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1936 USA Presidential Election

• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

Age of Simplification

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Agreement of the Holy Scourge

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

American Civil War

• Little women by Louisa May Alcott
• March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
• The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester

American Revolution

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Michael L Printz Honor Book (Awards)) by M.T. Anderson
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

Apocalypse

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman

Appin murder

• Kidnapped (Scribner's Illustrated Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

Battle of Agincourt

• The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Richard III by William Shakespeare (1485)

Battle of Caporetto

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Somme

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Waterloo

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Blitz

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• The End of the Affair : (movie tie-in edition) by Graham Greene

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce (1904-06-16)

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (February 1945)

Bombing of England

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Boston Tea Party

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis
• Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1952)

Cold War

• WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE by Kurt Vonnegut

Creation of a Jewish State

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (rack) (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Crimean War

• The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde

The death and resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

the death of Beowulf

• Beowulf : an imitative translation

the death of Grendel

• Beowulf : an imitative translation

the death of Grendel's mother

• Beowulf : an imitative translation

The death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

Destruction of Earth

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Flame Deluge

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Fourth Crusade

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco (1204)

Great Depression

• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Great Wars

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel by Michael Chabon
• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

Hundred Years' War

• The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

The Inquisition

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman

Invention of the ansible

• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

invention of the printing press

• Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker (1440)

Italian Campaign

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel by Michael Chabon

Kidnapping of Senor Narcisco Linares' child.

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr

Laredan-Texarkanan War

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

launching of the Titanic

• From Time to Time: The Sequel to Time and Again by Jack Finney

Melding Plague

• Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1912)

Middle Ages

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Mint 400

• Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Napoleonic Wars

• Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Jane Austen
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

New York World's Fair 1939

• 1939: Lost World of Fair by David Gelernter

Nineteen Year Winter

• One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)

nuclear winter

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Nuclear winter

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Oregon Crusade

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Prohibition

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The return of Father Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

Rwandan Genocide

• Rwanda Conflict by Dixon Kamukama (1994)

September 11 Attacks

• The Emperor's Children (Vintage) by Claire Messud (2001-09-11)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Sinking of the Titanic

• Passage by Connie Willis

Spanish American War

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr

Spanish Civil War

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1939)

Spanish Inquisition

• In the Garden of Iden (The Company) by Kage Baker

Stole the Book

• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Super Bowl

• Survivor : A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre

• The Crazed (Vintage International) by Ha Jin

Trojan War

• The Iliad by Homer

War of the Races

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Wars of the Roses

• Richard III by William Shakespeare

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

World War I

• City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• From Time to Time: The Sequel to Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis (1918)

World War II

• Tramp For The Lord by Corrie Ten Boom
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel by Michael Chabon
• Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
• 1984 : a novel by George Orwell
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (German Occupation)

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)

The Xenocide of the Formics

• Enders Game (Ender Wiggins Saga) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)