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 )

Just finished watching Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix, a show that has no business being as good as it ended up being. Julie is a teen who lost her mom, and also lost the ability to play the music that she used to make with her mom. When she accidentally brings three ghosts—three members of a boy band that was on the verge of breaking out when they died—back, they discover that they can be heard when they’re making music. The actors commit to roles that require extreme suspension of disbelief, and they’re very wholesome and charming. The songs are generic but the lead is a great singer, and I ended up sobbing twice in later episodes because it skillfully played on my heartstrings. Obviously, premised on death of a parent, death of a teenaged child. Mild romance, no sex.

Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves: ( war and intrigue )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn: ( monstrous regiment? )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Tiger and the Wolf: ( shapeshifters without fandom tropes )
Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys: ( YA fantasy )
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi: ( drowned world )
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future: ( ecohopepunk? )
Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit: ( romantic SF )
Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields:( unicorns )