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

The New Voices of Science Fiction, ed. Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman: ( yay new voices )

Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy: ( short stories )
John Scalzi, A Very Scalzi Christmas: ( xmas stories )
Rainbow Rowell, Attachments: ( big crusher is watching )
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War: ( red v blue )
Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House: ( a different kind of fantasy for Bardugo )
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black: ( Alice in Wonderland kicks ass )
Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter: ( Sherlock Holmes x many fantasy/horror tropes )
Ada Hoffman, The Outside: ( there were AO3 style tags on the back cover, like autistics in space )