Reading List: A New Historical Novel, Set in the Galapagos, by Alum Midge Raymond
Alumni books that caught our eye
Reading List: A New Historical Novel, Set in the Galapagos, by Alum Midge Raymond
Alumni books that caught our eye
100 Nights of a Lifetime: The World’s Ultimate Adventures After Dark
National Geographic, 2024
By Stephanie Vermillion (COM’12)
Vermillion, a freelance travel journalist for Nat Geo, introduces us to after-dark adventures around the world, from snorkeling with manta rays in Hawaii to chasing the Northern Lights in Norway.
Daughters of Shandong
Berkeley, 2024
By Eve J. Chung (CAS’08)
The Taiwanese American human rights lawyer’s first novel, based on her family’s story, tells of a mother and three daughters escaping the revolution in 1948 China. The women were left behind by the rest of the family, who wanted a male heir.
The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia
MIT Press, 2023
By Joe Wallace (COM’94)
Wallace’s photo book pairs the faces and words of more than 50 people affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The longtime portrait photographer was inspired by several family members diagnosed with dementia.
This Dog Will Change Your Life
Ballantine Books, 2025
By Elias Weiss Friedman (CAS’10)
The latest book from the man behind the popular blog and social media channel The Dogist examines how and why dogs make our lives better—by making us better, he says.
Estate Sale
University of Utah Press, 2025
By Dan Murphy (GRS’15)
Murphy, a Creative Writing Program alum and BU summer programs faculty member, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry focusing on loss, language, and reclamation.
Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful and Auspicious Sprint to the White House
37 Ink, 2024
By Kevin Merida (COM’79)
The photo-based book curated with Deborah Willis looks at Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, hoping supporters will find inspiration from the images and related essays, despite the outcome.
Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
David R. Godine, 2025
By Elissa Altman (CGS’83, CAS’85)
The veteran writer and teacher offers courage for those shrugging off fear and shame to write memoirs of stories that are not supposed to be told.
Polostan
William Morrow, 2024
By Neal Stephenson (CAS’81)
Subtitled Volume One of Bomb Light: A Riveting Historical Epic of International Espionage, Intrigue, and the Dawn of the Atomic Age, the latest novel by the best-selling speculative writer (Snow Crash) traces the early years of Dawn Rae Bjornberg, born in the American West and raised in Leningrad, who becomes a spy in the mid-20th century.
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