Literary guide
Anastasia Aukeman “Bruce Connor & the Rat Bastard Protective Association.”
Blane Bachelor & friends “Lonely Planet Travel Anthology.”
2 p.m. Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Cheneryt St., S.F. (415) 586-3733. www.birdbeckett.com.
Laura Anne Gilman “The Cold Eye.”
3 p.m. Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia St., S.F. www.borderlands-books.com.
Julie King “How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen.”
Jonathan Moore “The Dark Room.”
3 p.m. Diesel, 5433 College Ave., Oakland.
Will Schwalbe “Books for Living.”
4 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Walter Alvarez, Lisa Krieger “A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves.”
Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org.
Henry Hampton and “Eyes on the Prize,” the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement.
6:30 p.m. UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, 121 North Gate Hall Library, Berkeley. www.booksinc.net.
Martin and Dorothy Hellman “A New Map for Relationships.”
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team.
Will Schwalbe “The End of Your Life Book Club.”
7:30 p.m. Kepler’s Books and Magazines, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
Tamim Ansari Road Trips:
Brian Fishman, Kori Schake “The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Quaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory.”
6:30 p.m. Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org.
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
An Orphan X Novel.
7 p.m. Books Inc., 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto.
How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference In My Mood, My Marraige, and My Life.
7:30 p.m. Kepler’s Books and Magazines, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
Colson Whitehead, Alexis Madrigal “The Underground Railroad.”
Linda Carucci, Alice Medrich Carucci’s Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks:
[...] Edition, and Medrich’s Guittard Chocolate Cookbook:
Decadent Recipes from San Francisco’s Premium Bean-To-Bar Chocolate Company.
Kepler’s Books and Magazines, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
7 p.m. Books Inc., 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto.
Will Schwalbe “Books for Living.”
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
YANovCon Kickoff Party Gretchen McNeil, Jessica Brody, B.T. Gottfried and Martha Brockenbrough are featured. 7 p.m. Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Ave., S.F. (415) 776-1111. www.booksinc.net.
The host of “This American Life” shares stories and recordings offering a glimpse at his creative process. 7:30 and 10 p.m. Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes St., S.F. (415) 392-4400. www.cityarts.net.
Pablo Hidalgo, Kemp Remillad Star Wars:
3 p.m. Kepler’s Books and Magazines, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
YANovCon Young Adult Novelist Convention featuring Alexis Bass, Martha Brockenbrough, Jessica Brody, I.W. Gregorio, Ann Jacobus, Sephanie Kuehn, Gretchen McNeil, Neal Shusterman, Andrew Smith, Mariko Tamaki and more. 1-5 p.m. Millbrae Library, 1 Library Ave., Millbrae. www.smcl.org/yanovcon.