If the corporate-handbook voice and the wry asides in The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England made you grin, you’ll love the gleeful satire in Good Omens. Its cheeky footnotes, bureaucratic angels-and-demons, and playful rule-breaking echo the Handbook’s tone—right down to that feeling of “the manual says one thing, reality says another” that John keeps running into in pseudo‑medieval England.

You enjoyed how John wakes with no memory and has to reconstruct who he is—clue by clue—helped (and misled) by those sardonic Handbook excerpts. In The Rook, Myfanwy Thomas comes to with wiped memories and relies on letters her former self wrote, unraveling a secret war of the supernatural government she somehow runs. That blend of mystery, dry humor, and an untrustworthy paper trail scratches the same itch.

If following John’s scramble to figure out why he chose this medieval backwater—and what kind of man he used to be—hooked you, Dark Matter delivers that same adrenaline-fueled self-reckoning. As Jason Dessen is shunted across realities, every choice becomes a mirror, much like John’s dawning realization about the life he left behind and the person he’s becoming.

If you liked how John treats his amnesia like a case—scanning the Handbook’s ‘procedures,’ testing the tech like ‘magic,’ and deducing why he landed in that particular village—The Gone World takes that investigative drive into darker depths. NCIS agent Shannon Moss chases a disappearance through time‑branches, piecing evidence that reframes the entire mission the way John’s revelations reframe his.

Those tongue‑in‑cheek Handbook pages in Frugal Wizard don’t just decorate the story—they drive it. Illuminae leans all the way into that approach, using chat logs, memos, and redacted files to unfold the narrative. It has the same propulsive pace and clever document‑driven reveals that made John’s fish‑out‑of‑water survival so fun to unpack.