It's Bike Week here in the Bay State, so strap on your helmet, jump on your bike, and pedal to one of these book events this week. Make sure to bring a bag so you can cart your signed book home. Bostonist recommends starred events.

*Sunday, May 11, 5:30pm, Porter Square Books
Henry Winkler, The Life of Me: Enter, Your Own Risk

Monday, May 12th, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Elizabeth George, Careless in Red

*Monday, May 12, 7pm, Porter Square Books
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

Monday, May 12th, 7pm, Harvard Book Store
David Samuels, Only Love Can Break Your Heart and The Runner

Tuesday, May 13th, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Rachel Sontag, House Rules: A Memoir

Tuesday, May 13, 7pm, Porter Square Books
Jeff Talarigo, The Ginseng Hunter

*Tuesday, May 13th, 7pm, Harvard Book Store
Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is The Whole Day
V. V. Ganeshananthan, Love Marriage
A conversation on political identity in literature will follow.

Wednesday, May 14th, 6:30pm, UpStairs on the Square, $38
sponsored by Harvard Book Store
Neal I. Rosenthal, Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy

Wednesday, May 14th, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Penny Vincenzi, Sheer Abandon

Wednesday, May 14, 7pm, Porter Square Books
Linda Bamber and David Rivard, Metropolitan Tang and Sugartown

Thursday, May 15, 6pm, Barnes & Noble Prudential Center
Mike Lowell, Deep Drive

Thursday, May 15th, 7pm, Harvard Book Store
Mark Sarvas, Harry, Revised

Thursday, May 15, 7pm, Porter Square Books
Deborah Weisgall, The World Before Her

Friday, May 15, 1pm, Borders
Michael Dobbs

*Friday, May 16th, 3pm, Harvard Book Store
Martha Nussbaum, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

Friday, May 16th, 7pm, Harvard Book Store
Carl Zimmer, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life