Local Readings and Events
Fantasy Book Club
Fantasy Book Club discusses Queen of Faces by Petra Lord at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Dr. Jaime M Grant
Dr. Jaime M Grant discusses Polyamory for Dummies and Kink for Dummies, in conversation with Letta Neely, at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Brittanée Nicole
Brittanée Nicole discusses Darling Daffodils Farm at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Kat Rosenfield
Kat Rosenfield discusses How to Survive in the Woods, in conversation with Amory Sivertson, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Small Press Book Club
Small Press Book Club discusses Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum, translated by Lucy Rand, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club discusses Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Ann Packer
Ann Packer discusses Some Bright Nowhere: A Novel, in conversation with J. Courtney Sullivan, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Blacksmith House Poetry Series, with Tracy K. Smith and January Gill O’Neil, at CCAE. Find more information here.
Jasmine Reid, Esther Kondo Heller, and Makenzie Berry
Jasmine Reid, Esther Kondo Heller, and Makenzie Berry at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Robert Parish
Robert Parish discusses The Chief, in conversation with Gary Washburn, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Regie Gibson: Tribute to Charles Coe
Regie Gibson: Tribute to Charles Coe at Robbins Library. Find more information here.
SomerWrites
SomerWrites, with David Blair, at Portico Brewing. Find more information here.
History Through Fiction Conference
History Through Fiction Conference at Endicott College. Find more information here.
Maureen Meister
Maureen Meister discusses Arts & Crafts Architecture across America at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Jessica Lahey
Jessica Lahey discusses The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence at Needham Town Hall. Find more information here.
Bill's Book Group for Guys
Bill's Book Group for Guys discusses Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Lucie Fielding
Lucie Fielding discusses Trans Sex, in conversation with Jordon Anderson, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Tom Vellnerv
Tom Vellnerv discusses Thirty Love, in conversation with M.A. Wardell, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
Geoffrey Kelly
Geoffrey Kelly discusses Thirteen Perfect Fugitives: The True Story of the Mob, Murder, and the World's Largest Art Heist, in conversation with Tom Mashberg, at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Robert Pantano
Robert Pantano discusses The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness, in conversation with Mark Cecil, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Zeeva Bukai
Zeeva Bukai discusses The World Between, in conversation with Judy Bolton-Fasman, at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee discuss Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Juliet Izon
Juliet Izon discusses The Encore, in conversation with Hannah Selinger, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Jordy Rosenberg
Jordy Rosenberg discusses Night Night Fawn, in conversation with Amy De’Ath, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Amy Littlefield
Amy Littlefield discusses Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights, in conversation with Ally Jarmanning, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett, in conversation with Jesse McCarthy, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Jenna Blum
Jenna Blum signs Murder Your Darlings at Rozzie Bound. Find more information here.
Kim Swizz
Kim Swizz discusses Guess and Pray: A Wilcox Grove Story at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.
Poetry Reading and Open Mic Night
Poetry Reading and Open Mic Night at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes
Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes discusses The Pohaku, in conversation with Lisa Borders, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Third Thursdays Poetry
Third Thursdays Poetry at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Romance Book Club
Romance Book Club at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Kathryn Paige Harden
Kathryn Paige Harden discusses Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Sarah Ruden
Sarah Ruden discusses Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Robert Polito
Robert Polito discusses After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory, in conversation with Lloyd Schwartz, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Jenny Gorelick
Jenny Gorelick discusses The Book of Red Flags at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Elle Kennedy and Victoria Wilder
Elle Kennedy discusses Love Song and Victoria Wilder discusses Bourbon & Proof at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
7th Annual Bow Market Book Fair
7th Annual Bow Market Book Fair at Bow Market. Find more information here.
Natakki Jones
Natakki Jones discusses Nia’s Wash Day at Turtle Books. Find more information here.
Ashland Library Young Artists Comics Fest 2026
Ashland Library Young Artists Comics Fest 2026 at Ashland Public Library. Find more information here.
Like One of the Family: A Book Circle
Like One of the Family: A Book Circle at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale
Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale discuss The Disappearing Act at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Stephanie Schorow
Stephanie Schorow discusses A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891 at Boston Public Library: Hyde Park. Find more information here.
Matt Eicheldinger
Matt Eicheldinger discusses When the Rain Came at Turtle Books. Find more information here.
Elizabeth Marie Young and Daniel Bouchard
Elizabeth Marie Young discusses An Inventory of Almost Everything and Daniel Bouchard discusses Razor Zigzag at The Lilypad. Find more information here.
March Harvard Square Book Circle: Michael Patrick MacDonald
March Harvard Square Book Circle: Michael Patrick MacDonald discusses All Souls: A Family Story from Southie at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Margaret Cotton
Margaret Cotton discusses The Radiance of Grace at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.
Bar Fridman-Tell
Bar Fridman-Tell discusses Honeysuckle: A Novel at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Lauren Kung Jessen
Lauren Kung Jessen discusses The Fortune Flip at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
An Evening of Poetry: Celebrating Carol Dine's Blood Moon
An Evening of Poetry: Celebrating Carol Dine's Blood Moon, with Tehila Lieberman, Linda Cutting, and Jennifer Barber, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Cambridge Edition Book Club
Cambridge Edition Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Blacksmith House Poetry Series, with Gail Mazur and Andrea Cohen, at CCAE. Find more information here.
Jessica Riskin
Jessica Riskin discusses The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck at Harvard Science Center. Find more information here.
The Moth: Boston StorySLAM – FUMBLES AND FOULS
The Moth: Boston StorySLAM – FUMBLES AND FOULS at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Sana Javeri Kadri and Asha Loupy
Sana Javeri Kadri and Asha Loupy discuss The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook, in conversation with Tamika Francis, at WBUR CitySpace. Find more information here.
Alicia Jo Rabins
Alicia Jo Rabins discusses When We're Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir, in conversation with Judith Rosenbaum and Or Rose, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
A.K. Caggiano
A.K. Caggiano discusses Summoned to the Wilds at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Eric LaRocca
Eric LaRocca discusses Wretch, in conversation with Christopher Golden, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Jessica Brilliant Keener
Jessica Brilliant Keener discusses The Evening Begins the Day, in conversation with Alex George, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn discusses Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
From Paws to Prose: A Three-Author Talk
From Paws to Prose: A Three-Author Talk featuring E.B. Bartels, Karen Fine, and Ellen Finnie at Medway Public Library. Find more information here.
The Dog Lovers Book Club
The Dog Lovers Book Club discusses Flush by Virginia Woolf at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Lisa Genova
Lisa Genova discusses More or Less Maddy at Boston Public Library: South End. Find more information here.
Jenna Blum
Jenna Blum discusses Murder Your Darlings, in conversation with Karen Winn, at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.
Hannah Cole
Hannah Cole discusses Taxes for Humans at Connexion. Find more information here.
Deborah Sosin
Deborah Sosin discusses Escape Velocity: How One 70-Year-Old Push-Pulled Her Way Out of Her Too-Much-Not-Enough Family, in conversation with Michael Lowenthal, at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone discuss Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science, in conversation with Rick Berke, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Rhae Lynn Barnes
Rhae Lynn Barnes discusses Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment, in conversation with Rebecca Brenner Graham, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Carrie Finison
Carrie Finison discusses Touch a Truck Day at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Reading Romance Boston Book Club
Reading Romance Boston Book Club at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
The Thursday Murder Book Club: Jenna Blum
The Thursday Murder Book Club: Jenna Blum discusses Murder Your Darlings at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Becca Rea-Tucker
Becca Rea-Tucker discusses The Abortion Companion, in conversation with Amy Littlefield, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Gin Phillips
Gin Phillips discusses Ruby Falls, in conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Ilan Mochari and Barbara Siegel Carlson
Ilan Mochari discusses Playthings and Barbara Siegel Carlson discusses Current at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Fiction Book Club
Fiction Book Club discusses The Astral Library by Kate Quinn at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Emily Galvin Almanza
Emily Galvin Almanza discusses The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender's Search for Justice in America, in conversation with Laurence Tribe, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Mary Buchinger, Steven Schneider, and William Wenthe
Mary Buchinger, Steven Schneider, and William Wenthe, with Daniel Tobin, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
History Through Fiction Conference
History Through Fiction Conference at Endicott College. Find more information here.
The Power of Narrative Conference
The Power of Narrative Conference at Boston University. Find more information here.
Eoghan Walls
Eoghan Walls discusses Field Notes from an Extinction at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Tara Menon
Tara Menon discusses Under Water: A Novel, in conversation with Namwali Serpell, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Selma Asotić
Selma Asotić discusses Say Fire, in conversation with Stacy Mattingly, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
History Through Fiction Conference
History Through Fiction Conference at Endicott College. Find more information here.
2026 Mass Poetry Teen Spoken Word Festival
2026 Mass Poetry Teen Spoken Word Festival at Emerson College. Find more information here.
The Power of Narrative Conference
The Power of Narrative Conference at Boston University. Find more information here.
Renee Kurilla
Renee Kurilla discusses It's Spring at The Book Shop of Needham. Find more information here.
History Through Fiction Conference
History Through Fiction Conference at Endicott College. Find more information here.
2026 Mass Poetry Teen Spoken Word Festival
2026 Mass Poetry Teen Spoken Word Festival at Emerson College. Find more information here.
Books and Brews Bookfair
Books and Brews Bookfair at Hannah's Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Boston Asian Book Group
Boston Asian Book Group discusses Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong at Cambridge. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Chris Wrenn
Chris Wrenn discusses Fenway Punk: How a Boston Indie Label Scored Big on Baseball’s Greatest Rivalry at Square Root. Find more information here.
Durba Mitra
Durba Mitra discusses The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism, in conversation with Brandon M. Terry, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Good Writing: An Evening with Anne Lamott & Neal Allen
Good Writing: An Evening with Anne Lamott & Neal Allen at Emerson Colonial Theatre. Find more information here.
Beyond the Page: Marie Benedict
Beyond the Page: Marie Benedict discusses Daughter of Egypt at GBH Studios. Find more information here.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Blacksmith House Poetry Series, with Angie Estes and Bianca Stone, at CCAE. Find more information here.
Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll discusses Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation at Harvard Geological Museum. Find more information here.
Andrew S. Curran
Andrew S. Curran discusses Biography of a Dangerous Idea at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi discusses Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age at First Parish Church. Find more information here.
Jung Yun
Jung Yun discusses All The World Can Hold at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Jade Song
Jade Song discusses I Love You Don't Die, in conversation with Nina Haines, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Christopher Gorham
Christopher Gorham discusses The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America, in conversation with Lisa Hughes, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
March Breakfast Club
March Breakfast Club discusses SLUTS: Anthology edited by Michelle Tea at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Alli Hoff Kosik
Alli Hoff Kosik discusses Too Blessed to Stress, in conversation with Courtney Marzilli, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Nelson Dellis
Nelson Dellis discusses Everyday Genius at Harvard COOP. Find more information here.
Katrina Goldsaito
Katrina Goldsaito discusses The Sound of Silence at Substation. Find more information here.
Boston Cookbook Club
Boston Cookbook Club discusses Everything's Good by Toni Chapman at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Cynthia Platt
Cynthia Platt discusses Bunny in Disguise at Moon and Back Bookstore. Find more information here.
Orly Kolatkar
Orly Kolatkar discusses Ethan, Where is Your Tooth? at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Alexandra Thompson
Alexandra Thompson discusses Hazel & Herbert at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Josh Funk
Josh Funk discusses Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast Series at Volante Farms. Find more information here.
Mary Helen Washington
Mary Helen Washington discusses Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life, in conversation with Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
M.J. Beasi
M.J. Beasi discusses I Was a Teenage Death God, in conversation with Kayla Cottingham, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Bob Crawford
Bob Crawford discusses America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick, in conversation with Dr. Kurt Graham, at United First Parish Church. Find more information here.
Chapter and Verse
Chapter and Verse, with Max Heinegg and Vijaya Sundaram, at Loring Greenough House. Find more information here.
Damien Ober
Damien Ober discusses Voidversev in conversation with Elizabeth Gonzalez James at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Tight Knit Book Club
Tight Knit Book Club discusses The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols at Tight Knit. Find more information here.
Iain Haley Pollock
Iain Haley Pollock discusses All The Possible Bodies, in conversation with Quintin Collins, at Papercuts JP. Find more information here.
Mia Sosa
Mia Sosa discusses The Starter Ex, in conversation with Callie Crossley, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
Oliver de la Paz, Iain Haley Pollock, and Carey Salerno
Oliver de la Paz, Iain Haley Pollock, and Carey Salerno at MAC. Find more information here.
Virginia Pye
Virginia Pye discusses Marriage and Other Monuments, in conversation with Whitney Scharer, at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Queer Reading Group
Queer Reading Group at Brookline Public Library. Find more information here.
Lindy West
Lindy West discusses Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane, in conversation with Anastasia Kidd, at Connexion. Find more information here.
Vanessa Lillie
Vanessa Lillie discusses The Bone Thief at The Book Shop of Needham. Find more information here.
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams discusses The Glorians, in conversation with Joshua Kurtz, at St. James Episcopal Church. Find more information here.
Keith O'Brien
Keith O'Brien discusses Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird, in conversation with Dan Shaughnessy, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Thriller Book Club
Thriller Book Club discusses It's Not Her by Mary Kubica at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Bob Crawford
Bob Crawford discusses America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick, in conversation with Jennifer Moore, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Darcey Steinke
Darcey Steinke discusses This Is The Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith, in conversation with Rick Moody, at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson discusses Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D. at Boston Public Library: Jamaica Plain. Find more information here.
Betsy Rubiner
Betsy Rubiner discusses Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World at Boston Public Library: Charlestown. Find more information here.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson discusses Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free at Boston Public Library. Find more information here.