The easiest way to export the chrome reading list is to use takeout.google.com and to export the Chrome details. On my Google workspace account, this wasn't possible.
Instead, I navigated to chrome://sync-internals/ on the sync node browser tab and ran this javascript code in the console:
[ ...$("#sync-node-tree") .shadowRoot.querySelector("#tree-item-autogen-id-17") .shadowRoot.querySelectorAll(".leaf"), ].map((row) => row.detail.payload); (The shadowRoot has its own query selector function separate from the window of the console.)
Then, I right clicked the result to paste it into a text editor and save as a json file
Here's a sample of what you can expect to get:
The following is one particular chrome reading list item
{ "CLIENT_TAG_HASH": "xxxxbEkAs=", "CTIME": "2022-07-25 14:41:44 +03", "ID": "sZ:ADqtAZw/jKp+WHaGmzqqSHy/YRNDZvdUo0doOqiQFaIMf0Yo59vheTu0WKfrimEtw+TaNyZJxSpEzC1wpOhS6r5qtfZP1kywYw==", "MTIME": "2022-07-25 14:41:44 +03", "NAME": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API", "NON_UNIQUE_NAME": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API", "ORIGINATOR_CACHE_GUID": "", "ORIGINATOR_CLIENT_ITEM_ID": "", "PARENT_ID": "", "SERVER_DEFINED_UNIQUE_TAG": "", "SPECIFICS": { "reading_list": { "creation_time_us": "1658749304297842", "entry_id": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API", "estimated_read_time_seconds": "0", "first_read_time_us": "0", "status": "UNREAD", "title": "Reporting API - Web APIs | MDN", "update_time_us": "1658749304297842", "update_title_time_us": "1658749304297842", "url": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API" } }, "metadata": { "acked_sequence_number": "2", "client_tag_hash": "3ewNy9zDJ7HvgpPTJfkN1DbEkAs=", "creation_time": "1658749304297", "is_deleted": false, "modification_time": "1658749304299", "sequence_number": "2", "server_id": "Z:ADqtAZw/jKp+WHaGmzqqSHy/YRNDZvdUo0doOqiQFaIMf0Yo59vheTu0WKfrimEtw+TaNyZJxSpEzC1wpOhS6r5qtfZP1kywYw==", "server_version": "1658749304544398", "specifics_hash": "eb+IzTHvIE0GMJ0az8W4a1nUlis=" }, "modelType": "Reading List" } 
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