SUNDAY

James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St., Lowell.

MONDAY

Lois Lowry (“Son”) reads at 7 p.m. at Dana Hall Bardwell Auditorium, 37 Cameron St., Wellesley (ticket required from Wellesley Bookstore) . . . D. T. Max (“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . B. A. Shapiro (“The Art Forger”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

TUESDAY

Lois Lowry (“Son”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . Joanna Luloff (“The Beach at Galle Road: Stories From Sri Lanka”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store . . . Sue Kushner Resnick (“You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . Mark Siegel (“Sailor Twain”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books.

WEDNESDAY

Junot Diaz (“This Is How You Lose Her”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . Evan Thomas (“Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store . . . B. A. Shapiro (“The Art Forger”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books . . . John J. Ross (“Shakepeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

THURSDAY

Maryanne O’Hara (”Cascade”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End branch of the Boston Public Library, 685 Tremont St. . . . Simon Winchester (“Skulls”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . Elsa Dorfman (“Elsa’s Housebook: A Woman’s Photojournal”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store . . . Mark Z. Danielewski (“The Fifty-Year Sword”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

FRIDAY

Sandy Lerner (“Second Impressions”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.

SATURDAY

Boston Book Festival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in and around Copley Square (for a complete list of events, see www.bostonbookfest.org) . . . Nancy du Tertre (“Psychic Intuition”) reads at noon at Barnes & Noble, 1 Worcester Rd., Framingham.