If what gripped you in The Rift was wondering whether the returned woman’s story of years spent elsewhere could be believed—and how that uncertainty warped Selena’s search—then the Biologist’s journal in Annihilation will hook you the same way. You’ll sift clues from her cool, clinical notes about Area X, noticing omissions, contradictions, and altered memories that echo the way Julie’s testimony keeps shifting under scrutiny.

Like the faux articles, transcripts, and fragments Selena pieces through in The Rift to test the story of Julie’s disappearance and return, House of Leaves builds its mystery from layered footnotes, found manuscripts, and conflicting testimonies. You’ll get that same thrill of assembling a truth from scraps—only to discover the evidence bends in more than one direction.

If you were drawn to the way The Rift burrows into Selena’s and Julie’s interior worlds—how longing, loss, and memory make the impossible feel plausible—The Heavens offers a similarly moving portrait. As Kate’s life oscillates between an ordinary present and experiences that may be real or imagined, you’ll recognize the same emotional intensity that made the sisters’ bond and doubt so compelling.

If the central pull of The Rift for you was the puzzle of identity—whether the woman is truly Julie, and how conflicting memories shape a life—then My Real Children is a perfect next step. As Patricia’s diverging memories map two different lives and histories, you’ll get the same tender, haunting inquiry into how memory, choice, and story make a person real.

If you loved tracking Selena’s investigation—cross-checking dates, scars, and records against Julie’s extraordinary tale—Night Film delivers that investigative itch in spades. Journalist Scott McGrath digs through interviews, online forums, and shadowy documents to probe a death that may conceal something uncanny, capturing the same slippery boundary between evidence and myth that made The Rift so addictive.