Book Events for AmandaGStevens

1460s

• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

14th century

• The Inferno (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri

1540s

• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

1547

• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

15th century

• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

16th century

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

1750s

• Kidnapped (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

1752

• Kidnapped (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

17th century

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1810s

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

1820s

• The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

1830s

• The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
• Kidnapped (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Tale of Two Cities: (150th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

1940s

• Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays) by Arthur Miller

1949

• Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays) by Arthur Miller

19th century

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere
• David Copperfield (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
• Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• Silas Marner (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
• Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

1st century

• Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace

2008-2009 Recession

• Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters by Timothy Keller

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

9/11

• Secrets (The Michelli Family Series #1) by Kristen Heitzmann

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Meridian by Alice Walker

Age of Sail

• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Alien Invasion

• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

American Civil War

• Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1865)

American Revolution

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ( 1783)

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Appin Murder

• Kidnapped (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Augustine's conversion

• The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics) by Augustine of Hippo

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Beat Generation

• On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac

Birth of Jesus

• Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace

Blessing of the Fleet in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

• Captains Courageous (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling

Bloomsday

• The Bloomsday Dead (The Dead Trilogy) by mckinty-adrian

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut

Boston Police Strike

• The Given Day (Coughlin, Book 1) by Dennis Lehane

Burial of the Unknown Soldier

• Wake: A Novel by Anna Hope

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

California Gold Rush

• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (1848–1855)

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace
• The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• Little house in the big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Cold War

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Creation of Narnia

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

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

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

Death of the White Witch

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

The Deluge

• The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics) by Anonymous (Great Flood)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse (1931 ∙ 1939)

Easter

• Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace

elections

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Escape to the Rafter D.

• The Man Called Noon: A Novel by Louis L'Amour

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

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

Expulsion of the Acadians

• Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1755-1756)

Finding the gold and money.

• The Man Called Noon: A Novel by Louis L'Amour

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Forced-labour camps in Communist Bulgaria

• I Am David by Anne Holm

French and Indian War

• Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare (1763)

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities: (150th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) by Baroness Orczy (1789-1799)

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

Gettysburg Campaign

• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07)

Grace Marks Murder Trial

• Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1843)

Great Depression

• Blue Willow by Doris Gates
• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• Into the Free: A Novel by Julie Cantrell
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Depression

• Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse

Great Fire of London

• Master Cornhill (Puffin Books) by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1666)

The Great Molasses Flood

• The Given Day (Coughlin, Book 1) by Dennis Lehane

Great Upheaval

• Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gunfight at the train station.

• The Man Called Noon: A Novel by Louis L'Amour

Gunfight on the mountains.

• The Man Called Noon: A Novel by Louis L'Amour

Gunplay in the street in Boquilla.

• A Gun for Kilkenny (Louis L'Amour) by Louis L'Amour

Halloween

• Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel by Ray Bradbury

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Haun's Mill Massacre

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

Holocaust

• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)
• The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics) by Jane Yolen (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)

Hundred Days

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere ( 1815-07-08)

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1960)

Hurricane Ike

• Galveston: A Novel by Nic Pizzolatto

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Sign of Four (Penguin Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Influenza pandemic

• The Given Day (Coughlin, Book 1) by Dennis Lehane

Jacobite Rebellion

• Kidnapped (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jazz Age

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Johnson County War

• Shane: The Critical Edition by Jack Schaefer (1892-04)
• The Virginian by Owen Wister (1892-04)
• The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (referenced)

Jonestown Massacre, 1978

• The Pawn (Patrick Bowers Files) by Steven James

Klondike Gold Rush

• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (1898)

Krakatoa Eruption

• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (1883)

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel

Middle Ages

• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) by Seamus Heaney
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain
• Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The Inferno (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri
• The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George MacDonald
• Redwall by Brian Jacques

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere ( 1815)
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen ( 1815)

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1154)

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Olympic Games

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

Operation Vestal

• In the Woods by Tana French

Palmer Raids

• The Given Day (Coughlin, Book 1) by Dennis Lehane

Panic of 1893

• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (1897)

Peace of Amiens

• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian (1802-1803)

Pickett's Charge

• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Post World War I

• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Post-Reconstruction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Reconstruction Ends)

Prohibition in the United States

• Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

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

Reconstruction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1877)

Recovery at Alamosa.

• The Man Called Noon: A Novel by Louis L'Amour

Regency Era

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

Reign of Edward VI, King of England

• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

Reign of Henry VIII

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities: (150th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) by Baroness Orczy (1793-1794)

Reod

• Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition by Brandon Sanderson

Return of Father Christmas

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

Roman Empire

• Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace

Roman occupation of Britain

• The Eagle of the Ninth (The Roman Britain Trilogy Book One) by Rosemary Sutcliff

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Second Titan War

• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
• Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Solar eclipse

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

Stealing the Cleopatra Emerald

• Uncommon Criminals (A Heist Society Novel) by Ally Carter

Summer solstice

• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

Taiping Rebellion

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See (1864)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J. K. Rowling

A trip to El Paso.

• The Man Called Noon: A Novel by Louis L'Amour

The Troubles

• Gun Street Girl: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel by Adrian McKinty
• Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels) by Ian Rankin

Tudor Era

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

Underground Railroad

• Song Yet Sung by James McBride

United States presidential election

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1960)

Vel' d' Hiv'

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1942)

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• David Copperfield (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde
• Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
• Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (1850s)

Vietnam War

• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Volstead Act

• The Given Day (Coughlin, Book 1) by Dennis Lehane

Wars of the Roses

• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1485)

Winter Solstice

• Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

World Series

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

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M. L. Stedman
• The Murder Stone: A Novel of Suspense by Charles Todd
• A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries) by Charles Todd
• All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition by John Steinbeck (1918)
• Surprised by Joy by Lewis Cs (1918)
• Wake: A Novel by Anna Hope (1918)

World War II

• Casablanca: Script and Legend by Howard Koch
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics) by Bette Greene
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)
• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke (1945)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride (1945)
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (1945)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945)

World War II, British Home Front

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

World War II, German invasion of Greece

• Sons of Thunder (Brothers in Arms Collection (Summerside Press)) by Susan May Warren

World War II, German Occupation of Denmark

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick (1944)
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945-05-05)

World War II, Italian Campaign

• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride (1945-05-02)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945-09-02)

World War III

• The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 by Philip K. Dick

Xenocide of the Formics

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