Local Readings and Events
Square Root Readings: Summer Day Poetry Reading + Open Mic
Square Root Readings: Summer Day Poetry Reading + Open Mic, with Rachel Becker, Benjamin Bellet, and Liza Halley, hosted by Kristin Kelley, at the Square Root. Find more information here.
Jana Milbocker
Jana Milbocker discusses Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America's Golden Era at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
DotStories LGBTQ+ Storytelling
DotStories LGBTQ+ Storytelling at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson discusses Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood, in conversation with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Carol Ann Davis and Susan Lewis
Carol Ann Davis and Susan Lewis at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Third Thursdays Poetry: June
Third Thursdays Poetry: June at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Gloria Monaghan and Jim Dunn
Gloria Monaghan and Jim Dunn at Gloucester Writers Center. Find more information here.
Lois Cahall
Lois Cahall discusses Maybe Marilyn, in conversation with Joanna Rakoff, at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
T.J. Martinson
T.J. Martinson discusses Blood River Witch at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Fiction Book Club with Brenna
Fiction Book Club with Brenna discusses Isola by Allegra Goodman at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki discusses The Typing Lady, in conversation with Julia Glass, at St. James Episcopal Church. Find more information here.
Romance Book Club
Romance Book Club discusses Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Eddy Inserra
Eddy Inserra signs Confidence of The Mob at Used Book Superstore. Find more information here.
Sara Levine
Sara Levine discusses A Visit with the Birds: A Hands-on Nature Book at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Kate Fussner
Kate Fussner signs 13 Ways to Say Goodbye and The Song of Us at Rozzie Bound Co-op. Find more information here.
Maddie Frost
Maddie Frost discusses The Stuffie Stand at Fifer’s Day. Find more information here.
R.W. Alley
R.W. Alley discusses Construction Crews Build Big at TLC Studios. Find more information here.
Rasheed Newson
Rasheed Newson discusses There's Only One Sin in Hollywood, in conversation with Nathan Tavares, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Books and Brews Bookfair
Books and Brews Bookfair at Medford Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Mckendy Fils-Aimé
Mckendy Fils-Aimé discusses sipèstisyon at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Sarah G. Levine
Sarah G. Levine discusses It’s Never Going to Happen at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
Joshua Kendall
Joshua Kendall discusses Trudeau & Doonesbury, in conversation with Bruce Schulman, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Patricia Park
Patricia Park discusses Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic, in conversation with Whitney Scharer, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Stephen O'Connor
Stephen O'Connor discusses We Want So Much to Be Ourselves, in conversation with Rick Moody, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group discusses The Names by Florence Knapp at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Emily Martin
Emily Martin discusses Winner Takes All at Molly's Bookstore. Find more information here.
Keith Jones
Keith Jones discusses Las Palmas at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Book Club Book Moot with Sammie
Book Club Book Moot with Sammie discusses The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Daphne James Huff
Daphne James Huff discusses Fire Burn and Champagne Bubbles at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Heather Frances
Heather Frances discusses Chase Me If You Can, in conversation with Chelsea Curto, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
Thomas S. Mullaney
Thomas S. Mullaney discusses How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information, in conversation with Ann Blair, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Earfull
Earfull, with Keith O'Brien and Charlie Pierce, at Branch Line Restaurant. Find more information here.
Lauren Hartman, MD
Lauren Hartman, MD discusses Freeing Children and Young Adults from Shame, Scales, and Stigma, in conversation with Allison Baker, MD, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Nathan Tavares
Nathan Tavares discusses The Disco at the End of the World, in conversation with Sara Farizan, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Eric Jay Dolin
Eric Jay Dolin discusses The Wreck of the Mentor at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.
Reading for Revolution
Reading for Revolution discusses Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Le club des lecteurs
Le club des lecteurs discusses Instruments des ténèbres by Nancy Huston at French Library. Find more information here.
Dr. Emily Sneff
Dr. Emily Sneff discusses When the Declaration of Independence Was News at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.
Chipo Dendere
Chipo Dendere discusses Death, Diversion, and Departure: Voter Exit and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Zimbabwe, in conversation with Kellie Carter Jackson, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Gabrielle Korn
Gabrielle Korn discusses Long Island Girls, in conversation with Christina Pascucci-Ciampa, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Sci-Fi Book Club
Sci-Fi Book Club discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Matthew Henry, Jack Saebyok Jung, and Joan Naviyuk Kane
Matthew Henry, Jack Saebyok Jung, and Joan Naviyuk Kane at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Andrea Hairston
Andrea Hairston discusses The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays, in conversation with Daniel José Older, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Meg Stone
Meg Stone discusses "Don't Fight Back": And 10 Other Myths About Crime, Personal Safety, and Gender-Based Violence, in conversation with Shameka Gregory, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Emily Martin
Emily Martin discusses Winner Takes All at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
FreeVerse x MOMENTUM
FreeVerse x MOMENTUM at Puma Headquarters. Find more information here.
High Tea Book Club
High Tea Book Club discusses Whistler: A Novel by Ann Patchett at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Reading Romance Boston Book Club
Reading Romance Boston Book Club at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Andrew Leland
Andrew Leland discusses The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight at the Public Library of Brookline. Find more information here.
The Thursday Murder Book Club
The Thursday Murder Book Club at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Essay Incubator Graduation Showcase 2026
Essay Incubator Graduation Showcase 2026 at GrubStreet. Find more information here.
Sarah C. Beckmann
Sarah C. Beckmann discusses The Race for Daphne, in conversation with Tatiana Johnson-Boria, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Michael Bronski
Michael Bronski discusses A Queer History of the United States: Revised and Expanded at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Hannah Selinger
Hannah Selinger discusses Valley of the Moms, in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Fiction Book Club
Fiction Book Club discusses So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Diane Les Becquets
Diane Les Becquets discusses Where the Water Meets the Sky, in conversation with Susan Donovan Bernhard, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic Night
Poetry Open Mic Night at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
Kevin Gallagher and Wang Ping
Kevin Gallagher and Wang Ping, in conversation with Mark Pawlak, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Literature Junkies Book Club
Literature Junkies Book Club discusses Three Days in June: A Novel by Anne Tyler at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Reading Frederick Douglass Together 2026
Reading Frederick Douglass Together 2026 at Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial. Find more information here.
Melissa Jun Rowley
Melissa Jun Rowley discusses Beyond the Mic Drop, in conversation with Tory Stephens, at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Phill Branch
Phill Branch discusses The Double Dutch Fuss, in conversation with Erica Buddington, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
2026 Pride Book Fair: Out On The Shelves
2026 Pride Book Fair: Out On The Shelves at Connexion. Find more information here.
Roxbury Poetry Festival
Roxbury Poetry Festival at Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building. Find more information here.
Yola Thorp
Yola Thorp discusses Sightseeing Sophie in Boston at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Kristen Wixted and Sam Donovan
Kristen Wixted and Sam Donovan discuss Miss Rita, Mystery Reader at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Joan M. Blake
Joan M. Blake discusses Standing On His Promises: Then and Now at Boston Public Library: Shaw-Roxbury. Find more information here.
FreeVerse x MOMENTUM
FreeVerse x MOMENTUM at Franklin Park. Find more information here.
Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell discusses Land, in conversation with Celeste Ng, at First Parish Church. Find more information here.
Petrichor Bookstore Pop-Up
Petrichor Bookstore Pop-Up at SoWa Market. Find more information here.
A Grown-Up Book Fair & Swap
A Grown-Up Book Fair & Swap at Dorchester Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Books and Brews Boston
Books and Brews Boston at Dorchester Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Horror Book Club
Horror Book Club discusses The September House by Carissa Orlando at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Guna's Book Club
Guna's Book Club discusses The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Carla Panciera, Ed Meek, and James K. Zimmerman
Carla Panciera, Ed Meek, and James K. Zimmerman at The Old Manse. Find more information here.
Monica Acker
Monica Acker discusses The Legend of Leo: A Dandy-Lion Tale at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
Fantasy Book Club
Fantasy Book Club discusses Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Kallie Emblidge and Anna McCallie
Kallie Emblidge and Anna McCallie at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
June Harvard Square Book Circle
June Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Lavender House: A Novel by Lev AC Rosen at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic, with Scott Beal, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Lorna Gibson
Lorna Gibson discusses Birds Up Close at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.
All-Author D&D
All-Author D&D, with Cassandra Khaw, Jedediah Berry, Lenora Woods, and Makana Yamamoto, at Upstairs at Bow. Find more information here.
Radhika Singh
Radhika Singh discusses Earthly Playing Field, in conversation with Aba Taylor, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Isaac Butler
Isaac Butler discusses The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Cambridge Edition Book Club
Cambridge Edition Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Dr. Beronda Montgomery
Dr. Beronda Montgomery discusses When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical History, in conversation with Tracy K. Smith, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
The Moth: Boston StorySlam – Holiday Gone Wrong
The Moth: Boston StorySlam – Holiday Gone Wrong at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Lesley Mahoney O'Connell
Lesley Mahoney O'Connell discusses Ripple Effects: And Other Stories at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.
Alexus King
Alexus King discusses Every Summer After You at Hummingbird Books. Find more information here.
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow discusses Names Have Been Changed, in conversation with Shubha Sunder, at Eliot Hall. Find more information here.
Lauren Hough
Lauren Hough discusses Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America, in conversation with Laura McKowen, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton discusses Typewriter Beach at Book Shop of Needham. Find more information here.
Kate Woodworth, Lisa Genova, and Jenna Blum
Kate Woodworth, Lisa Genova, and Jenna Blum at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Side Quest Book Club
Side Quest Book Club discusses Idolfire by Grace Curtis at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.
Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay discusses Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, in conversation with Elizabeth Gonzalez James, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Loubna Mrie
Loubna Mrie discusses Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria, in conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Fergus M. Bordewich
Fergus M. Bordewich discusses Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future, in conversation with Kate Clifford Larson, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Emily Lynn Paulson
Emily Lynn Paulson discusses The Revenge Party, in conversation with Laura McKowen, at Hummingbird Books. Find more information here.
After the End Mini Tour
After the End Mini Tour, with Ali Hazelwood, Adriana Herrara, Elizabeth Stephens, and Nikki Payne, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
Judith Enck
Judith Enck discusses The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late, in conversation with David Abel, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Nancy Bernhard
Nancy Bernhard discusses The Double Standard Sporting House, in conversation with Stacy Malone, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Julie Gerstenblatt
Julie Gerstenblatt discusses The Stargazer of Nantucket, in conversation with Whitney Scharer, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Tiffany D. Cross
Tiffany D. Cross discusses Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship, in conversation with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Eric Moskowitz
Eric Moskowitz discusses The Hardest, Longest Race at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh discusses Ghost Eye, in conversation with Garnette Cadogan, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Liaquat Ahamed
Liaquat Ahamed discusses 873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World, in conversation with Roger Lowenstein, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Earfull
Earfull, with Laura Zigman and Tom Perrotta, at Branch Line Restaurant. Find more information here.
Chris Smalls
Chris Smalls discusses When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class, in conversation with Katie Johnston, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Jenn Garofolo
Jenn Garofolo discusses Fighting For Their Lives at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Side Quest Book Club
Side Quest Book Club discusses The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.
DBQ's Book Club
DBQ's Book Club discusses Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery by Margot Douaihy at Dani's Queer Bar. Find more information here.
Nicole Blades
Nicole Blades discusses Would I Lie to You?, in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
ACOTAR Reread Book Club
ACOTAR Reread Book Club at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.
Todd Smith
Todd Smith discusses Relegated: One American's Pints-and-Pies Journey from the Top to the Bottom of English Football, in conversation with Keith O'Brien, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Edward Schmit
Edward Schmit discusses The Open Era, in conversation with Sarina Bowen, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.
Abigail Savitch-Lew
Abigail Savitch-Lew discusses Livonia Chow Mein, in conversation with Michelle Min Sterling, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Nick Greene
Nick Greene discusses How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, in conversation with Emily Franklin, at Harvard COOP. Find more information here.
Eddie Glaude Jr.
Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses America, U.S.A.: How Race Overshadows the Nation's Anniversaries, in conversation with Scott Tong, at WBUR CitySpace. Find more information here.
Rye Barcott
Rye Barcott discusses Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future, in conversation with Congressman Seth Moulton, at Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic, with Chiara De Lello, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Pamela Kelley and Jessica Everett
Pamela Kelley discusses Nantucket Second Chances and Jessica Everett discusses Last Summer at Maine Chance at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Frinde Maher
Frinde Maher discusses Class Encounters: A Memoir of the 1960s at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Todd Smith
Todd Smith discusses Relegated: My Pints and Pies Journey From the Top to the Bottom of English Football, in conversation with Keith O'Brien, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Readings from the Room
Readings from the Room at The Writers’ Room of Boston. Find more information here.
Romantasy Book Club
Romantasy Book Club discusses The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.