I'm a big nerd and I've read a lot of books of all different kinds, and I'm an English teacher.
Tell me what you like or what you're looking for and I'll recommend something I think is good
Also, fun history fact, this comm used to be called c/books until I started posting poetry on main every day in protest of there not being a literature comm. Direct action gets the goods comrades
House of Leaves is the one I had in mind when writing that so you nailed it. I think the family's actually got copies of some of these so I'll check em out!
I'll also say that John Barthes is very associated with metafiction, but I haven't read much of his stuff
John Barth (I can see why you went with Barthes for his last name though :P )