Dust off your tote bag, find your special autograph pen, and bust out your most durable bookmarks. It’s National Book Festival time.

The Library of Congress’s annual convention of authors and book lovers returns to D.C.’s convention center on Saturday, August 31. More than 140 authors, poets, and illustrators are slated to speak this year. The list includes Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough.

Avid planners, take note: The festival is free and open to the public, so many events do fill up (even ones on the main stage, which has been expanded this year to seat 4,000). The festival’s mobile app is a handy way to create and track your schedule. If you feel overwhelmed by the full slate of programming, check out our suggested itinerary below.

Happy reading!

9:30 – 9:55 a.m. Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg

Legendary writer Jon Scieszka is responsible for weird and wonderful children’s classics like The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! He’ll speak with illustrator Steven Weinberg on the Children’s Green Stage about their new book, AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet, in which a team of hybrid animals search for a new planet for us destructive humans to inhabit.

Another option: Sibling duo Matt and Jennifer L. Holm will discuss their new book, The Evil Princess vs. the Brave Knight, on the Children’s Purple Stage. The book presents lessons on sibling dynamics through its two main characters, a mischief-making princess and a dragon-fighting prince.

10 – 10:45 a.m. Western Writers

It’s four for the price of one! A quartet of writers will take the Genre Fiction Stage for a panel conversation on writing about the American West. The lineup includes Johnny D. Boggs, Anne Hillerman, Paul Andrew Hutton, and Craig Johnson. Their areas of expertise range from the Apache Wars to ghost towns. (And if you love a man in a bolo tie, this is probably the event for you.)

Another option: From 10:25 to 10:45 a.m. in the Pavilion, you can learn how to research your family’s genealogy with Library of Congress resources like public records, newspaper articles, and the librarians themselves.

11 – 11:45 a.m. Claudia Salazar Jiménez

Take advantage of the return of the International Stage by going to this presentation by one of the most lauded Peruvian writers of her generation. She’ll discuss her novel Blood of the Dawn, which follows three women during a fear-filled time in Peruvian history when the Shining Path insurgent group was at its peak. The book won the Americas Narrative Prize in 2014.

Another option: Stop by the Teens Stage from 10:50 to 11:25 a.m. to hear young adult novelist Kathleen Glasgow talk about her new book, How to Make Friends with the Dark, which tells the story of a teenage girl named Tiger coping with her mother’s death.

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

She’s a Supreme Court Justice, pop art icon and fitness queen. Maybe you’ve heard of her? Ginsburg will speak with NPR’s Nina Totenberg on the Main Stage about her 2016 bestseller My Own Words. These two powerful women will be introduced by none other than Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

Another option: Librarians from the Library of Congress will present on how they select and procure foreign acquisitions in the Pavilion from 11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. There will also be an interactive quiz!

12:30 p.m. Lunch break

Trust us—it’s time to take a break. Step outside. See the sun. Call your family and tell them you love them.

Another option: Eat a granola bar while you wait in line for a book signing (authors have designated book signing times that are separate from their speaking engagements). Might we suggest R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries? The novel was reviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air last year.

1 – 2 p.m. José Andrés

He won the James Beard Award. He co-founded a wildly successful, D.C.-based family of restaurants. He helped feed Puerto Ricans in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Now, Andrés will take the Main Stage and discuss two projects with WAMU’s Diane Rehm: his new book Vegetables Unleashed and We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time.

Another option: Head to the Children’s Green Stage stage to see Jon Klassen, author-illustrator of smile-inducing children’s books like I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat.

2:15 – 2:50 p.m. Ngozi Ukazu

Don’t miss this presentation by the creator of Check, Please!, an online graphic novel whose printing campaign is the most-funded web comics Kickstarter ever. The series tells the story of a gay figure skater from Georgia who joins the hockey team at a prestigious northeastern university.

Another option: Love talking end times? Head to the Science Stage to hear Peter Brannen discuss The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions.

3 – 3:45 p.m. Charlie Jane Anders

Anders is an award-winning writer, commentator, and transgender activist. She’ll be on the Genre Fiction Stage to talk about The City in the Middle of the Night, a futuristic science fiction novel set on another planet threatened by climate change.

Another option: Noted Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will take to the Children’s Green Stage from 3:20 to 3:45 to talk about Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, a book for young people.

4 – 4:45 p.m. Douglas Brinkley

This event comes just in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The noted history writer will discuss American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race with local businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein, who also happens to be the festival’s largest private donor.

Another option: Over on the Fiction stage, Richard Powers will discuss The Overstory, that book that every book club in the nation has been reading.

5 – 5:45 p.m. Evan Thomas

Shimmy over to the History & Biography Stage to hear this New York Times bestseller discuss First: Sandra Day O’Connor about America’s first female Supreme Court Justice. Thomas spent more than three decades in the magazine business, including 10 years as Newsweek‘s Washington bureau chief. He appears regularly on talk shows like Meet the Press and Morning Joe.

Another option: Catch Moroccan novelist Laila Lalami on the Fiction Stage talking about her beautiful, devastating book The Other Americans on the Fiction stage.

6 – 6:45 p.m. Kim Thúy

Before she was an award-winning novelist, Thúy was a restaurateur in Montreal. Before that, she was a refugee fleeing Vietnam with her family after the fall of Saigon. Thúy will be on the International Stage to discuss her new cookbook, Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers, which includes stories and recipes from her mother and five Vietnamese aunts.

Another option: Pop over to see the festival’s annual poetry slam, which runs on the Teen Stage from 6 – 7:30 p.m. Some of the D.C. region’s best youth slam groups will compete for the title of top youth slammer.

7 – 7:55 p.m. The Enduring Appeal of the Odyssey

What better way to cap off your literary odyssey than a panel discussion on the popularity of odyssey narratives? Speakers for this event in the Poetry & Prose room include Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer’s The Odyssey into English, and Alberto Manguel, author of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography. Madeline Miller will join them to discuss her book Circe, which tells the story of the witch who turns sailors into pigs and whose island Odysseus visits on his great journey.

Another option: Prolific novelist Joyce Carol Oates will be on the Fiction Stage from 7 – 7:45 p.m. to talk about her new book, My Life as a Rat.

8 p.m. Go home and get reading!

It might be hard to sleep after such a packed day. “There’s a certain amount of electricity,” said Marie Arana, the festival’s director. “To face a vast audience that is interested and passionate in your work, well, there’s nothing like that in the world for a writer.”

If you’re still hungry for more National Book Festival #content, keep your eyes open for the launch of the “National Book Festival Presents” series of author talks. The series will kick off on September 11 with actor Neil Patrick Harris. He’ll speak at the Library of Congress about his new book for middle schoolers, The Magic Misfits.

This story originally appeared on WAMU.