MONDAY

Maryanne O’Hara (“Cascade”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

TUESDAY

Terry Brooks (“Wards of Faerie”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . Joe McKendry (“One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads of the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, Framingham

WEDNESDAY

Margot Livesey, above, (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) speaks at 6:30 p.m. at Robbins Library in Arlington . . . Sarah F. Pearlman (“Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian Daughters and FTM Transgender Children”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURSDAY

Michael Lisicky (“Filene’s: Boston’s Great Specialty Store”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room of the Boston Public Library, Copley . . . Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer (“Feast of Ice and Fire”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . Micah Nathan (“Jack the Bastard and Other Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . Martha Ackmann (“Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington