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

Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky: ( rocs and manticores )
Douglas Smith, The Hollow Boys: ( dream riders )
Al Hess, World Running Down: ( kindness among ruins )
T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones: ( horror with bugs )
N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make: ( city fight )
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Wish You Weren’t Here: ( hunting things, occasionally saving people )
Kai Butler, Saffron Wilds: ( wedding prep )
Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell:( too cute for me )

Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found: ( cw: threatened child abuse )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation: ( destroyers of world destroyers )

Samit Basu, Resistance: ( The Boys with more women )

Eddie Robson, Hearts of Oak:( architecture in the wooden city )