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

Sorry I've been gone so long. I'm not sure I even posted my Yuletide pitch hit story, a Severance fic focusing on Helly.

Hernan Diaz, Trust: ( it's a pun )
Ann Leckie, Translation State: ( back to the universe of the Radchhai )
P.B. Rainey, Why Don’t You Love Me?: ( Graphic novel with sad parents )
M.A. Carrick, The Liar’s Knot: ( good palace intrigue )
Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark: ( Pandemic sf )
Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves: ( short stories )
John Scalzi, Travel by Bullet: ( More Dispatcher )
Ben H. Winters, Self Help: ( Winters goes for AI horror )
R.B. Lemberg, The Four Profound Weaves:( trans fantasy )
Everina Maxwell, Ocean’s Echo: ( mind meld sf; not super tropey )
Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent: ( Alex Stern continues at Yale )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls: ( a dying city on a dying world )
Lawrence Block, John Ferris, & Stephen King, Transgressions: Terror's Echo: Three Novellas: ( not so good )
Karin Tidbeck, Amatka: ( communist SF! )
A. K. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes:( fantasy palace intrigue, always a pleasure )