Book Events for baruthcook

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson

1936 Olympics, Germany

• Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper

1976 UK heat wave

• Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell

9/11 Attack on NY World Trade Center

• Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Berliani M. Nugrahani
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

American Revolution

• Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill (1775)

Anatomy Act

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1836)

Antebellum South

• The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Apeirogon: A Novel by Colum McCann

Armenian Genocide

• Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Bangladesh War for Independence

• America for Beginners: A Novel by Leah Franqui
• A Golden Age: A Novel by Tahmima Anam

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Shanghai

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)

The Blitz

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner (1940)

Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822

• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson (1893)

Chilean Coup

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende

Chinese Civil War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared [Paperback] Jonasson, Jonas by Jonas Jonasson

Christmas

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

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

climate change

• Weather: A novel by Jenny Offill

Cold War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared [Paperback] Jonasson, Jonas by Jonas Jonasson

Columbine School Shootings

• The Hour I First Believed: A Novel by Wally Lamb

Cremona Triennale

• Goodbye, Paris: A Novel by Anstey Harris

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell) by Hilary Mantel

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell) by Hilary Mantel

evolution

• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Execution of the Romanov family

• I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon (1918-07-17)

Fall of France

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

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

Fugitive Slave Act

• The House Girl: A Novel by Tara Conklin

Funeral Rule

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1982)

Gemini 9

• Everything I Never Told You: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Celeste Ng

Good Friday Agreement

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

Great Depression

• The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

The Great War

• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Greco-Turkish War

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

Halloween 1958

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson (1930-01-30)

Holocaust

• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)

Hurricane Sandy

• M Train by Patti Smith

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant (1919)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood (1919)

Iran-Contra Affair

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

Iran-Iraq War

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Japanese-American Internment

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

Kennedy Inauguration

• The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood

Laotian Civil War

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

Making of the film A Trip to the Moon

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

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell) by Hilary Mantel

May 13 Incident

• Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (May 13, 1969 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

New Jersey plane crashes in the early 1950s

• In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

New Year's Day

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

New York World's Fair

• Wonderstruck (Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner) by Brian Selznick (1965)

Nigerian-Biafran War

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)

Night of the Long Knives

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson (1934-07-02)

Northern Ireland peace process

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

October Revolution

• I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon (1917-11-07)

Olympic Games

• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (1936)
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1948)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Orphan Train

• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

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

The Plane Crash

• Dear Edward: A Novel by Ann Napolitano

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Project Gemini

• Everything I Never Told You: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Celeste Ng

Russian Revolution

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood (1906)

Saur Revolution

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

Second Sino-Japanese War

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See

September 11 Attacks

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
• Girl at War: A Novel by Sara Novic
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• An Object of Beauty: A Novel by Steve Martin
• Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
• So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
• The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (2001-09-11)

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Sierra Leone Civil War

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

Sinking of the Titanic

• The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott (1912)

Soviet-Afghan War

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

Spanish Civil War

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
• The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Lucia Graves
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared [Paperback] Jonasson, Jonas by Jonas Jonasson (1939)

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)

Taliesin Murders

• The Women by T. C. Boyle (1914-08-14)
• Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan (1914-08-15)

TransAtlantic flight of Alcock & Brown

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann (1919)

Trujillo dictatorship

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

Tsunami

• A Tale for the Time Being (ALA Notable Books for Adults) by Ruth Ozeki (2011)

Tulsa massacre of 1921

• Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

Tulsa Race Riot

• Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

Underground Railroad

• The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Vel' d' Hiv'

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1942)

Vietnam War

• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1975)

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes (1918)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared [Paperback] Jonasson, Jonas by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

World War II

• Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Munich Girl: A Novel of the Legacies that Outlast War by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
• The Piano Teacher: A Novel by Janice Y. K. Lee
• Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See
• The Story of a Marriage: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer
• A Tale for the Time Being (ALA Notable Books for Adults) by Ruth Ozeki
• The Tenth Muse: A Novel by Catherine Chung
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared [Paperback] Jonasson, Jonas by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Y2K

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Yugoslav Wars

• Girl at War: A Novel by Sara Novic
• The Tiger's Wife: A Novel by Tea Obreht (1991-1995)