MONDAY

Rebecca Lemov (“Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

TUESDAY

Robin Lippincott (“Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Ben Ratliff, pictured, (“Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty’’) in conversation with Steve Smith at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.

WEDNESDAY

Brady Carlson (“Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Douglas Kennedy (“The Blue Hour’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Kristopher Jansma (“Why We Came to the City’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURSDAY

Peter Grinspoon (“Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction’’) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St. … Paul C. Clerici (“A History of the Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Walpole Public Library, 143 School St., Walpole … Sayed Kashua (“Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

FRIDAY

Hillary L. Chute (“Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form’’) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Ethan Canin (“A Doubter’s Almanac’’) in conversation with Bret Anthony Johnston at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

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