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

Beforeigners has disappeared from HBO! Tragedy. I guess that means no S3?

Out of the Ruins, ed. Preston Grassman: Apocalypse stories from various authors including Samuel Delaney, Charlie Jane Anders, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, and Carmen Maria Machado, with apocalypse defined loosely in some cases. Some of the stories seem cut off, as if the authors wanted to leave you with only an image and uncertainty. Many of the stories circle around the theme of memory: it’s only an apocalypse if you remember a better world. Otherwise it’s just how things are.
 
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Body-focused horror-tinged stories, most with sf (pandemic, not this one) or fantasy elements (women with ribbons around parts of their bodies that must never be undone, except of course that means the men in their lives demand the undoing). I wanted to say patriarchy-focused, but that’s not really true; it’s more that patriarchy is the air that the characters breathe, even when they know it—mostly they’re focused on surviving their individual situations, if that’s possible. I found the collection much
more depressing than her memoir, which addresses similar situations and even provides versions of some of the scenes in these stories.
 
Robert McGill, A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life:Regan has a high school education, an eating disorder, injuries that prevent her from doing track—the thing she was counting on for college, especially after her addict father spent her college fund—and an empty house with her parents off at rehab and work overseas. She decides to end her life by ordering a flatpack—a human who was preserved via a process that flattens them in order to save them from an epidemic, but the process turned out to emit toxic fumes when reversed, making flatpacks into contraband. (Why they can’t reverse the process via machine and keep the person isolated until that dissipates is not made clear.) But the person who arrives, Ülle, turns out to have some memories and interests of her own, and then more flatpacks start showing up, pushing Regan into trying to help them despite the threats of the mysterious dealer who provided them. Ülle’s story also is woven throughout—her survival of the epidemic in a vaguely Nordic country, her survival-based entanglement with a mob boss type, and how she ended up a flatpack. Human connection wins out something something—it didn’t really grab me.
 
Tade Thompson, The Legacy of Molly Southborne: When she bleeds, Molly produces mollies—Molly-cidal versions of herself. Now she’s living in a quiet British town with a few of the mollies who’ve become separate, non-homicidal people, but old adversaries are visiting, and out in the woods, some mollies have become, apparently, randomly homicidal. That last bit is a thread that’s sort of dropped in this slim volume that does answer a bunch of questions about how Molly became what she was through generational trauma and also gives us more of Tamara, a woman with very different relationships with her tamaras. Still don’t think the sequels match the initial volume, but certainly intriguing.
 
T. Kingfisher, Nettle and Bone: In order to save her sister from the prince who is abusing her, a princess-turned-kind-of-nun goes on a quest to do three impossible things to get help from a witch with the power to help. Unsurprisingly, the quest doesn’t go the way it often does in fairy tales; there’s dog made of bones and wire and a number of other surprises along the way. It was fine but not my favorite of Kingfisher’s work—I came away mainly with the impression that she’s really into animals made of bones, both in horror and non-horror varieties (to the extent the latter is possible).

Ben Aaronovitch, Tales from the Folly:Short stories, many not in Peter’s voice, building out the world around the Rivers of London, including a tiny bit of German and American perspective. Pleasant enough.
 
K.D. Edwards, The Hourglass Throne: Rune Sun is back, trying to reinstate his court in New Atlantis. But a new threat—Lady Jade—seems to have the powers of Old Atlantis and is claiming to want to overthrow the ruling powers on behalf of the disenfranchised. There’s adventure and further revelations about what happened twenty years ago when Rune was tortured and his court destroyed. It’s a fine entry in the series but there’s clearly much more to do.
 
Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections: Sol is a trans vampire archivist, turned (without his consent) early in his transition to save his life. He falls in love with a donor—the widow of a lesbian creator of the 90s series that at the time he loved and wrote fan fiction for. This book wasn’t for me, despite its immersion in fandom (his lover is on the board of the OTW! But the book mistakes the OTW for an ordinary nonprofit, assuming that board members are there because they’re big donors—an easy mistake to make, and it contributed to the uncanny valley feeling for me). But basically, I generally prefer f/sf that is about the job, and this book is very much about bodies, discomfort with bodies, comfort with bodies, how to manage having a body that doesn’t feel right and doesn’t read the way one wants to be read, etc., which then does affect what the archivist's job is like. The connections to work as an archivist were there but seemed more like signal flares sent up—an archive is like a dead body!—than as story drivers. Vampirism does work in the book as a prism reflecting on how we do gender and sex, so if you are interested in that this could be a book for you.
 
Charlie Adhara, Wolf at the Door: Paranormal m/m romance; the fantasy element is that the FBI cares a lot about whether suspects are wrongly charged or abused. I kid! The other fantasy element is that werewolves are real, and came out to governments but not to the general public (and this didn’t leak, somehow), and now the FBI has a special unit to deal with werewolf crimes. After bad bias incidents, they start partnering FBI (BSI) agents with wolf representatives. The first partnership is between Cooper, an agent who has lingering health issues from a wolf attack—which is how he found out about werewolves—and Park, a strong, silent type who Cooper can’t help finding overwhelmingly attractive. If you like “one babbles and the other is a clam,” this might work for you.

Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at Bay: The new partners go home to meet Cooper’s family, though Cooper is still closeted and also no one in his family knows about werewolves. His complicated relationship with his father is challenged when a 25-years-buried murder victim is unearthed on their property and it looks like his father had the motive, means, and opportunity.

Charlie Adhara, Thrown to the Wolves: Now it’s time to meet Park’s influential werewolf family, gathered for a memorial service. But since they’re a ruling clan, there’s intrigue and more murder, and something a bit odd about Cooper develops that might be tied to what being an alpha really means. (It’s not omegaverse alphas.)

Charlie Adhara, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The partners investigate strange goings-on at a relationship retreat for werewolves (and humans partnered with werewolves). More murder and werewolf politics as Cooper learns more about the divisions among werewolves—pack, rogue wolves, and the quasi-terrorist organization that wants wolf society to change and become more public.

Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf: As the partners prepare for a big change, including buying a house together, an old adversary reappears and someone is either stalking Cooper or setting him up as the fall guy in a series of crimes against werewolves—or both. It’s set partially at the National Zoo!

Naked City, ed. Ellen Datlow. Urban fantasy stories. Jim Butcher has his story about the Chicago Cubs baseball curse; my favorite was Naomi Novik’s “Manhattan real estate shenanigans when there are vampires and fairies,” and Holly Black also had a fine entry about a dying rock star and the unusual young woman who comes to care for him.
 
Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears: Love McGuire’s eye for a story, hate her verbal tics. This sequel follows potential incarnations of Summer and Winter as they try to survive teenagerhood, starting with an alchemist father who wants to control both seasons through his heart-damaged daughter (and her not-actually-stillborn, serial-killer twin).
 
Fonda Lee, Jade City: On the island of Kekon, jade brings power to those who can wield it, sickness and death to those who try and fail. Dueling clans struggle for control of the main city in the context of foreign nations seeking to unlock jade’s power for themselves—financial audits are important to the plot! But so are magical battles with jade-enhanced powers as one clan seeks to destroy another, whose leaders don’t always see eye to eye. Lots of compelling intrigue in the context of a city/nation struggling for growth and independence with larger powers looming.
 
Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root: Alternate Depression-era history with mages and magical Blight instead of just the Dust Bowl and Prohibition that covers most magic, especially most Black people’s magic; a young Black mage comes to NYC to seek her fortune. She finds danger and adventure with the Black magicians sent to dangerous areas to solve the government's problems (of which they are one).
 
Carrie Vaughn, Questland: Allie is a professor and a PTSD sufferer courtesy of having survived a school shooting incident where a friend died in her arms. She’s recruited to investigate an island owned by a billionaire that was supposed to be a fantasy playground, but whose forcefield has gone up, isolating those inside. With a small team of mercenaries, she’s supposed to use her knowledge of fantasy tropes—and of her ex-boyfriend, one of the leaders of the team that was working on the island—to restore outside control. It’s an interesting book, no actual fantasy in it but trope-aware and interested in the difference between the appearance of fantasy and its reality/the things that are attractive about fantasy and the things that are not.
Holly Black, Doll Bones: Three 12-year-old friends with an elaborate fantasy life go on a risky journey to bury a doll that one of them is convinced contains the bones and ash of a murdered girl. The story is really about the strains on their relationship as pressures of gender and sexuality come from inside and outside of them; Black is also very interested in not-good-enough parenting. Fantasy elements are present, but on the edge of “maybe imaginary.”
 
Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing: Achilles is a trans woman whose body is transformed by her mother Athena beyond what the herbs of Skyros can do; after or because of that, she goes with Odysseus to fight the Trojan War. The gods are active and there’s some modern physics/biology that reminds me of an elaboration of what Marvel tried to do with Thor/Asgardian magic. It wasn’t for me, in part because the human aspects got washed away by the end in an apocalypse of the gods, but it is an interesting entry in the “retellings” category.
 
Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters: Devon is a book eater—looks human but survives on eating books and absorbing their contents. She’s hiding among humans, on the run from her patriarchal family with her son, Cai, who is a rarer mind eater who needs human brains when he can’t get the drug that enables him to survive on books. Devon is desperate and there are lots of different political factions, including her brother and his dragons (mind eaters who’ve been trained to obey book eaters through torture) and also a woman whose family makes the drug who Devon might actually like. It’s a grim story but Devon gets to be as angry as she needs to be.
 
Katherine Addison, The Grief of Stones:If we can’t have more adventures of our favorite Goblin Emperor, at least there’s more Witness for the Dead, now with an apprentice and investigating murders and corruption in his new location, including sexual exploitation of vulnerable teens. Obviously, some grim subject matter, but our protagonist is as gentle and unrelenting as we expect.
 
Rachel Hartman, In the Serpent’s Wake: Tess of the Road returns, trying to get her quigutl friend to the remaining world serpent to save their sanity. Her friend/brother-in-law Jacomo the priest comes with her on the ship of a countess whose initial plan to kill the serpent for science encounters some difficulties, as does the kill-the-serpent-for-dragons plan of the competing dragon venture, which includes the dragon Tess once betrayed. Other characters from the past return and a bunch of new ones in the colonized islands whose cultures the colonizers have tried to destroy. Topics: Imperialism and its related hegemony of knowledge; the fact that stories rarely end and that sometimes we don’t get to even know what happens in the parts we care about; it’s neither irrelevant nor sufficient justification that someone might be subordinated in their own culture when they come to another place and do harm; “sidekicking” as a way to respect others’ authorities and knowledges; and the difficulty of making an ethical choice in a compromised situation.
 
Kameron Hurley, Future Artifacts: Stories: Stories of endless fantasy and sf wars fought for no reason known to the combatants; stories of violence amidst environmental degradation, consuming one’s own history and seed corn because there’s nothing else to consume. Maybe don’t read if you’re already feeling despairing about human nature.