I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

It's been a while! I've been busy with classes; didn't even manage to pick up a Yuletide pinch hit this year, sadly. I've been listening to Kesha on repeat (and Dessa and Taylor Swift with her cat chorus). And I just saw either a very large mouse or a small rat poke its head out of our basement closet, which was very unpleasant. While I wait for the pest control to call me back, have some fiction!

Alix E. Harrow, Starling House: ( southern gothic )
Jason Pargin, Zoey Ashe Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia: ( book three )
Christopher Golden & Amber Benson, Slayers: A Buffyverse Story: Good to hear the familiar voices, but the writing was sadly not good.

Seth Dickinson, Exordia: ( highly recommended )
Alexis Hall, 10 Things that Never Happened: ( romcom )
Martha Wells, System Collapse: ( Murderbot! )
Rebecca Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023: Isabel J. Kim’s Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist, starring Cool and Sexy Asian Girl, is great. The others were fine but I don't really have anything to say about them.

Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen: ( non-Discworld )
Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory: ( fascist deradicalization )
John Scalzi, Starter Villain: ( eh )
Tobias S. Buckell, A Stranger in the Citadel: ( banned books )
Richard Kadrey & Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A-Train: ( Wolfram & Hart in NYC )
Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World:( accepting self, gaining empire )
Christopher Rowe, The Navigating Fox: ( oneiric fantasy )
Best of British Science Fiction 2022, Donna Bond, ed.: ( AI & environmental collapse )
Stephen King, Holly: ( Covid horror ) Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts: ( side quest )

Holly Black, Book of Night: ( New magic system just dropped )
Max Barry, The Twenty-Two Murders of Madison May: ( serial killers in time )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void: ( hostile universe )
Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility: ( time ... flies )
James S.A. Corey, Memory’s Legion: ( short stories )
Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light: ( Edwardian m/m fantasy )
Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler: ( small town girl )
Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful: ( Gatsby retold )
Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons: ( domesticity )
Stephen King & Richard Chizmar, Gwendy’s Final Task: ( King in spaaace )

Alaya Dawn Johnson, Trouble the Saints: ( alt 1920s )

N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin: ( short story about white male folly and growth )

Jenn Lyons, Ruin of Kings: ( epic fantasy I did not like )

Ben Aaronovitch, False Value: ( things happen )

Jordan L. Hawk, Widdershins: ( meet cute in Cthulhu land )

Akwaeke Emezi, Pet: ( monsters have been banished, or have they )

Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys: ( psychics and private school boys )

Frances Hardinge, Deeplight: ( another rich fantasy world )

Julian Peters, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry: ( interesting )

A People’s Future of the United States, ( is that a trademark problem? )Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up: ( comic book mystery )
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things:( vampire intrigue )
Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient: ( sex work as meet cute )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time: ( Spiders inherit the stars )
N.J. Jemisin, How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?: ( good question )
Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone: ( apocafic )
Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping: ( Faceless no more? )
Richard K. Morgan, Thin Air: ( Noir Mars )

( Stephen King/Richard Chizmar )

Madeline Ashby, Company Town: ( Future work )
Genevieve Cogman, The Burning Page: ( More Library shenanigans )
( James S.A. Corey )

Mishell Baker, Phantom Pains:( fantasy sequel )
Laurie Penny, Everything Belongs to the Future: ( So many ideas )
Joe Haldeman & Jack C. Haldeman, There Is No Darkness: ( old school )
Ben Aaronovich, The Furthest Station: ( novella )
Max Gladstone et al., Bookburners: ( Are libraries the new zombies in fantasy? )

( conspiracy theories, betting on financial collapse, remix, and Henrietta Lacks's immortal cells )