Aggies have you covered for the holiday gift-giving season, tackling myriad topics this year.
Check out UC Davis Magazine’s full list of new books by alumni in 2025.
FICTION
Greg Sweatt ’73 takes readers back to the Civil War, when some battles were fought in little-known locations, for By the Hands of Parties Unknown (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2025).
Sameer Pandya ’94 addresses race, class and privilege through the story of a high school football team accused of violence by another student in Our Beautiful Boys (Penguin Random House, 2025).
Jessica Guerrieri ’07 examines the link between motherhood and alcoholism in her debut novel, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Harper Collins, 2025).
NONFICTION
Liese Greensfelder ’77, M.S. ’83, revisits the summer of 1972 for her memoir, Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway (University of Minnesota Press, 2025).
Jennifer Dasal ’02 presents the story of a Parisian place where independent, talented and driven American women went to grow as teachers, artists, suffragists and people in The Club: Where Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Mike Bezemek ’03 explores such stories as whether Al Capone had an outpost in the Everglades in Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More (Sourcebooks, 2025).
Alvin K. Wong ’06 investigates queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture and civil society to write Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong and the Sinophone (Duke University Press, 2025).
Kelly Y. Hopkins, Ph.D. ’10, highlights the innovation of the Haudenosaunee peoples in retaining sovereignty over their homelands through seven generations in Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783 (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Vivian M. Choi, Ph.D. ’12, examines how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami fostered new forms of governance and militarization during Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war in Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke University Press, 2025).
Taylor Stanton ’12, M.B.A. ’24, takes readers off the beaten path to show off Yosemite’s beauty in areas visitors rarely go for his self-published first book, Beyond Yosemite Valley: Iconic Images from Deep Within the Yosemite Wilderness (2025).
Marshall Garvey ’14 blends baseball and cultural history to tell the story of the 1985 World Series in Interstate ’85: The Royals, The Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series (University of Missouri Press, 2025).
COOKBOOK
Joe Sasto ’10 released his first cookbook, Breaking the Rules: A Fresh Take on Italian Classics (Simon & Schuster, 2025), featuring creative recipes and personal stories.
POETRY
Gabrielle Myers, M.A. ’08, draws from the human experience for her new book of poetry, Points in the Network (Finishing Line Press, 2025).