Author Readings Around Boston Jan. 16-22

All author appearances are virtual unless otherwise stated.

MONDAY

Kate Elliott (“Servant Mage”) is in conversation with SA Chakraborty at 7 p.m. at the Brookline Booksmith.

TUESDAY

Martin Puchner (“Literature for a Changing Planet”) reads in person and virtually at noon at the Boston Athenaeum (tickets are free for members, $5 for virtual admission and $10 for in-person admission). . . Shawn Peter (“The Unforgettable Logan Foster”) reads in person at 6 p.m. at An Unlikely Story. . . Anne Wolbert Burgess (“A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind”) is in conversation with Steven Matthew Constantine at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. . . Elizabeth George (“Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel”) is in conversation with Jacqueline Winspear at 7 p.m. at the Brookline Booksmith. . . Jacquelyn Mitchard (“The Good Son”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

WEDNESDAY

Tegan Kehoe (“Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures”) reads at 5:30 p.m. at the Massachusetts Historical Society. . . Debby Applegate (“Madame: The Biography of Jazz Age Icon Polly Adler”) is in conversation with Jean Matteson at 6 p.m. American inspiration by the New England Historic Genealogical Society . . . Bernardin Evaristo (“Manifesto: On Never Giving Up”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store (tickets are paid or $32.50 for admission and a mailed copy of the book and signed bookplate). . . Cassandra Rose Clarke (“The Beholden”) is in conversation with Max Gladstone at 7 p.m. at Copper Dog Books. . . jenny qi (“Focal point”) and Antonio de Jesus Lopez (“Gentefication”) read at 8 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

THURSDAY

Georgia Brady Barnhill (“Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785-1885”) reads at noon at the Boston Athenaeum (tickets are free for members and $5 for nonmembers). . . Charles R. Gallagher (“Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library. . . John DellaVolpe (“Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America”) is in conversation with David Hogg at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. . . Amy E.Herman (“Fixed.: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books. . . Gwen E. Kirby (“[Expletive] Cassandra Saw: Stories”) is in conversation with the author Chaya Bhuvaneswar at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books.

FRIDAY

Michael Cholbi (“Grief: A Philosophical Guide”) reads at noon at the Harvard Book Store. . . Carl Erik Fisher (“The Urge: Our History of Addiction”) is in conversation with Leslie Jamisson at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store.

SATURDAY

Hadjar Baban (“What I know of the mountains”), Holly Mason Badra, Tracy Fouad (“about:blank”), and Pinar Banu Yasar read at noon at Brookline Booksmith. . . Alice Fogel (“Nothing But”) reads at 2 p.m. on Dracut Arts.

Lola R. McClure