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

• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, Alicia Elliott (Doubleday Canada)
• Autopsy of a Boring Wife, Marie-Renee Lavoie (House of Anansi Press)
• Husbands That Cook: More Than 120 Irresistible Vegetarian Recipes and Tales from Our Tiny Kitchen, Ryan Alvarez and Adam Merrin (St. Martin’s Press/Raincoast Books)
• My Lovely Wife, Samantha Downing (Berkley/PRHC)
• You are Always With Me: Letters to Mama, Frida Kahlo (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group Canada)
• All the Wrong Places, Joy Fielding (Doubleday Canada)
• The Changling, Gail Gallant (Doubleday Canada)
• Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis, Andrew Reeves (ECW Press)
• The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Raincoast)
• To Be Equal in Our Own Country: Women and the Vote in Quebec, Denyse Baillargeon (UBC Press)

Visit LoanStars.ca for more great book recommendations and information about how publishers and library staff can get involved.