• 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
• Austin Zine Fest, November 14
• Houston History Book Fair & Symposium, November 14
• 12th Annual Texas Author Day, San Marcos Public Library, November 15

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

Monday, Nov. 9

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 MARY GAITSKILL speaking & signing The Mare, 7PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, Mix and mingle with author Colleen Hoover + discussion and signing of November 9, 10PM
• The Wild Detectives, Dallas Poetry Slam Workshop Series: Insanely Good with GNO, 7PM

Houston

• Wortham Center, Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents SALMAN RUSHDIE, 7:30PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, Adriana Trigiani signs All the Stars in the Heavens, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, evening of poetry with Glen Sorestad, Sheila Black, and Jim Lavilla-Havelin, 6:30PM

• B&N, How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct book signing with Greg Gutfeld, 7PM

The Woodlands

• B&N, How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct book signing with Greg Gutfeld, 11:30AM

Tuesday, Nov. 10

Arlington

• University of Texas – Arlington, Maverick Speakers Series Presents Daymond John on Shark Tank Entrepreneurship + Q&A and book signing, 7:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Journalist & Food Writer NIGELLA LAWSON speaking & signing Simply Nigella: Feel Good Food, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, Lecture: Leadership After Great Upheaval with H.W. Brands + reception and book signing, 7PM
• Hole in the Wall, Bat City Review November Reading with Sam Sax, F.T. Kola, and Dalton Day, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM
• University Co-op, Dr. Robert H. Wilson and Dr. Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. signing LBJ’s NEGLECTED LEGACY, 5PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Roger Stone signs The Clintons’ War on Women, 7PM
• Hilton Anatole Hotel, Greg Gutfeld presents How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct, 12PM
• Richland College, Visiting Writers Series “Shaping Our Nation” presents poet and artist Phinder Dulai, 12:30PM

Denton

• University of North Texas, UNT Visiting Writers Series presents a reading and book signing by Jill Talbot, 8PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM
• Fort Worth Club, Greg Gutfeld presents How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct, 5:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Mary Gaitskill reading and signing THE MARE, 7PM
• Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Community Read – Elyssa Friedland: Love and Miss Communication, 7:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, MFAH Carol and Les Ballard Endowed Lecture Series – A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South with Ronald L. Hurst, author of Southern Furniture, 1680–1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, 6:30PM
• Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: Gifted, 7:30PM

Hughes Springs

• Hughes Springs Area Public Library, Writers’ League of Texas Program: Texas Writes with Kathleen Baldwin and Christine Wicker, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM
• San Antonio Public Library – Central, Poetry to the Pueblo: poetic tribute to Texas State Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla will combine her poems with dance, film, music, and dramatic readings by some of San Antonio’s top performing artists, 6:30PM

San Marcos

• Wittliff Collections, SAUL SANCHEZ discusses and signs Rows of Memory: Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker, 6PM

Wednesday, Nov. 11

Austin

• BookPeople, YA Authors NOVA REN SUMA & SUZANNE YOUNG speaking & signing The Walls Around Us & Hotel Ruby, 7PM
• BookPeople, Spirtual Philosopher STEVE MCINTOSH speaking & signing The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, 8PM
• BookWoman, I Must Be Living Twice Reading & Signing with Eileen Myles, 7:30PM
• Malvern Books, Timeless, Infinite Light presents The Sleeping Together Tour with poets Emji Spero, Joel Gregory, Mónica Teresa Ortiz, and Kimberly Alidio, 7PM
• NCJW Austin, Austin Jewish Book Fair event with Letty Cottin Pogebrin, 7PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, author Joelle Charbonneau will discuss and sign her new Young Adult book Need, 6PM
• University of Texas – Dallas, Anlin Ku Lecture Series: Amitav Ghosh discusses his Ibis Trilogy, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• TCU, James McGrath Morris will discuss and sign Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press, 6:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Really Professional Internet Person signing with Jenn McAllister, 6PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, Chris Bridges signs The Same Heart, 4PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Jonathan Wells reading from and signing THE MAN WITH MANY PENS & Kevin Prufer, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Harriet McDougal, Maria Simons, and Alan Romanczuk will sign and discuss The Wheel of Time Companion, and Jason Denzel will sign and discuss his debut novel, Mystic, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Half Price Books – N. Central, Bobby Briscoe will discuss, sell and sign The Jungle Warriors, 2PM
• Viva! Bookstore, Voices de la Luna Monthly Literary Evening, 6PM

Thursday, Nov. 12

Austin

• Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co., Instagram Sensation Elias Weiss Friedman signing The Dogist, 6PM
• BookPeople, Bestselling Author JOHN IRVING in conversation with Clay Smith of Kirkus Reviews
• about Avenue of Mysteries, 7PM
• BookWoman, 2nd Thursday Open Mic Poetry with Ken Fontenot, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Jim Sanderson & Dale Bridges, 7PM

Dallas

• Hall of State at Fair Park, Paul H. Santa Cruz presents Making JFK Matter-Popular Memory and the Thirty-fifth President, 6:30PM
• SMU, One Day University: Ronald Reagan – A Remarkable Life with H.W. Brands, 6PM
• The Wild Detectives, Dallas 1st Noir at the Bar with Joe Lansdale, Harry Hunsicker, Scott Montgomery, Eryk Pruitt, Max Booth III, Jedidiah Ayres, Rod Davis, and Oak Cliff’s popular Mad Swirl beat poet Opalina Salas, 7PM

Fort Worth

Fort Worth Public Library, Wordslingers presents Anne Perry, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Joelle Charbonneau will discuss and sign her new novel for young adults, NEED, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ada Calhoun discussing and signing ST. MARKS IS DEAD, 7PM
• Bright Sky Press, 3rd Annual Bright Sky Elves’ Deck the Shelves Event (Proceeds benefit the Delphians Group), 5PM
• Katy Budget Books, Houston local Marci Izard will discuss and sign her new cookbook, Nourishing Your Whole Self, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Robert Crais will sign and discuss The Promise, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Christopher Kelly discusses and signs Italy Invades, 5PM
• University of Houston – Central Campus, The Contemporary Project – Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context Lecture Series presents Katy Siegel, author of The Heroine Paint”: After Frankenthaler, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tom Hutton, M.D. discusses and signs Carrying the Black Bag, ?

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime: Comfort Classics, Freezer Food, 16-Minute Meals, and Other Delicious Ways to Solve Supper! book signing with Ree Drummond, 6PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Coleen Grissom discusses and signs The World According to Coleen, 6PM

San Marcos

• Wittliff Collections, Texas State presents poet Terrance Hayes, 3:30PM

Southlake

• B&N, Grace Revolution: Experience the Power to Live Above Defeat signing with Joseph Prince, 6:30PM

Friday, Nov. 13

Austin

• BookPeople, Young Adult Author JOELLE CHARBONNEAU speaking & signing Need, 7PM
• Long Center, An evening with Neil Gaiman, 8PM
• Malvern Books, It’s All About Shoes Book Launch with Pamela L. Laskin, Judith Austin Mills, and Ute Carson, 7PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, POETS ON X +FEATURING JOSH WEIR, 7PM
• Majestic Theatre, An Evening with Giada de Laurentiis: The Happy Cooking Tour, 8PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Chris O’Shea Roper and Tom Linton, PhD sign Water is for Fighting Over: A Compilation of Articles on Water Resource Management in Texas, 5PM

Houston

• Houston Community College – West Loop South, An Evening with Professor Richard Wolff, author of Democracy At Work and Capitalism Hits the Fan, 7PM
• Jung Center of Houston, James Hollis, PhD, author of What Matters Most and Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives, discusses “The Personal Myth in Turbulent Times,” 7PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Jennifer Robbins discusses and signs Down South Paleo and Joshua Weissman discusses and signs The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook, 4PM
• Writespace, Anything Goes All-Genre Open Mic, 7:30PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, Texas State presents poet Terrance Hayes, 7:30PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, Author George Arnold Signing, 1PM

San Antonio

• Half Price Books – Stone Ridge, Tamara Yates will sell and sign her middle-grade book, A Magic Book and the Fearie Queen, 12PM
• Wings Press 40th anniversary party: an evening of poems, music, and memories with Bryce Milligan, Pamela Uschuk, William Pitt Root, and Bill Fisher, 7PM [RSVP for location]

Saturday, Nov. 14

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, local author Sheaniqua Clarkson will sell and sign Life, Though I Walked Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1PM

Austin

• Austin Books & Comics, Sam Humphries signing Citizen Jack #1, 1PM
• B&N – Sunset Valley, Melissa Hood signs Memoirs of an ADHD Mind: God Was a Genius in the Way He Made Me, 1PM
• BookPeople, Bestselling Author of Wild CHERYL STRAYED Speaking & Signing Brave Enough, 2PM
• BookPeople, Austin Artist DANNY GARRETT speaking & signing Weird Yet Strange: Austin Music Posters, 7PM
• Half Price Books – N. Lamar, local author Sandra Lott will sell and sign The Wind Has a Voice, 1PM
• Half Price Books – S. Lamar, teen mentor and author Lauren Galley will sell and sign Kissing Frogs: In Search of Prince Charming, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Creative Minds of Texas Authors: Day One with Diana Finfrock Farrar, Marla Dean, Tamara Hartl, Allan Kimball, and Juan Manuel Casas, 2PM
• St. Edward’s University, Texas Writers’ League Workshop – , 9AM

Cedar Hill

• B&N, James Howell signs Countdown to Atomgeddon: The Race to Build the First Atomic Bomb, 1PM

Dallas

• LuminArte Gallery, Meet David Ritz, biographer of the stars, at the Authorlink Sociable Lecture Series + reception and book signing, 3PM
• MFA Gallery, ARTSPEAK “There Goes the Neighborhood” with Joey Darrell Cloudy, 5PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, El Paso author Nidia Michelle Dacosta will sign Sunset Winks, 2PM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “For the Birds 6” with John Williamson, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Books & Breakfast with Guest Author Rickey Teems II, 10AM
• The Dock Bookshop, Anita Hawkins will be signing and reading The Storm After The Storm, 4PM
• Half Price Books – Ridgmar, local author George Alatzas will sell and sign his book The Jimmy Doolittle Story: My Hero, 1PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, A Hardy Roper signs Saving Jake: A Parker McLeod Thriller, 2PM

Highland Village

• B&N, Chad Hennings signs Forces of Character, 1PM

Houston

• Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center, Borderlines Volume Two Book Launch + Celebration, 3:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Pelican Publishing authors Jo and Josephine Harper, authors of WHISTLING WILLIE FROM AMARILLO, TEXAS, Roberta Baird, illustrator of RUNAWAY PUMPKIN PIE MAN, and Marci Izard, author of NOURISHING YOUR WHOLE SELF: A Cookbook with Feelings, will meet and greet customers, 11AM
• Brazos Bookstore, Leon Hale signing ONE MAN’S CHRISTMAS + reception, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ned and Constance Sublette discussing and signing THE AMERICAN SLAVE COAST, 7PM
• Hilton Americas, 6th Annual READ3Zero I Write Luncheon and Book Signing, 10AM
• Hilton – University of Houston, HPJC Annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner with keynote speaker Chris Hedges, journalist and author of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Anthony Ford will discuss and sign Unequal Exchange, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Natalie May Bolger discusses and signs The Grand Festive Picnic, 4PM
• University of Houston – Cullen Performance Hall, Giada De Laurentiis – Happy Cooking Book Tour, 8PM

• No Label Brewing Company, Robert Jacobus signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 2:30PM

Missouri City

• Fort Bend County Libraries – Missouri City Branch, for NaNoWriMo local author and editor Afshan Malik discusses writing methods to complete your manuscript, 2PM

Richardson

• Richardson Civic Center, Writers Guild of Texas: author Taylor Stevens will conduct her workshop “From Idea to Publication: An Insider’s Walk through Traditional Publishing Deals,” 9AM

Round Rock

• Half Price Books, local author Melissa Boyd will sell and sign her children’s book The Christmas Wish, 1PM

San Antonio

• Half Price Books – Huebner, author Valerie Renee will sell and sign her novel The Ruby, 1PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Cappy Lawton & Chris Waters Dunn discuss and sign Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex, 11AM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre Bookstore, We’ll Live Tomorrow book signing, discussion and wine/cheese reception with author Will Everett, 6PM

Sugar Land

• B&N, The Barnes & Noble Cookie Bake-Off!: Top 75 Recipes from Around the Country book signing with the finalist, 2PM
• Fort Bend County Libraries – First Colony Branch, for NaNoWriMo local author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni will lead a creative-writing workshop, Planning & Writing Your Novel, 10AM

Sunday, Nov. 15

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Author GREG LEITICH SMITH speaking & signing Borrowed Time, 2PM
• BookPeople, Meet & Greet With ROSANNA PANSINO Youtube Star and Author of The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geek in All of Us, 7PM
• BookWoman, Kid Me Not Reading & Signing with Aralyn Hughes and contributors, 4PM
• Half Price Books – N. Lamar, Christopher Kelly will sell and sign Italy Invades: How Italians Conquered the World, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Creative Minds of Texas Authors: Day Two with Bert Bebe, Marjorie Brody, and B Alan Bourgeois, 2PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, author and entrepreneur Tiffany Sunday will sell and sign Dyslexia’s Competitive Edge: Business and Leadership Insights and Strategies for Dyslexic Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Professionals, 1PM
• Houston
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tale-ing through Time: Jewish Storytelling in “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” presented by storyteller Rabbi Dan Gordon, 3PM

Midland

• B&N, Mario Bosco signing From Hospitals to Hollywood, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Reading and musical performance by children’s author Matthew Gollub: The Jazz Fly, 11AM
• Viva! Bookstore, Celebrate 42 Years: Our Final Open House, 1PM

San Marcos

• Alkek Library, RODRIGO MOYA: Photography and Conscience/Fotografia y conciencia reception, Q&A, and book signing, 2PM

The Woodlands

• B&N, Jo and Josephine Harper sign Whistling Willie from Amarillo, Texas, 2PM

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