Book Events for BookConcierge

100th Anniversary of birth of Agatha Christie

• The Christie Caper by Carolyn G. Hart

12th century BCE

• Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

1540s

• The Prince and the Pauper (The Oxford Mark Twain) by Mark Twain

1547

• The Prince and the Pauper (The Oxford Mark Twain) by Mark Twain

16th century

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince and the Pauper (The Oxford Mark Twain) by Mark Twain

1750s

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper

1757

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper

1790

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Wildside Fantasy Classic) by Washington Irving

1790s

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Wildside Fantasy Classic) by Washington Irving

17th century

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1810s

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

1841

• Secrets of a Summer Night (The Wallflowers, Book 1) by Lisa Kleypas

1843

• Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas

1870s

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1893 Chicago World's Fair

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

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Wildside Fantasy Classic) by Washington Irving
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

1914 eclipse

• A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1946

• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières

1970s

• Carrie by Stephen King

1976 UK heat wave

• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

1998 Assassination of PLO commando leader Abu Jihad

• The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva

19th century

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (Penguin Drop Caps) by Charles Dickens
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2010 Copiapó mining accident

• Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières (September 1943)

6 October 1976 Massacre

• Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

9/11 Attacks

• The Day the World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
• Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

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 Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
• March: Book One by John Lewis
• March: Book Two by John Lewis
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel by Carol Rifka Brunt

Alien Invasion

• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

American Civil War

• The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• A Hope Divided (The Loyal League, # 2) by Alyssa Cole
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall (1865)
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (1865)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1865)
• Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (1865)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Revolution

• The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (1775)

Anatomy Act

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

Anschluss

• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal
• The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Armenian Genocide

• Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
• The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian

Arrival at the Library

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics) by Mark Twain

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (1881)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• November Road by Lou Berney (1963-11-22)
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

Assassination of William McKinley

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Astronaut Program

• The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman

Auspicuous Event

• The Janissary Tree: A Novel (Investigator Yashim) by Jason Goodwin (1826)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Bal de l'Opera

• The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux

Bangladesh War for Independence

• America for Beginners by Leah Franqui

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

baseball

• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Bataan Death March

• Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides
• The Poisonwood Bible: by Barbara Kingsolver
• We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2) by Diana Gabaldon
• Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley (1945)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Pavia

• Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende (1525)

Battle of Saratoga

• An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (1777)

Battle of Shanghai

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)

Battle of the Bulge

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)

Battle of the Coral Sea

• We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman

Battle of the Somme

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Bayside Book Writers Meetings

• A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of Night (All Souls Series) by Deborah Harkness

Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe

• In a Strange City: A Mystery by Laura Lippman (January 19)

Black Lives Matter

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Black Tuesday

• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

Bleeding Kansas

• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (1859)

The Blitz

• Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Blizzard of 1888

• The Children's Blizzard: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

Bosnian War

• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (1992-1995)

Boston Marathon bombing

• Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova

British Occupation of India

• A Passage to India by E M Forster (1765-1947)

British Raj

• Old Filth by Jane Gardam

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

California Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1855)
• In the Distance by Hernan Diaz (1855)
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1848–1855)

Centennial Exhibition of 1876

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822

• Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Chechen conflict

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Chicago World's Fair

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

Chilean Coup

• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1973)

Chinese Civil War

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

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley
• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
• A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
• Christmas: Why We Celebrate It the Way We Do by Martin Hintz
• An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• Letters From Father Christmas, Centenary Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• My Kind of Christmas (A Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Hay
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
• Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon (Luke 2:4-7)

Christmas Day

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Christmas Eve

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

climate change

• A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

Clutter family murder

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

Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire

• A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Cold War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
• The Poisonwood Bible: by Barbara Kingsolver
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen

Corpus Christi massacre

• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Court Martial of Captain Charles B. McVay, III

• Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent

Creation of the Colony Club

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Crimean War

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

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cuban Revolution

• The Red Umbrella by Christina Gonzalez (1959)

Cuban Revolution of 1895-1898

• The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
• The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

D Day

• When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

D-Day

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)

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)

death by snake bite

• The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge by Jamie James (Joe Slowinski)

Death of Carl Minkus

• Eggsecutive Orders by Julie Hyzy

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Edward VII

• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Death of J. P. Morgon

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Death of La Mennulara

• The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby (1963-09-23)

Death of Pope John Paul I

• A History of Loneliness by John Boyne

Death of Pope John Paul II

• God's Spy by Juan Gomez-Jurado (2005)

Death of Queen Victoria

• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Descente de la Courtille

• The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Disaster: Hurricane

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

Disaster: Shipwreck

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Disaster: Storm at Sea

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

Disaster: Volcano Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

Discovery of Radium

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

Donald Trump presidency

• Rachel to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman

Donner Party

• Old Bones (Nora Kelly, 1) by Douglas Preston
• The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown (1847)

Dracula Night

• A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories) by Charlaine Harris

Dreyfus Affair

• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal

Dust Bowl Era

• The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse (1931 ∙ 1939)

Easter

• The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny
• The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous

Easter Egg Roll

• Eggsecutive Orders by Julie Hyzy

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston (1989)

Eighteenth Amendment

• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

Election of Bill Clintion

• The Snowman (Harry Hole, Book 7) (Harry Hole Series) by Jo Nesbø

elections

• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)

Elm Creek raid of 1864

• The Color of Lightning: A Novel by Paulette Jiles

End of the Library

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Eradication of smallpox

• The Demon in the Freezer: The terrifying truth about the threat from Bioterrorism by Richard Preston

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Excavation of Masada by Yigael Yadin

• Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs (1965)

Execution of the Romanov family

• I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon (1918-07-17)

Fall of Constantinople

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (1453-05)

Fall of France

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

Fall of Saigon

• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

February 28 incident

• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (1947)

the Fenice fire

• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (1996)

Fire at Our Lady of Angels School

• To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire by David Cowan

First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival

• The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival by Ken Wheaton

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

First Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller ([1896, 1897])

First contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Flood

• Noah's Ark by Peter Spier

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

Fourth of July

• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin

Franco-Prussian War

• Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

French and Indian War

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper

French Resistance

• Amandine: A Novel by Marlena De Blasi
• April in Paris: A Novel by Michael Wallner
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Fugitive Slave Act

• The House Girl: A Novel by Tara Conklin

Funeral Rule

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

Galveston Hurricane of 1900

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

Gemini 9

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Murder in Grub Street (Sir John Fielding) by Bruce Alexander (1837)

German occupation of Italy

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1943-1945)

Gettysburg Campaign

• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07)

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1900)

Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (1855)

The Great Depression

• Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

Great Depression

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
• The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
• Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
• Rainwater by Sandra Brown
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
• Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (1939)
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Depression

• Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Leap Forward

• A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
• Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (1958-1961)

The Great Migration

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Revelation

• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

The Great Stink

• A Spy in the House (The Agency # 1) by Y.S. Lee (1858)

The Great War

• Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Greek Civil War

• Decision at Delphi by Helen MacInnes (1949)
• Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières (1946 - 1949)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Gunfight at the OK Corral

• Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell (1881-10-26)

Haitian Revolution

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (1804)

Halifax Explosion

• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (1917)

Halloween

• Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Wildside Fantasy Classic) by Washington Irving
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin
• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (1958)

Harlem Renaissance

• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hartford circus fire

• The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy by Stewart O'Nan (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

Hiroshima Bombing

• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson (1930-01-30)

Holocaust

• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
• The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• Man's Search for Meanin by Viktor E. Frankl
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
• The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Anglada
• The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
• The Diary of a Young GIrl by Anne Frank (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)

Hurricane Agnes

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Hurricane Donna

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

Hurricane Katrina

• Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
• Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Sheri Fink (2005)
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2005)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (1919)
• Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons (1918)
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan (1918)
• They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell (1918)

Influenza Pandemic

• Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (1918)

Interbellum

• The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (1939)

Interwar Period

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Angel with Two Faces (Josephine Tey Mysteries, 2) by Nicola Upson (1918 - 1939)

Iran-Contra Affair

• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Iranian Revolution

• A Bitter Veil by Libby Fischer Hellmann
• Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Iii Dubus (1979)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

Iraq War

• Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Anthony Lawrence
• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain
• The Yellow Birds: A Novel by Kevin Powers
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

• The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro ( Largest Art Theft in History)

Israeli war of independence

• Exodus by Leon Uris (1948)

Jack the Ripper Murders

• The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Jacobite Rising of 1745

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

Japanese Invasion of Hong Kong

• The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

Japanese occupation of Korea

• The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim (1910-1945)

Japanese occupation of Malaya 1941-45

• The Garden of Evening Mists. by Tan Twan Eng by Twan Eng Tan

Japanese occupation of Malaysia

• The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

Japanese-American Internment

• The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
• Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky by Sandra Dallas
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945)
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas (1945)
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (1945)

Jazz Age

• Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) by Kerry Greenwood
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (18)

Johnstown Flood

• In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1981)

Klondike Gold Rush

• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1899)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1898)

Korean War

• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See
• Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller
• Please Look After Mom   by Kyung-Sook Shin

Kosovo War

• The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley

Krakatoa Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester (1883)
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (1883)

Laotian Civil War

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland

• Burial Rites: A Novel by Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night by Elie Wiesel

London Blitz

• Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (1941)

London season

• Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey

Louisiana Purchase

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende