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

Michael Rutger, The Anomaly: ( creepy cave )
James S.A. Corey, Tiamat’s Wrath: ( fighting empire )
Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower: ( gods and monsters )Michael Marshall Smith, Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence: ( devil's playground )

Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs: ( interesting epic fantasy )

Robert Jackson Bennett, Vigilance: ( guns, no butter )
Robert Jackson Bennett, The Troupe: ( traveling players sing the world into being )
Erica L. Satifka, Stay Crazy: ( paranoid schizophrenia and communication with other dimensions )
Tobias S. Buckell, ( James Bond after climate change )

T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride:( fractured fairy tale )
Alaya Whiteley, The Loosening Skin: ( love is skin deep )