Book It: June Book Events

Boston Book Events The weather's finally warm and the days are perfect for chilling outside with a book. Check our list of June book events around town to see what you might want to pick up for either frivolous or fierce reading experiences. This week, both Lewis Black and David Sedaris are in town to tickle your funnybones, so get tickets for the titillation while you still can. Later this month readers will tackle topics ranging from pirates to poverty, offering something for book-lovers of all stripes.

* = recommended

Monday, June 2, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Allen West, Jayne Warren, Steve Nicknam, Reverend Anne Carroll Fowler from Workshop for Published Poets

Tuesday, June 3rd, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
*Marjorie Garber, Profiling Shakespeare

Tuesday, June 3rd, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Ruth Butler, Hidden in the Shadow of the Master

Tuesday, June 3rd, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Julie Salamon, Hospital

Wednesday, June 4th, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Gregory Levey, Shut Up, I'm Talking, and Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government: A Memoir

Thursday, June 5, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Ted Kerasote, Merle's Door

Thursday, June 5th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Richard Preston, Panic In Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science

Friday, June 6th, 6:00pm, Coolidge Corner, $5 (sponsored by Brookline Booksmith)
*Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith

Friday, June 6th, 6:00pm, Harvard Book Store
David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
[SOLD OUT, but audio feed available outside store, and you can still get a book signed even if you didn’t get a ticket.]

Saturday, June 7th, 7:00pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
*Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith

Sunday, June 8th, 6:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Small Press Poets Night
Zachary Schomburg, The Man Suit
Rauan Klassnik, Holy Land
Chad Reynolds, Victor in the New World
Carl Annarummo, A Short Story & other poems

Monday, June 9th, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Andre Dubus III, Garden of Last Days: A Novel

Monday, June 9th, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Benjamin Wallace, The Billionaire's Vinegar

Tuesday, June 10, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
W. Hodding Carter, Off the Deep End

Tuesday, June 10th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travel in the Other China

Wednesday, June 11, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
*Sam Gosling, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You

Wednesday, June 11th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Robert H. Patton, Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution

Thursday, June 12th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines

Thursday, June 12th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Kelly McMasters, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town

Thursday, June 12, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Tuesday, June 17th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Michael Holley, Red Sox Rule

Tuesday, June 17th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Alison Bass, Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

Tuesday, June 17, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Hallie Ephron, 1001 Books for Every Mood

Wednesday, June 18th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Nigel Hamilton, How To Do Biography: A Primer

Wednesday, June 18, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
David Guterson, The Other

Thursday, June 19th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mark Kurlansky, The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town

Thursday, June 19th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
*Gary Marcus, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

Thursday, June 19, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind

Monday, June 23rd, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel

Tuesday, June 24, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
*Roxana Robinson, Cost

Tuesday, June 24th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Samuel Shem, The Spirit of the Place

Wednesday, June 25th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Ellen Sussman, Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
with Amelia Perkins, Michael Lowenthal, Pagan Kennedy, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Sam Brumbaugh

Wednesday, June 25th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
*Sasa Stanisic, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

Thursday, June 26th, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Alan Furst, The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel

Thursday, June 26, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Sarah LeVine, The Saint of Kathmandu

Thursday, June 26th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth

Friday, June 27th, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
*Barbara Ehrenreich, This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

Monday, June 30, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
*Josh Emmons, Prescription for Superior Existence