• Ann & Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Fair, Houston, November 1 – 15
• NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), November 1 – 30
• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States, Wichita Falls, November 1 – December 1
• George West Storyfest, George West, November 6 – 8
• 5th Annual Author Showcase, Winnsboro, November 7
• McAllen Book Festival, November 7

Sunday, Nov. 1

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author JACK GANTOS speaking & signing The Trouble in Me, 1PM
• BookWoman, Feminine Inquiry Fall Issue: Release, Readings, and Open Mic, 4PM
• Central Presbyterian Church, BookPeople Presents Author, Actress and Rock Star CARRIE BROWNSTEIN in conversation with Liz Lambert about Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, 6PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Day of the Dead Reading and Fundraiser, 5PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, The Barnes & Noble Cookie Bake-Off!: Top 75 Recipes from Around the Country book signing with the contest finalist, 2PM

Monday, Nov. 2

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Jon Acuff Discussion, Q&A, and Book Signing for Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck, 7PM
• BookPeople, Bestselling Author SARAH VOWELL speaking & signing Lafayettte in the Somewhat United States, 7PM

Dallas

• SMU – Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Jami Attenberg will discuss and sign Saint Mazie, 12PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Maggie Battista discusses and signs FOOD GIFT LOVE, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Steven Saylor will sign and discuss Wrath of the Furies, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Reading and signing with poet Colin Halloran, 5PM

Tuesday, Nov. 3  AND DON’T FORGET TO VOTE

Austin

• BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents Bestselling Author STEVEN SAYLOR speaking & signing Wrath of the Furies, 7PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening of poetry with Colin Halloran & Mark Harden, 7PM
• The North Door, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon with Natalie Grigson, Mike Yang, Bernadette Noll, Ross Smith & Matt the Electrician, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Newt Gingrich sign Duplicity, 7PM
• B&N – Lincoln Park, Callista Gingrich signs Christmas in America, 7PM
• SMU – McCord Auditorium, Professors Adam Arenson and Andrew Graybill present Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States, 5:30PM
• Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Judith B. Tankard (Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden), Diane Dorrans Saeks (Jean-Louis Deniot: Interiors) and Meryle Secrest (Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography) are the featured authors of the ninth annual A Writer’s Garden Literary Symposium and Luncheon, 9:30AM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Penguin Teen on Tour with Ally Condie, Jandy Nelson, and Meg Wolitzer, 7PM

Denton

• B&N, Let’s Kill Mom: Four Texas Teens and a Horrifying Murder Pact book signing with Donna Fielder, 6PM

El Paso

• UTEP Library, Presentation by Maissa Khatib and Miguel Juarez on the book Uprooting Community by Selfa A. Chew, 12PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Catherine Madison discusses and signs THE WAR CAME HOME WITH HIM, 7PM
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series: , 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Nancy Martin will sign and discuss the first Miss Ruffle mystery, Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything, 6:30PM

Sachse

• Sachse Public Library, NaNoWriMo event with author Taylor Stevens, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Jim Harter discusses and signs Early Automobiles: A History in Advertising Line Art, 5PM. Due to Jim’s unexpected passing, this event will be a memorial event to celebrate Jim’s life with friends, family, and fans.

Wednesday, Nov. 4

Austin

• BookPeoople, Bestselling Author WENDY WILLIAMS speaking & signing The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Brantley Hightower discusses The Courthouses of Central Texas, 12PM
• JCC Community Hall, Austin Jewish Book Fair presents: Book Lovers Luncheon with Dafna Michaelson Jenet, 11AM
• Malvern Books, Dalton Day launches Actual Cloud with Layne Ransom and Sam Sax, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Public Library – Central, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor present Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, poet Colin D. Halloran presents Icarian Flux, 7:30PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Newt Gingrich signs Duplicity, 7PM
• B&N – River Oaks, Callista Gingrich signs Christmas in America, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Robert Jensen discusses and signs PLAIN RADICAL, 7PM
• Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, David Gregory presents How’s Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey, 7:30PM
• Katy Budget Books, Jo and Josephine Harper share their book Whistling Willie from Amarillo, Texas for story time, 10AM
• Murder By the Book, Jenn McKinlay will sign and discuss A Likely Story, 6:30PM

Round Rock

• The Book Spot, Reception for area librarians, 4PM

San Antonio

• Palo Alto College, Reading and discussion with US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, 7:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Catherine Madison discusses and signs The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter’s Memoir, 6PM

Thursday, Nov. 5

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI speaking & signing The Familiar Volume 2: Into the Forest, 7PM
• Harry Ransom Center, Poet Srikanth Reddy, 7PM
• Uncommon Objects, Bestselling Author EDWARD CAREY speaking & signing Lungdon: Iremonger Three, 7:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck book signing with Jon Acuff, 7PM
• SMU – Perkins Prothro Hall, Joshua Rovner (Fixing the Facts) will moderate a discussion on “The Rise of ISIS” with Joby Warrick (Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS) and Caitlin Talmadge (The Dictator’s Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes), 5:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, The Class Acts tour with authors Tim Green, J.A. White, Tom Watson, Nate Ball, Annabeth Bondor-Stone, and Connor White, 5PM
• Bright Sky Press, Bill Boyce launches Miss Fortune’s Last Mission: Uncovering A Story of Sacrifice & Survival, 5PM
• Jung Center of Houston, Dr. Carol S. Pearson presents Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within, 6PM
• Kaboom Books, Transcendent Zero Press brings you Usha Akella, 7:30PM
• Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston, Orhan Pamuk presents A Strangeness in My Mind, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Tess Gerritsen will sign and discuss Playing With Fire, 6:30PM
• North Shore Community Expo, Dee Maner presents Artie: The First Artificial Christmas Tree, 10AM
• Pachyderm Club, Bill Boyce presents Miss Fortune’s Last Mission: Uncovering A Story of Sacrifice & Survival, 11AM
• River Oaks Bookstore, William J. Boyce will discuss and sign Miss Fortune’s Last Mission, 5:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech – English Auditorium, Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents Curtis Bauer and Kurt Caswell, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• Beethoven Maennerchor, Launch Party for Wendy Barker’s One Blackbird at a Time and for her most recent chapbook From the Moon, Earth Is Blue, and for Natalia Treviño’s first book of poetry, Lavando La Dirty Laundry, 7PM
• Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio Express-News Book and Author Luncheon, 10AM

Friday, Nov. 6

Austin

• BookPeople, JOSEPH FINK & JEFFREY CRANOR in conversation with Steph Opitz, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival, about their new novel, Welcome to Night Vale, 7PM
• BookWoman, TORCH Wildfire Reading Series featuring Parneshia Jones and Ellen Hagan, 6:30PM
• Brave New Books, Unspoken! Voluntaryist open mic for speakers, thinkers and artists, 7PM
• Malvern Books, William Virgil Davis launches Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New, 7PM
• Monkeywrench Books, Invisible in Austin with Dr. Javier Auyero, et al, 6:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, John Corbett discusses and signs MICROGROOVE, 7PM
• Fox & Hound Bar & Grill, Scriptwriters/Houston presents the 4th Annual Tournament of Monologues, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Beatriz Williams with sign and discuss Along the Infinite Sea, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon signing A Wedding at the Paragraph Ranch, 4–7 PM

Oakville

• Oakville Jailhouse Lodge, 5th annual Dobie Dichos storytelling event, 6PM

Odessa

• Deaderick Auditorium, A Night with David Sedaris, 7PM [sold out]

San Antonio

• B&N – Northwoods, , 7PM
• Tacoland, Gemini Ink Reading Series with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho and Octavio Quintanilla, 6:30PM

Saturday, Nov. 7

Allen

• Allen Public Library, Carole Nelson Douglas (Good Night, Mr. Holmes) and Sherlock Holmes scholar Don Hobbs are the keynote speakers at the Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture symposium, 9AM

Austin

• BookPeople, celebrate five years of MysteryPeople with cake, champagne, mystery trivia, give aways and a panel discussion about the future of crime fiction, 3PM
• BookWoman, Karla Jay reading and signing Speaking in Tungs, 5:30PM
• Brave New Books, Roger Stone Book Signing, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Borderlands: Issue 43 Launch Party with Jonathan Moody, Ariana Brown, Robert Lunday, Jonelle Seitz, Ally Young, and Vanessa Zimmer-Powell, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Pablo Miguel Martínez launches CUENT@ with Liliana Valenzuela, 7PM
• Natural Gardener, Judy Barrett signs Easy Edibles: How to Grow and Enjoy Fresh Food, ?
• St. Edward’s University, Texas Writers’ League Workshop – “More Human: The Delicate Art of Writing Effective Protagonists” with Sara Kocek, 9AM
• Half Price Books – Montrose, Shirley Jordan will sell and sign her books, Following My Mother’s Footsteps and I’m Not Superwoman, 1PM
• Half Price Books (Round Rock), Victoria McGuire will sell and sign her memoir It Should Not Hurt to be a Wife, 1PM

Cedar Hill

• B&N, Justus L. Clark signs Expressway, 1PM
• Corpus Christi
• B&N, Vianney Rodriguez signs Latin Twist: Traditional & Modern Cocktails + demonstration, 5PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Timothy B Jones and David C. Barrett discuss and sign Harnessing The Dynamics of Public Education, 2PM
• The Wild Detectives, Merrill Beth Nisker (aka PEACHES) will sign and greet fans of the book What else is on The Teaches of Peaches, 2PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Falling” with Julia Quintanar, 12:45PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Anna Mitchael will discuss and sign COPYGIRL, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Kimbilio in Houston with Mat Johnson, Sanderia Faye, Talisha Shelly, Julia Brown, and Adrienne Perry, 7PM
• High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Annual HSPVA Creative Writing Middle School Workshop, 9AM
• Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, an evening with David Sedaris, 7PM
• Katy Budget Books, Romance author Beth Ann Stifflemire signs her two latest books, Diverted Heart and Fate’s Betrayal, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Sherlock: The Mind Palace coloring party, 2PM
• The Printing Museum, 13th Annual Houston Book Fair, 10AM

Irving

• Irving Public Library – South, Native American storytelling with Dorayne Breedlove, 2:30PM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, Robert Jacobus signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 6PM

Plano

• Environmental Education Center, Mark Wansa will discuss and sign The Linden and The Oak, 4PM
• event1013, The Magical World of Art and Story: North Texas Children and Teen Literary Showcase and Gallery Show, 9:30AM

• Ruby Lane Books & Gallery, Cathy Whitten will discuss and sign Images of America – Slaton, 12:30PM

Pottsboro

• Pottsboro Area Public Library, Texas Writes (a Writers’ League of Texas workshop) with Donna M. Johnson and Christine Wicker, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Jesse Brown discusses and signs Prophecies of Fiction, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Fancy Tea and Fantasy Authors with Martha Wells, Stina Leicht, Amanda Downum, Patrice Sarath, and J. M. McDermott, 5PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre Bookstore, Robert Jacobus signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 1PM

Sunday, Nov. 8

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Novelist ELIZABETH HARRIS speaking & signing Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Bumper Sticker Philosophy,” 3PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund, will ‘pawtograph’ his new book Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund: Adventures of the Wiener Dog Extraordinaire, 4:15PM

Houston

• Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Fair: Oliver Lapin Family Day, 9AM

Richardson

• Congregation Beth Torah, Dr. Michael Weisberg discusses The Hospitalist, 9AM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, James Emerson Loyd discusses and signs Great War Won: Who Desires Peace…, 11AM

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