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

1. Close Enough to Touch, Colleen Oakley (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster Canada)
2. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hannah Tinti (Random House)
3. The Roanoke Girls, Amy Engel (Crown/PRH)
4. Accusation, Bandi (House of Anansi Press)
5. The Confessions of Young Nero, Margaret George (Berkley/PRH)
6. A Shimmer of Hummingbirds, Steve Burrows (Dundurn)
7. Etched in Bone, Anne Bishop (New American Library/PRH)
8. Brother’s Ruin, Emma Newman (Tor/Raincoast Books)
9. Barrelling Forward, Eva Crocker (Anansi)
10. Gone to Pot, Jennifer Craig (Second Story Press)