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BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston Feb. 5-11

Laura Zigman will be in conversation with Joanna Rakoff this week at Wellesley Books.Carlin Stiehl for The Boston Globe

All author appearances are in person and free unless otherwise noted.

SUNDAY

Natalie Haynes (”Stone Blind: A Novel”) reads at 4 p.m. virtually via Wellesley Books ... Deborah Goodrich Royce (”Reef Road: A Novel”) reads at 4:30 p.m. at Beacon Hill Books & Cafe.

MONDAY

William Martin (”December ‘41: A World War II Thriller”) reads at 12 p.m. at State Library of Massachusetts ... Martin Puchner (”Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop”) is in conversation with Sharmila Sen at 6 p.m. at Boston Athenaeum (Tickets are $10, free for members) ... Ilyon Woo (”Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom”) is in conversation with Dean Grodzins at 6 p.m. at Massachusetts Historical Society (Tickets are $10, free for members, EBT cardholders and virtual attendees) ... Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell (”Our Share of Night”) are in conversation at 7 p.m. virtually via Brookline Booksmith ... Eleanor Shearer (”River Sing Me Home”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.

TUESDAY

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Natalie Haynes (”Stone Blind: A Novel”) reads at 12 p.m. virtually via Harvard Book Store ... Chetna Maroo (”Western Lane”) is in conversation with Yiyun Li at 5 p.m. virtually via Brookline Booksmith ... Amanda Foody (”The Ever Storms”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at An Unlikely Story ... Grace Lin and Kate Messner (”Once Upon a Book”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition ... Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone (”How to Be a (Young) Antiracist”) read at 7 p.m. at Temple Beth Shalom at an event hosted by Porter Square Books (Tickets are $25, including a copy of the book) ... Dan Levitt (”What’s Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner”) is in conversation with Deborah Blum at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Hank Phillippi Ryan (”The House Guest”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... Stephanie M. Kriesberg, PsyD (”Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Quiet the Critical Voice in Your Head, Heal Self-Doubt, and Live the Life You Deserve”) and Yael Schonbrun, PhD (”Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much”) are in conversation at 7 p.m. at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore.

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WEDNESDAY

Dan Jones (”Essex Dogs: A Novel”) is in conversation with Michael Livingston at 12 p.m. virtually via Boston Athenaeum (Tickets are $5, free for members) ... Simon Clark (”Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us”) is in conversation with Jordan Harrod at 5 p.m. virtually via Harvard Book Store ... Ian F. Svenonius (”Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Timothy Goodman (”I Always Think It’s Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable But Earnest Narrator”) is in conversation with Laura Zigman at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (Tickets are $22, including a copy of the book) ... Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (”The Promise of a Normal Life”) is in conversation with Robert Pinsky at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition.

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THURSDAY

Maria Scrivan (”Nat for Nothing”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at An Unlikely Story (Tickets are $5) ... Goldie Taylor (”The Love You Save: A Memoir”) is in conversation with Mikki Kendall at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Maxim Osipov (”Kilometer 101″) is in conversation with Becca Rothfeld at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... José Angel Araguz (”Rotura“), Paul Hlava Ceballos (”banana [ ]”) and Levi Rubeck (”Lunar Flare”) read at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop (Tickets are $5, free for virtual attendees) ... Laura Zigman (”Small World”) is in conversation with Joanna Rakoff at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books (Tickets are $5).

FRIDAY

Jarvis R. Givens (”School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness” and “Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Jessamine Chan (”The School for Good Mothers: A Novel”) is in conversation with Michelle Min Sterling at 7:30 p.m. at All She Wrote Books.

SATURDAY

Hayley Rocco and John Rocco (”How to Send a Hug”) read at 4 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.

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