TUESDAY

Richard Kadrey (“Devil Said Bang”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon of the Boston Public Library, Copley . . . Henry Horenstein (“Honky Tonk”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . Theda Skocpol (“Obama and America’s Political Future”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

WEDNESDAY

Alan Wolfe (“Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store . . . Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Other Woman”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURDAY

Arthur Singer and Ron Goodman (“Boston’s Downtown Movie Palaces”) read at 2 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public Library, Copley . . . Saul Williams (“Chorus”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge (free tickets at hbooks@bncollege.com) . . . Leo J. Maloney (“Termination Orders”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library . . . Ruth Nemzoff (“Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop . . . Taylor Polites (“Rebel Wife”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St. . . . Adam Braver (“Misfit”) and Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

FRIDAY

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (“The Rapture of the Nerds”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . David Kaiser (“How the Hippies Saved Physics”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham . . . Chris Belden (“Carry-On”), Michael Graves (“Dirty One”), and Steve Macone read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Art Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge . . . Yoram Hazony (“The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY

L.S. Asekoff (“Freedom Hill”) reads at 4 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham . . . Tom Ryan (“Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley