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.

• Half Spent Was the Night: A Witches Yuletide, Ami McKay (Knopf Canada)
• Trickster Drift, Eden Robinson (Knopf Canada)
• A Spark of Light, Jodi Picoult (Random House Canada)
• The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories, Fredrik Backman (Simon & Schuster Canada)
• The Witch Elm, Tana French (Viking)
• The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Kate Morton (Atria Books/S&S Canada)
• Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (ECW Press)
• An Easy Death, Charlaine Harris (Saga Press/S&S Canada)
• The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory (Berkley Books/PRHC)
• Tilly and the Crazy Eights, Monique Gray Smith (Second Story Press)

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