since the winter solstice of 2023. an asterisk (*) indicates a reread; a pound sign (#) indicates something I quit on.
- The Mothman Prophecies, John A Keel
- Short Poems, John Berryman
- Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges*
- The Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe
- Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison
- The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher#
- Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas
- Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, Paul L. Williams#
- History and Utopia, Emil Cioran
- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Lord Byron
- Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith
- Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
- Look At This Blue, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
- The Secret History of the World as Laid Down by the Secret Societies, Mark Booth
- The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
- 2666, Roberto Bolaño
- Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs*
- Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, Jean Baudrillard
- America, Jean Baudrillard*
- Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, W. David Marx
- The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse#
- The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan
- The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, Herbert Marcuse
- Essays: First Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson*
- The Dunwich Horror and Others, H.P. Lovecraft
- The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra
- American Tabloid, James Ellroy#
- Sacred Geometry and Magical Symbols, Iva Kenaz
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
- The Science of Getting Rich: Financial Success Through Creative Thought, Wallace D. Wattles
- The Trial, Franz Kafka*
- Revolutionary Letters, Diane DiPrima*
- CCRU: Writings, 1997-2003
- Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, Carlo Levi
- My First Book, Honor Levy
- Warlock, Oakley Hall
- Happening, Annie Ernaux
- The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Christopher Lasch
- The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century, Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Tennis Court Oath, John Ashbery
- A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Satantango, László Krasznahorkai
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy*
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Eduardo Galeano
- Cinema 1: Movement-Image, Gilles Deleuze
- Minima Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Life, Theodor Adorno
- House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski#