SUNDAY: Meg Mitchell Moore (“So Far Away”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord

MONDAY: Ann Packer (“Swim Back to Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Beatrice Peltre (“La Tartine Gourmande: Recipes for an Inspired Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jean-Christophe Valtat (“Auroraram”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow (“Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums, and Hideouts”) read at 7 p.m. at the Brighton Branch of the BPL, 40 Academy Hill Rd.

TUESDAY: James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 12 noon at the Neighborhood Club of Quincy, 27 Glendale Rd. … Richard Johnson (“Field of Our Fathers: An Illustrated History of Fenway Park”) reads at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley … Leah Hager Cohen ("The Grief of Others") reads 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library … David Gebler (“The Three Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jordan Smoller (“The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Dennis Thompson (“The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Mark Kurlansky (“Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St., Gloucester (reservations required, call 978-283-0455, ext. 11) … John Fox (“The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Stephen McCauley (“Head Over Heels”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

WEDNESDAY: Mike Lupica (“Game Changers”) reads at 4 p.m. at at Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley … Susan Jo Russell (“We Are Not Entirely Abandoned”), Mary Ellen Geer (“At the Edge of the Known World”), and Laurie Rosenblatt (“In Case”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Florence Williams (“Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lizzie Stark (“Leaving Mundania”) and James Higdon (“The Cornbread Mafia”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Debra Spark (“The Pretty Girl: A Novella and Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

THURSDAY: Susan Trausch ("Groping Toward Whatever - or How I Learned to Retire (Sort of)”) reads at 10 a.m. at University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St., Cambridge (admission$15, $5 for students) … Victoria Hopewell (“Grade A Baby Eggs: An Infertility Memoir”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Buzz Bissinger (“Father’s Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Frank DeFord (“Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter”) with Bill Littlefield, (“Only a Game”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Sheila Connolly (“Fire Engine Dead”), Leslie Wheeler (“Murder at Spouter’s Point”), and Clea Simon(“Mew Is for Murder”) read at 7 p.m. at the New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Christoph Wolff (“Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jane Roper (“Double Time: How I Survived – and Mostly Thrived – Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

FRIDAY: Merry White (“Coffee Life in Japan”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
… Bill Corbett and Nate Klug (“Consent”) read at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Rosecrans Baldwin (“Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down ”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY: Barbara Walsh (“August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm”) reads at 3 p.m. at Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St., Gloucester … Jane Kohuth (“Duck Sock Hop”) reads at 3 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Lisa Moore (“Evilution”) reads at 6 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley …

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

SUNDAY: Jay Atkinson ("Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord … Matthew Pearl (“The Technologists”) speaks at 4 p.m., at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset …

MONDAY: Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés (“Seriously, Just Go To Sleep”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Paul Krugman (“End This Depression Now!”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church, 1446 Mass. Ave., Cambridge ($5 ticket) … Katherine Howe (“The House of Velvet and Glass”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston University Barnes and Noble … Christopher Tilghman (“The Right-Hand Shore”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Richard Hoffman (“Emblem”), Meg Kearney (“The Girl in the Mirror”), and Jennifer Milletello (“Flinch of Song”) read at 7 p.m. at the Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

TUESDAY: Erin Dionne (“Notes from an Accidental Band Geek”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Howard Gardner (“Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century”) reads at 6 p.m., at the Brighton Branch of the BPL, 40 Academy Hill Road … Nicole Galland (“I, Iago”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jane Roper (“Double Time: How I Survived--and Mostly Thrived—Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … James K. Galbraith (“Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … David Bezmozgis (“The Free World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Tim Riley (“Lennon: The Man, the Myth, and the Music”) reads at 7 p.m. at Weston Public Library, 87 School Street, Weston

WEDNESDAY: Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald (“Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England”) read at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Judith Campbell (“A Despicable Mission”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Middleborough Public Library … Jennifer Miller (“The Year of the Gadfly”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Father John Dear (“Lazarus, Come Forth”) reads at 7 p.m. at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, Brookline … Roger Owen (“The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Chris Guillebeau (“The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jorie Graham (“Place: New Poems”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Christopher Tilghman (“The Right-Hand Shore”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord … Judy Collins (“When You Wish Upon a Star”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills, 309 Washington Street, Wellesley ($5 ticket at 781-431-1160)

THURSDAY: Augusten Burroughs (“This Is How”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at Brookline Booksmith) … Joseph R. Gallo (“Bronze and Stone Speak To Us”) reads at 11 a.m. at the North End Branch of the BPL, 25 Parmenter St. … Margaret McLean (“Under Oath”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … James Geary (“I is An Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Randall Kennedy (“The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Philip Warburg (“Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Ben Fountain (“Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Christina Mercado (“You Can Do It Bunny!”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … George C. Daughan (“1812: The Navy’s War”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Charlestown Branch Library, 179 Main Street, Charlestown

FRIDAY: Denis Lehane (“Moonlight Mile”) and Mitchell Zukoff (“Lost in Shangri-La”) read at 11 a.m. at Newton Marriot hotel ballroom, 2345 Commonwealth Avenue, ($40 ticket includes lunch and supports the Newton Free Library) … Robert J. Shiller (“Finance and the Good Society”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Joyelle McSweeney (“The Necropastoral”) and Harmony Holiday (“Negro League Baseball”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Matthew Battles (“The Sovereignties of Invention”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Gary Duehr (“In Passing”), Karen Miller, Margaret Young (“Almond Town”) read at 7:30 pm at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St., Jamaica Plain ($5 donation recommended)

SATURDAY: Jef Czekaj (“Yes, Yes, Yaul”) reads at 10 a.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Geraldine Brooks (“Caleb’s Crossing”) and Tony Horwitz (“Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War”) read at 11 a.m. at the Chelmsford High School Performing Arts Center … Jane McClosky (“Robert McClosky: A Private Life in Words and Pictures”) reads at 1 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Suzanne Koven (“Say Hello to a Better Body!: Weight Loss and Fitness for Women over 50”) reads at 4 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Herta Müller (“The Hunger Angel (Atemschauke)”) reads at 4 p.m. at Barrister's Hall, Boston University Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave. and at 7 p.m. at Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston (both events in German)

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

SUNDAY: David A. Kelley (“The Astro Outlaw”) reads at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre … April Bernard ("Miss Fuller") reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop

MONDAY: Siobhan Fallon ("You Know When the Men are Gone") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz (“Today I Am Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Eileen Pollack (“Breaking and Entering”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Franz Wright (“Wheeling Motel”) and Geoffrey Brock (“Weighing Light”) read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Edith Pearlman (“Binocular Vision”) reads at 6:30 pm at the South End Library, Tremont St. at West Newton St. … Dorothy Wickenden (“Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Rosalyn Hoffman (“Smart Mama: Raising Happy, Healthy Kids Without Breaking the Bank”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Timothy Noah (“The Great Divergence”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Kate Flora (“Redemption”), Margaret McLean (“Under Oath”), Katherine Hall Page (“Body in the Boudoir”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Elizabeth Percer (“An Uncommon Education”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Tom Sleigh (“Space Walk”), Lloyd Schwartz (“Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”), Fred Marchant (“The Looking House”), Gail Mazur (“Figures in a Landscape”), Fanny Howe (“Come and See”), Saskia Hamilton (“As for Dreams”), Robert Gardner, and Christopher Benfey (“Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay”) read in celebration of Robert Lowell at 7 p.m. in Boston University’s Playwright’s Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave.

WEDNESDAY: Alison Bechdel (“Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street ($5 tickets at Harvard Book Store) … David Rees (“How To Sharpen Pencils”) reads at 7 p.m. at
Brookline Booksmith … Michael Olson (“Strange Flesh”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Rebecca Lindenberg (“Love An Index”) and Stephen Burt (“Parallel Play Poems”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Elizabeth Percer (“An Uncommon Education”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street

THURSDAY: Kelsey Banfield (“The Naptime Chef: Fitting Great Food into Family Life”) reads at 3 p.m. at J. McLaughlin, 12 Church Street, Wellesley (RSVP to events@mazzpr.com or 212.755.2100) … Caitrin Lynch (“Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory”) reads at 5:30 p.m. at Olin College’s Milas Hall Auditorium), 1000 Olin Way, Needham … Chad Harbach (“The Art of Fielding “) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Dawn M. Skorczewski (“An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Deborah Copaken Kogan (“The Red Book”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Rosie Sultan (“Helen Keller in Love”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Delia Ephron (“The Lion Is In”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

FRIDAY: Kenneth W. Mack (“Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Luong Ung (“Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Ace Atkins and Joan Parker (Robert B. Parker’s “Lullaby”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Myfanwy Collins (“Echolocation”), Carroll Donnell (“The Donnie Wahlberg Drinking Game”), Joel Peckham (“Movers-Shakers”), and Yuyutsu Sharma (“Milarepa’s Bones”) read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge

SATURDAY: Fabiola Powell (“Faith's Legacy: A Haitian Family's Journey Across Three Generations”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books … Michael Natkin (“Herbivoracious: A Flavor Revolution with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

SUNDAY: Raymond Sinbaldi (“Fenway Park, Massachusetts”) reads at 1 p.m. at Boston University’s Barnes and Noble … Matt Tavares ("There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived") reads at 3 p.m. at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester

MONDAY: Charles Bock (“Beautiful Children”) reads at 2 p.m. at UMass Boston, Wheatley Hall, 100 Morrissey Blvd. … Dan Bullen (“The Love Lives of the Artists: Five Stories of Creative Intimacy”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Meredith Goldstein (“The Singles”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Kevin Barry (“City of Bohane”) and Morgan Callan Rogers (“Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre … Michael Sandel (“What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”) reads at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 1446 Mass. Ave., Cambridge ($5 ticket) … Tupelo Hassman ("Girl Child") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Elizabeth Bradfield (“Approaching Ice”) and Peter Richards (“Helsinki”) read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Ellen Cassedy ("We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Deb Caletti (“The Story of Us”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Anne Korkeakivi (“An Unexpected Guest”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Hanna Rose Shell (“Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ron Rash (“The Cove”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Gary Braver (“Tunnel Vision”) and Kate Flora (“Redemption”) read at 7:30 at Melrose Library, 69 West Emerson St., Melrose

WEDNESDAY: Anthony Amore (“Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists”) reads at 6 p.m. at Stellina Restaurant, 47 Main St., Watertown … Emily Sweeney (“Boston Organized Crime”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Boston Public Library’s Adams Street Branch, 690 Adams St., Dorchester … Rebecca Skloot (“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College, Yawkey Center, Murray Function Room … Jay Atkinson (“Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man: Guts, Glory, and Blood in the World’s Greatest Game”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Guy Delisle (“Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Anne Korkeakivi ("The Unexpected Guest") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Chuck Collins (“99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It”) and Linda McQuaig (“Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality”) read at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge … Barbara Kellerman (“The End of Leadership”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop

THURSDAY: Chuck Collins (“99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It”) and Linda McQuaig (“Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality”) read at 7 p.m. at First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain … Jonathan Talat Phillips (“Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Susan Carlton (“Love & Haight”) reads at 7 p.m. at BU’s Barnes and Noble … Terry Tempest Williams (“When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Christopher B. Daly (“Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop

FRIDAY: Irene Smalls (“My Pop Pop And Me”) reads at 10:30 a.m. at Boston Public Library, Copley … Madeleine Albright ("Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948'") reads at 11:30 a.m. at UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop St., Cambridge ($85 ticket includes lunch and book) … April Bernard (“Miss Fuller”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Madeleine Albright ("Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948'") reads at 7 p.m. at Town Hall in Winchester (tickets at www.bookendswinchester.com) … Leonard Mlodinow (“Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Susan Senator (“DIRT: A Story About Gardening, Mothering, and Other Messy Business”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley

SATURDAY: Anthony Sammarco (“Hyde Park Then & Now”) reads at noon at the Hyde Park Branch, BPL, 35 Harvard St., Hyde Park … Renarda Huggins ("Lies He Told") reads at 1 p.m. at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library, 65 Warren St., Roxbury … Jane Roy Brown ("One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place") reads at 2 p.m. at Book Ends, Winchester … Etgar Keret (“Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

The 2012 award for general nonfiction went to “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt’s enchanting, expansive explication of the ancient poet Lucretius’ influence on modernity. “The Swerve” also won the 2011 National Book Award.
The history award went to “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” the late Manning Marable’s magisterial biography. Marable’s book was also a finalist in the biography category, but lost out to John Lewis Gaddis' National Book Critics Circle award-winning biography "George F. Kennan: An American Life.”

This year’s poetry award went to "Life on Mars," by Tracy K. Smith, which the committee cited as a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.

Quiara Alegría Hudes’ play about an Iraq vet attempting to make sense of the world and life, "Water by the Spoonful,” won this year’s drama award.
A complete list of nominated finalists, with the winners in bold, follows.

Fiction
No award
Denis Johnson, "Train Dreams”
Karen Russell, "Swamplandia!"
David Foster Wallace, "The Pale King”

Drama
Jon Robin Baitz, "Other Desert Cities”
Quiara Alegría Hudes, "Water by the Spoonful”
Stephen Karam, "Sons of the Prophet”

History
Anne F. Hyde, "Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860”
Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, "The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden”
Richard White, "Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America”

Biography
Mary Gabriel, “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution”
John Lewis Gaddis, “George F. Kennan: An American Life”
Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”
Pulitzer winners for literature do not include a fiction award
Poetry
Forrest Gander, “Core Samples from the World”
Ron Padgett, “How Long”
Tracy K. Smith, “Life on Mars”

General Nonfiction
Diane Ackerman, “One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing”
Stephen Greenblatt, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”
Mara Hvistendahl, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men”

Michael Washburn can be contacted at www.michaelwashburn.org or on Twitter as @whalelines.

SUNDAY: Rose A. Lewis and Jen Corace (“Sweet Dreams”) read at 11 a.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Dawn Tripp ("The Season of Open Water") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (“By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop”) read at 3 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jill McDonough (“Habeas Corpus”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Free Public Library.

MONDAY: Chimamanda Adichie (“The Thing Around Your Neck”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden St., Cambridge … John D’Agata and Jim Fingal (“The Lifespan of a Fact”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Dani Rodrik (“The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church, 1446 Mass. Ave., Cambridge.

TUESDAY: Martha Collins (“White Papers”) reads at 2:30 p.m. at UMass’s Healey Library, 11th floor, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston … Anne Perry (“Dorchester Terrace”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley … James Tabor (“Deep Zone”) and Howard Shrier (“Boston Cream”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Doug Mack (“Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jennifer Haigh (“Faith”) and Dani Shapiro (“Devotion”) read at 7:30 p.m. at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton St., Newton ($8 tickets at www.bostonjcc.org/bookfair , boxoffice@jccgb.org, or 617-965-5226).

WEDNESDAY: Mark Fiege (“The Republic of Nature”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Sayed Kashua (“Second Person Singular”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

THURSDAY: William Giraldi (“Busy Monsters”), Marianne Leone (“Knowing Jesse”), Kate Racculia (“This Must Be the Place”) and Anna Solomon (“The Little Bride”) read at 6 p.m. at Think Tank, One Kendall Square, Cambridge ($20 tickets in advance at www.bostonbookfest.org; $25 tickets at the door) … Elliot Kai-Kee and Rike Burnham (“Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience”) read at 6 p.m. the Harvard Art Museums, 485 Broadway, Cambridge … Hugh Brewster (“Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Alice Hoffman (“The Dovekeepers”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Clea Simon (“Cats Can't Shoot: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Tsoknyi Rinpoche (“Open Heart, Open Mind”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Trident Bookstore … Sergey and Marina Dyachenko (“The Scar”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop.

FRIDAY: Susie Davidson and Edgar Krasa (“The Music Man of Terezin: The Story of Rafael Schaechter”) read at noon at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston’s Hot Kosher Lunch Fridays, Center Communities of Brookline, 1550 Beacon St., 3rd Floor, Brookline ($4 donation suggested for lunch, rsvp to 617-558-6596) … Sadakat Kadri (“Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lesley Kinzel (“Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.

SATURDAY: Jerry Pallotta and John S. Dykes (“F is for Fenway”) read at 10 a.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley.

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

MONDAY: Tayari Jones (“Silver Sparrow”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St. … Richard Johnson (“Field of Our Fathers”) reads at 6 p.m. at the South Boston Branch of the BPL, 646 East Broadway … Tsoknyi Rinpoche (“Open Heart, Open Mind”) reads at 7 p.m. at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley … Martha Collins (“White Papers”) and Wayne Miller (“The City, Our City”) reads at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Nikky Finney (“Head Off & Split”) and Tom Sleigh (“Army Cats”) read at 4:30 p.m. at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, 237 Green Hall, Wellesley College … Drew Gilpin Faust (“This Republic of Suffering”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Rachel Dratch (“Girl Walks into a Bar…: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre ($5 ticket) … Rick Moody (“On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre … Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (“The Future of Power”) reads at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge … Jessica Maria Tuccelli (“Glow: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Elizabeth Goldsmith (“The Kings’ Mistresses”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston University’s Barnes and Noble … Gary Snyder ("Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems") reads at 7 p.m. at MIT, room 12-250.

WEDNESDAY: Glenn Stout (“Fenway 1912”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Dimitry Kuzmin reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge … Amelia Gray (“Threats”) and Blake Butler (“Nothing”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Katherine Howe (“The House of Velvet and Glass”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

THURSDAY: Christopher Moore (“Sacre Beu: A Comedy d’Art”) reads at 6 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre ($5 tickets) … Adam Pachter (editor, “Final Fenway Fiction”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre … Lisa Wong (“Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … John Donatich (“The Variations”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

FRIDAY: Saul Wisnia (“Fenway Park: The Centennial”) reads at 11:30 a.m. at Boston University’s Barnes and Noble, 660 Beacon Street … Sheryl and Carrie Berk (“The Cupcake Club: Peace, Love, & Cupcakes”) read at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Alexander McCall Smith (“The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets) … Jack Cox (“Public Education and Corporate Sponsorship in the early 19th century Waltham”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Gail Mazur (“Figures in a Landscape”), Lloyd Schwartz (“Cairo Traffic”), and Susanna Kittredge read at 7:30 p.m. at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St., Jamaica Plain ($5 donation suggested)

SATURDAY: Caitlin R. Kiernan (“Alabaster: Wolves”) reads at noon at Friendly Neighborhood Comics, 191 Mechanic Street, Bellingham … Peter David Shapiro (“Ghosts on the Red Line”) reads at noon at the Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Veronique-Anne Epiter (“Moon Fever”) reads at 2:30 p.m. at BPL, Grove Hall Branch, 41 Geneva Ave., Dorchester

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

By Michael Washburn

Nobody would claim that the “Choose Your Adventure” books popular in the 1980s were great art, but these books were a great idea. Before you can become a book lover – so before you can condescend to people who “read for plot” - you get jazzed about reading because of sheer engagement with the narrative. And these books, usually mysteries pitched to the 10-14 year old age range, are nothing but juicy plot.

“Choose Your Own Adventures” are interactive tales told in the second person. Every few pages the protagonist (i.e. you) faced a decision. “You hear someone trying to pry open your window. If you choose to investigate flip to page 18. If not, turn to page 20,” or something like that. I’m sure that I wasn’t the only person whose first flaunting of authority was ignoring a stern librarian’s injunction to not bend or write on book’s pages as I marked each difficult decision in “my” adventure. One must be thorough about possible worlds.

The original “Choose Your Own Adventure” series soldiers on [http://www.cyoa.com/], but, Coliloquy[ http://www.coliloquy.com/ ], a California-based startup, has transformed the idea, this time for the Kindle e-reader. They are also looking to expand to other platforms.

So far, so what, right? People have been doing similar things for some time, right? Yes, and no. Similar things have been tried before, probably most notably back in 2010 when Edward Packer, one of the authors of the original books, launched a series called “U-Ventures.” The company that publishes the original series also has some new media offerings. But the growth of e-reader sales over the past two years has been staggering, and Coliloquy’s launch seems to be the first major effort since the craze. There are a few other differences, some cosmetic and some both creepy and cool.

For instance, the company sells their “active fiction” alongside the other titles listed a Kindle shelf. More importantly, many of Coliloquy’s titles are serialized, and written based on data about readers’ previous decisions and preferences. According to the Huffington Post, “Coliloquy currently uses the data in one of two ways; they either commission authors to write serial narratives, and the writer agrees to follow the narratives that the majority of readers have chosen to follow, or the author writes multiple versions of a narrative, with readers receiving different tales depending on their decisions.”

Coliloquy currently boasts several series, including “Great Escapes,” “a personalized erotica series set in a quiet B & B,” and several stand alone “novels.” “Dead Letter Office,” billed as a southern gothic tale where a teenager stumbles across a bunch of old letters that predict contemporary troubles, seem a bit more in keeping the original adventure books.

Now, don’t get me wrong. As an adult, I like my books the old fashioned way, but the original “Choose Your Own Adventure” series didn’t detract too much from engagement with better, more substantive books. It helped lead me there, in fact. I think that the Coliloquy idea is good, as far as ideas go;it’s the type of thing one would expect on an e-reader. But I doubt that 21stcentury,“active fiction” will have as a salutary effect as the late 20th century version. When it comes down to it, it seems that both sets of books are aimed the same group of people, now aged into a different demographic.I hope that the promise of promiscuous reading at that B & B doesn’t seduce people from reading more traditional books.

Editor’s note: In an earlier version this post incorrectly implied that the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series is out of print. This is not the case. The “Choose Your Own Adventure” series is currently published by Chooseco LLC, founded by R. A. Montgomery, one of the series’ original authors. Chooseco has no relationship to Coliloquoy or to their interactive books.

Michael Washburn can be contacted at www.michaelwashburn.org or on Twitter as @whalelines.

By Michael Washburn

“We have come at a most interesting time,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in a February1953 letter to his friend Gianfranco Ivancich, relaying the rather callous observation of some literary tourists who had dropped by Hemingway’s house in Cuba unannounced. “Just in time to see the great Hemingway cry because he has to kill a cat.”

“Miss Uncle Willie,” Hemingway wrote of the cat, which had been hit by a car. “Have had to shoot people,but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years. Nor anyone that purred with two broken legs.”

This letter is one of fifteen from Hemingway to Ivancich that have recently been made available to scholars by The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Written between 1953 and 1960 the letters touch on a variety of topics, such as the death of Willie, complicating the stock image of Hemingway the macho, blunderbuss-toting bon vivant. All of the letters reveal the deep affection that Hemingway felt for Ivancich.

“We miss you very much,” Hemingway writes, “and it is lonesome to have somebody around as you were and have them like a brother and have them go away. Now I have no brother and no good drinking friend nor hard-working banana grower. Everybody remembers you with so much affection and sends very best wishes.”

The two men met in Venice in 1949 and, lubricated by the bartenders at the Gritti Palace Hotel, became fast friends. From their first boozy encounters until Hemingway’s death in 1961, the two remained close, though most often their interactions were epistolary. According to the JFK Library, Ivancich was one of the “few people present at Hemingway’s private funeral.”
Ivancich’s sister, Adriana, was one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s “muses.” She was reportedly the inspiration for both “Across the River and Into the Trees” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Old Man and the Sea.”

These letters – which Hemingway posted not only from Cuba, but also from Ketchum, Idaho; Kilimanjaro; Nairobi; Paris; and Madrid – are an addition to the 23 pieces of correspondence from Ivancich and five from Hemingway to Ivancich already housed at Hemingway Collection at the Kennedy Library. Of the fifteen new acquisitions, twelve have never been published.
A selection of the Hemingway-Ivancich correspondence will be on display this Sunday, April 1, during the Hemingway Foundation/PEN New England Awards Ceremony at the Kennedy Library. Novelist Teju Cole is this year’s recipient of the award, and Andre Dubus III will present a keynote.

According to the Kennedy Library, “The Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library spans Hemingway’s entire career and represents ninety percent of existing Hemingway manuscript materials, making the Kennedy Library the world’s principal center for research on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway.”

To learn more about the Hemingway Collection, or to find out how to make an appointment to conduct research visit http://www.jfklibrary.orgwww.jfklibrary.org or call (866) JFK-1960.

Michael Washburn can be contacted at www.michaelwashburn.org or on Twitter as @whalelines.

SUNDAY: Mo Willems (“The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?”) reads at 10:30 a.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at 617-566-6660) … Kevin Walsh (“Follow the Dog Home”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Wellesley Free Library … Sally Cragin, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Victor Howes, Fred Marchant, and F. D. Reeve read at 2:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library … Deborah Kops (“The Great Molasses Flood: Boston 1919”) and Heather Lang (“Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion”) read at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Vincent J. Cannata (“American Passage”) reads at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Cohasset (tickets at 781-383-1348) …

MONDAY: David Bezmozgis (“The Free World”) and Debra Spark (“The Pretty Girl”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Doron Weber (“Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Linda Gregerson (“Still Life”) and Aaron Baker (“Mission Work”) read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Brandon Mull (“The Beyonders #2: The Seeds of Rebellion”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Barbara Kellerman (“The End of Leadership”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jennifer Gooch Hummer (“Girl Unmoored”) and Susan Senator (“Dirt”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Patricia Ellis Herr (“UP: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Wendy Mnookin (“The Moon Makes its own Plea”), Leslie Williams (“Success of the Seed Plants”), and Rebecca Morgan Frank (“Little Murders Everywhere”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre

WEDNESDAY: Leela Corman (“Unterzakhn”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Natalie Dykstra (“Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Hingham Public Library … Jacqueline Winspear (“Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jorie Graham (“Place”) and Patrick Ryan Frank (“Why the Losers Love What’s Lost”) read at 7:30 p.m. at The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston

THURSDAY: Hanne Blank (“Straight: The Surprisingly Short Story of Heterosexuality”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Andrew Bacevich, Jeffrey Frieden and Akira Iriye (“The Short American Century: A Postmortem”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Didi Emmons (“Wild Flavors: One Chef’s Transformative Year Cooking From Eva’s Farm”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St. ($5 tickets at 781-431-1160) … Adam Pachter (editor, “Final Fenway Fiction”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Ben Patton (“Growing Up Patton: Reflections on Heroes, History, and Family Wisdom”) reads at 7 p.m. at Pingree School, South Hamilton

FRIDAY: Jonathan Schlefer (“The Assumptions Economists Make”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
SATURDAY: Tad Hills (“Duck & Goose: Here Comes the Easter Bunny!”) reads at 10 a.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St. … Adam Pachter (editor, “Final Fenway Fiction”) reads at 1 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 82 Providence Highway, Walpole.

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SUNDAY: Natalie Dykstra (“Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life”) at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Chris Matthews (“Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero”) reads at 5 p.m. at Porter Square Books …

MONDAY: Louis Begley (“Schmidt Steps Back”) reads 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Robin Behn (“The Yellow House”) reads at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($3 ticket) …

TUESDAY: Zadie Smith (“Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays”) reads at 5:30 p.m. in the Coolidge Room of Ballou Hall at Tufts University … Don Paterson (“101 Sonnets”) and Dan Chiasson (“One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America”) read at 6 p.m. at Boston University Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s St. … Kevin Young (“The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jane Roy Brown (“One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

WEDNESDAY: Cheryl Strayed (“Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Tea Obrecht (“The Tiger’s Wife”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College, Devlin Hall 101 … Matthew Pearl (“The Technologists”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Rabb Lecture Hall at Boston Public Library, Copley … Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow (“The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts”) read at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, One Worcester Rd., Framingham … Audrey Schulman (“3 Weeks in December”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

THURSDAY: Anya Ulinich (“Petropolis”), Lara Vapnyar (“Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love”) and David Bezmozgis (“The Free World”) read at 4 p.m. in the Coolidge Room of Ballou Hall at Tufts University … Rachel Hawkins (“Hex Hall #3: Spell Bound”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Harlow Giles Unger (“American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room of the Boston Public Library, Copley … Philip Robinson (“We Still Leave a Legacy”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Medicine Wheel, 110 K St., South Boston … Gordon Ball (“East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Heidi Julavits (“The Vanishers”) and Ben Marcus (“The Flame Alphabet”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Liz Benedict, Jay Cantor and Chris Castellani (“Mentors, Muses and Monsters”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

FRIDAY: Gary Shteyngart (“Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”) reads at 5 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium (170 Packard Avenue) at Tufts University … Daniel Everett (“Language: The Cultural Tool”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Roy Harris (“Pulitzer’s Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the James Library & Center for the Arts, 24 West St., Norwell …

SATURDAY: Maryjeanne Hunt (“Eating to Lose: Healing from a Life of Diabulimia”) reads at noon at Barnes & Noble, One Worcester Road, Framingham … Ashley Sarro (“Lost in the Library”) reads at 1 p.m. at Brenner’s Children Shop, 694 Washington St., Norwood … Margot Livesey ("The Flight of Gemma Hardy"), Roland Merullo ("The Talk-Funny Girl") and Jane Brox ("Brilliant") read at 1:30 p.m. the Maynard Public Library, 77 Nason Street, Maynard … Richard Russo ("Empire Falls") and Andre Dubus III ("Townie") read at 3:30 p.m. at the Union Congregational Church, 80 Main Street, Maynard

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SUNDAY: John G. Funchion (“Move the Sock Hole Over”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Peabody Institute Library-Danvers, 15 Sylvan St., Danvers … Madeline Miller (“Song of Achilles”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main Street, Concord

MONDAY: Peter Cameron (“Coral Glynn”) and Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) read at 6 p.m. in the Boston Room at the Central Library in Copley Square … Jack Goldsmith (“Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11”) reads at 6 p.m. with Charles Fried, Martha Minow, and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at Havard Book Store) … Jeanette Winterson (“Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Rebecca Morgan Frank (“Little Murders Everywhere”) reads at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Adam Wilson (“Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at Harvard Book Store) … Carolyn DeCristofano (“A Black Hole Is Not a Hole”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Howard Frank Mosher (“The Great Northern Express”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Robert Arellano (“Curse the Names”), Bernice L. McFadden (“Gathering of Waters”), Eliza Factor (“The Mercury Fountain”), Sterling Watson (“Fighting in the Shade”), and Joseph Mattson (“The Speed Chronicles”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

WEDNESDAY: Julie Orringer (“The Invisible Bridge”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street, Newton ($8 tickets at www.bostonjcc.org/bookfair or boxoffice@jccgb.org) … Hari Kunzru, (“Gods Without Men”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

WEDNESDAY: Anne Lamott and Sam Lamott (“Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son”) read at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (free tickets at 617-566-6660) … Alan Lightman (“Mr. g”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Stellina Restaurant, 47 Main Street, Watertown … Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (“Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Ezra Vogel (“Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church Parlor, 3 Church Street, Cambridge

THURSDAY: Madeline Miller (“The Song of Achilles: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lauren Groff (“Arcadia”) and Megan Mayhew Bergman (“Birds of a Lesser Paradise”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Adam Hochschild (“To End All Wars”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Howard Frank Mosher (“The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop ... Robert Kanigel ("On an Irish Island") reads at 7 p.m. at MIT, room #6-120

FRIDAY: Mike Edwards (“Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … John Elder Robison (“Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Elaine Pagels (“Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY: Chris Matthews (“Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero”) reads at 10 a.m. at Barnes and Noble, One Worcester Road, Framingham … Dr. Emmett G. Price III (“The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide”) reads at 2 p.m. at Northeastern’s John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, Amilcar Cabral Center, 40 Leon Street, Boston … Susan Fillion (“Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Chris Matthews (“Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

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By Michael Washburn, Globe Correspondent

Edith Pearlman’s collection of short stories "Binocular Vision'' was awarded the National Book Critic’s Circle 2011 fiction award at a ceremony on Manhattan Thursday night. Pearlman, a Brookline resident, has long been considered a “writer’s writer,” and her work subsequently suffered from the lack of visibility that often accompanies such a distinction. With the book critics' award – as well as her nomination during the last round of the National Book Awards – Pearlman’s work seems poised to gain a readership that it richly deserves.

Besides Pearlman, other Massachusetts writers took top honors from the book critics' group. The nonfiction award went to Harvard history professor Maya Jasanoff’s "Liberty’s Exiles,'' the story of US-based British sympathizers in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. And Western Massachusetts resident and children's book author Mira Bartok was honored in the biography category for her memoir "Memory Palace'' about her schizophrenic mother.

The NBCC also bestowed the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Robert Silvers, founding editor of The New York Review of Books. Globe contributor Kathryn Schulz won the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

A complete list of nominees, with the winners in bold, follows.

Fiction
Teju Cole, "Open City''
Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Marriage Plot''
Alan Hollinghurst, "Stranger’s Child''
Edith Pearlman, "Binocular Vision''
Dana Spiotta, "Stone Arabia''

Nonfiction
Amanda Foreman, "A World on Fire''
James Gleick, "The Information''
Adam Hochschild, "To End All Wars''
Maya Jasanoff, "Liberty’s Exiles''
John Jeremiah Sullivan, "Pulphead''

Autobiography
Diana Ackerman, "One Hundred Names for Love''
Mira Bartok, "Memory Palace''
Luis Rodriguez, "It Calls You Back''
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, "Harlem Is Nowhere''
Deb Olin Unferth, "Revolution''

Biography
Mary Gabriel, "Love and Capital''
John Lewis Gaddis, "George F. Kennan''
Paul Hendrickson, "Hemingway’s Boat''
Manning Marable, "Malcolm X''
Ezra Vogel, "Deng Xiaoping''

Criticism
David Bellos, "Is That a Fish in Your Ear''
Geoff Dyer, "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition''
Jonathan Lethem, "The Ecstasy of Influence''
Dubravka Ugresic, "Karaoke Culture''
Ellen Willis, "Out of the Vinyl Deeps''

Poetry
Forrest Gander, "Core Samples''
Aracelis Girmay, "Kingdom Animalia''
Laura Kasischke, "Space, In Chains''
Yusef Komunyakaa, "The Chameleon Couch''
Bruce Smith, "Devotions''

SUNDAY: Sylvia Westphal and Nicole Gsell (Sam and Ben), Taco Matthews (Francisco’s Fabulous Friends) and Kate Hayes read at 11 a.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ha Jin (“Nanjing Requiem”), Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) and Julia Glass (“The Widower’s Tale”) read at 2 p.m. at the New Bedford Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford ($25 ticket) … Mike Cooper (“Clawback”) reads at 2 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Kate Flora (“Redemption”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main Street, Concord … Aaron Pribble (“Pitching in the Promised Land – A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton ($8 tickets at www.bostonjcc.org/artsevents or boxoffice@jccgb.org, 617-965-5226 or 866-811-4111)

MONDAY: Jake Adam York (“Persons Unknown”) and Paul Hostovsky (“Dear Truth”) read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Leah Hager Cohen (“The Grief of Others”) and Jim Shepard (“You Think That’s Bad”) read at 4:30 p.m. at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, 237 Green Hall, Wellesley … Patricia Briggs (“Fair Game”) reads at 5 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre (free tickets at Harvard Coop) … Carol Anshaw (“Carry the One”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Sarah Braunstein (“The Sweet Relief of Missing Children”) and Audrey Schulman (“Three Weeks in December”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Madeline Miller (“The Song of Achilles”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jade Sylvan (“The Spark Singer”) and Margaret Young (“Almond Town”) read at 7 p.m. at the Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton … Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Melrose Library, 69 West Emerson Street, Melrose

WEDNESDAY: Treasa O’Driscoll (“Celtic Woman”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library, 690 Adams Street, Dorchester … Matthew Battles (“Sovereignties of Invention”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Trita Parsi (“A Single Roll of the Dice”) reads at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Cambridge … Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz (“Today I Am A Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Mike Mullin (“Ashfall”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Belmont Public Library.

THURSDAY: Kathryn Harrison (“Enchantments”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Boston Room at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Ree Drummond (“The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at theater or 617-566-6660) … Tovar Cerulli (“The Mindful Carnivore”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

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SUNDAY: Vivian Gornick (“Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life”) reads at 3 p.m. for Thoreau Farm Forum at Concord Academy Chapel, 166 Main Street, Concord … Heather Cox Richardson (“Wounded Knee”) speaks at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Road, Cohasset (for tickets call 781-383-1348)

MONDAY: Abby Stokes (“Is This Thing On?" A Computer Hand Book for Late Bloomers, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Linda Gray Sexton (“Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Karina Borowicz (“The Bees Are Waiting”), Len Krisak’s (“Virgil’s Eclogues”), and Jennifer S. Flescher read at 7 p.m. at the Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge … Claire Bidwell Smith (“The Rules of Inheritance”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Emerging writers Kristen Andersen, Hyejung Kook, and Kerrin McCadden read at 8 p.m. at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street ($3 ticket)

TUESDAY: Sven Birkerts ("The Other Walk") reads at 6:30 PM at the South End Library, Tremont Street at West Newton Street, Boston … Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) and Megan Mayhew Bergman (“Birds of a Lesser Paradise”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Richard Mason (“The History of a Pleasure Seeker”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Leslie Epstein (“Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … David Wolman (“The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers and the Coming Cashless Society”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

WEDNESDAY: Michael Dawson, William Julius Wilson, and Eugene Rivers discuss “The Future of Black Politics” at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 ticket) … Catherine Chung (“Forgotten Country”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Linda Gray Sexton, (“Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Mike Cooper (“Clawback”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Steven M. Forman (“Boca Daze”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, One Worcester Road, Framingham … Donovan Hohn (“Moby-Duck”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, Boston University … Michael Edwards (Democracy Despite Itself”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop

THURSDAY: James M. McPherson (“Battle Cry of Freedom,” “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief”) speaks at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Donovan Hohn (“Moby-Duck”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Adam Wilson (“Flatscreen”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Olaf Olafsson (“Restoration”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ben Benjamin (“Conversation Transformation: Recognize and Overcome the 6 Most Destructive Communication Patterns”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Joshua Kendall (“The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of An American Culture”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … William Landay (“Defending Jacob”) reads at 7 p.m. at Tufts Library, 46 Broad St, Weymouth

FRIDAY: Kristi Yamaguchi (“It’s a Big World, Little Pig!”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley ($5 tickets at 781.431.1160) … Thomas Mallon (“Watergate: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lyrae Van Clief Stefanon (“Open Interval”) and Thomas Sayers Ellis (“Skin, Inc.”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

SATURDAY: Toby Lester (“Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Hingham Public Library

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SUNDAY: Margot Livesey ("The Flight of Gemma Hardy") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord

MONDAY: Chris Faraone (“99 Nights with the 99 Percent”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Myfanwy Collins (“Echolocation”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

TUESDAY: Jennifer Egan (“A Visit From the Goon Squad”) reads at 4:30 p.m. at Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley … Martin Amis (“The Pregnant Widow”) reads at 5:30 p.m. at Ballou Hall, Center for the Humanities at Tufts University … Charlotte Silver (“Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Andre Dubus III (“Townie: A Memoir”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Douglas Brinkley ("The Wilderness Warrior" and "Quiet World") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

WEDNESDAY: Jodi Picoult (“Lone Wolf”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at Brookline Booksmith or 617-566-6660) … Matthew Pearl (“The Technologists”) and Eleni Gage (“Other Waters”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Natalie Dykstra (“Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

THURSDAY Billy Collins (“Horoscopes for the Dead”) reads at 7 p.m. at Gasson Hall, Boston College … William Landay (“Defending Jacob”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Pamela Druckerman (“Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookling Booksmith … Cristina Alger (“The Darlings: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

FRIDAY David R. Slavitt (“Sonnets and Shorter Poems”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Audrey Schulman (“Three Weeks in December”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY Michael Ian Black (“You’re Not Doing It Right”) reads at 12:30 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at Brookling Booksmith or 617-566-6660) … Tayari Jones ("Silver Sparrow), January Gill O'Neil ("Underlife), and Kate Bolick (“All the Single Ladies”) read at 7 p.m. at Jabberwocky Books, 50 Water Street, Newburyport

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SUNDAY: Sarah McCoy (“The Baker’s Daughter”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord

TUESDAY: Audrey Schulman (“Three Weeks in December”) and Leigh Stein (“The Fallback Plan”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Anthony Giardina (“Norumbega Park: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … A. C. Gaughen (“Scarlet”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Suzanne Berger (“Legacies”), Danielle Georges (“Maroon”), and Richard Wollman (“Evidence of Things Seen”) read at 7 p.m. at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville ($4 ticket for reading and open mic to follow) … Anthony M. Sammarco (“The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Lynnfield Meeting House, 671 Main Street, Lynnfield

WEDNESDAY: Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”), Gail Mazur (“Figures in a Landscape”), and Pablo Medina (“Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo”) read at 6 p.m. at the Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Theater, 559 Washington Street … James Hoopes (“Corporate Dreams: Big Business in American Democracy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Main Branch, Copley Square… Marian Pierre-Louis (“Discovering Immigrant Voices through House History Research”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room, Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Sara J. Benincasa (“Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (with guests Erin Petti and Maria Ciampa) … Katherine Boo (“Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... BU creative writing program faculty reading with Dan Chiasson, Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Pinsky, and Rosanna Warren, 7p.m. at BU Photonics Auditorium, 8 St. Mary's St.

THURSDAY: Kim Harrison (“A Perfect Blood”) reads at 6 p.m. at Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square … James Geary (“I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Sydney Nathans (“To Free a Family”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($10 donation) … Steve Pemberton (“A Chance in the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Matthew Pearl (“The Technologists”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

FRIDAY: Adam Wilson (“Flatscreen: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/.

SUNDAY: Ilchi Lee (“The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart”) reads at 11 a.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jennifer Haigh (“Faith) speaks at 4 p.m., at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Cohasset (tickets at 781-383-1348) … Toby Lester ("Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord … Ezra Vogel ("Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China") reads at 4 p.m. at Porter Square Books

MONDAY: Franco Mormando (“Bernini: His Life and His Rome”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Toby Lester (“Da Vinci’s Ghost”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Leslie Epstein (“Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn”) and Richard Hoffman (“Emblem: Poems”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (“The Future of Power”) reads at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge … Martha Rhodes (“The Beds”) and R. Dwayne Betts (“Shahid Reads His Own Palm”) read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street ($3 ticket required)

TUESDAY: Junot Diaz (“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”) speaks at 4 p.m. at Devlin Hall, Boston College … Alan Albert, Sandra Kohler (“Improbable Music”), and Judith Steinbergh (“Writing My Will: Poems and Prose”) read at 7 p.m. at the Newton Public Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre …

WEDNESDAY: Lawrence Millman (“Fascinating Fungi of New England”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Junot Diaz (“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College’s Yawkey Center, Murray Function Room … Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … William Landay (“Defending Jacob”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Dennis Lehane (“Moonlight Mile”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Melrose Public Library, 69 West Emerson Street, Melrose.

THURSDAY: Terri Arthur (“Fatal Decision: Edith Cavell, WWI Nurse”) reads at 3:30 at the Massachusetts Nurses Association Council 3 office, 60 Route 6A, Sandwich … Arthur Singer and Ronald Goodman (“Boston’s Downtown Movie Palaces”) read at 6 p.m. in the Boston Room at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Donna Hicks (“Dignity”) reads at 6 p.m. at Stellina Restaurant, 47 Main Street, Watertown … Michael Palmer (“Oath of Office”), Daniel Palmer (“Helpless”), and Lisa Gardner (“Catch Me”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Alan Shapiro (“Broadway Baby”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

FRIDAY: Dimitar Sasselov (“The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Natalie Dykstra ("Clover Adams: A Gilded and Hearbreaking Life") reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody Street, Waltham

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

"The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach sneaks into the number one spot for hardcover fiction.

Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" reclaims its position as the number one hardcover nonfiction.

"The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht continues to be the bestselling paperback fiction.

For the fourth week in a row, the bestselling paperback nonfiction is Tina Fey's "Bossypants."

SUNDAY: Alan Lightman ("Mr. G") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord

MONDAY: Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) reads at noon at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley ($35 ticket includes book and lunch; rsvp at (781) 431-1160 or events@wellesleybooks.com) ... Naomi Benaron (“Running the Rift”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … David Weinberger (“Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t The Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ishmael Beah (“A Long Way Gone”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College, Gasson Hall room 100 … Susan E. Reed (“The Diversity Index”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop

TUESDAY: Theodora Goss (“The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble at Boston University, 660 Beacon Street … Sebastian Seung and Jeff Lichtman (“Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Richard Hoffman (“Emblem”) and Philip Fried ("Early/Late") read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Adam Schwartz (“A Stranger on the Planet”) and Lucy Ferriss (“The Lost Daughter”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

WEDNESDAY: Tracy Kidder (“Strength in What Remains”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Theater, 559 Washington Street … Robert Kanigel (“On an Irish Island”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Dan Chaon (“Stay Awake: Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … R. B. Scott (“Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Tom MacDonald (“The Charlestown Connection”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at Canton Public Library, 786 Washington Street, Canton

THURSDAY: Theodora Goss (“The Thorn and The Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story") reads at 2 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Toby Lester (“Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Boston Room of the BPL, Copley Square … Kenneth E. Pollock (“Philosophy of Life: Stories for Young People”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Lower Mills Branch Library , 27 Richmond Street, Dorchester … Les McKeown (“The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Carolyn Gregory (“Open Letters”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick Street … Claire Messud with John Freeman (“Granta 118: Exit Strategies”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Gary Small (“The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Forum, First Parish Cambridge, 3 Church Street … Tom MacDonald (“The Charlestown Connection”) reads at Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth … Liz Moore ("Heft") and Alex Gilvarry ("From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant") read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Joseph B. Martin (“Alfalfa to Ivy: Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Hannah Pittard (“The Fates Will Find Their Way”) and Jessica Keener (“Night Swim”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

FRIDAY: Hendrik Hartog (“Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Nathan Englander (“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Mary Bonina (“Clear Eye Tea”), Ken Tangvik (“Don’t Mess With Tanya: Stories Emerging From Boston’s Barrios”), and Gary Whited read at 7:30 p.m. at the Chapter and Verse Reading Series, Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain …

SATURDAY: Ann Hood (“The Treasure Chest”) reads at 11 a.m. at Duxbury Free Library … Scott Magoon (“Chopsticks”) reads at 2 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main Street, Winchester … Fabiola Powell (“Faith’s Legacy”) reads at 2 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 1 Worcester Road, Framingham

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/.