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My Favorite Books 2025

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My Favorite Books 2025

How are you creative?

A shout out to Wally Lamb for writing one of the saddest books I have read “The River is Waiting” it’s brilliant but I have to put it out of the Top 10.

  • A Walk on The Park – Kevin Fedarko – a trek across the Grand Canyon. The last few chapters are brilliant.
  • I See you Called in Dead -John Kenney -Poignant
  • Cruddy -Linda Barry – (my kiosk find of the year.)
  • My Friends -Fredrik Bachman (book of the year)
  • Feeding Ghosts -Tessa Hulls (found this while riding the escalator with our grandson)
  • UBIK -Phillip K Dick
  • Infinite Jest -(this was the spark behind one of the stories I had published)
  • The Grey Wolf – Louise Penny
  • I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman -it is creepy and maddeningly brilliant
  • Instructions for a Funeral – David Means a collection of short stories that I found mesmerizing.

2 responses to “My Favorite Books 2025”

  1. vermavkv Avatar
    vermavkv

    This is such a rich and revealing reflection on creativity. What I love most is how clearly your creative life is shown through reading—not as consumption, but as conversation. Each title feels like a doorway you’ve stepped through and carried something back from, whether it’s sorrow, unease, wonder, or the quiet spark that leads to your own work.

    Your opening nod to Wally Lamb sets the tone perfectly: an acknowledgment that brilliance doesn’t always equal comfort, and that some books stay with us precisely because they hurt. That discernment—knowing when a book is powerful yet too heavy to live in long-term—speaks to a thoughtful, self-aware reader.

  2. K Mark Schofer Avatar
    K Mark Schofer

    My wife actually commented that this is a well done list.

    But a little bit it was me being lazy. I just grabbed a prompt and used that format as you get more people to read it.

    I would find it interesting what other people are reading and I hope others do too.

I would love to hear you opinion as well

Hello,

I’m Mark

His friends observe Mark seems wired a little differently. Perhaps it’s more likely that noticing little things often missed by others is a relic of a quieter, simpler time. He has a way with words, which he refuses to let be hindered by sub-par typing skills. People have great stories to tell if you sit and listen.

A belief dear to Mark is that there is certain beauty in the world. You simply have to look for it.

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