If you loved how The New York Trilogy constantly plays with the boundaries between author, detective, and character, you'll be fascinated by If on a winter's night a traveler. Calvino’s novel pulls you into a labyrinthine reading experience, addressing you as the Reader and forcing you to question the very act of reading as you plunge through unfinished stories, mysterious interruptions, and metafictional twists.

If you were intrigued by the elusive narrators and shifting realities in The New York Trilogy, The Third Policeman will captivate you with its bizarre narrator who may not even realize his own state of being. The novel blurs the line between truth and fiction, leading you through a hallucinatory landscape where logic loops and identity dissolves, much like Auster’s confounding detectives.

If the tangled mysteries and overlapping narratives of The New York Trilogy drew you in, The Crying of Lot 49 will enthrall you with Oedipa Maas’s descent into cryptic clues, shadowy organizations, and layers of meaning that may never fully resolve. Pynchon crafts a puzzle-box story that leaves you questioning what’s real and what’s imagined.

If you appreciated the profound existential questioning and psychological unraveling of detectives in The New York Trilogy, the graphic novel adaptation City of Glass (by Karasik and Mazzucchelli, based on Auster’s original) offers a visual, haunting take on Daniel Quinn's journey. The art accentuates the protagonist’s fracturing identity and the blurred boundaries between self, story, and reality.

If you relished the way The New York Trilogy turns detective fiction into a meditation on language and identity, Borges’s Ficciones provides a dazzling array of stories where labyrinths, doppelgängers, and infinite texts become philosophical puzzles. Each tale challenges your perception of reality and the power of narrative, echoing Auster’s own literary games.