If the surreal, non-linear structure and hallucinatory sequences of Cities of the Red Night gripped you, you'll find Naked Lunch both thrilling and bewildering. Burroughs leads you through a kaleidoscopic narrative that jumps between Interzone’s feverish scenes, never letting you find stable ground. Every page feels like entering a new reality, much like the disorienting jumps in Cities of the Red Night.

If you were fascinated by the ethically ambiguous antiheroes and conspiratorial figures in Cities of the Red Night, 2666 will pull you into its vast tapestry of characters whose motivations are as shadowy as the crimes at the book’s heart. Bolaño’s cast—journalists, professors, and criminals—move through a world where morality is never black and white, echoing the complexity you enjoyed.

If the richly imagined and symbol-laden settings of Cities of the Red Night stuck with you, you'll be mesmerized by Wolfe’s creation. The journey of Severian through a dying, baroque world is saturated with allegory and cryptic symbolism, rewarding close reading and reflection, much like Burroughs’ mysterious alternate cities.

If the blend of dark humor and bleak absurdity in Cities of the Red Night appealed to you, Gravity’s Rainbow will deliver even more. Pynchon’s sprawling novel is filled with grotesque comedy, bizarre conspiracies, and a savage wit that exposes the darkness at the heart of modernity, often in laugh-out-loud fashion.

If you were intrigued by the way Cities of the Red Night bends the rules of narrative and comments on its own fictionality, you’ll love Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler. This novel is a labyrinth of beginnings and interruptions, pulling you directly into the story and making you a character in its metafictional game.