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

Blair Braverman, Small Game:( general fiction )
Max Gladstone, Dead Country: ( Back to the Craft )
R.B. Lemberg, The Unbalancing: ( kind fantasy about bad things )
Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words: ( aliens make you drunk )
Samit Basu, The City Inside: ( future India )
Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few:( more cozy sf )
Barbara Hambly, The Iron Princess: ( old school fantasy )