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Summary: 48 Events.

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (1963)

1928

• East of the Sun: A Novel by Julia Gregson

1936 Olympics

• Olympic Affair: A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's Hero by Terry Frei

The 74th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

9/11 Attacks

• Nemesis by Jo Nesbo

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Anschluss

• The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• 11.22.63 by Stephen King ([1963])

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (1963)

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Vintage) by Miranda Carter

The Baptist War

• The Long Song: A Novel by Andrea Levy (1832)

Battle of France

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Black Plague

• World Without End by Ken Follett

The Blitz

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

Chinese Invasion of Tibet

• Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet by Yangzom Brauen (1950)

Christmas

• Rumpole at Christmas by John Mortimer

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Credit crunch

• A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

Crimean War

• The Rose Of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
• The Water Horse by Julia Gregson

Dreyfus Affair

• The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal

Dunkirk Evacuation

• The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons

Eruption of Vesuvius

• Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris (79 AD)

German occupation of the English Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Great Depression

• Water for Elephants: a Novel by Sara Gruen (1929)

Greg keeps eating the gingerbread house

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

Gujarat Earthquake

• The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi (2001-01-26)

Halloween

• 11.22.63 by Stephen King (1958)

Holocaust

• The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
• The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions) by John Boyne (1945)

Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother

• The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling

The Murder of Saville Kent

• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (1860)

Napoleonic Wars

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)

New York World's Fair

• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (1965)

Olympics Berlin, Germany

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

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Papal Election

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

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Rebellion against the Capitol

• Mockingjay (part III of The Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins

Rodrick has a party in his house without asking his mom or dad

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

Rowley gets a babysitter

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

Soviet-Afghan War

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

Spanish Civil War

• Winter of the World (Century of Giants Trilogy 2) by Ken Follett

Tsunami

• A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison

Underground Railroad

• The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

World War I

• The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
• George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Vintage) by Miranda Carter (1914-1918)

World War II

• The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
• The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
• Winter of the World (Century of Giants Trilogy 2) by Ken Follett
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions) by John Boyne (1945)
• Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy (1945)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1939-1945)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan ([1939] ∙ [1945])
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (German Occupation)

Éruption du Vésuve

• Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris (79)