SUNDAY

Michael Tougias and Alison O’Leary (“So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family’s Fight for Survival During World War II’’) read at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord

MONDAY

Gaiutra Bahadur, Vivek Bald, Roshan Galvaan, Krishna Lewis, and Ibrahim K. Sundiata (“Transition Magazine: Issue #119, Afro-Asian Worlds’’) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte (“When We Fight, We Win: 21st-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World’’) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

TUESDAY

Chris Grabenstein (“Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics’’), Liesl Shurtliff (“Red’’), Rob Buyea (“Saving Mr. Terupt’’), and Matthew Cody (“The Peddler’s Road’’) read at 6:30 p.m. at Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

WEDNESDAY

Siddhartha Mukherjee? (“The Gene: An Intimate History’’) reads at 6 p.m. in conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/siddhartha_ mukherjee1/) … Askold Melnyczuk (“Smedley’s Secret Guide to World Literature’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd., Newton Centre … Fredrik Backman (“Britt-Marie Was Here’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Marjorie Williams (“Markets of Provence: Food, Antiques, Crafts, and More’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

THURSDAY

Lauret Savoy (“Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape’’) and Derrick Z. Jackson (“Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock’’) read at 4 p.m. at Porter Square Books

FRIDAY

Malcolm K. Sparrow (“Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the

Keys to Reform’’) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

… Joshua Rubenstein (“The Last Days of Stalin’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY

Joan Duris (“B is for Berkshires’’) and Joanne Roach-Evans (“Seashells: Treasures from the Northeast Coast’’) read at 10 a.m. at Wellesley

Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Cheryl Lawton Malone (“Dario and the Whale’’) and Heather Lang (“Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine’’) read at 11 a.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd., Newton Centre

Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at www.bostonglobe.com /arts/books