Recs if you like Quichotte...

Apophenia: the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated or random things and events

Every book shortlisted for the Booker Prize since it was founded in 1969, under its current title and previous names, the Man Booker Prize and the Booker Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!

Books that contain a story inside the story

Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel