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

Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth: ( Fairly vague but still possibly spoilery? )
Stephen King, Fairy Tale: ( Very Stephen King )
Kai Butler, ( More San Amaro Investigations )

Charlie Adhara, Pack of Lies: ( werewolf m/m murder mystery )
Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels: ( lots of world, not a lot of building )
Best of British Science Fiction 2021, ed. Donna Bond: ( fine but unremarkable )

Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood: ( maybe jumped the shark for me )Devil’s Ways, ed. Anna Kashina: ( devil anthology )
John Scalzi, The Last Emperox: ( empire collapses )
KJ Charles, Slippery Creatures: ( not fantasy, but fun )
Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun: ( pre-Columbian fantasy )
Octavia Butler, Unexpected Stories: ( so Butler )

Vid for me! Murdering Stravinsky, Farscape, lithiumdoll: YouTube, AO3

Look, ever since I realized that “dressing up as fascists” was perfect for this fandom, I’ve wanted this vid, and LithiumDoll does it great justice. The internal motion and even internal lighting changes are perfect for the disorientation and cruelty of the song. And there’s so many canonical references that are perfect—all the things they do that hurt others, and each other, by meaning to or by meaning to be good or both. The nuclear bomb and the beautiful, horrible wormhole equations that represent both art and death.

A very good bad review of a Netflix animated sff series, Love, Death and Robots.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue: ( political romance )

KJ Charles, Proper English: ( f/f in high society )

Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire: ( palace intrigue with colonialism )

Seanan McGuire, Middlegame: ( it's a chess metaphor )
Laurie Marks, Earth Logic: ( winning the peace )

John Birmingham, The Cruel Stars: ( military sf, mostly )

Robert Jackson Bennett, ( mid-colonialist fantasy ) 

Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream: ( more wayward children )
Ted Chiang, Exhalation: ( the best kind of sf )

Rebecca Roanhorse, Storm of Locusts: ( monsterkiller on the road )

Theodore Sturgeon, Microcosmic God, vol. 2 of the complete stories:( misanthropy/misogyny )

Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish: ( Aladdin! )