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11th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

14th century

• The inferno by Dante Alighieri

16th century

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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 by Charles Dickens

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

19th century

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Afghan Civil War

• The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Black like me by John Howard Griffin

American Civil War

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Yearling Books) by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1865)
• The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel by Lisa Grunwald (1963-11-22)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of William McKinley

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle (Essential.penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation And Empire by Isaac Asimov

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Beat Generation

• On the road by Jack Kerouac

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely loud and incredibly close: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

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 by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

Christmas Day

• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Classical Antiquity

• The Odyssey by Homer

Cold War

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver

Crimean War

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde

Cultural Revolution

• Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang

The Deluge

• The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (Great Flood)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So long, and thanks for all the fish by Douglas Adams

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck

Elizabethan Era

• The quality of mercy by Faye Kellerman

End of the Universe

• The restaurant at the end of the universe by Douglas Adams

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

First manned mission to Mars

• Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein

French Fourth Republic

• The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication by John Steinbeck

French Revolution

• The baron in the trees by Italo Calvino
• The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication by John Steinbeck
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Galactic Civil War

• Foundation And Empire by Isaac Asimov

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Leap Forward

• Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Holocaust

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books) by Lois Lowry
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Iran-Contra Affair

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

Israeli war of independence

• Exodus by Leon Uris (1948)

Jazz Age

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Kefauver Senate Hearings

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

Kennedy's assassination

• Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart by Joyce Carol Oates

Manhattan Project

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

masturbation

• Portnoy's complaint by Philip Roth

Middle Ages

• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
• Grendel by John Gardner
• The inferno by Dante Alighieri
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

New Year

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1975)

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Olympic Games

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1948)

Pan-American Exposition

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Post-Reconstruction

• Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Reconstruction Ends)

Prague Spring

• The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Reappearance of Earth

• So long, and thanks for all the fish by Douglas Adams

Reconstruction

• Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Renaissance

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver

Russian Civil War

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• Petersburg by Andrei Bely (1905)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917)

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Second Boer War, 1899-1902

• A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Seldon Crisis

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation And Empire by Isaac Asimov

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely loud and incredibly close: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Seymour Glass's wedding

• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger ([1942])

Siege of Fowl Manor

• Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1) by Eoin Colfer

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

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 Civil War

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish Golden Age

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish Renaissance

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish-American War

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Superflu epidemic

• The stand by Stephen King

Thanksgiving

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Yearling Books) by Madeleine L'Engle

Tibby's parents' twentieth-anniversary party

• Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares

Trojan War

• The Odyssey by Homer

Two Hundred Years' War

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Vietnam War

• Beach Music by Pat Conroy
• The things they carried by Tim O'Brien
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving (1975)

Wall Street Crash

• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1929)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• Mila 18 by Leon Uris

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The book of laughter and forgetting by Milan Kundera (1968)

World Trade Center attack

• The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• Demian by Hermann Hesse
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (1918)

World War II

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Mila 18 by Leon Uris
• The Moon Is Down (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
• A separate peace by John Knowles
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
• 1984 by George Orwell ( 1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)
• Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books) by Lois Lowry (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War II, German Occupation of Denmark

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

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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)

Wreck of the Méduse

• A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes

Xenocide of the Formics

• Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2) by Orson Scott Card
• ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)