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.

• Death Threat, Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee, ill. (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• When I Arrived at the Castle, Emily Carroll (Koyama Press)
• I Know Who You Are, Alice Feeney (Flatiron Books)
• Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes, Gwen Benaway, ed. (Bedside Press)
• Miracle Creek, Angie Kim (Sarah Crichton Books/Macmillan Canada)
• I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, Malaka Gharib (Clarkson Potter/PRHC)
• Trust Exercise, Susan Choi (Henry Holt & Co./Raincoast Books)
• The Empress of Idaho, Todd Babiak (McClelland & Stewart)
• No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell #2, Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson (Del Rey/PRHC)
• Lost and Wanted, Nell Freudenberger (Knopf)

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