Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their most-anticipated upcoming books via Loan Stars, a joint readers’ advisory program run by BookNet Canada and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council.

• Ridgerunner, Gil Adamson (House of Anansi Press)
• The Watershed, Doreen Vanderstoop (Freehand Books)
• Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5), Martha Wells ((Tor Books/Macmillan Canada)
• Big Summer, Jennifer Weiner (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster Canada)
• The Trouble With Hating You, Sajni Patel (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group Canada)
• The Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet (WW Norton/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Officer Clemmons: A Memoir, François S. Clemmons (Catapult)
• The Goodbye Man (Colter Shaw #2), Jeffrey Deaver (G.P. Putnam & Sons/PRHC)
• Mary Pickford, George A. Walker (Porcupine’s Quill)
• Beach Read, Emily Henry (Berkley/PRHC)

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