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Summary: 94 Events.

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (1963)

1960s

• THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES. by Sue Monk. Kidd

1996 Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

The 74th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

Accidental discovery of 782 Ashmole

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Activation of the Knights of Lazarus

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

AIDS epidemic

• At Risk by Alice Hoffman

Apocalypse

• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King ([1963])

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (1963)

Battle of France

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle with Volturi

• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer

Bella's Wedding

• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer

Birth of Stephen T. Colbert

• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert

The Blitz

• Atonement by Ian McEwan ([1940] ∙ [1941])

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

Ceremony of Twelve

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (1893)

Christmas

• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Cleansing of Saidin

• Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9) by Robert Jordan

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• The Hour I First Believed: A Novel by Wally Lamb

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (1997-08-31)

Death of Judas

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

debut of The Ramones

• The Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King

Deliah Rose calls FBI Special Agent Kimperly Quincy and tells her she has important information for her about prostitutes that have gone missing.

• Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Diana accepts her powers, begins to learn how to work them

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Diana and Matthew go Timewalking

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Discovery that Ashmol 782 might contain the secret of the birth of the three races - Witches, Vampires and Daemons

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston (1989)

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1989)

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Flare

• The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner Trilogy) by James Dashner

Formation of the Conveticle

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Gerald Ford Presidency

• The Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King

Grace Brown's Murder

• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (1906)

Great Depression

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (1929)

The Great Revelation

• Living Dead in Dallas (Original MM Art) (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) by Charlaine Harris

Halloween

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (1958)

Haun's Mill Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Oct 30, 1838)

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Hurricane Katrina

• Zeitoun (Vintage) by Dave Eggers

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jonathan Franzen

Jonah is Chosen as the receiver

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1981)

Kobe earthquake

• After The Quake by Haruki Murakami (1995)

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Mary Claire Fitzhugh is abducted in 1967

• U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) by Sue Grafton

Meeting of Diana and Matthew

• A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness

Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother

• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Mountain Meadows Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Sept. 11, 1857)

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett (1154)

nuclear winter

• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy

Olympics Berlin, Germany

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1936)

Papal Election

• Angels & Demons: A Novel (Robert Langdon) by Dan Brown

Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.

• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann

Phoenix Flu

• In a Perfect World: A Novel by Laura Kasischke

Presidential Election

• Game Change by John; Halperin Heilemann, Mark (2008)

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

Rapture

• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

Revolutionary period in Spain

• The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte (1868-1875)

Sarah catches a glimpse of David while shopping at Food Lion. David rings the doorbell on Halloween night to talk to her.

• The Widow's Season by Laura Brodie

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jonathan Franzen
• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (2001-09-11)

shipwreck

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Solar flares

• The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner Trilogy) by James Dashner

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish-American War

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (1898)

St. Patrick's Day parade

• Cathedral by Nelson DeMille

Taiping Rebellion

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See

Ten-year college reunion

• Falling Together: A Novel by Marisa de los Santos

Trail of Tears

• Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell (1839)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling

U.S.S. Cole Bombing

• The Panther by Nelson DeMille

United States presidential election

• The Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King (1976)

Victorian Era

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Vietnam War

• "O" Is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton

Watergate Scandal

• The Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King (1974)

World Trade Center attack

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War I

• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

World War II

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Black Cross by Greg Iles
• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
• I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1939-1945)
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1939-1945)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1939-1945)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan ([1939] ∙ [1945])

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

The Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)