Book Events for JEM1244

10th Annual Hunger Games

• The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins

2010 Copiapó mining accident

• Deep down dark : the untold stories of 33 men buried in a Chilean mine, and the miracle that set them free by Hector Tobar

74th Hunger Games

• The hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

75th Hunger Games

• The hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

Accession of Elizabeth I

• The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Book 3) by Philippa Gregory (1558-11-17)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island (The World's Best Reading) by Robert Louis Stevenson

American Civil War

• Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love (Fables (Graphic Novels)) by Bill Willingham
• Little Women (Illustrated): 150th Anniversary Edition by Louisa May Alcott
• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)
• Scarlett (The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind) & Rhett Butler's People (The Authorized Novel Based on ...). by Alexandra Ripley (1865)

American Revolution

• Go tell the bees that I am gone : a novel by Diana Gabaldon
• An echo in the bone a novel by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• Ross Poldark : a novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 by Winston Graham (1783)

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Assassination of the Gracchi

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Bal de l'Opera

• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace [Inner Sanctum Edition] by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The Last White Rose by Desmond Seward
• The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory (1485-08-22)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in amber by Diana Gabaldon
• Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
• Glencoe and Culloden by John Prebble (1746-04-16)

Battle of Five Armies

• The hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J. K. Rowling

Battle of King's Mountain

• Go tell the bees that I am gone : a novel by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse

• Written in my own heart's blood : a novel by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Saratoga

• An echo in the bone a novel by Diana Gabaldon (1777)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings Part Three The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Waterloo

• The twisted sword : a novel of Cornwall, 1815 by Winston Graham
• Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero (1981 copy) by The franklin Library (1815-06-18)

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, Bk 2) (All Souls Series) by Deborah Harkness

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

• Go set a watchman by Harper Lee

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune: Deluxe Edition by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Catilina's Revolt

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Chernobyl Disaster

• Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham
• Voices from Chernobyl : the oral history of a nuclear disaster by Svetlana Aleksievich

Cholera Epidemic

• The secret garden. Spring by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (The World's Best Reading) by Charles Dickens
• Little Women (Illustrated): 150th Anniversary Edition by Louisa May Alcott

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Go set a watchman by Harper Lee

Cold War

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Conflict of the Orders

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Coronation of Aragorn

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

Coronation of Queen Victoria

• Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

The Council of Elrond

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

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch: George Eliot (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by George Eliot

Death of King George III

• Bella Poldark : a novel of Cornwall, 1818-1820 by Winston Graham

Descente de la Courtille

• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Destruction of Isengard

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Destruction of the One Ring

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

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero (1981 copy) by The franklin Library (1815-06-15)

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion: The legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

English Reformation

• The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory

Fall of the Weimar Republic

• Mr Norris Changes Trains (Folio Society in Slipcase) by Christopher Isherwood

The Flare

• The Maze runner by James Dashner

French Revolution

• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Galactic Civil War

• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

General Strike of 1926

• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Folio Society

Great Depression

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Revelation

• All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• DEFINITELY DEAD by Charlaine Harris

Halifax Explosion

• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (1917)

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Holocaust

• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The zookeeper's wife by Diane Ackerman
• The storyteller : a novel by Jodi Picoult (1945)

Hurricane Katrina

• All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston girl a novel by Anita Diamant (1919)

Iran-Iraq War

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Jacobite Rising of 1745

• Dragonfly in amber by Diana Gabaldon

Johnson County War

• The Virginian by Owen Wister (1892-04)

Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night by Elie Wiesel

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace [Inner Sanctum Edition] by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• War and Peace [Inner Sanctum Edition] by Leo Tolstoy
• Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero (1981 copy) by The franklin Library (1815)

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

Nazi seizure of power

• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Olympic Games

• Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive by Laura Hillenbrand

Osage murders

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Pilgrimage of Grace

• The Last White Rose by Desmond Seward

The Punic Wars

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Quest of Erebor

• The hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell (1877)

Reign of George III

• Ross Poldark : a novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 by Winston Graham

Reign of Henry VIII

• The Prince and The Pauper: A Tale For Young People of All Ages (The World's Best Reading) by Mark Twain

Reign of Terror

• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

Russian Revolution

• Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
• Romanov Autumn by Charlotte Zeepvat

Seldon Crisis

• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Sinking of the Maine

• Cyclops by Clive Cussler

Sinking of the Titanic

• Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge (1912-04-15)

The Social War

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Solar flares

• The Maze runner by James Dashner

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut by Stephen King

Tudor Era

• The Prince and The Pauper: A Tale For Young People of All Ages (The World's Best Reading) by Mark Twain
• The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory (1603)

Victorian Era

• Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; &, Through the looking-glass by Lewis Carroll

War of the Five Kings

• A clash of kings by George R. R. Martin
• A dance with dragons by George R. R. Martin
• A feast for crows by George R. R. Martin
• A storm of swords by George R. R. Martin

War of the Ring

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

War of the Usurper

• A game of thrones by George R. R. Martin

Wars of the Roses

• Lady of the rivers by Philippa Gregory
• The Last White Rose by Desmond Seward
• The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory (1485)
• The Kingmaker by Philippa Gregory (1455-1485)

Weimar Republic

• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

World War I

• The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• A Very Long Engagement: A Novel by Sébastien Japrisot
• A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway (1918)

World War II

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• The zookeeper's wife by Diane Ackerman
• All the light we cannot see : a novel by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Folio Society ( 1945)
• Echoes: A Novel by Danielle Steel (1945)
• The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick (1945)
• The storyteller : a novel by Jodi Picoult (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Echoes: A Novel by Danielle Steel (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of Poland

• Once we were brothers by Ronald H. Balson