MONDAY:
Keith Gessen will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, which focuses on the lives of three young intellectuals at the beginning of the 21st century. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, will appear at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue to read from her book, People of the Book, based on real-life Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath’s travels to Sarajevo to study the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript. 7 p.m.

Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of his new book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Plan A apparently refers to business as usual, and Plan B involves a drastic overhaul of society. We'll wait to throw our support behind Plan C, as long as it involves living on the moon or Mars. That's where all the real estate action is these days. 6 p.m.

Andrei Cherny will make an appearance at the Borders on L Street to discuss his book, The Candy Bombers, the story of the men behind the Berlin Airlift. 6:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
V. V. Ganeshananthan will be at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to discuss her debut novel, Love Marriage — a story about the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who moves to America and discovers the traditions of her past and present aren't that different. 7 p.m.

Michael Hastings, who at the age of 25 was in Baghdad covering the war for Newsweek, will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson's to talk about his book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. Bring some tissues. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
Alexandra Harney, who covers China for the Financial Times, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss low wages and miserable working conditions in Chinese factories — the topic of her book, The China Price. We were going to make a joke about her book being certified as free of lead-based paint, but we decided that was pretty lame. Oh, wait. We made the joke anyway. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
Laura and Jenna Bush will be at the Borders on 14th Street to talk about their children's book, Read All About It!. Be prepared for the usual secret service presence. 7 p.m.

A former editor of Slate and a columnist for Time, Michael Kinsley will appear at Politics and Prose to have a chat with Jonathan Chait, senior editor at The New Republic and a former assistant editor of The American Prospect. What will they be talking about? Stuff. Our sources indicate they might mention a couple things about Kinsley's book, Please Don't Remain Calm, a collection of pieces written over the last 14 years, covering the Clinton and Bush administrations. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY:
Helen Reddy, the first Australian to win a Grammy (for the song “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar”), will make an appearance at the Olsson's in Alexandria to read from her autobiography, The Woman I Am, A Memoir. 1 p.m.