Here are the books (on my radar) that are celebrating their Book Birthdays this week (a.k.a. books that were published in Canada this week)! Happiest of Book Birthdays to all of these lovely new releases! Which ones are you most excited for?!

Title: Our Stop
Author: Laura Jane Williams
Type: Fiction
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Avon (HarperCollins)

What if you almost missed the love of your life?

Nadia gets the 7.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma’s after too much wine.

Daniel really does get the 7.30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn’t been able to sleep properly since his Dad died.

One morning, Nadia’s eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper:

To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors… Drink sometime?

So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, true love, and the power of the written word.

Title: The Downstairs Girl
Author: Stacey Lee
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Historical
Publisher: Putnam
(Penguin Random House)

By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, “Dear Miss Sweetie.” When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society’s ills, but she’s not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender.

While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta’s most notorious criminal, Jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadows, is ready to step into the light.

Title: Midnight Beauties
Author: Megan Shepherd
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers

Ever since she discovered her affinity for magic, seventeen-year-old Anouk has been desperate to become a witch. It’s the only way to save her friends who, like Anouk, are beasties: animals enchanted into humans. But unlike Anouk, the other beasties didn’t make it out of the battle at Montélimar in one piece.

With her friends now trapped in their animal forms, Anouk is forced into a sinister deal involving a political marriage with her sworn enemy, a wicked plot to overthrow London’s fiercest coven of witches, and a deadly trial of fire to become a witch. The price for power has always been steep in the world of the Haute. Now, it will cost Anouk everything.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING MY BOOK BIRTHDAY POST! WHICH UPCOMING BOOKS ARE YOU MOST EXCITED FOR? HAVE I MISSED ANY THAT YOU’RE SUPER PUMPED ABOUT? LET ME KNOW!