I am aware of no other Latin text, and there are literally hundreds of Latin textbooks out there, which will allow a student to develop real fluency in the Latin language. These two books are called Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta: Pars Prīma (Familia Rōmāna) and Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta: Pars Secunda (Rōma Aeterna). To accomplish this goal, he wrote two books which carefully and systematically introduced all the Latin grammar and vocabulary (around 3500 words) a student would need to actually read (and not just translate) almost any classical Latin text.
Rather than first memorizing grammar rules and then applying them to practice sentences (as with Wheelock's Latin Grammar or any other common grammar-translation text), students would first read Latin sentences whose meaning could be inferred by context clues and margin notes and then the grammar rules and paradigms would be learned and memorized afterward (or along the way).
Hans Ørberg was a Danish pioneer in teaching Latin using the natural method.
Introduction to Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta
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