If you were captivated by Hildred Castaigne's distorted viewpoint in The Repairer of Reputations, you'll be equally fascinated by Lisa Erdman's fragmented and hallucinatory storytelling in The White Hotel. The novel weaves dream, memory, and trauma, constantly making you question what is true and what is imagined, all through the eyes of its deeply unreliable narrator.

If you enjoyed the air of conspiracy and manipulation that surrounds Hildred’s New York, The Crying of Lot 49 will draw you into Oedipa Maas’s search for meaning amid secret societies and cryptic symbols. Like Chambers’s story, Pynchon’s novella immerses you in a world where every detail might be part of a grand, unseen plot.

If you were gripped by Hildred’s descent into obsession and the claustrophobic focus on his mental state, We Have Always Lived in the Castle offers a similarly unnerving plunge into the mind of Mary Katherine Blackwood. Jackson’s psychological portrait is as mesmerizing and disquieting as Chambers’s, keeping you on edge with every page.

If you appreciated the alternate New York of The Repairer of Reputations, with its strange laws and social structures, The City & The City presents a mesmerizingly detailed world where two cities occupy the same physical space, and the act of seeing is governed by elaborate rules. Miéville’s setting is as immersive and uncanny as Chambers’s vision.

If you found yourself drawn to Hildred Castaigne’s complicated ethics and unreliable perspective, Severian’s journey in The Shadow of the Torturer offers a similar experience. Wolfe’s protagonist is both sympathetic and unsettling, moving through a shadowy world where right and wrong are never clear.