Book Events for Andy5185

11th century

• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

14th century

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)

17th century

• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1893 Chicago World's Fair

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

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

1960s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

4th of July

• The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

9/11 Attacks

• Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon

• Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King

Aberfan disaster

• A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• The Great Believers: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

American Civil War

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
• March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1865)

Anglo Saxon period

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

Apocalypse

• The City of Ember (The City of Ember Book 1) by Jeanne DuPrau

Argentina's Dirty War

• Violeta by Isabel Allende

Arrest of Jeffrey Dahmer

• The Comfort of Monsters: A Novel by Willa C Richards

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

August 1st, Ross Gay's birthday

• The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of the Somme

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (1916)

Belle Époque

• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1871-1914)

The Blitz

• The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
• Life After Life (Todd Family 1) by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bombing of Berlin

• A God in Ruins (Todd Family 2) by Kate Atkinson (1943)

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

Bombing of Nuremberg

• A God in Ruins (Todd Family 2) by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

• Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee

Buddhist religion he practices

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Calanmai

• A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 1) by Sarah J. Maas

Chicago World's Fair

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

Chilean Coup

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
• Violeta by Isabel Allende

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee

Clutter family murder

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Cold War

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Corpus Christi massacre

• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Council of Trent

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

COVID-19 pandemic

• The Sentence: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
• Violeta by Isabel Allende

Creation

• Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton

Crimean War

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

Cuban Revolution

• Violeta by Isabel Allende (1959)

Dalai Lama at the Tibet Center/Gere Foundation for two week teaching in NYC

• An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by Dalai Lama (1991-08)

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike

The Day of the Dead

• Under the Volcano: A Novel by Malcolm Lowry

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis

Death of the White Witch

• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (1862)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

• A God in Ruins (Todd Family 2) by Kate Atkinson

Discovery of Fillory

• The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) by Lev Grossman

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 1) by Hilary Mantel

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck

Easter

• The House We Grew Up In: A Novel by Lisa Jewell

Election of John F. Kennedy

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

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 1) by Hilary Mantel

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

French Resistance

• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

French Revolution

• Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser (1789)

Gilded Age

• The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Glacial epoch

• She's Come Undone by Jean Auel

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes
• Violeta by Isabel Allende

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Frost

• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Greco-Turkish War

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

Halloween 1958

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Holocaust

• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (1945)

Holy Week

• The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri

Hurricane Donna

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

Hurricane Katrina

• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant (1919)
• Life After Life (Todd Family 1) by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Iran-Iraq War

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Italian Renaissance

• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kefauver Senate Hearings

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

Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

• Just Kids by Patti Smith (1973-04-15)

L.A. Riots of 1992

• Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 1) by Hilary Mantel

Mexican Dirty War

• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mint 400 Race

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

Monster of Florence Serial Killings

• The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston (1974-1985)

Murder of Ann Marie Fahey

• And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer by Ann Rule (1996)

Murder of George Floyd

• The Sentence: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

My Lai Massacre

• Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (1968-03-16)

Napoleonic Wars

• Persuasion by Jane Austen (1815)

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

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

New Year's Day

• 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)

Pandemic

• Violeta by Isabel Allende

Papal Election

• Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon) by Dan Brown

Post-It's

• Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davidson) by Darynda Jones

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Renaissance

• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Return of Father Christmas

• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Samhain

• The Kiss Curse: A Novel by Erin Sterling

San Fermin & Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• Valley of the Moon: A Novel by Melanie Gideon (1906)

September 11 Attacks

• Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
• A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11 by Marian Fontana
• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith (2001-09-11)
• Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Slavery Abolition Act

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1833)

Socrates' Death

• Plato: Apology (Greek Edition) (Greek and English Edition) by Plato (399 BCE)

South Sea Bubble

• Courtiers: The Secret History of Georgian court by Lucy Worsley

Spanish Civil War

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Spanish Flu

• Violeta by Isabel Allende

Spanish-American War

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (1898)

Super Bowl

• Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Taiping Rebellion

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

Termination Act

• The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (HCR 108)

Thanksgiving

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman (1911-03-25)

Troisième République

• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1870-1940)

Trojan War

• Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• A Thousand Ships: A Novel by Natalie Haynes

The Troubles

• Trespasses: A Novel by Louise Kennedy

Trujillo dictatorship

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (1961)

Unification of Norway

• The Half-Drowned King: A Novel by Linnea Hartsuyker

United States presidential election

• The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1976)

United States Presidential Election 1960

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

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1873)

Vietnam War

• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
• Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (1975)

Virginia Woolf's suicide

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

Watergate Scandal

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1974)

Whitechapel Murders

• The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

Winter Solstice

• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
• Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1918)
• Life After Life (Todd Family 1) by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Fatale, Book 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker
• A God in Ruins (Todd Family 2) by Kate Atkinson
• The Magic Order Volume 1 by Mark Millar
• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
• The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews (1945)
• Life After Life (Todd Family 1) by Kate Atkinson (1945)

World War II, British Home Front

• The Chronicles of Narnia: 7 Books in 1 Paperback by C S Lewis

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

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, Pacific Theater

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Wounded Knee massacre, December 1890

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer