Book Events for chelseamay12

10th Annual Hunger Games

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

1946

• The Ship of Brides: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

1960s

• The Last Letter from Your Lover: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

1967 Tony Awards

• The Chelsea Girls: A Novel by Fiona Davis

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

2020 U.S. Presidential Election

• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

9/11 Attack on NY World Trade Center

• The Lies That Bind: A Novel by Emily Giffin

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• 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 Civil War

• War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll
• City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age by Beverly Swerling (1865)

American Revolution

• The Hamilton Affair: A Novel by Elizabeth Cobbs
• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray

Anschluss

• The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel by Marie Benedict

Argentine Revolution of '43

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone (1943-06-04)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Kulikovo, 1380

• The Winter of the Witch: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy) by Katherine Arden

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of Waterloo

• Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by William Thackeray (1815-06-18)

Big Bang

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, Bk 2) (All Souls Series) by Deborah Harkness

Black Lives Matter

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Blitz

• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner (1940)

Bombing of Berlin

• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1943)

Bombing of Coventry

• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn

Bombing of Nuremberg

• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)

Breaking of Purple

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age by Beverly Swerling

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune: Deluxe Edition by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cafe de Paris Bombing

• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn (1941-03-08)

Calanmai

• A Court of Thorns and Roses Collector's Edition by Sarah J. Maas

California Gold Rush

• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (1848–1855)

Charleston church shooting

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (2015)

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Chicago World's Fair

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

Christmas

• Dear Santa: A Novel by Nancy Naigle
• Winter Street: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Christmas Day

• Christmas in Vermont by Anita Hughes

Christmas Eve

• Christmas in Vermont by Anita Hughes

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

climate crisis

• No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

Cold War

• The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff

Collapse of Theranos

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

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen

Community Mental Health Act

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (1963)

Cuban Revolution of 1895-1898

• The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (Cuba Saga) by Chanel Cleeton

D-Day, Normandy, France 1944

• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Dedication of Washington Monument

• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

Discovery of Radium

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by William Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Dust Bowl Era

• The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

Fall of Leningrad

• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (1941)

Fall of the Berlin Wall

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

Formation of the National Security Agency

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

French Resistance

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two by Caroline Moorehead

Fugitive Slave Act

• The House Girl: A Novel (P.S.) by Tara Conklin

Georgian Era

• Offer from a Gentleman, An: Bridgerton (Bridgertons, 3) by Julia Quinn (1837)

German occupation of France

• Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black

Gilded Age

• City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age by Beverly Swerling

Goldwater Rule

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (1973)

Great Depression

• Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

The Great War

• Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs) by Jacqueline Winspear

Hellmuth Affair

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Holocaust

• The Flight Portfolio: A novel by Julie Orringer
• The Girl from Berlin: A Novel (Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart) by Ronald H. Balson
• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two by Caroline Moorehead
• We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel by Georgia Hunter
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)

Hundred Days

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

Influenza pandemic

• As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (1919)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese surrender after World War II

• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard

Jazz Age

• The Beautiful and Damned (Barnes & Noble Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

The King's Champion Contest

• Throne of Glass (Collector's Edition) by Sarah J. Maas

London Blitz

• Goodnight from London: A Novel by Jennifer Robson

McCarthy Era

• The Chelsea Girls: A Novel by Fiona Davis

Monterrey Pop Festival

• The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Munich Olympics massacre

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• War and Peace (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (1815)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by William Thackeray (1815)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (author) (1815)

Nazi Occupation of Poland

• Karolina's Twins: A Novel (Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart) by Ronald H. Balson

New Year's Day

• Christmas in Vermont by Anita Hughes

New Year's Eve

• Christmas in Vermont by Anita Hughes

Operation Bolivar

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Oradour-sur-Glane fire, June 10, 1944

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

Pack Horse Library Project

• The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

Pearl Harbor Attack

• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Prohibition

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Queen Elena's Quest

• Throne of Glass (Collector's Edition) by Sarah J. Maas

Rathana

• A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes) by Sabaa Tahir

Regency Era

• Offer from a Gentleman, An: Bridgerton (Bridgertons, 3) by Julia Quinn (1820)

Rosenhan Experiment

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (1973)

Russian Revolution

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

Saur Revolution

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

Second Boer War, 1899-1902

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

September 11 Attacks

• Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

September 11th 2001

• The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Siege of Leningrad

• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (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

• A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Muse: A Novel by Jessie Burton

Stonewall Riots

• The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Summer Gala

• A Summer Affair: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Surrender of Germany in World War II

• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Trojan War

• The Song of Achilles: A Novel by Madeline Miller
• A Thousand Ships: A Novel by Natalie Haynes

Vietnam War

• The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

VJ Day

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

War of 1812

• City of Glory: A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan by Beverly Swerling
• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray

When Stargirl leaves Arizona. She leaves few people, Leo, Archie, and dori.

• Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

World War I

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
• A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• Lovely War by Julie Berry
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels) by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
• War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
• The Girl You Left Behind: A Novel by Jojo Moyes (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard
• Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
• The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff
• The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith
• The Flight Portfolio: A novel by Julie Orringer
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
• The German Girl: A Novel by Armando Lucas Correa
• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
• Goodnight from London: A Novel by Jennifer Robson
• In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• Karolina's Twins: A Novel (Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart) by Ronald H. Balson
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel by Pam Jenoff
• Lovely War by Julie Berry
• Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon
• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
• The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs) by Jacqueline Winspear (author)
• War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll
• When the Men Were Gone: A Novel by Marjorie Herrera Lewis
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (1945)
• All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
• Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black ( 1945)
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two by Caroline Moorehead (1945)
• The Women in the Castle: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck (1945)
• The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (1939-1945)

World War II, Breaking of Enigma

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1944)
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two by Caroline Moorehead (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of Poland

• Once We Were Brothers: A Novel (Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart) by Ronald H. Balson
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

World War II, Italian Campaign

• Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan (1943-1945)
• The Girl from Berlin: A Novel (Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart) by Ronald H. Balson (1943-1945)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

World's Columbian Exposition

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

WWII

• The Light Over London by Julia Kelly

Y2K

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Zimmermann Telegram

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone