Book Events for JinxAshforth

11th century

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

17th century

• Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett Classics) by René Descartes

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tor Classics) by Lewis Carroll

4th century BCE

• Meno (Hackett Classics) by Plato
• The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle
• Plato Symposium (Hackett Classics) by Plato

5th century BCE

• 300 by Frank Miller
• The Art of War

Afghanistan War

• Battle Born: Lapis Lazuli by Maximilian Uriarte

Afghanistan War, 2001-

• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• March: Book One by John Lewis

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse

American Civil War

• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)

American Indian Movement

• Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus

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

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 4: Out of the Ashes by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of Thermopylae

• 300 by Frank Miller (480 BCE)

Battle of Tra Binh Dong

• A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do by Alex Gillis (1967)

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

Bombing of Dresden

• Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

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 of Comic Books

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley

Brown v. Board of Education

• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

Chicago World's Fair

• Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

Christmas

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

Classical Antiquity

• Bulfinch's mythology : the age of fable by Thomas Bulfinch

climate crisis

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Cold War

• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

COVID-19 pandemic

• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

D-Day, Normandy, France 1944

• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Death of Morpheus

• Sandman, The: The Wake - Book X by Neil Gaiman

Death of the White Witch

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

December 26, 2004 Tsunami

• Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Dictatorship of Sulla

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

Disaster: Storm at Sea

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

East End 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 (1866)

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: Assassin's Road by Kazuo Koike (1603 - 1867)

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Enlightenment

• Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett Classics) by René Descartes

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

French Revolution

• Sandman, The: Fables & Reflections - Book VI by Neil Gaiman (1799)

Gaza War

• I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish (2009)

GM plant closing 2008, Recession 2008

• Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

Golden Age of Comic Books

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley

Great Depression

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson

The Great Stink

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1858)

Greco-Persian Wars

• 300 by Frank Miller ( 449 BCE)

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God RI by Zora Neale Hurston

Heian period

• Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Implementation of the Comics Code Authority

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley

Industrial Revolution

• The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy by Joel Mokyr

Iranian Hostage Rescue Attempt, Inception of Detachment of B-52

• Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Charlie A. Beckwith

Iraq War

• American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition]: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle
• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
• Redeployment by Phil Klay
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (2011)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

• The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser (1990-03-18)

Jazz Age

• Their Eyes Were Watching God RI by Zora Neale Hurston

Kamakura period

• Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley (1954)

Korean War

• A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do by Alex Gillis

Life

• The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• King (Vol. II) by Ho Che Anderson
• March: Book One by John Lewis

McCarthy Era

• The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Middle Ages

• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare

Murder of Medgar Evers

• Of Long Memory: Mississippi And The Murder Of Medgar Evers by Adam Nossiter

My Lai Massacre

• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (1968-03-16)

New Year

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

Nobel Prize

• Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Robert Kanigel

Northern Ireland peace process

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

Nuisances Removal and Contagious Diseases Prevention Act

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1848)

Okeechobee hurricane

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

old age

• Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.

Olympic Games

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

Operation Rock Avalanche

• War by Sebastian Junger

Pack Horse Library Project

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson

Parsley Massacre

• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

Pearl Harbor Attack

• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Poor Law Acts

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1834)

Public Health Act

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1848)

Rape of Nanking

• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (1937)

Return of Father Christmas

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Romanticism

• The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm

Second Battle of Fallujah

• American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition]: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• 300 by Frank Miller ( 479 BCE)

Second Wave Feminism

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley

secularism

• A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

September 11 Attacks

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
• In the Shadow of No Towers. Graphic Novel. by Art Spiegelman (2001-09-11)

Servile War

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

Siege of Wounded Knee

• Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (1973)

Silver Age of Comic Books

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley

Social War 91–88 BCE

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

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

• Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane (1986-01-28)

Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

• Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane (2003-02-01)

Space Shuttle launch

• Florida Roadkill: A Survival Guide by Tim Dorsey

Third Wave Feminism

• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Trujillo dictatorship

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

Tsunami

• A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
• Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

US presidential election

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob (2016)

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tor Classics) by Lewis Carroll

Vietnam War

• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (1975)

Viking Age

• Northlanders Book 1 by Wood Brian/ Gianfelice Davide (Art)

War in Afghanistan

• Battle Born: Lapis Lazuli by Maximilian Uriarte
• War by Sebastian Junger

War on Terrorism

• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

World Series

• Florida Roadkill: A Survival Guide by Tim Dorsey

World War I

• The Lost City of Z (Movie Tie-In): A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures) by David Grann
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)

World War II

• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
• DC Comics: Bombshells Vol. 1: Enlisted by Marguerite Bennett
• History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 4: Out of the Ashes by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• Feynman by Jim Ottaviani (1945)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (1945)
• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (1945)

World War II, British Home Front

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945-09-02)
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 4: Out of the Ashes by Keiji Nakazawa (1945-09-02)

WWII

• The Legend of Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Origins by Renae De Liz

WWII Thai-Burma Railway

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel (Vintage International) by Richard Flanagan