Usually at the beginning of the year I will have some kind of subject area I want to focus on, or an author whose work I want to dive deep into. As we get into the year I tend to diverge and follow a bunch of other paths suggested by my reading, or things that come up randomly (a lot of the books here were audiobooks I listened to because they were soon to be removed from the free section of audible). 2025 was going to be my year of Jung specifically, psychoanalysis more generally, and psychology even more generally. As per usual, in the following list you can trace the ruins of that plan. There's a lot more here about myth and religion, but then the same is true of most Jung books.
1. Weimar Culture: The Insider as Outsider- Peter Gay
2. The Invisible College- Jacques Vallee
3. The Hour of Decision- Oswald Spengler
4. Masters of Atlantis- Charles Portis
5. Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind- Harold Bloom
6. Memories, Dreams, Reflections- Carl Jung
7. The Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
8. Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry- John J. Robinson
9. The Future: A Guide to the Jewish Messiah, Israel, & the End of Days- Lawrence Hajioff
10. Egyptian Mythology- Geraldine Pinch
11. Man & His Symbols- Carl Jung
12. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess- Leonard Shlain
13. The Devils of Loudon- Aldous Huxley
14. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance- Ioan Culianu
15. The Dog of the South- Charles Portis
16. Violence and the Sacred- Rene Girard
17. The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology- Joseph Campbell
18. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
19. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- John Le Carre
20. Tree of Smoke- Denis Johnson
21. Zuckerman Unbound- Philip Roth
22. The Prague Orgy- Philip Roth
23. Dune Messiah- Frank Herbert
24. The Corrections- Jonathan Franzen
25. How Jesus Became God- Bart D. Ehrman
26. Get Shorty- Elmore Leonard
27. The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross- John Allegro
28. The Gutenberg Galaxy- Marshall McLuhan
29. Lost Scriptures- Bart D. Ehrman (editor)
30. Darkness at Noon- Arthur Koestler
31. Prisoner of Infinity- Jasun Horsely
32. Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (aka Doctrine & Ritual of High Magic)- Eliphas Levi
33. Introducing Baudrillard- Chris Horrocks
34. The Conference of the Birds- Attar of Nishapur
35. Man into Wolf- Robert Eisler
36. Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks- David Weston Marshall
37. The 12th Planet- Zecharia Sitchin
38. Meditation & Kabbalah- Aryeh Kaplan
39. Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT- Graham St. John
40. The Origins of the Second World War- AJP Taylor
41. Madness & Civilization- Michel Foucault
42. The Perennial Philosophy- Aldous Huxley
43. Island- Aldous Huxley
44. The Myth of Mental Illness- Thomas Szasz
45. Anti-Oedipus- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Felix Guattari
46. Molloy- Samuel Beckett
47. Malone Dies- Samuel Beckett
48. In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: Swann's Way- Marcel Proust
49. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America- Daniel Boorstin
50. Psychology of the Unconscious (aka Transformation and Symbols of the Libido)- Carl Jung
51. The Adventures of Frog and Toad- Arnold Lobel
52. The Trial- Franz Kafka
53. Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self- Carl Jung
Angels: What the Bible Really Says about God's Heavenly Host- Michael Heiser
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism & New Technologies of Power- Byung-Chul Han
Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God- Leslie Stein
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature- C.S. Lewis
The Ever-Present Origin: Part One- Foundations of The Aperspectival World- Jean Gebser
Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology- Joseph Campbell