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I love these kinds of books. A few suggestions:
Hope you find something that fits your tastes and looking forward to other suggestions.
I'll second Rendezvous with Rama. It's an excellent book, fitting exactly with the theme. OP is looking for. The first sequel is pretty decent, but the two books in the series after that, while I liked overall, I think they lose the magic that made the original so special.
I'll also say House of Leaves is also fantastic. It's disturbing and confusing and really well written. I'd recommend picking up a physical copy if you can, because for this particular book, there's stuff done with the printing, type setting, font colors, and style that's hard to replicate on an e-reader. Top tier book!
I haven't read the others you mentioned, but they're all on my reading list.
Even the first Rendezvous With Rama sequel (Rama Returns?) is pretty unreadable these days. You can tell distinctly which parts are written by AC Clarke and which by his co-author - Clarke retains the interesting science fiction, his co-author is too busy obsessing over which astronauts his two female characters are going to bang on any given day.
House of leaves gave me nightmares for a week.
Read the physical 'House of Leaves" and gave up.
I think I'd like to see what the e-book version looks like
Here's another vote for Rendezvous with Rama and Ringworld. (I didn't like Solaris much, and I don't know the other two.)
Oh ive actually read randevouz and solaris. dont know why i didnt think of them when making my post. definitly will be checking out your other suggestions.