Book Events for RupaliP29

16th century

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1500s)

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

4th of July

• The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Afghan Civil War

• First Printing. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

American Civil War

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse

• Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Clutter family murder

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

Cold War

• The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

Collapse of Theranos

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (2018)

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

Dust Bowl Era

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, May 1453

• Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

French Resistance

• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

French Revolution

• The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, Seventh Edition by Robert L. Heilbroner
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

German occupation of Italy

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

Great Depression

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, Seventh Edition by Robert L. Heilbroner
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Guy Fawkes Night

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Halloween 1958

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Holocaust

• The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) by Viktor E. Frankl
• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Hundred Days

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

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie by Salman Rushdie

Industrial Revolution

• The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, Seventh Edition by Robert L. Heilbroner

Iran-Contra Affair

• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1990)

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese-American Internment

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel

Manhattan Project

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere (1815)
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (1815)

Occupy Wall Street

• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2011)

Olympic Games

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1936)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• First Printing. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Oradour-sur-Glane fire, June 10, 1944

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

Papal Election

• Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon) by Dan Brown

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie by Salman Rushdie

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1877)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

Rise of fascism

• Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Russian Revolution

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Saur Revolution

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1978-04-28)

September 11 Attacks

• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated by Tara Westover

Siege of Leningrad

• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1944-01-27)

Soviet-Afghan War

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1989)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Civil War

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Stanford prison experiment

• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1971-08)

Student Protests

• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)

Syrian Civil War

• The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel by Christy Lefteri

Taiping Rebellion

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See (1864)

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Vietnam War

• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1975)
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1975)

Walpurgis Night

• Dracula: Authoritative Text Contexts Reviews and Reactions Dramatic and Film Variations Criticism: 0 by Bram Stoker

World Series

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

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife

World War I

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre
• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
• 1984 by George Orwell (1945)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1945)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)
• Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) by Viktor E. Frankl (1945)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

World War II, Eastern Front

• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1945-05-05)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell

Y2K

• Educated by Tara Westover