Book Events for DarrinLett

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

14th century

• The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1300s)

1680s

• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

16th century

• Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
• The Moor's Account: A Novel by Laila Lalami
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

1700s

• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

1770s

• 1776 by David McCullough

1776

• 1776 by David McCullough

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1792 Siege of Seringapatam

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1792)

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1799 Siege of Seringapatam

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1799)

17th century

• Cup Of Gold: A Life Of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference To History (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mr John Steinbeck
• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1820s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

1847 North American typhus epidemic

• Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett

1870s

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

18th century

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
• Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers by Lauren Burke

1918 influenza pandemic

• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata

1919 Paris Peace Conference

• The World Remade: America in World War I by G. J. Meyer

1927 Solvay Conference

• Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

1960s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1980 Kwangju uprising

• Dance Dance Revolution: Poems by Cathy Park Hong

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Let the Right One in

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

1986-12-28

• One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• Andersonville (Plume) by MacKinlay Kantor
• Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom by David F. Walker
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in) by Colson Whitehead
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers by Lauren Burke
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4th century BCE

• Daodejing by Laozi

9/11 Attacks

• How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Acid Precipitation Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (1980)

Act of Abjurtion

• Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer (1591-07-26)

Afghan Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1879)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Age of Sail

• Master and Commander (Book 1) by Patrick O'Brian

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
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
• How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (AAOE)

Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expediction

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (AASE)

Alexander the Great's Conquest

• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

Alien Invasion

• The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter
• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

Aliens Act

• Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer by Margalit Fox (1905)

Allied Occupation of Japan

• Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1952)

American Civil War

• Days Without End: A Novel by Sebastian Barry
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
• The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom by David F. Walker
• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
• The Robber Barons
• Andersonville (Plume) by MacKinlay Kantor ( 1865)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set) by Shelby Foote (1865)
• Confederate Raider in the North Pacific: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, 1864-65 by Murray Cromwell Morgan (1865)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures) by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• Gettysburg: The Final Fury (Vintage Civil War Library) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• The Killer Angels by Michael. Shaara (1865)
• March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• The Mysterious Island (Classic Reprint) by Jules Verne (1865)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (1865)
• A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Revolution

• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1) by Rick Atkinson
• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1783)
• American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson (1783)
• 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper (1783)
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

American Revolution 1775-1783

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Anatomy Act

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

Anglo Saxon period

• Anglo Saxon Poetry (Everyman S) by S.A.J. Bradley
• Anglo-Saxon England: Reissue with a new cover (Oxford history of England) by Frank M. Stenton
• Anglo-Saxon Prose Swanton (Everyman's Library) by Michael Swanton
• The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) by Kevin Crossley-Holland
• The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell
• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell

Anglo-Dutch War

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Anglo-Spanish War

• The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot by Lady Antonia Fraser (1604)

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in) by Colson Whitehead
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anti-Rent War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1839)

Apollo program

• Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions by Nancy Atkinson

Arab Revolt

• Revolt in the Desert by T. E. Lawrence (1918)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (The Authorized Doubleday/Doran Edition) by T.E. Lawrence (1918)
• A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East by James Barr (1916-1918)

Arab Spring

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2010-2012)

Ariadne 5 rocket self destruct

• Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman

Articles of Capitulation

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

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

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination by Barry Strauss
• Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy) by Robert Harris

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne

Assassination of the Gracchi

• S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus

• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

Assassination of William McKinley

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

assassinations

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2011)

Astor Expedition

• Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark

Astronaut Program

• The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon
• Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by A. C. Grayling (1945)
• Empire of the Sun (1945)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1945)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan

• Fourth of July Creek: A Novel by Smith Henderson (1981-03-30)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Attica Prison Riot

• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1971)

Austro-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1791)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Babington Plot

• Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset

Babylonian exile

• The Bible As Literature: An Introduction by John B. Gabel

Bacon's Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1676)

Balkan Wars

• The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999 by Misha Glenny

Bangladesh War for Independence

• A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

The Baptist War

• The Long Song by Andrea Levy (1832)

Barack Obama's presidency

• The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

baseball

• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Actium

• Rubicon by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Anzio

• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944: 2 (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Assaye

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1803-09-23)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

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

Battle of Belleau Wood

• The World Remade: America in World War I by G. J. Meyer

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Britain

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

Battle of Brunanburh

• Anglo Saxon Poetry (Everyman S) by S.A.J. Bradley
• The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Battle of Bunker Hill

• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1) by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Buxar

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1764-10-22)

Battle of Cannae

• Rubicon by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Château-Thierry

• The World Remade: America in World War I by G. J. Meyer

Battle of Cochin

• Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley (1504)

Battle of Concord

• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1) by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Crécy

• The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior by Michael Jones (1346-08-26)
• Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption (1346-08-26)
• The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle (The Middle Ages Series, Volume 1) by Jonathan Sumption (1346-08-26)

Battle of Cynwit

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (878)

Battle of Delhi

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1803-09-11)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House Of Leaves: the prizewinning and terrifying cult classic that will turn everything you thought you knew about life (and books!) upside down by Mark Z Danielewski

Battle of Edgehill

• The English Civil War by Diane Purkiss (1642)

Battle of El Alamein

• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Gandamak

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1842)

Battle of Garriston

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

Battle of Geok Tepe

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1881)

Battle of Gettysburg

• Gettysburg: The Final Fury (Vintage Civil War Library) by Bruce Catton (1863-07-03)
• The Killer Angels by Michael. Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Ghazni

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1839)

Battle of Hastings

• Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker

Battle of Hattin

• Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.

Battle of Hue

• Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden (1968)

Battle of Kandahar

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Kasserine Pass

• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

Battle of La Rochelle

• Hundred Years War, Vol. 3: Divided Houses by Jonathan Sumption

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Lexington

• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1) by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Long Island

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)

Battle of Mactan

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen (1521-4-27)

Battle of Maiwand

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Maldon

• Anglo Saxon Poetry (Everyman S) by S.A.J. Bradley
• The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Battle of Marston Moor

• The English Civil War by Diane Purkiss (1644-07-02)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Nájera

• The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior by Michael Jones (1367-04-03)

Battle of Otterburn

• Hundred Years War, Vol. 3: Divided Houses by Jonathan Sumption

Battle of Plassey

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1757-06-23)

Battle of Poitiers

• The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior by Michael Jones (1356-09-19)
• Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption (1356-09-19)

Battle of Pollilur

• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1780-09-10)

Battle of Princeton

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1777)

Battle of Pylos

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (425 BC)

Battle of Scarif

• From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) by Renée Ahdieh

Battle of Sluys

• The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle (The Middle Ages Series, Volume 1) by Jonathan Sumption (1340-06-24)

Battle of Stamford Bridge

• Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker

Battle of Tannenberg

• The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Bulge

• The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945: 03 (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson
• 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

• Blue Skies and Blood: The Battle of the Coral Sea by Edwin P. Hoyt (1942-05-08)
• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1942-05-08)

Battle of the Hornburg

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

Battle of the Java Sea

• The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 3 by Samuel Eliot Morison

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles

Battle of the Marne

• The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Somme

• The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook (1916-11-18)

Battle of the Wilderness

• A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3) by Bruce Catton

Battle of Trenton

• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1) by Rick Atkinson
• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1776-12-26)

Battle of Vienna

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

Battle of Waterloo

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of White Mountain

• Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries by Joshua Gilder

Battle of Yavin

• From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) by Renée Ahdieh

Battle of York

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (867-03-21)

Battles of Schooneveld

• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier by Diana Preston

Beef Court

• The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum (1899)

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

Belgian Antarctic Expedition

• Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton (1899)

Berlin Industrial Exposition

• The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel

Big Bang

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Essays on the Universe and Our Place Within It by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
• The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll
• A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss

the Big Ride

• Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

Black Death

• Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Penguin Classics) by Sigrid Undset
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)
• In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made by Norman F. Cantor (1350)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)

Black Lives Matter

• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors

Black Tuesday

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

The Blitz

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloody Assizes

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

Blutmai

• Berlin by Jason Lutes

Bolivian Machupo Virus Outbreak

• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (1962)

Bolshevik Revolution

• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
• The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
• Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson

Bombing of Berlin

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

Bombing of Dresden

• Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by A. C. Grayling
• Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1986)

Bombing of Nuremberg

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

Bosnian War

• Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco

Bottled-in-Bond Act

• The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum (1897)

the break up of the Moon

• Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

Brexit

• Autumn by Ali Smith
• Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith
• Winter: from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith

Britain's Act for Preventing Adulteration in Food and Drink

• The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum (1860)

British Antarctic Survey

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years

• The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

British Conquest of Sindh

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1843)

Broad Street Cholera Outbreak

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1854)

Bronze Age

• The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age by J. Lesley Fitton
• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
• In Search of the Trojan War, Updated edition by Michæl Wood

Brown v. Board of Education

• Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (1954)

Building of the Panama Canal

• Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98

• The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune: Deluxe Edition by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

The Butter Act

• The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum (1886)

Caenozoic Era

• The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte

California Gold Rush

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
• In the Distance by Hernan Diaz (1855)
• O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (1848–1855)

Cambodian genocide

• Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor

Cambrian Explosion

• Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf

Capture of Aqaba

• Revolt in the Desert by T. E. Lawrence

carbon dioxide emissions

• Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Catalinarian Rebellion

• Lustrum (Em Portugues do Brasil) by Robert Harris

Catilina's Revolt

• S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Centennial Exhibition of 1876

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

Central African Ebola Virus Outbreaks

• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (1976-2009)

A Century of Progress, Chicago World's Fair

• The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel (1933-1934)

Chappaquiddick Incident

• Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (1969-07-19)

Charleston church shooting

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (2015)

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
• Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Chilean Coup

• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1973)

Chitral Expedition

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1895)

Christmas

• The Bible As Literature: An Introduction by John B. Gabel
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The classic collection) by Dr. Seuss
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• ZEALOT: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

cigarette advertising ban

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Matthew Van Meter
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis

Classical Antiquity

• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
• The Odyssey by Homer

Clean Air Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

climate change

• A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
• The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan
• Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
• Weather: A novel by Jenny Offill

climate crisis

• End of Ice, The: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

Climate Impact Assessment Program

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Richard Pipes
• Exit Stage Left The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carré
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Colonizing the New World

• 1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Columbia Disaster

• Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen

Communism

• Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Richard Pipes

Conflict of the Orders

• S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Constitutional Convention

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Construction of the Trans-Aral Railway

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1906)

Construction of the Trans-Caspian railway

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1906)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Convention of Versailles

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1756-05-01)

Coronation of Aragorn

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

Coronation of Edward VI

• Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset

Coronation of Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset

Coronation of King Arthur

• The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2) by Mary Stewart

Coronation of Mary I

• Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Council of Nicaea

• A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Council of Trent

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1545–1563)

Counter-Reformation

• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

COVID-19 pandemic

• Lucy by the Sea: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
• Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Creation of Turkey

• Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

• The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1856)

Crusades

• The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
• Europe: A History by Norman Davies
• Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem 1 by Cixin Liu
• Wolf Totem: A Novel by Jiang Rong

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)
• The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945: 03 (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson (1944-06-06)