If you were captivated by the kaleidoscopic structure and temporal disorientation of Dhalgren—where Kid’s journey twists through shifting realities and unreliable timelines—you'll relish City of Saints and Madmen. VanderMeer’s Ambergris is unveiled through a labyrinth of interwoven stories, unreliable histories, and metafictional artifacts, making the city itself as enigmatic and alive as Bellona.

If you loved the intricate, immersive setting of Bellona—its dreamlike geography, shifting realities, and layered histories—you’ll be entranced by Severian’s world in The Shadow of the Torturer. Wolfe crafts a future Earth brimming with forgotten technologies and mysterious customs, rewarding readers who savor enigmatic, textured landscapes.

If you were drawn to the Kid’s internal struggles with memory, identity, and reality in Dhalgren, Invisible Man offers a similarly profound psychological journey. Ellison’s unnamed narrator navigates a surreal America, wrestling with selfhood and perception, delivering a powerful meditation on what it means to exist in a fragmented world.

If you appreciated the challenging, philosophical undertones of Dhalgren—its meditations on society, freedom, and the individual—The Dispossessed will engage your intellect. Through Shevek’s journey between two radically different societies, Le Guin explores anarchism, utopia, and the very nature of time and progress.

If you found the Kid’s ambiguous morality and shifting sense of self compelling in Dhalgren, you’ll be fascinated (and unsettled) by Patrick Bateman’s first-person descent in American Psycho. Both novels probe the boundaries of identity and ethics within surreal, unstable urban settings.