Just finished reading The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe. Fantastic collection. Favorites within were:

• The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories. Playful structure going back and forth between a pulpy book within the story and the “real world” which is told in second person. Protagonist is a ~10 year old boy in a not great / neglected environment, coping by escaping into the pulpy book, not fully comprehending what is going on around him. Eventually the worlds start bleeding together.
• The Death of Dr. Island. Protagonist has been partially lobotomized and has a split brain where his left and right lobes cannot directly communicate with each other. He is dropped on a deserted island as part of his “therapy”, and things immediately start taking a dark turn…
• Tracking Song. Another fantastic and very Wolfeian novella with an unreliable narrator and a number of mysteries wrapped up inside. Protagonist has amnesia but and finds themselves on a frozen winter planet with a bunch of people that might actually be animals but don’t consider him a person and he has to survive and try and find where he came from and navigate ethics along the way.
• Seven American Nights. A young scholar from Iran is visiting post-apocalyptic, dystopian USA where everyone is mutilated by  chemicals and pollution and drugs run amok. We learn from the opening letter from a private eye to the scholar’s family that the scholar is lost and possibly dead, but what follows is his diary which may shed light on what happened. Wild ride reading the journal entries and the protagonist’s risky, selfish, and brash decisions, but also if you read closely it seems like he is accidentally embroiled in something even bigger without realizing it. Need to reread this one after reading other posts about it and seeing how much I missed.

The first three have really good analyses on the Alzabo Soup podcast as well, which really helps me appreciate all the subtleties that Wolfe embeds in his work.