If you loved following A Hu-Li through Moscow nightclubs and FSB corridors—where a fox spirit’s glamour rubs shoulders with oligarchs and spooks—Bulgakov’s devilish visitor Woland and his unruly entourage will feel wonderfully familiar. Like A Hu-Li’s illusions and sly social critiques, The Master and Margarita unleashes the uncanny on the streets of Moscow to expose hypocrisy, vanity, and power with wicked charm.

A Hu-Li’s Taoist riffs on emptiness, desire, and the self—and her centuries of meditative insight behind the fox-tail glamour—set a mood you’ll find echoed in Murakami’s split realities. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a Calcutec’s mind becomes a labyrinth where memory, shadow, and selfhood are dissected with the same cool, hypnotic calm that A Hu-Li brings to her paradoxes and seductions.

Pelevin’s send-ups of oligarch culture, the security services, and libido-as-power—filtered through A Hu-Li’s deadpan wit and a werewolf FSB officer—pair beautifully with the celestial red tape and apocalyptic bungling in Good Omens. If Alexander the werewolf’s double life amused you, you’ll relish Aziraphale and Crowley skewering bureaucracies of Heaven and Hell with the same sly humor.

A Hu-Li crafts realities with a flick of her tail, and her cool first-person voice invites you to question what’s true—just as the Biologist’s journal in Annihilation traps you inside a consciousness shaped by hypnosis, secrecy, and an environment that edits perception. If you enjoyed doubting the stories A Hu-Li tells herself and others, Area X’s slippery truths will pull you in the same way.

If A Hu-Li’s huli jing heritage and centuries of shapeshifting desire captivated you—especially her uneasy romance with Alexander—The Fox Woman offers a lyrical kitsune tale of love and illusion. Through the courtier Yoshifuji and his wife Shikujo, Johnson explores the same tug between human attachments and vulpine enchantment that makes A Hu-Li’s story so haunting.