Book Events for CM2NET

16th century

• Penguin Classics Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

17th century

• Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 (Hackett Classics) by Thomas Hobbes

1810s

• Persuasion (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen

1820s

• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot

18th century

• Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Everyman's Library) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Everyman's Library Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

1980s

• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

1984

• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

19th century

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Mansfield Park: Introduction by Peter Conrad (Everyman's Library Classics Series) by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Persuasion (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen

4th century BCE

• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• Plato: The Republic (Penguin Books for Philosophy) by Plato
• The Politics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle

5th century BCE

• Sun Tzu The Art Of War by Tzu Sun

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Afghan Wars

• Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford (2001-)

Age of Sail

• Master and Commander: Book 1 (Aubrey-Maturin) by Patrick O’Brian
• Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana

American Civil War

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)

American Indian Wars

• Dragon Teeth: A Novel by Michael Crichton (1924)

Augustine's conversion

• Confessions by R. S. Augustine;Pine-Coffin

Battle of Roncesvalles

• The Song of Roland by Anonymous (778)

Battle of the Atlantic

• A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1943-1945: v. 2 by W.A.B. Douglas (1945)
• No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939-1943: 2 by Roger Sarty (1945)

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1815)

Beat Generation

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

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Gwyn Jones

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bone Wars

• Dragon Teeth: A Novel by Michael Crichton (1892)

Caen Bombardment

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

Christmas

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Gwyn Jones

D-Day

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (1944-06-06)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot

Death of Socrates

• The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

Enlightenment

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Everyman's Library Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft

French Revolution

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Everyman's Library Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (English Library) by Edmund Burke (1799)

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen

Hellenistic Period

• The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Peter Thonemann

Holocaust

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt

Jazz Age

• Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

July Revolution

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1832)

Kosovo War

• Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff (1999)

Kristallnacht

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt

Liberation of Paris

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (1944-08-25)

Middle Ages

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Gwyn Jones

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park: Introduction by Peter Conrad (Everyman's Library Classics Series) by Jane Austen
• Master and Commander: Book 1 (Aubrey-Maturin) by Patrick O’Brian
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Persuasion (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen ( 1815)

New Year

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Gwyn Jones

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt

Operation Gladio

• Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

Operation Overlord

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (1944-08-30)

Origins of World War I

• The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

Pisonian conspiracy

• The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca by Emily Wilson

Pragmatism

• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty

Prague Spring

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1877)

Regency Era

• Persuasion (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen

Renaissance

• Penguin Classics Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Russian Revolution

• The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

Rwandan Genocide

• Shake Hands With The Devil The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Brent Romeo; Beardsley Dallaire (1994)

secularism

• A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated by Tara Westover

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Soviet-Afghan War

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

Spanish Golden Age

• Penguin Classics Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish Renaissance

• Penguin Classics Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Strategy of Tension

• Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

Trial of Adolf Eichmann

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt

Trial of Socrates

• The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

Trojan War

• The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde

Vietnam War

• Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay

War on Terrorism

• The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (Gifford Lectures (Princeton University Press)) by Michael Ignatieff

World War I

• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
• The Regeneration Trilogy : Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
• The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
• All Quiet on the Western Front: Introduction by Norman Stone (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Various (1918)
• The War Poems (Faber Pocket Poetry) by Siegfried Sassoon (1918)
• Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
• Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
• A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1943-1945: v. 2 by W.A.B. Douglas (1945)
• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (1945)
• Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II by Bill Gunston (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell ( 1945)
• No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939-1943: 2 by Roger Sarty (1945)

World War III

• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

Y2K

• Educated by Tara Westover

Years of Lead

• Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

Yule

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Gwyn Jones

Zombie Apocalypse

• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks