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

Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar: ( magic, romance, and persecution, not in that order )
Ben H. Winters, Big Time: ( sf thriller )
Naomi Alderman, The Future: ( every billionaire is a policy failure )
Lena Nguyen, We Have Always Been Here: ( androids and people, not quite getting along in space )
Premee Mohamed, The Siege of Burning Grass: ( crapsack world fantasy )
Aimee Ogden, Emergent Properties: ( AI on the moon )
Tade Thompson & Nick Wood, The Last Pantheon: ( African superhero novella )
Robert J. Sawyer, The Downloaded: ( unfrozen in the future )
Adam Roberts, The Midas Rain: ( communist neo-noir sf )
Premee Mohamed, The Butcher of the Forest. ( lost in the forest ).

Carmen Maria Machado & Dani, The Low, Low Woods: ( graphic novel: the horror of misogyny )
Tobias S. Buckell & Dave Klecha, The Runes of Engagement: ( D&D with guns ).

Michael Marshall Smith, Time Out: ( empty world )
T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night:( creepy sequel (no fungi this time) )
Sin Blaché & Helen MacDonald, Prophet:( mutual pining with potential apocalypse )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Open Wounds: ( war story sequel )
Fonda Lee, Jade Shards:( short stories )

Free/nearly free Andre Norton books via Kindle, and apparently elsewhere.

( Calorie science )

I didn’t build that: “Over the years, I’ve encountered a few successful people who believe they did it all themselves and achieved success because they are just better than their fellow human beings. Some were bankers; some were writers; some were lawyers. Some male, some female. Some rich, some not. Some were born into privilege, some weren’t. I guess they’re a pretty diverse crowd. They only have one thing in common, really: They’re all assholes.”

White dudely thinking:

The company was hiring more women in managerial jobs, and while he had no problem with that in general, he said that some of these women hadn’t started out hauling cotton as he had and didn’t know the business from the ground up. But the company felt pressure to hire them, Charles told me, “to keep up with the times.”… Charles was always pretty handy, so he considered starting a construction company [after he quit], even though he had never run a business. Working with trucks and piles of wood was a “humbling experience,” especially after having been a head of national sales. He said that he knew he would be competing with men who were in the business a long time or with younger men who once worked for him.

Now, this dude is not to blame for America’s economic woes. But JFC that’s some entitled, hypocritical bullshit!  

( poetry by Dessa, apocalyptic policeman, shapeshifter love, Janis Ian's songs, gumshoe exorcist, robot zombies )