Book Events for coliemta

12th century

• Priory Classics: Series One: Ivanhoe (Priory Classics - Series One) by Sir Walter Scott

15th century

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

1600s

• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

16th century

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

1798 Rebellion

• Irish Folktales by Henry Glassie

17th century

• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

18th century

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

19th century

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Mansfield Park (Arcturus Paperback Classics) by Jane Austen
• Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics) by Herman Melville
• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (The First Book of The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

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

Accession of Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey (1558-11-17)

Act of Union

• Scotland: A Concise History, Revised Edition by Fitzroy MacLean

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Aiel War

• New Spring: The Novel (Wheel of Time, Prequel) by Robert Jordan

American Civil War

• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (1865)

American Revolution

• A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1775-1783)

The Anarchy

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

Anglo Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Armageddon

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (The World's Best Reading) by Mark Twain

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Watchmen (Issues 1-12) by Alan Moore
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth

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

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest (The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Actium

• Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander Series, Book 2) by Diana Gabaldon
• Voyager (Outlander Series, Book 3) by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings (Rough Guide Reference) by Rough Guides

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HP7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Manhattan

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

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 (HP5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen by Lynnette R. Porter

Battle of the Labyrinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Battle of the Somme

• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth by John Garth
• Tolkien: The Authorized Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

Battle of Waterloo

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)
• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Beat Generation

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Beheading game

• Irish Folktales by Henry Glassie

Black Death

• World Without End by Ken Follett
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

The Blitz

• All Clear by Connie Willis (1941)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1941)

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut

Boston Tea Party

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1773-12-16)

Burning of Colonia Victoria

• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

Burning of Lhy Deru

• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

Burning of Londinium

• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

Burning of Vernlamium

• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

Chinese Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (HarperClassics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford
• The Polar Express Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Chris Van Allsburg
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore

Classical Antiquity

• The age of fable,: Or, The beauties of mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Greek Myths, Volumes I and II (The Folio Society Slipcased Edition) by Robert Graves
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer

Claudius Succeeded by Nero

• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

Cleansing of Saidin

• Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9) by Robert Jordan

Cold War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Watchmen (Issues 1-12) by Alan Moore (1991)

Coronation of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology by Tom Shippey

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, Book 1) by Jasper Fforde

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

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

Darien Scheme

• Scotland's Empire and the Shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815 by T. M. Devine

Death of Catherine of Aragon

• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey (1536-01-07)

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Death of Smaug

• The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology by Tom Shippey

Defeat of the 9th Legion

• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

The Deluge

• Gilgamesh by John Gardner (Great Flood)

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Destruction of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings (Rough Guide Reference) by Rough Guides

Discovery of Fillory

• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Dunkirk Evacuation

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

Edinburgh Festival

• David Mitchell: Back Story by David Mitchell

Elizabethan Era

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by Stephen Greenblatt

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

End of the World

• America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn
• The Gates: A Novel by John Connolly

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

English Renaissance

• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by Stephen Greenblatt

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey (1536-05-17)
• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Fall of France

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

Fate of the Labryinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

FIFA World Cup

• 'THE BARRYTOWN TRILOGY: ''THE COMMITMENTS'', ''THE SNAPPER'' AND ''THE VAN''' by RODDY DOYLE (1990)

filming

• There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale by Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings)

Fourth Crusade

• Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade by Nicole Galland
• The King of the Middle March (Arthur Trilogy, Book 3) by Kevin Crossley-Holland

French Revolution

• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Galactic Civil War

• William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher

Georgian Era

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Grand National Horse race

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Great Depression

• Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard (1666)

Guy Fawkes Night

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Haitian Revolution

• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

Halloween

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

HIV / Aids fear 1980's

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Hogswatch

• Hogfather (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett (Dec. 32)

Holocaust

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Industrial Revolution

• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Iran-Contra Affair

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

Italian Renaissance

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• Mirror Mirror: A Novel by Gregory Maguire

Jacobean Era

• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by Stephen Greenblatt

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander (Outlander Series, Book 1) by Diana Gabaldon
• Scotland: A Concise History, Revised Edition by Fitzroy MacLean (1745)

Jacobite Rising of 1745

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander Series, Book 2) by Diana Gabaldon

Jesus calls his disciples

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

Jesus’ burial

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

Jesus’ death

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

Jesus’ resurrection

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

Journey to the Grey Havens

• Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen by Lynnette R. Porter

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen (Issues 1-12) by Alan Moore

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Matching Banquet

• Matched by Ally Condie

May Day

• Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Castle, Book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother

• The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling

Middle Ages

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (The World's Best Reading) by Mark Twain
• Dr. Faustus (Broadview Editions) by Christopher Marlowe
• Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• The Mists of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
• Priory Classics: Series One: Ivanhoe (Priory Classics - Series One) by Sir Walter Scott
• Redwall (Redwall) by Brian Jacques

Midsummer Day

• Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Castle, Book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Arcturus Paperback Classics) by Jane Austen
• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1815)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Persuasion (Arcturus Paperback Classics) by Jane Austen (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Kenneth S. Greenberg (1831)

Nineteen Year Winter

• Monk's-hood by Ellis Peters (1154)
• One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1154)
• Virgin in the Ice (Cadfael Chronicles 6) by Ellis Peters (1154)

Papal Election

• Angels & Demons, Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown

Pax Romana

• How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Publication of "The Hobbit"

• Tolkien: The Authorized Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

Publication of "The Lord of the Rings"

• Tolkien: The Authorized Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

Quarter Quell

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

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ragnarok

• That Is All by John Hodgman

Rebirth of Kronos

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Reformation

• The Reformation (The Penguin History of the Church) (v. 3) by Owen Chadwick

Regency Era

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Reign of Edward I, King of England

• Demon Archer (Hugh Corbett Mysteries 11) by Paul Doherty (1307-07-07)

Reign of Henry VIII

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey (1547-01-28)

Renaissance

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• Mirror Mirror: A Novel by Gregory Maguire

Restoration of the Monarchy

• Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard

Roanoke Colony

• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

Roman Invasion of Britain

• How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill
• Ravens of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L. Paxson

Sack of Rome

• How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Second Boer War, 1899-1902

• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Second Titan War

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan
• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan
• The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan

Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency comic book hearings, 1954

• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Solar eclipse

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (The World's Best Reading) by Mark Twain

Spanish Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)

Spanish Golden Age

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish Renaissance

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish-American War

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Summer solstice

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

Third Crusade

• Priory Classics: Series One: Ivanhoe (Priory Classics - Series One) by Sir Walter Scott

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (HP4) by J. K. Rowling

Trial of Thomas Aikenhead

• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman (1696)

Trojan War

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer

The Troubles

• Beyond Belfast - a 560 Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet by Will Ferguson

Tudor Era

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1603)
• Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey (1603)
• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey (1603)

Victorian Era

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford
• Picture of Dorian Gray (Wordsworth Classics) by Oscar Wilde

Vietnam War

• Watchmen (Issues 1-12) by Alan Moore (1975)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

Voyage of the HMS Beagle

• The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett (1836)

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) 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 Ring

• The " Lord of the Rings " : a Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The War of the Ring

• The Journeys of Frodo by Barbara Strachey

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-?)

Winter Solstice

• The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan

Women's Suffrage

• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

World War I

• The " Lord of the Rings " : a Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth by John Garth
• Tolkien: The Authorized Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• The Wars (Penguin Modern Classics) by Timothy Findley (1918)

World War II

• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan
• Outlander (Outlander Series, Book 1) by Diana Gabaldon
• The Screwtape Letters: Complete and Unabridged by C. S. Lewis
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• All Clear by Connie Willis (1945)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1945)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1945)
• Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (War Memoirs Vol. 1) by Spike Milligan (1939-1945)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

Wyatt's Rebellion

• Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey (1554)

Xenocide of the Formics

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