiron Books/Macmillan)
8. Break by Katherena Vermette (House of Anansi Press)
9. Death of an Avid Reader by Frances Brody (Minotaur/Macmillan)
10. The Hidden Keys by André Alexis (Coach House Books)