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11th century

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

1241

• The Mongoliad. Book two by Neal Stephenson

17th century

• Macbeth (The New Folger Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• The tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600s)

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire: The Second Book of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Afghan Civil War

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Alien Invasion

• Armada : a novel by Ernest Cline

American Civil War

• by John Steinbeck East of Eden (1865)
• Gone with the Wind (International Collector's Library Edition) by Margaret Mitchell (1865)
• The unvanquished by William Faulkner (1865)

Apocalypse

• The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (GOLLANCZ S.F.) by Robert Rankin

Armageddon

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

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• FOOP! by Chris Genoa

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea
• The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
• Replay by Ken Grimwood (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie (July 17, 1918)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Autumn Feast

• The silver chair. (Chronicles of Narnia #6) by C. S. Lewis

Battle of Agincourt

• The life of King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Camlann

• The Book of Merlyn (Once and Future King) by T. H. White

Battle of Caporetto

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

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Five Armies

• The hobbit or there and back again by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Hornburg

• 2: The two towers : being the second part of The lord of the rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
• 3: The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

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

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson

the Big Ride

• Seveneves : [a novel] by Neal Stephenson

Black Death

• The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson (1350)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson

Bolshevik Revolution

• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

the break up of the Moon

• Seveneves : [a novel] by Neal Stephenson

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)

Brussels World Fair

• Expo 58 : a novel by Jonathan Coe (1958)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune. The machine crusade by Brian Herbert
• Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy (Dune, 1) by Brian Herbert
• Dune (Movie Tie-In) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• House Atreides (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 1) by Brian Herbert (mentioned)

Chinese Civil War

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

Christmas

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees: Tie In Edition by Sue Monk Kidd

Clutter family murder

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

COINTELPRO

• Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

Cold War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea

The Council of Elrond

• 1: The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The lord of the rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Crimean War

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

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Death of the White Witch

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Dot-com bust

• Bleeding Edge: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon

Dragon Day

• Fool on the Hill: A Novel by Matt Ruff

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)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson

Elite Conscription Act

• The forever war by Joe W. Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• A Ladder to the Sky: A Novel by John Boyne

First manned mission to Mars

• Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein

Fourth of July

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

French and Indian War

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Copper

French Revolution

• The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Stuart [Translator] Alexis; Gilbert De Tocqueville (1789)
• On taste ; On the sublime and beautiful ; Reflections on the French revolution ; A letter to a noble lord by Edmund Burke (1789)
• The Rights of Man (Hackett Classics) by Thomas Paine (1789)

Galactic Civil War

• Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson

Grand National Horse race

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Great Depression

• Hard Times by Studs Terkel
• The New Deal : the Depression years, 1933-40 by Anthony J. Badger
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson

Great Recession

• Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi

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)

The Great Supernova of 2015

• FOOP! by Chris Genoa

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Halloween

• Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin

the Hard Rain

• Seveneves : [a novel] by Neal Stephenson

Heian period

• The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

HIV / Aids fear 1980's

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Holocaust

• Everything is illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Art Spiegelman
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Holy Week

• The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri : Hell, Purgatory, Paradise by Dante Alighieri

Hundred Years' War

• The life of King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare (1453)

Hurricane Maude

• FOOP! by Chris Genoa

The Ides of March

• Fool on the Hill: A Novel by Matt Ruff

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Salman Rushdie

Interbellum

• The New Deal : the Depression years, 1933-40 by Anthony J. Badger (1939)

Iraqi war

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Killer Blizzard

• Downtown Owl: A Novel by Chuck Klosterman (1984-2-4)

Klondike Gold Rush

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1898)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Steven Ambrose (1806)

Martian invasion of Earth

• The War of the Worlds Illustrated By Edward Gorey by H. G. Wells

Marxism

• Marx, Engels, Marxism by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

Mint 400 Race

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

Mongol Invasion of Europe

• The Mongoliad. Book one by Erik Bear
• The Mongoliad. Book two by Neal Stephenson

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson

New Deal

• The New Deal : the Depression years, 1933-40 by Anthony J. Badger

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)

Occupy Wall Street

• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (2011)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Salman Rushdie

plagues

• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)

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)

Project Amal

• House Atreides (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 1) by Brian Herbert
• House Corrino (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 3) by Brian Herbert
• House harkonnen maison harkonnen (la) dune by Herbert Franck

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)

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire: The Second Book of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Quest of Erebor

• The hobbit or there and back again by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone with the Wind (International Collector's Library Edition) by Margaret Mitchell (1877)

Return of Father Christmas

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Russian Civil War

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917)
• The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie (1917)

Rwandan Genocide

• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza (1994)

Salem witch trials

• HereticS Daughter The Kent by kathleen-kent (1692)

San Fermin & Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Sand Creek Massacre

• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

The Scattering

• Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6) by Frank Herbert

The Scattering

• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Second Titan War

• The lightning thief by Rick Riordan

Seldon Crisis

• Foundation (Foundation, No.1) by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

September 11 Attacks

• Bleeding Edge: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Consider the lobster and other essays by David Foster Wallace (2001-09-11)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
• One Nation: America Remembers by Life Magazine Staff (2001-09-11)
• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Spanish Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1939)

Stanford prison experiment

• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (1971-08)

Summer Solstice

• The lightning thief by Rick Riordan

Superflu epidemic

• Wizard and glass /Stephen King by Stephen King

Thirty Years' War

• The confusion by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle: 1 by Neal Stephenson
• The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) (The Baroque Cycle, 3) by Neal Stephenson

Trail of Tears

• Take the cannoli : stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell

Trojan War

• The Iliad (A Mentor Classic) by Homer
• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer.

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

United States presidential election

• Barbara Bush : a memoir by Barbara Bush (1980, 1988, 1992)

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland And Through the Looking-Glass (Signet classics) by Lewis Carroll
• Bleak house by Charles Dickens (1850s)

Vietnam War

• 4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster
• The Nightingale's Song by Robert Timberg
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (1975)

Voyage of the HMS Beagle

• The Voyage of the Beagle with Introductions and Notes (The Harvard Classics [Leatherbound], Deluxe Edition, Registered Edition) by Charles Darwin

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two by George R. R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Usurper

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

The War on Drugs

• The Beach by Alex Garland (1971-?)
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (1971-?)

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition by Milan Kundera (1968)

Woodstock Festival

• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

World War I

• The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• Against the day : [a novel] by Thomas Pynchon (1918)
• by John Steinbeck East of Eden (1918)
• A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• Johnny Got His Gun: A Novel by Dalton Trumbo (1918)

World War II

• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Making History by Stephen Fry
• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1945)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945)
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945)

World War II, British Home Front

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything is illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War II, German Occupation of Denmark

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

World War III

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• The Martian Chronicles the Grand Master Editions by Michael Whelan

World's Columbian Exposition

• Against the day : [a novel] by Thomas Pynchon (1893 ! Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Wounded Knee Massacre

• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's shadow by Orson Scott Card
• Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Zombie Apocalypse

• The zombie survival guide : complete protection from the living dead by Max Brooks