Book Events for LauraSophie

11th century

• Macbeth (Signature Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

12th century

• The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green
• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Sir Walter Scott
• The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

1460s

• The Black Arrow (Illustrated Classic): Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson

1480s

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

1482

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

14th century

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)

1540s

• The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

1547

• The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

15th century

• The Black Arrow (Illustrated Classic): Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

1620s

• The Three Musketeers (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alexandre Dumas

16th century

• The Arden Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
• The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics) 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

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

17th century

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes
• The Three Musketeers (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alexandre Dumas

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1810s

• Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen

18th century

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire
• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Washington Irving
• A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis De Bernières

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1999-04-02

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to the New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin (Good Friday)

19th century

• 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Les Miserables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen

1st century

• I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves

1st century BCE

• Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• Asterix 31: Astérix et Latraviata (francés) by Albert Uderzo
• I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
• Julius Caesar (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis De Bernières (September 1943)

4th century BCE

• The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary by Stephen Halliwell
• Politics by Aristotle

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (2004)

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

AIDS epidemic

• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition by Tony Kushner
• Rent by Jonathan Larson

Alien Invasion

• Armada: A novel by the author of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

American Civil War

• Bayonet! Forward: My Civil War Reminiscences by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
• Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) by Margaret Walker
• Little Women (Puffin in Bloom) by Louisa May Alcott
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (1980) Paperback by Madeleine L'Engle
• Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era) by Charles B. Dew (1865)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 by Richard Hofstadter (1865)
• Joshua L. Chamberlain by Thomas A. Desjardin (1865)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1865)
• The Mysterious Island (Scribner's Illustrated Classics) by Jules Verne (1988-11-30) by Jules Verne (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1865)

American Revolution

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser (1783)
• Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 by Richard Hofstadter (1783)

Apollo 13

• Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell

Apollo program

• Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell (1975)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Cover may vary) by Neil Gaiman

Arthurian England

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

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

August coup

• Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (1991)

Battle of Agincourt

• Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich (1415-10-25)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Gettysburg

• Joshua L. Chamberlain by Thomas A. Desjardin (1863-07-03)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Coral Sea

• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1942-05-08)

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Miserables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of Yorktown

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Beat Generation

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Black Death

• The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Blitz

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)

Bombing of Dresden

• Closely Observed Trains (Abacus Books) by Bohumil Hrabal
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)
• Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser (1804-07-11)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (HarperClassics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• Christmas Books - The Authentic Edition by Charles Dickens
• The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
• Little Women (Puffin in Bloom) by Louisa May Alcott
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving
• The Velveteen Rabbit: The Original 1922 Edition in Full Color by Margery Williams

Classical Antiquity

• D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
• The Iliad of Homer (Classics Club) by Homer
• Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The Odyssey by Homer

Clutter family murder

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

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon

Compromise of 1790

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Constitutional Convention

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Cosmography and Geography of Africa by Yuhanna al-Asad

• Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis

Creation

• Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton

Destruction of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Election of 1800

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

elections

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

Elizabethan Era

• Arden Shakespeare Complete Works by William Shakespeare

End of the Universe

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

English Renaissance

• Arden Shakespeare Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1948)

Execution of Joan of Arc

• L'Alouette (French Edition) by Jean Anouilh (1431-05-30)

Expulsion of the Acadians

• Evangeline; A Tale of Acadie (Classic Edition) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1755-1756)

Fall of France

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

Fall of Rome

• City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine of Hippo

Festival of Fools

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

First atomic explosion

• The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

The Flood

• Many Waters (The Time Quartet) by Madeleine L'Engle (Genesis 6-9)

French and Indian War

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

French Revolution

• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
• Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
• Mam'zelle Guillotine (Scarlet Pimpernel) by Baroness Orczy
• The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy
• The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
• I Will Repay by Emmuska Orczy
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1799)
• Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss (1789)
• The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman (1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens (1789)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) by Baroness Orczy (1789-1799)

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen

German occupation of Italy

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

Gettysburg Campaign

• Joshua L. Chamberlain by Thomas A. Desjardin (1863)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863-07)

Gilded Age

• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Unwritten Vol. 5: On to Genesis by Mike Carey
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire

Great Upheaval

• Evangeline; A Tale of Acadie (Classic Edition) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Greek Civil War

• CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis De Bernières (1946 - 1949)

Haitian Revolution

• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Halloween

• Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Washington Irving

Hamilton–Reynolds affair

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1797)

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Heaven's Gate suicides

• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (1997)

Hellenistic Period

• Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Holocaust

• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Incident at Vichy: A Play by Arthur Miller
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)

Homicide of Matthew Shepard

• The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

Hundred Days

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere ( 1815-07-08)

Hundred Years' War

• Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
• L'Alouette (French Edition) by Jean Anouilh (1453)
• Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich (1453)

Hurricane Donna

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

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving (1990)

Jacobean Era

• Arden Shakespeare Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Johnson County War

• Shane by Jack Schaefer (1892-04)

July Revolution

• Les Miserables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les Miserables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1832)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1951)

King Philip's War

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Washington Irving

Klondike Gold Rush

• White Fang (An Airmont Classic) by Jack London (1899)

Korean War

• M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker (1953)

Making of the film A Trip to the Moon

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (1902)

Manhattan Project

• Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

McCarthy Era

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller

Mexican-American War

• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence (1848)

Middle Ages

• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights First Cloth edition
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Oxford World's Classics) by Mark Twain
• The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
• Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel by John Updike
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson
• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Sir Walter Scott
• The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
• Macbeth (Signature Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare

Mint 400 Race

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

MK-ULTRA experiments

• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (1964)

Murder of Thomas Becket

• Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (1170)

Napoleonic Wars

• Les Miserables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere ( 1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen ( 1815)

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Panic of 1792

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.

• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann

Pickett's Charge

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

Post-Reconstruction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Reconstruction Ends)

Premiere of Fiddler on the Roof

• Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisa Solomon

Ptolemaic Dynasty

• Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Quasi-War

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1800)

Quest for the Holy Grail

• Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson

The Reappearance of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Reconstruction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) by Margaret Walker

Regency Era

• Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen

Reign of Claudius

• I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves

Reign of Cleopatra VII

• Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Reign of Edward VI, King of England

• The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

Reign of Henry II

• The Lion in Winter by James Goldman ( 1189-07-06)
• Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (1189-07-06)

Reign of Henry VIII

• The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) by Baroness Orczy (1793-1794)

Renaissance

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Roman Empire

• Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• Asterix 31: Astérix et Latraviata (francés) by Albert Uderzo
• I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
• Julius Caesar (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Salem witch trials

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1692)

Sand Creek Massacre

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Scarlet Fever Epidemic

• The Velveteen Rabbit: The Original 1922 Edition in Full Color by Margery Williams

Scopes Trial

• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence (1925-07)

Second Boer War, 1899-1902

• A Little Princess (Puffin in Bloom) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

September 11 Attacks

• Andrew's Brain: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (2001-09-11)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Seven Years' War

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

Siege of La Rochelle

• The Three Musketeers (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alexandre Dumas (1628)

Siege of Orléans

• L'Alouette (French Edition) by Jean Anouilh (1429-05-08)

Siege of Yorktown

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1781)

Solar eclipse

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

Son of Sam Killings

• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (1976-1977)

Spanish Civil War

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish Golden Age

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish Renaissance

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Stalinism

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ([1924, 1953])

Summer

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Superhuman Civil War

• Civil War by Mark Millar

Thanksgiving

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (1980) Paperback by Madeleine L'Engle

Third Crusade

• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Sir Walter Scott

Thirty Years' War

• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand ( 1648)

Threadfall

• Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern - Volume 1) by Anne McCaffrey

Transcendentalism

• Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trojan War

• The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil
• The Iliad of Homer (Classics Club) by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer

Tudor Era

• The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain

Two-Year-Old Championship

• The Blood Bay Colt by Walter Farley

United States presidential election

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

Victorian Era

• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde
• The Twisted Root: A William Monk Novel by Anne Perry (1901)

Vietnam War

• The Brothers K by David James Duncan
• If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving (1975)

Waco Branch Davidian Siege

• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (1993)

Wars of the Roses

• The Black Arrow (Illustrated Classic): Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1485)
• Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich (1485)
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1455-1485)

Whisky Rebellion

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1794)

Wilmington insurrection of 1898

• The Marrow of Tradition (Penguin Classics) by Charles W. Chesnutt

World Series

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

World War I

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
• Beekeeper's Apprentice (A Mary Russell Mystery) by Laurie R. King (1918)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank by Anne Frank (1945)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
• Catch-22 (1945)
• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (1945)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (1945)
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945)
• Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1945)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War II, German nuclear weapon project

• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (1945)

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 by Anne Frank

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) Publisher: Spectra; Grand Master Ed edition by Ray Bradbury

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Wounded Knee Massacre

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)