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Summary: 25 Events.

1960s

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Afghan Civil War

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

American Civil War

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

Bunny goes to bed

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

French Revolution

• Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber

Great Depression

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Haun's Mill Massacre

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

Holocaust

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel (1939-1945)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Monster of Florence Serial Killings

• The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston (1974-1985)

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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

Napoleonic Wars

• Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Prohibition in the United States

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1933)

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

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

September 11 Attacks

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Soviet-Afghan War

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

World War

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel (1939-1945)

World War I

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1939-1945)

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)