With over 80 events at this Sunday’s Brooklyn Book Festival, and too many A-List authors to see in one day, even we can’t decide what to attend. So we listed our top contenders. Note that for any reading in the Courtroom or St. Francis’s Auditorium, you’ll need a (free) ticket, available at the info booth on Borough Hall Plaza one hour before the event. To make it inside a reading like Jonathan Franzen’s, plan to line up two hours ahead.

Boldfaced Names
Memoirist and author A.M. Homes, who penned early seasons of “The L Word” (before Jenny became so unbearable), and “Lush Life” author Richard Price, who wrote for the much-loved show “The Wire,” talk about the transition from fiction to cable TV. 2 pm, Borough Hall Courtroom

Joan Didion and other New York Review of Books writers join their editor, Robert Silvers, in a talk about the challenges facing the next president (Obama). 5 pm, St. Francis’ Auditorium

Brigid Hughes of the literary journal A Public Space, published here in Brooklyn, moderates literary heavyweights Russell Banks and Jonathan Franzen. 5 pm, Borough Hall Courtroom

Thematically Linked
Despite its name, “The Great Man” by Kate Christensen contains an array of incredibly rich, complex female characters tied together by a talented but unfaithful artist. She joins Philip Lopate (”Two Marriages”), Andrew Sean Greer (”The Story of a Marriage”), and Lore Segal (”Shakespeare’s Kitchen”) to talk about “Marriage, Dissolution and Connection.” Noon, Brooklyn Historical Society

Steven Jenkins, whose slightly outdated, Eurocentric “Cheese Primer” still has a place on any cheese lover’s shelf, joins Steven Rinella (”The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine”) and Steve Dublanica (”Waiter Rant”) to dish about “Selling, Hunting and Serving Food in America,” with NY Times food writer Melissa Clark moderating. 2 pm, North Stage, Borough Hall Plaza

Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore talk about the parallels between indie music and book publishing with musician and publisher of Akashic Books, Johnny Temple, who lured a lot of the big-wigs to this years’ Book Fest. 3 pm, St. Francis’ Auditorium

The Debut Novelists
Since the Banks-Franzen and Didion readings will be packed to the gills, hearing music writer Chuck Klosterman, founding Believer editor Ed Park, and Vegas’s unofficial laureate Charles Bock read from their debut fiction is a great plan B. 5 pm, Main Stage, Borough Hall Plaza

Hannah Tinti, editor of Brooklyn’s short-but-sweet journal, One Story, will read from her debut novel “The Good Thief,” along with Amy Shearn (”How Far is the Ocean From Here”), and Toby Barlow (”Sharp Teeth”). 10 am, Borough Hall Community Room

World Lit
Paris Review deputy editor Matt Weiland, who with Sean Wisley edited an anthology of name writers riffing on their home states (”“State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America”), gathers Brooklyn College professor Moustafa Bayoumi (”How Does it Feel to be a Problem?”), David Rakoff (”Don’t Get too Comfortable”) and Rivka Galkin (”Atmospheric Disturbances”) to discuss the state of being out of place. 1 pm, Borough Hall Community Room

Novelist Amanda Stern, curator of the long-running, eclectic Happy Ending reading series, combines readings by Iranian-American writers Porochista Khakpour (”Sons and Other Flammable Objects“), Said Sayrafiezadeh (”When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood”) and Indian-American writer Manil Suri (”The Age of Shiva”), with the music of artist Nina Katchadourian. 5 pm, Center Stage, Borough Hall Plaza

Fun and Family
For the under 8 set, Mo Willems reads from “Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity” and “Elephant and Piggie.” 11:30, Target Children’s Area, Borough Hall Plaza

Anyone who can string together six words about their lives can share their mini-memoir after editors Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser read from their best-selling “Not Quite What I Was Planning: 6-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.” 3 pm, South Stage, Borough Hall Plaza

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Book Fest photo courtesy Brooklyn Borough President’s Office, Joan Didion photo by AP Photo/Kathy Willens, Thurston Moore photo via Ground Control Touring.