Book Events for Tricia608

4th century BCE

• Tao Te Ching on The Art of Harmony: The New Illustrated Edition of the Chinese Philosophical Masterpiece by Laozi

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

American Civil War

• Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) by Lalita Tademy (1861-1865)

American Revolution

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill (1775)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

California Gold Rush

• Daughter of Fortune (1848–1855)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Colfax Massacre

• Red River by Lalita Tademy (1873-04-13)

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild (MTI) by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Freedom Summer

• We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg (1964)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) by Harriet Jacobs

Genesis creation narrative

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

Genocide in Darfur

• The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Holocaust

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jonathan Franzen

Jazz Age

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel

Nat Turner Slave Insurrection

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) by Harriet Jacobs

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

The Rapture

• Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind, Book 1) by Tim LaHaye

Reconstruction

• Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) by Lalita Tademy (1877)

Rose's escape

• Rose Madder by Stephen King

Rwandan Genocide

• Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
• Say You're One of Them (Oprah's Book Club) by Uwem Akpan (1994)

September 11 Attacks

• Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jonathan Franzen

Sierra Leone Civil War

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Soviet-Afghan War

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

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King

Third Wave Feminism

• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Total eclipse of the sun

• Gerald's Game by Stephen King (July 20, 1963)

veganism

• Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

World War II

• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)