Good Lord, it appears that I failed to post last year's reading report here on Goodreads (though I did post it on my Substack)! Since this year's report will be due soon, let me correct the error now and thus continue a tradition dating back to 2017. The highlights were as follows:

The Dark Side of Camelot (Seymour Hersh)
The White Hotel (D.M. Thomas)
Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr.)
Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen)
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (V.I. Lenin)
Requiem for a Dream (Hubert Selby Jr.)
Kabbalah: The Tree of Life Oracle (Cherry Gilchrist)
Grendel (John Gardner)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (Douglas Valentine)
Stone Age Economics (Marshall Sahlins)
To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (Immanuel Kant)
Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
The Trouble with Being Born (E.M. Cioran)
A Short History of Decay (E.M. Cioran)
When We Cease to Understand the World (Benjamin Labatut)
Hurricane Season (Fernanda Melchor)
Words (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nadja (Andre Breton)
Demon Box (Ken Kesey)
The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)
Hashish, Wine, Opium (Charles Baudelaire and Theophile Gautier)
Mad Love (Andre Breton)
Tik-Tok (John Sladek)
Timequake (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Mystique of Dreams: A Search for Utopia Through Senoi Dream Theory (G. William Domhoff)
Novels in Three Lines (Felix Feneon)
Artificial Paradises (Charles Baudelaire)
The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco)
The Lesson (Eugene Ionesco)
Dream Story (Arthur Schnitzler)
Jack, or The Submission (Eugene Ionesco)
The Chairs (Eugene Ionesco)