The Citadel of the Autarch

Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun ends with The Citadel of the Autarch. Or least does so for me because The Urth of the New Sun is not available in libraries here -- for some reason it hasn't gotten a Finnish translation unlike the previous four books. But the story does end in some manner in Citadel with our protagonist Severian becoming the Autarch like he has mentioned to happen as he's been telling the story.

The Claw of the Conciliator & The Sword of the Lictor

On the post for The Shadow of the Torturer, I seem to have thought that The Book of the New Sun was a trilogy. But it is in fact a tetralogy (that Gene Wolfe had written only to the level of a draft before the first volume's publication, not to full completion) with an additional fifth volume that acts as a coda. I'm not sure how the details got mushed for me. I'm also quite uncertain what the "as a coda" means -- kind of hoping it's 'not important' because the libraries here don't seem to have the fifth book.

The Shadow of the Torturer

Yet another novel that was on my reading list and whose source of recommendation I had no recollection any longer: The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. The back cover (the little I peeked at it) claimed it to be a science fiction classic (published in 1980) and apparently Neil Gaiman at some point rated it above Neuromancer and The Left Hand of Darkness on his list of the three greatest scifi novels. I wouldn't think of it that highly and I'm not so sure about the science fiction either.