If the literary puzzles of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" and the invented encyclopedia of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" made you giddy, you'll love how If on a winter's night a traveler keeps addressing you directly as "the Reader," splicing beginnings of different novels while riffing on authorship, authenticity, and the act of reading itself. Calvino turns the same hall-of-mirrors you enjoyed in Borges into a full-length adventure—clever, witty, and constantly surprising.

If you were hooked by the dubious testimonies in "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" or the sly formal tricks of "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain," Nabokov’s Pale Fire will delight you. A 999-line poem is annotated by an overeager editor whose footnotes slowly reveal (and distort) a parallel narrative. As with Borges’s counterfeit sources and unreliable scholars, the pleasure lies in sifting truth from bravura misdirection.

If the infinite stacks of "The Library of Babel," the paradoxes of "The Garden of Forking Paths," and the riddling logic of "Death and the Compass" thrilled you, Eco’s The Name of the Rose channels that same intellectual intrigue into a medieval abbey’s labyrinthine library. As Brother William deciphers lethal puzzles encoded in manuscripts, you’ll find the same heady blend of philosophy, semiotics, and mystery you savored in Borges.

If "Funes the Memorious" and "The Lottery in Babylon" left you pondering the limits of memory, language, and chance, Stories of Your Life and Others offers that same crystalline rigor and wonder. From the linguistic revelation of "Story of Your Life" to the theological engineering of "Hell Is the Absence of God," Chiang crafts ideas as precise and dazzling as a Borges parable—then lands them with emotional heft.

If the branching realities of "The Garden of Forking Paths" and the playful structure of "The Circular Ruins" fascinated you, Hopscotch lets you literally jump between chapters in alternate sequences. Cortázar turns structure into meaning, inviting you to assemble the story’s possibilities—echoing Borges’s love of labyrinths while grounding it in bohemian Paris and Buenos Aires.