Book Events for clsnyder

14th century

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

1540s

• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

1547

• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

15th century

• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

16th century

• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

1770s

• 1776 by David McCullough

1776

• 1776 by David McCullough

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

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1893 Chicago World's Fair

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

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1971 Abolition of US Gold Standard

• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Miserables, Les (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Silas Marner by George Eliot

1st century BCE

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

2008 Republican National Convention

• Wicked Prey by John Sandford

2nd century

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

5th century BCE

• The Art of War (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) by Sun Tzu

7 July 2005 London bombings

• This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay (2005-07-07)

9-11 Memorial Service

• The Camel Club by David Baldacci

9/11 Attacks

• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard E. Wasdin

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• Wrecked (An IQ Novel (3)) by Joe Ide

Afghan Civil War

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

Afghanistan War

• Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• A Right to Die by Rex Stout

Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Allied occupation of Japan

• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945-1952)

American Civil War

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Revolution

• 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

American Revolution 1775-1783

• Washington by Ron Chernow

Anatomy Act

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

Arab Revolt

• Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918)

Arrival at the Library

• The Midnight Library: by Matt Haig

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865-04)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• Libra by Don DeLillo
• The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)
• Replay by Ken Grimwood (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Ohio Governer Loneford by someone using a Glock automatic

• Hit and Run (John Keller Mysteries) by Lawrence Block

Atkins v. Virginia

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg (2002)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• The making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes (1945)
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Second World War, Volume 3: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1941-12-07)
• Temple of Dawn by Yukio mishima (1941-12-07)
• Tokyo Station by Martin Cruz Smith (1941-12-07)

Australian Open

• Open by Andre Agassi

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

baseball

• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL by Don DeLillo

Battle of Actium

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Battle of Britain

• The Second World War, Volume 2: Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Long Island

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Second World War, Volume 3: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1942-06-07)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Coral Sea

• The Second World War, Volume 3: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1942-05-08)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Trenton

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)

Battle of Waterloo

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

Beat Generation

• On the road by Jack Kerouac

Big Bang

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
• The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking

the Big Ride

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

The Blitz

• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks

Bombing of Dresden

• Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

Bombing of HUD, New York.

• The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme) by Jeffery Deaver

the break up of the Moon

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

British Raj

• Gandhi an Autobiography by Gandhi (1947)

Bulgarian 9 June 1923 coup d'etat

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Burlington, Vermont 2009 mayoral election

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

Burning Man

• Homeland (Little Brother, #2) by Cory Doctorow

Burning Man Festival

• Wrecked (An IQ Novel (3)) by Joe Ide

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)

Butlerian Jihad

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

Chicago World's Fair

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

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician Dr. Li Zhisui by Zhi-Sui Li

Christmas

• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

Christmas Day

• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

Clutter family murder

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

COINTELPRO

• Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas
• Dead Lions (Slough House) by Mick Herron
• The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre
• A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
• The Second Confession (The Rex Stout Library: a Nero Wolfe Mystery) by Rex Stout
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL by Don DeLillo
• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Collapse of Theranos

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

Constitutional Convention

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough
• Washington by Ron Chernow

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Council of Trent

• Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

COVID-19 pandemic

• Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
• Law of Innocence (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel, Book 6) (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel, 6) by Michael Connelly
• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

Creation of Turkey

• Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

Credit crunch

• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Crusades

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Cuban Missile Crisis

• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cultural Revolution

• 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: by Weiwei Ai
• China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
• The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician Dr. Li Zhisui by Zhi-Sui Li
• The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past) by Cixin Liu

Dalai Lama at the Tibet Center/Gere Foundation for two week teaching in NYC

• An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by Dalai Lama (1991-08)

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit, run by John Updike

Davis Cup

• Open by Andre Agassi

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

• Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex

Dedication of Brennan, Pennsylvania

• The Camel Club by David Baldacci

Desert Storm

• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard E. Wasdin

Destruction of Earth

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Development of Cryptocurrency

• Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

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

Disaster: Storm at Sea

• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

Discovery of the double helix

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Hilary Mantel

Donald J. Trump presidency

• A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker

Dust Bowl Era

• The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck

Early Days of Liver Transplant Surgery

• Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey by Bud Shaw

Easter

• The sportswriter by Richard Ford

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston (1989)

Edwin steps under the ancient maple

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Election of Bill Clintion

• The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Elite Conscription Act

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)

End of the Library

• The Midnight Library: by Matt Haig

End of the Mayan Calendar at 12/21/2012

• 12.21: A Novel by Dustin Thomason

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

End of the Universe

• The restaurant at the end of the universe by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

End of the World

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Endurance Expedition

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1914-1917)

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Hilary Mantel

Establishment of Israel

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

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

Fall of Singapore

• The Second World War, Volume 3: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1942-02-15)

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

February 28 incident

• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (1947)

Federalist Era

• John Adams by David McCullough (U.S. history ∙ 1789 ∙ 1801)

the Fenice fire

• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (1996)

FIFA World Cup

• So, Anyway... by John Cleese (1996)

Financial Crisis of 2008

• The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

First contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms

• Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir

First manned mission to Mars

• Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein

Florida 2000 presidential election

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

Flucht

• The Innocent by David Baldacci

French Open

• Open by Andre Agassi

French Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Funeral Rule

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

Gallipoli Campaign

• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

Gaspery meets Olive

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

German occupation of Italy

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

Gilded Age

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

global warming

• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

The Great Collapse

• The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin

Great Depression

• The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
• Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
• To have and have not by Ernest Hemingway
• To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of Smyrna

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Leap Forward

• The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician Dr. Li Zhisui by Zhi-Sui Li

Great Moderation

• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

Greco-Turkish War

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Gulf 1

• The Innocent by David Baldacci

Halley's Comet

• 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
• Silence of the Grave: A Reyjavik Murder Mystery by Arnaldur Indridason

Halloween 1958

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Hamilton–Reynolds affair

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1797)

the Hard Rain

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Hellenistic Period

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Henley Royal Regatta

• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich (2004)

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Holocaust

• The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon (1945)

Home invaders break into Frank Meyer's home and kill his family.

• The First Rule (Joe Pike Novels) by Robert Crais

Hundred Years' War

• Timeline by Michael Crichton (1453)

Hurricane Agnes

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride

Hurricane Andrew

• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

Hurricane Charley, 2005

• Dark Light by Randy Wayne White

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Sign of Four (Penguin Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Indira Ghandi's assassination

• Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts

Interbellum

• Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers (1939)
• Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout (1939)
• The Red Box by Rex Stout (1939)

Interwar Period

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Invasion of Afghanistan

• Siro: A Novel by David Ignatius (1979)

Invention of chronometer

• Longitude by Dava Sobel

Iran-Contra Affair

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

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) by Andre Dubus III (1979)

Iraq War

• Billy Summers by Stephen King
• Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) by Lee Child
• Redeployment by Phil Klay

Iraq War, 2003-

• Cherry by Nico Walker

Iraqi war

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

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

• The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro ( Largest Art Theft in History)

Italian Renaissance

• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Jackpot

• The Peripheral by William Gibson

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

Japanese-American Internment

• The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
• Snow Falling on Cedars : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by David Guterson (1945)

Jazz Age

• Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Adams Presidency

• John Adams by David McCullough

Jonestown Massacre

• Before the Frost by Henning Mankell (1978)

July Revolution

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

June Rebellion

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

Katyn massacre

• A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther) by Philip Kerr

Kidnapping of President Brennan

• The Camel Club by David Baldacci

Kobe earthquake

• After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami (1995)

Korean War

• Norwegian by night by Derek Miller
• Truman by David McCullough (1953)

The Kotter Moment

• Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid (1977-10-13)

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Manhattan Project

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• The making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

Marilyn Sheppard Murder

• Mr. Peanut (Borzoi Books) by Adam Ross (1954-07-04)

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Hilary Mantel

Marshall Plan

• Truman by David McCullough (1951)

Mary Claire Fitzhugh is abducted in 1967

• U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) by Sue Grafton

May 15 Incident

• Runaway Horses by Yukio mishima

McCarthy Era

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird

Mesopotamian Campaign

• Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918-11-14)

Mesozoic Era

• Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs by John R. Horner

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)

Mexican-American War

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1848)

Middle Ages

• Beowulf (Signet Classics) by Anonymous
• The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Ming Dynasty

• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese history, 1348-1644)

Mint 400 Race

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Mississippi Bubble

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Mongol Empire

• Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack weatherford

Munich Olympics massacre

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

Nanking massacre, 1937

• The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder

Napoleonic Wars

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

New Year

• The Enemy by Lee Child
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1975)

New York blackout 13/14 July 1977

• High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella (Kindle Single) by Lee Child

Northern Ireland peace process

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

Oil discovery

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Oklahoma City Airship Terminal event

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Olympic Games

• Open by Andre Agassi
• Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936 by Jeffery Deaver (1936)
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1948)

Operation Barbarossa

• Dark Voyage by Alan Furst (1941-12-05)
• A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther) by Philip Kerr (1941-12-05)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• The Faithful Spy (A John Wells Novel) by Alex Berenson
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Operation Rock Avalanche

• WAR by Sebastian Junger

Panic of 1792

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Panic of 1873

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Panic of 1893

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Papal Election

• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Paul James Smith concert

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Peninsular War

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

plagues

• Isaac Newton by James Gleick (London, 1666)

Poincare Conjecture proved

• Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen (2006)

powered flight

• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (1903-12-17)

Prague Spring

• The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Prehistoric Age

• Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs by John R. Horner

Presidency of Donald Trump

• The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis

Prohibition

• Nightmare Town: Twenty Long Unavailable Stories by Dashiell Hammett

Prohibition in the United States

• Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Ptolemaic Dynasty

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Quasi-War

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1800)

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Re-election of George Walker Bush

• The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

The Reappearance of Earth

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

Recession of 2008

• Gray Mountain: A Novel by John Grisham

Reign of Cleopatra VII

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff