The best local book events this week

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

SUNDAY

• Matt Haig (“The Midnight Train”) is in conversation with Alice Hoffman at 4 p.m. at First Parish Church at an event hosted by Porter Square Books (Tickets start at $11).
• Josh Funk (“The Dino Door”) reads his book at 11 a.m. at Titus Sparrow Park at an event hosted by Parkside Bookshop.
• Jennifer Frank (“The Worm Family Has Its Picture Taken”) reads her book at 11 a.m. at The Book Shop of Needham.

MONDAY

• Cindy Pham (“The Secret World of Briar Rose”) is in conversation with Aislinn Brophy at 6:30 p.m. at Connexion United Methodist Church at an event hosted by All She Wrote Books (Tickets start at $5).
• Morgan Thomas (“Mad Eden”) is in conversation with Milo Todd at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
• Leigh Bardugo and Liz Climo (“Better Pets”) are in conversation with Jenny L. Howe at 6:30 p.m. at An Unlikely Story (Tickets are $21.24 and include a copy of the book, $5 companion tickets available).
• Dahlia Adler (“Soon by You”), Jennifer Dugan (“Anderson in Bloom”), and Edward Underhill (“The House of Now and Then”) discuss their new books at 7 p.m. at Lovestruck Books (Tickets start at $6.24).

TUESDAY

• Susan Donovan Bernhard (“Westerly”) is in conversation with Katherine Sherbrooke at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books.
• Robert Pinsky (“Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems”) is in conversation with Dan Chiasson at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
• Avigayl Sharp (“Offseason”) discusses her book at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Cambridge location (Registration is suggested).
• Maddie Frost (“Really Rubie”) is in conversation with Jarrett Lerner at 6:30 p.m. at An Unlikely Story (Tickets start at $6.24).
• Aleese Lin (“Samantha Spük: Paranormal Wedding Planner”) is in conversation with Adriana Mather at 7 p.m. at Lovestruck Books (Tickets start at $6.24).
• Kat Fajardo (“Miss Quinces”) discusses her book at 11 a.m. at the West Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library.

WEDNESDAY

• Barbara McQuade (“The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government”) is in conversation with Carmen Ortiz at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre at an event hosted by Harvard Book Store (Tickets start at $13.59).
• Justin Baer (“House of Fidelity: The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing”) is in conversation with Bill Haynes at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
• Lesley Mahoney O’Connell (“Ripple Effects and Other Stories”) is in conversation with Ron MacLean at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Boston location (Registration is suggested).
• Kit Gray (“The Black Cat Detectives”) discusses their new book at 7 p.m. at Silver Unicorn Bookstore.

THURSDAY

• Samantha Allen (“Puck”) is in conversation with TJ Alexander at 7 p.m. at All She Wrote Books (Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale).
• Ray Nayler (“Palaces of the Crow”)is in conversation with Max Gladstone at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (Registration is suggested).
• Isabel J. Kim (“Sublimation“) is in conversation with R.F. Kuang at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
• Sommer Helweh Forrester (“Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine”) discusses her book at 6:30 p.m. at JustBook-ish (Registration is required).
• April Reynolds (“The Shape of Dreams”) is in conversation with Margot Livesey at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Cambridge location (Registration is suggested).
• Maddie Frost (“Really Rubie”) discusses her book at 6 p.m. at Silver Unicorn Bookstore.
• Casey Sherman (“The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright”) discusses his book at 6:30 p.m. at An Unlikely Story (Tickets start at $6.24).
• Kim Narby (“Saturn Returning”) discusses her book at 6:30 p.m. at Parkside Bookshop (Registration is required).
• Jeffrey Gustavson (“Turpentine Headache”), Lesle Lewis, and Jon Woodward (“Want for Nothing”) read their poetry at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop (Tickets start at $5).  

FRIDAY

• Hannah Selinger (“Valley of the Moms”) discusses her book at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books.
• Eric Moskowitz (“The Hardest, Longest Race”)is in conversation with David Abel at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (Registration is suggested).
• Cara Benson (“An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment”) is in conversation with Leah Hager Cohen at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
• Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (“The Heirs“) is in conversation with Louangie Bou-Montes at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Boston location (Registration is suggested).
• Laura Zigman (“The Author Weekend”) is in conversation with Taryn Roeder at 6:30 p.m. at An Unlikely Story (Tickets start at $5).

SATURDAY

• Kate Goldbas (“I Wish That I Could Be a Whale”) reads her book at 11 a.m. at Beacon Hill Books and Cafe.
• Andrew Hacket (“In This Classroom”) reads his book at 11 a.m. at Silver Unicorn Bookstore.
• Lauren Wolk (“The Outermost Mouse”) reads her book at noon at An Unlikely Story.
• Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (“The Heirs”) is in conversation with Brittany N. Williams at 6 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.
• Chris Boucher (“Harry ‘Bucky’ Lew”) is in conversation with Wendy Johnson and Douglas Stark at 11 a.m. at the Museum of African American History.