Here Are The Virtual Book Events You Can Check Out This Week

Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series Episode 5: Powerhouse Women, featuring Laura Van Den Berg, author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Karolina Waclawiak, author of Life Events, Bethany C. Morrow, author of A Song Below Water, and Mary South, author of You Will Never Be Forgotten, hosted by Marae Hart — 8 p.m. ET, more info.

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow, authors of Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, in conversation with Samhita Mukhopadhyay — hosted by Politics & Prose and Girls' Night In, 8 p.m. ET, more info.

Christina Hammonds Reed, author of The Black Kids, in conversation with Brandy Colbert — hosted by Skylight Books, 6:30 p.m. PT, more info.

Jill McCorkle, author of Hieroglyphics, in conversation with Silas House — hosted by Parnassus Books, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Elisa Gabbert, author of The Unreality of Memory, in conversation with Kaveh Akbar — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Whiting Award-winning poets Aria Aber, Diannely Antigua, Jake Skeets, and Genya Turovskaya — hosted by Books Are Magic and the Whiting Foundation, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

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Farrah Rochon, author of The Boyfriend Project — in Q&A hosted by BookPeople's Well-Read Black Girl Book Club leaders, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Meg Cabot, author of No Offense, in conversation with Emily Henry — hosted by Books & Books, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Lyz Lenz, author of Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women, in conversation with Dr. Jen Gunter — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Sarah M. Sala, author of Devil's Lake, with special guests Moncho Alvarado, CAConrad, Anne Carson, Omotara James, and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado — hosted by Literati, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade, in conversation with Kelly Luce — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Lane Moore, author of How to Be Alone — hosted by A Room of One's Own, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars, in conversation with Susan Landrum — hosted by Charis Books, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Somaiya Daud, author of Court of Lions, in conversation with Arkady Martine — hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Benjamin Garcia, author of Thrown in the Throat — hosted by Brazos Bookstore, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Lynda Lopez, editor of AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in conversation with Carmen Rita Wong, one of the anthology's contributors — hosted by Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Juan Cárdenas and Lizzie Davis, author and translator, respectively, of Ornamental — hosted by Malaprop's Bookstore, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Cree LeFavour, author of Private Means, in conversation with Dwight Garner — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Annik LaFarge, author of Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions, in conversation with Michael Kimmelman — hosted by Politics & Prose, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Lawrence Roberts, author of Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America’s Biggest Mass Arrest — hosted by the Alexandria Library, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Dan Mathews, author of Like Crazy: Life With My Mother and Her Invisible Friends, in conversation with Bryan Fuller — hosted by Left Bank Books, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half, and Wayétu Moore, author of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, in conversation about promoting a book during COVID-19 — hosted by Literati, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, in conversation with Bryan Stevenson — hosted by Politics & Prose, 8 p.m. ET, more info.

Shruti Swamy, author of A House Is a Body, in conversation with Kiese Laymon — hosted by Powell's Books, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Diane Cook, author of The New Wilderness, in conversation with BuzzFeed Books editor Arianna Rebolini (full disclosure... that's me) — hosted by Books Are Magic and the BuzzFeed Book Club, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Catherine Lacey, author of Pew, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem — hosted by Skylight Books, 6:30 p.m. PT, more info.

Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland, in conversation with Melissa Febos — hosted by A Room of One's Own, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History — hosted by Brooklyn Public Library and Greenlight Bookstore, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Natalia Sylvester, author of Running — hosted by Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field, in conversation with Alice McDermott — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Christopher Brown, author of Failed State, in conversation with Cory Doctorow — hosted by BookPeople, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Jackson Bird, author of Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place — hosted by Left Bank Books, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars, in conversation with Helen Rosner — hosted by Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Sarah M. Broome, author of The Yellow House, in conversation with Imani Perry — hosted by Malaprop's Bookstore, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Kathleen Rooney, author of Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, in conversation with Michael Zapata — hosted by American Writers Museum and The Seminary Co-op, 6:30 p.m. CT, more info.

Michele Filgate, editor of What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, and contributors Kiese Laymon and Nayomi Munaweera, in conversation with Brian Gresko — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, in conversation with Terese Marie Mailhot — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Patrick A. Howell, editor of Dispatches From the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump, with contributors Tori Reid, Tom Lutz, and Mobolaji Olambiwonnu — hosted by Skylight Books, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Karen Dionne, author of The Wicked Sister, and Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of The First to Lie — hosted by Literati, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, author of Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, in conversation with Aida Salazar — hosted by Books & Books, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, in conversation with Tef Poe — hosted by Left Bank Books, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

John Moe, author of The Hilarious World of Depression, in conversation with Amanda LeClaire — hosted by Pages Bookshop, 6:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Peniel Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. — hosted by Brooklyn Public Library and Greenlight Bookstore, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Diane Cook, author of The New Wilderness, in conversation with Rahawa Haile — hosted by Booksmith, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Lynda Lopez, editor of AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Natalia Sylvester, author of Running, in A Night for Latinx Youth — hosted by Duende District and Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Akwaeke Emezi, author of The Death of Vivek Oji, in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang — hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company and The Seattle Public Library, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein, authors of The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad, doing jokes and poems — hosted by Skylight Books, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Kate Elliott, author of Unconquerable Sun, with Kit Rocha, author of Deal With the Devil — hosted by Powell's Books, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Erica Waters, author of Ghost Wood Song, and Ash Van Otterloo, author of Cattywampus — hosted by Malaprop's Bookstore, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Meg Cabot, author of No Offense; Alexis Daria, author of You Had Me at Hola; and Talia Hibbert, author of Take a Hint, Dani Brown; in conversation with Maureen Lenker — hosted by Avon and Bookstore Romance Day, 2 p.m. ET, more info.

Robin LaFevers, author of Igniting Darkness, in conversation with Leigh Bardugo — hosted by Third Place Books, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Suzanne Park, author of Loathe at First Sight; Alisha Rai, author of Girl Gone Viral; Mia Sosa, author of The Worst Best Man; and HelenKay Dimon, author of The Secrets She Keeps; in conversation with Megan Corbett — hosted by Mysterious Galaxy, 4 p.m. PT, more info.

Scarlett Peckham, author of The Rakess; Kate Bateman, author of To Catch an Earl; and Vanessa Riley, author of A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby; in conversation for Spotlight on Historical Romance — hosted by Belmont Books, 12 p.m. ET, more info.

TJ Klune, author of The House in the Cerulean Sea; C.L. Polk, author of Stormsong; and Kit Rocha, author of Deal with the Devil, in conversation for Spotlight on Romance in Fantasy/Sci-Fi — hosted by Belmont Books, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Sarah Morgenthaler, author of The Tourist Attraction; Annabeth Albert, author of Conventionally Yours; Miranda Kenneally, author of Four Days of You and Me; Suzanne Park, author of The Perfect Escape; and Ann Marie Walker, author of Happy Singles Day — hosted by Sourcebooks, 3 p.m. ET, more info.

There are more Bookstore Romance Day events than we could possibly include! Check out participating bookstores.

Camilla Läckberg, author of The Golden Cage, in conversation with Chris Bohjalian — hosted by Books & Books, 11 a.m. ET, more info.

Kendra Atleework, author of Miracle Country, in conversation with Caitlin Myer — hosted by Powell's Books, 2 p.m. PT, more info.

Lavie Tidhar, author of By Force Alone, in conversation with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic — hosted by Mysterious Galaxy, 1 p.m. PT, more info.