Book Events for JechtShot

11th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

1241

• The Mongoliad: Book Two (The Foreworld Saga) by Neal Stephenson

14th century

• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri

16th century

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

17th century

• The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller

1893 Chicago World's Fair

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

18th century

• A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1970s

• Carrie by Stephen King

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1996 Everest Disaster

• Mountain Madness by Robert Birkby

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

• The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
• The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson

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 by Charles Dickens
• The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games: Book 1 by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Accession of James VI, King of the Scots

• Shakespeare : The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help Deluxe Edition by Kathryn Stockett

Age of Mortals

• Redemption (Dragonlance: Dhamon Saga) by Jean Rabe

AIDS epidemic

• Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
• Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

Alien Invasion

• Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline
• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

American Civil War

• 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale by David Wellington (1865)
• Boneshaker (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Cherie Priest (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" by Alexandra Ripley (1865)
• Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale by David Wellington (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

American Indian Movement

• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• Locke & Key Volume 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (1783)

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Anatomy Act

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1836)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Shakespeare : The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson

Armageddon

• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1914)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• The Help Deluxe Edition by Kathryn Stockett
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help Deluxe Edition by Kathryn Stockett

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
• Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Hiroshima by John Hersey (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (full color) (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit: or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Garriston

• The Black Prism (Lightbringer Book 1) by Brent Weeks

Battle of Gettysburg

• 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale by David Wellington (1863-07-03)

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Leuctra

• Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell (371 BC)

Battle of Lyncus Plain

• Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell (358 BC)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov

Battle of the Atlantic

• Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (The Lord of The Rings, Part 3) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1815)

Beat Generation

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Big Bang

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

The Blitz

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Chicago World's Fair

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

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (1900)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Secret life of bees, The by Sue Monk Kidd

Cleaning

• Wool 3 - Casting Off (Silo series) by Hugh Howey
• Wool 4 - The Unraveling (Silo series) by Hugh Howey

Cold War

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• Code To Zero by Ken Follett
• Declare by Tim Powers
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Constitutional Convention

• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

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 (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1) by C. S. Lewis

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

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

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of the White Witch

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

Destruction of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

Disaster: Storm at Sea

• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

Discovery of Fillory

• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Blackout by Connie Willis (1940-06-04)

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck

Easter Rising

• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (1916)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

El Gran Consejo de los Señores de los Dragones

• Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 3) by Margaret Weis

End of the Mayan Calendar at 12/21/2012

• 12.21: A Novel by Dustin Thomason

End of the Universe

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

End of the World

• The Gates by John Connolly

Endurance Expedition

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1917)

Enfield Poltergeist

• This House Is Haunted by Guy Lyon Playfair

English Renaissance

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

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

Everstorm

• Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, Book 2) by Brandon Sanderson

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

• Shakespeare : The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson

Fall of France

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

First Ascent of the North Face of the Eiger

• The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer (1938)

The Freeing

• The Black Prism (Lightbringer Book 1) by Brent Weeks

French and Indian War

• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Funeral Rule

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1982)

Galactic Civil War

• Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov

George Washington's Presidency

• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

Georgian Era

• The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1837)

Gettysburg Campaign

• 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale by David Wellington (1863)
• Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale by David Wellington (1863)

Gilded Age

• Passage by Connie Willis

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Gold Rush

• The Colour: A Novel by Rose Tremain

Golden Age of Comic Books

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

Grand National Horse race

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

The Great Collapse

• The Unincorporated Man (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Dani Kollin

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
• The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

The Great Revelation

• Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson

Halloween

• The Gates by John Connolly
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Halloween 1958

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hartford circus fire

• Passage by Connie Willis (1944-07-06)

Haun's Mill Massacre

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

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson
• Passage by Connie Willis (1937-05-06)

HIV / Aids fear 1980's

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Holocaust

• Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Winfried Georg Sebald
• City of God by E. L. Doctorow
• The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) by Julie Orringer
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
• The Strain (The Strain Trilogy) by Guillermo Del Toro
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Holy Week

• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III (1979)

Iraq War

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)

Irish Civil War

• The Secret Scripture: A Novel by Sebastian Barry

Japanese-American Internment

• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Jesus calls his disciples

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jesus’ burial

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jesus’ death

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jesus’ resurrection

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

July Revolution

• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1832)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon ( 1951)

Kobe earthquake

• After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami (1995)

Launch of Explorer I

• Code To Zero by Ken Follett (1958-02-01)

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night by Elie Wiesel

Manhattan Project

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

May 10, 1996 Everest Disaster

• No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

McCarthy Era

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller

Medieval Era

• Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0) by Scott Meyer
• Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0) by Scott Meyer

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)

Middle Ages

• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White

Mint 400 Race

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Mongol Invasion of Europe

• The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga) by Neal Stephenson
• The Mongoliad: Book Two (The Foreworld Saga) by Neal Stephenson

Monmouth Rebellion

• The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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

Murders of DeFeo Family

• The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson (1974)

Napoleonic Wars

• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1815)

New Guinea Campaign

• Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (1945-08)

Nigerian-Biafran War

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett ( 1154)

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Operation Vestal

• In the Woods by Tana French

Papal Election

• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

plagues

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)

President Clinton's Impeachment

• The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

The Quest For The 7 Golden Keys Of Fillory

• The Magician King: A Novel by Lev Grossman

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit: or There and Back Again 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

The Rapture

• Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days by Tim LaHaye

The Reappearance of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1877)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens

Renaissance

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Shakespeare's Sonnets (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Reod

• Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

Return of Father Christmas

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

Return Of The Gods

• The Magician King: A Novel by Lev Grossman

The Rising

• Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella by Mira Grant

Roswell Incident

• Event: A Novel by David L. Golemon

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Salem witch trials

• The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller (1692)
• The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel by Kathleen Kent (1692)

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (1906)

Saur Revolution

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1978-04-28)

Scarlet Fever Epidemic

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Seldon Crisis

• Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov

September 11 Attacks

• 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer
• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo
• Ground Zero (Repairman Jack Novels) by F. Paul Wilson
• Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Siege of Leningrad

• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1944-01-27)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Sinking of the Titanic

• Passage by Connie Willis (1912)

Six-Day War

• Three Days to Never by Tim Powers

Snow Winter

• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1880-1881)

Solar eclipse

• The Strain (The Strain Trilogy) by Guillermo Del Toro (2010)

Soviet-Afghan War

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1989)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Space Shuttle launch

• Florida Roadkill: A Novel by Tim Dorsey

Spanish Golden Age

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish Inquisition

• The Black Castle by Les Daniels

Spanish Renaissance

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King
• Wizard and glass /Stephen King by Stephen King

Tang Dynasty

• Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by Barry Hughart (907)

Theory of General Relativity

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (1916)

Theory of Special Relativity

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (1905)

Third Wave Feminism

• The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition by Eve Ensler

Thirty Years' War

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Tour de France

• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling

Trujillo dictatorship

• The Feast of the Goat: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (1961)

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Union Carbide Bhopal massacre

• Animal's People: A Novel by Indra Sinha

Union of the Crowns

• Shakespeare : The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson

United States presidential election

• The Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King (1976)

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571

• Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read

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 by Charles Dickens
• The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde

Vietnam War

• The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth
• Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

Virginia Woolf's suicide

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

War of Souls

• Dragons of a fallen sun by Margaret Weis
• Dragons of a Lost Star (The War of Souls, Volume II) by Margaret Weis
• Dragons of a Vanished Moon (Dragonlance: War of Souls, Book 3) by Margaret Weis

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two by George R.R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5) by George R.R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin

The War on Drugs

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (1971-?)

War on Terrorism

• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer

Watergate Scandal

• The Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King (1974)

World Series

• Florida Roadkill: A Novel by Tim Dorsey
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• City of God by E. L. Doctorow
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Winfried Georg Sebald
• Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• City of God by E. L. Doctorow
• Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson
• The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) by Julie Orringer
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
• Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño (1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1945)
• Declare by Tim Powers (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Annie Barrows (1945)
• Hiroshima by John Hersey (1945)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (1945)
• Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (1945)
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945)
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1945)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1945)

World War II, British Home Front

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

World War II, Eastern Front

• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Declare by Tim Powers (1944)
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick (1944)
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Annie Barrows (1945)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Hiroshima by John Hersey (1945-09-02)
• Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (1945-09-02)
• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury
• The Postman (Bantam Classics) by David Brin
• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
• Swan Song by Robert McCammon

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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)
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1893 ! Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Yorkshire Ripper Murders

• Nineteen Seventy-Four: The Red Riding Quartet, Book One (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by David Peace (1980)

Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space. April 12, 1961

• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach

Zombie Apocalypse

• Monster Island: A Zombie Novel by David Wellington
• The Rising by Brian Keene
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks