SUNDAY: Sarah McCoy (“The Baker’s Daughter”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord

TUESDAY: Audrey Schulman (“Three Weeks in December”) and Leigh Stein (“The Fallback Plan”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Anthony Giardina (“Norumbega Park: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … A. C. Gaughen (“Scarlet”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Suzanne Berger (“Legacies”), Danielle Georges (“Maroon”), and Richard Wollman (“Evidence of Things Seen”) read at 7 p.m. at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville ($4 ticket for reading and open mic to follow) … Anthony M. Sammarco (“The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Lynnfield Meeting House, 671 Main Street, Lynnfield

WEDNESDAY: Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”), Gail Mazur (“Figures in a Landscape”), and Pablo Medina (“Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo”) read at 6 p.m. at the Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Theater, 559 Washington Street … James Hoopes (“Corporate Dreams: Big Business in American Democracy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Main Branch, Copley Square… Marian Pierre-Louis (“Discovering Immigrant Voices through House History Research”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room, Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Sara J. Benincasa (“Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (with guests Erin Petti and Maria Ciampa) … Katherine Boo (“Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... BU creative writing program faculty reading with Dan Chiasson, Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Pinsky, and Rosanna Warren, 7p.m. at BU Photonics Auditorium, 8 St. Mary's St.

THURSDAY: Kim Harrison (“A Perfect Blood”) reads at 6 p.m. at Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square … James Geary (“I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Sydney Nathans (“To Free a Family”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($10 donation) … Steve Pemberton (“A Chance in the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Matthew Pearl (“The Technologists”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

FRIDAY: Adam Wilson (“Flatscreen: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/.

SUNDAY: Ilchi Lee (“The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart”) reads at 11 a.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jennifer Haigh (“Faith) speaks at 4 p.m., at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Cohasset (tickets at 781-383-1348) … Toby Lester ("Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord … Ezra Vogel ("Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China") reads at 4 p.m. at Porter Square Books

MONDAY: Franco Mormando (“Bernini: His Life and His Rome”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Toby Lester (“Da Vinci’s Ghost”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Leslie Epstein (“Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn”) and Richard Hoffman (“Emblem: Poems”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (“The Future of Power”) reads at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge … Martha Rhodes (“The Beds”) and R. Dwayne Betts (“Shahid Reads His Own Palm”) read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street ($3 ticket required)

TUESDAY: Junot Diaz (“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”) speaks at 4 p.m. at Devlin Hall, Boston College … Alan Albert, Sandra Kohler (“Improbable Music”), and Judith Steinbergh (“Writing My Will: Poems and Prose”) read at 7 p.m. at the Newton Public Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre …

WEDNESDAY: Lawrence Millman (“Fascinating Fungi of New England”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Junot Diaz (“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College’s Yawkey Center, Murray Function Room … Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … William Landay (“Defending Jacob”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Dennis Lehane (“Moonlight Mile”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Melrose Public Library, 69 West Emerson Street, Melrose.

THURSDAY: Terri Arthur (“Fatal Decision: Edith Cavell, WWI Nurse”) reads at 3:30 at the Massachusetts Nurses Association Council 3 office, 60 Route 6A, Sandwich … Arthur Singer and Ronald Goodman (“Boston’s Downtown Movie Palaces”) read at 6 p.m. in the Boston Room at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Donna Hicks (“Dignity”) reads at 6 p.m. at Stellina Restaurant, 47 Main Street, Watertown … Michael Palmer (“Oath of Office”), Daniel Palmer (“Helpless”), and Lisa Gardner (“Catch Me”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Alan Shapiro (“Broadway Baby”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

FRIDAY: Dimitar Sasselov (“The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Natalie Dykstra ("Clover Adams: A Gilded and Hearbreaking Life") reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody Street, Waltham

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

"The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach sneaks into the number one spot for hardcover fiction.

Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" reclaims its position as the number one hardcover nonfiction.

"The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht continues to be the bestselling paperback fiction.

For the fourth week in a row, the bestselling paperback nonfiction is Tina Fey's "Bossypants."

SUNDAY: Alan Lightman ("Mr. G") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord

MONDAY: Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) reads at noon at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley ($35 ticket includes book and lunch; rsvp at (781) 431-1160 or events@wellesleybooks.com) ... Naomi Benaron (“Running the Rift”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … David Weinberger (“Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t The Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ishmael Beah (“A Long Way Gone”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College, Gasson Hall room 100 … Susan E. Reed (“The Diversity Index”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop

TUESDAY: Theodora Goss (“The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble at Boston University, 660 Beacon Street … Sebastian Seung and Jeff Lichtman (“Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Richard Hoffman (“Emblem”) and Philip Fried ("Early/Late") read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Adam Schwartz (“A Stranger on the Planet”) and Lucy Ferriss (“The Lost Daughter”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

WEDNESDAY: Tracy Kidder (“Strength in What Remains”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Theater, 559 Washington Street … Robert Kanigel (“On an Irish Island”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Dan Chaon (“Stay Awake: Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … R. B. Scott (“Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley … Tom MacDonald (“The Charlestown Connection”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at Canton Public Library, 786 Washington Street, Canton

THURSDAY: Theodora Goss (“The Thorn and The Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story") reads at 2 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Toby Lester (“Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Boston Room of the BPL, Copley Square … Kenneth E. Pollock (“Philosophy of Life: Stories for Young People”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Lower Mills Branch Library , 27 Richmond Street, Dorchester … Les McKeown (“The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Carolyn Gregory (“Open Letters”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick Street … Claire Messud with John Freeman (“Granta 118: Exit Strategies”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Gary Small (“The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Forum, First Parish Cambridge, 3 Church Street … Tom MacDonald (“The Charlestown Connection”) reads at Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth … Liz Moore ("Heft") and Alex Gilvarry ("From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant") read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Joseph B. Martin (“Alfalfa to Ivy: Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Hannah Pittard (“The Fates Will Find Their Way”) and Jessica Keener (“Night Swim”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

FRIDAY: Hendrik Hartog (“Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Nathan Englander (“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Mary Bonina (“Clear Eye Tea”), Ken Tangvik (“Don’t Mess With Tanya: Stories Emerging From Boston’s Barrios”), and Gary Whited read at 7:30 p.m. at the Chapter and Verse Reading Series, Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain …

SATURDAY: Ann Hood (“The Treasure Chest”) reads at 11 a.m. at Duxbury Free Library … Scott Magoon (“Chopsticks”) reads at 2 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main Street, Winchester … Fabiola Powell (“Faith’s Legacy”) reads at 2 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 1 Worcester Road, Framingham

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/.

"Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James still holds the number one spot for hardcover fiction.

Sally Bedell Smith's "Elizabeth the Queen" usurps "Steve Jobs" as the best selling hardcover nonfiction.

This week's number one paperback fiction is still "The Tiger's Wife" by T?a Obreht.

"Bossypants" by Tina Fey, still tops the list of paperback nonfiction.

SUNDAY: Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain reading at 2 p.m. at Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Jamaica Plain ($5 ticket) ... John Matteson ("The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop ... Cathryn Griffith (?Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage'') reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Connolly Branch Library, 433 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain.

MONDAY: John Matteson ("The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography") reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.

TUESDAY: Susan Lubner ("Noises at Night'') reads at 6 p.m. at the North Suburban Jewish Community Center, 83 Pine Street, Peabody (r.s.v.p at www.nsjcc.org or (978) 535-2968 ... Deborah Scroggins ("Wanted Women") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Jodi Kantor ("The Obamas'') reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

WEDNESDAY: William Bratton and Zachary Tumin ("Collaborate or Perish! Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World'') read at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at Harvard Book Store) ... RoseMarie Terenzio ("Fairy Tale Interrupted'') reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... Margot Livesey ("The Flight of Gemma Hardy") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Randy Susan Myers ("The Murderer's Daughters'') reads at 7 p.m. at Westwinds Bookshop, 35 Depot Street, Duxbury

THURSDAY: Adam Johnson ("The Orphan Master's Son") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Dimitar Sasselov ("The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet") reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody Street, Waltham ... Melanie Henderson ("Elegies for New York Avenue'') and Becky Thompson ("Zero Is the Whole I Fall Into at Night'') read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... Jeff Badger ("What Did You Do in the War, Grandad?'') reads at 6 p.m. at the Hyde Park Branch of the BPL, 35 Harvard Avenue.

FRIDAY: Wael Ghonim ("The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir'') reads at 5 p.m. at the Charles Hotel (Charles Ballroom, 2nd Floor), Cambridge ... Pico Iyer ("The Man Within my Head'') reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Laura Ellen Scott ("Death Wishing''), Virginia Young ("Winter Waltz''), Kate Hanson Foster ("Mid Drift'') and Timothy Gager ("Treating a Sick Animal'') read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect Street, Cambridge/

SATURDAY: Peter Johnson ("The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini'') reads at noon at Friendly Neighborhood Comics, 191 Mechanic Street, Bellingham.

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

On Saturday, January 21, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the finalists for its 2011 awards. Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, historian Manning Marable, and essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan were among this year's notable nominees. The NBCC awards annual prizes in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

The following are the NBCC 2011 nominees. See links for Globe reviews.
Fiction
Teju Cole, Open City (Random House), an intelligent debut novel about a Nigerian graduate student in New York City. http://articles.boston.com/2011-02-24/ae/29337271_1_julius-nigeria-atrocities
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a novel about love, and the love of books, set in the famousish Brown University Semiotics Department of the 1980.http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/10/14/the-marriage-plot-jeffrey-eugenides/UWJ9snKvKu057XOSv3c7uO/story.html
Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child (Knopf), a multi-generational, multi-decade family saga. http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/11/20/the-stranger-child-alan-hollinghurst/bVZ8er6rFZo2p3H4JnfQgO/story.html">
Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books), a collection of cosmopolitan short fiction, gleaned from three decades. http://articles.boston.com/2011-02-04/ae/29342357_1_short-stories-love-and-death-pearlman
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia (Scribner), about the creative life and the relationship between siblings.http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-17/ae/29784773_1_denise-life-story-gay-man
NONFICTION
Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Random), a wonderful narrative history about England?s stake in the Civil War. http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-19/ae/29677649_1_south-fight-slavery-north-fight
James Gleick, The Information (Pantheon), an overview of the historical and growing importance of ?information? to modern society. http://articles.boston.com/2011-03-06/bostonglobe/29345621_1_information-age-invention-james-gleickAdam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a history of WWI's most vocal critics. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/05/02/narrative_history_of_wwi_focuses_on_war_resisters/
Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (Knopf), the story of British sympathizers in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War.
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Essays (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), a collection of powerful, idiosyncratic essays on history and culture. http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/11/25/pulphead-john-jeremiah-sullivan/2clZkvBLrMbNGb48Uws4YM/story.html

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing (W.W. Norton), a moving tale of Ackerman and her husband as he struggles to regain language following a stroke
Mira Bart?k, The Memory Palace (Free Press), a memoir about physical impairment, estrangement and reconnection with family, and the persistence of memory. http://articles.boston.com/2011-01-22/ae/29344837_1_brain-memoir-family-memories
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (Little, Brown), a memoir about becoming a writer while exploring the myths of this cultural crossroads. http://articles.boston.com/2011-01-23/ae/29341330_1_harlem-james-weldon-johnson-cultural-capital
Luis J. Rodr?guez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (Touchstone), a memoir about the mean streets of Los Angeles and the difficulty of escaping history
Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Henry Holt), a memoir about ditching college to fight with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua

Biography
Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution (Little, Brown), the National Book Award nominated story of the Marxs' day-to-day struggles amidst the development of his ?world historical? ideas.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-02/ae/30235721_1_highgate-cemetery-socialism-gabriel
John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin Press), biography of the consummate cold war statesman.
Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway?s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 (Knopf), the novelist?s life from the height of his pain to the depths of his despair
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking), the posthumously published, definitive account of the African American leader. http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-08/ae/29523097_1_african-american-malcolm-nationalism
Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Belknap Press: Harvard University Press), the story of China?s most dynamic, iconic leader

CRITICISM
David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Faber & Faber), a book about how everything is not only found, but created, in translation.http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-11/ae/30505126_1_david-bellos-translation-king-james
Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf), a collection of Dyer?s brilliant, strange writings.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-03/ae/29377846_1_essay-collection-first-book-selected-essays
Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence (Doubleday), the novelist?s ruminations on everything from sex to Bob Dylan.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-21/ae/30425924_1_jonathan-lethem-essay-key-voices
Dubravka Ugresic, Karaoke Culture (Open Letter), a selection of the divisive cultural critics essays
Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on RockMusic (University of Minnesota Press), a collection of the seminal rock critic?s most influential pieces
http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-30/ae/29491363_1_music-criticism-mom-willis
POETRY
Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World (New Directions), a beguiling blend of poetry, essay, and photography
Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions), the poet?s second elegiac collection
Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press), an astute, profound confrontation with mortality: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/12/18/best-poetry-books/EMwDBZdDcYcbfbVNhLyh6L/story.html>willis">http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/12/18/best-poetry-books/EMwDBZdDcYcbfbVNhLyh6L/story.html
Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), the master poet's most recent, National Book Award nominated collection. http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/12/18/best-poetry-books/EMwDBZdDcYcbfbVNhLyh6L/story.htmlBruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press), a collection situated between "lullaby and homicide".

The winners will be announced on March 8 at a ceremony in Manhattan.
In addition to announcing the nominees, on Saturday the NBCC awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Silvers, founding editor of the New York Review of Books. Globe contributor Kathryn Schulz won Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-03/ae/29377895_1_malcolm-murder-for-hire-plot-mazoltuv-borukhova

The mailbox – the personal, home-based receptacle for paper correspondence - is quickly becoming a quaint relic from an earlier version of our modern life. Like a coal bin or an old Bakelite rotary phone, the mailbox is comprehensible but effectively useless. If not for a few magazines, I’d probably go weeks without checking mine. I might store a compact umbrella there. This is part of the well-documented decline of hard copy correspondence in favor of ceaseless chatter of email, tweets, etc et al. But come on, we’d all like to get an actual letter one of these days, right?
For those hungry for their own en masse Herzog-in-reverse, the eclectic, brilliant literary website The Rumpus <http://therumpus.net/2012/01/announcing-letters-in-the-mail/ > , recently announced just the thing. “Letters in the Mail,” is a subscription service for which readers can pay $5 a month in exchange for a weekly letter from a famous – or at least published - author. As Stephen Elliott, founder and editor of The Rumpus, told Today < http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45943604/ns/today-books/#.Tw2qBU_y5N3 > , “I got this urge to get back to sending paper letters, and I also knew a lot of authors who I knew would be really excited about it.”
According to The Rumpus, “letter writers will include Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames.”
A bit of exclusivity will add value to this nostalgic stroll down epistolary lane: the letters, which will be about whatever strikes each author’s whimsy, will not be available online.
-- Michael Washburn, who’s on Twitter as @Whalelines, writes about books frequently for the Globe. He can be reached at http://mwashburn.wordpress.com but he’d really love to get a letter.

"Death Comes to Pemberley" holds onto its number one spot for hardcover fiction books.

Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" also remains the top selling book in its category.

This week, Téa Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife" still tops the list of paperback fiction books.

"Bossypants," by Tina Fey, is the bestselling paperback nonfiction.

SUNDAY: Tom MacDonald ("The Charlestown Connection'') signs from 2-4 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 7 Holyoke Street, Holyoke; Jeff Clements ("Corporations Are Not People") reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop

MONDAY: John Burdett ("Vulture Peak") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Stuart Altman and David Shactman ("Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care'') read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... Michael Hoerman, Matthew Salesses, Terri Trespicio, and Liam Day read in the Literary Firsts series at 7 p.m. at the Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge.

TUESDAY: Chris Boucher ("How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Piotr Naskrecki ("Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine'') reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Chip Bishop ("The Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop'') reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

WEDNESDAY: Jonathan Gruber ("Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, and How It Works'') reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/jonathan_gruber/) ... Dawn Tripp ("Game of Secrets'') reads at 6 p.m. at Stellina restaurant, 47 Main Street, Watertown ... David Scheffer ("All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals'') reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURSDAY: Robert E. Guarino ("Beacon Street: Its Buildings & Residents'') reads at 2 p.m. in the Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley ... Clea Simon and Brett Milano ("Tales from the House Band") read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Frances Moore Lappe ("EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want'') reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... David Scheffer ("All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals'') reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

FRIDAY: David Weinberger ("Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room'') reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY: Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas ("Where's Whitey'') read at Barnes & Noble 150 Granite Ave., Braintree

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

This week, "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James is the best selling hardcover fiction.

"Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson, reclaims its spot this week as the number one selling hardcover nonfiction.

Téa Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife" still tops the list of paperback fiction books.

"Bossypants," by Tina Fey, beats out "The Hare with Amber Eyes" as the paperback nonfiction bestseller.

SUNDAY: Erin Morgenstern (“The Night Circus”) and Ryan Boudinot author of (“Blueprints for the Afterlife”) read at 2 p.m. at Newtonville Books

TUESDAY: Lori Andrews (“I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks at the Death of Privacy”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Ellis Avery (“The Last Nude: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Carol O’Connell (“The Chalk Girl”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

WEDNESDAY: Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson (“The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Cullen Murphy (“God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Tom MacDonald (“The Charlestown Connection”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Thomas Crane Library, 40 Washington Street, Quincy … Elizabeth Searle (“Girl Held in Home”) and Matthew Salesses (“The Last Repatriate”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURSDAY: Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow (“The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts”) read at 2 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … … Scott Helman, Michael Kranish, and Mark Morrow (“The Real Romney”) read at 6 p.m at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Catherine Utzschneider (“MOVE! How Women Can Achieve Athletic Goals at Any Age”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jonathan Strong ("More Light") and Sebastian Stuart ("Dead by Any Other Name") read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Alex Gilvarry (“From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY: Grace Lin ("Dumpling Days") reads at 1 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Scott Appleton (“Offspring”) reads at 2 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Framingham … Howie Carr (“Hard Knocks”) reads at 3:30 p.m. at Book Ends, Winchester … Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman (“Why We Broke Up”) read at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley (RSVP Requested at 781.431.1160 or kidevents@wellesleybooks.com)

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

"The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides reclaims the number one spot on the bestseller list for hardcover fiction.

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" is the bestselling harcover fiction this week.

The paperback bestseller continues to be "The Tiger's Wife," by Téa Obreht.

This week, "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal is still the best selling paperback nonfiction.

SUNDAY: Dr. Malissa Wood (“Smart at Heart”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop
… Brumonia Barry (“The Map of True Places”), Randy Susan Meyers (“The Murderer’s Daughters”), and Ilie Ruby (“The Language of Time”) read at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Road, Cohasset (tickets and information, 781-383-1348)

TUESDAY: Hank Phillipi Ryan (“Drive Time”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Flora Restaurant, 190 Mass. Ave., Arlington … Sophie Flack (“Bunheads”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jessica Keener (“Night Swim”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

WEDNESDAY: William Gibson (“Distrust That Particular Flavor”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolide Corner Theater ($5 tickets through Brookline Booksmith)

THURSDAY: Tom Ryan (“Following Atticus”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Tom MacDonald (“The Charlestown Connection”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Charlestown Branch of the BPL, 179 Main Street, Charlestown … Shalom Auslander (“Hope: A Tragedy”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

FRIDAY: John Barry ("Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

"Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James is once again at the top of the bestseller list in hardcover fiction.

This week, "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson tops the hardcover nonfiction list.

"The Tiger's Wife" byTéa Obreht is the bestseller in paperback fiction.

Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" has moved back up to the bestselling spot in paperback nonfiction.

"Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James is once again the leading bestseller in hardcover fiction.

Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" remains at the top of the hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list .

"The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht continues to be the top selling title in paperback fiction.

Edmund de Waal's "The Hare with Amber Eyes" is still the paperback fiction bestseller.

TUESDAY: Paul J. Williams (“I Witness”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, 1350 Blue Hill Avenue … First and Last Word Poetry Reading Series, reading and open mic at 6:30 p.m. at 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville ($4)

WEDNESDAY: Theoharis C. Theoharis leads a discussion of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” at 7:30 p.m. at Peabody Institute Library, 82 Main St., Peabody

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.

"The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes tops the list for hardcover fiction books.

Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" is still the bestselling paperback fiction.

This week, "The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht maintains the No. 1 hardcover nonfiction spot.

"The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal is this week's bestselling paperback fiction.

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"The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes tops the list for hardcover fiction books.

Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" is still the bestselling paperback fiction.

This week, "The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht maintains the No. 1 hardcover nonfiction spot.

"The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal is this week's bestselling paperback fiction.

See full list below.

DEC. 11: Jane Yolen ("Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems") reads at 3 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham (7.50 tickets at www.backpagesbooks.com, 781-209-0631) … Concord Free Public Library’s Weekend Poetry Series, with comic poetry from five authors, at 3 p.m.

DEC. 12: Poets Rosanna Warren and David Yezzi read at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge ($3)

DEC 13: John McDonough (“Inside National Health Reform”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

DEC. 14: Saul Wisnia (“Fenway Park: The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

DEC. 15: Nell Irvin Painter (“The History of White People”) speaks at 6 p.m. at Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Ann Hood, Lynne Barret, Colin Channer, Jon Clinch, and John Dufresne (“Blue Christmas”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Elaine Tammi and Karin A. Tammi (“Scallops: A New England Coastal Cookbook) read and demonstrate at 7 p.m. at Trident Booksellers & Café, 338 Newbury St. … Sophie Blackall (“Missed Connections: Love, Lost & Found”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.