Book Events for ecb06c

10th Annual Hunger Games

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

11th century

• The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

12th century

• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
• The life and death of King John by William Shakespeare

12th century BCE

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

13th century

• The essential Rumi by Jal al-D R Maulana
• The life and death of King John by William Shakespeare

1480s

• The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

1482

• The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

14th century

• The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
• The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Vol. 2, Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri,
• The inferno by Dante Alighieri,
• Richard II by William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1300s)

15th century

• The first part of Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare
• Henry IV. Part two by William Shakespeare
• The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
• King Henry IV : part 1 by William Shakespeare
• King Henry VI Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• King Henry VI. Part 3 by William Shakespeare
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• The life of Henry V by William Shakespeare
• The tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

1620s

• The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1) by Alexandre Dumas

16th century

• The complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
• The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• The merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• The prince by Niccol Machiavelli
• Utopia by Sir More, Saint Thomas
• Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
• A Sicilian romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1500s)

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

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

1750s

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

1757

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

1760s

• The nun by Denis Diderot

1770s

• 1776 by David G. McCullough
• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

1776

• 1776 by David G. McCullough

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1790s

• Adam Bede by George Eliot

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1799

• Adam Bede by George Eliot

17th century

• The book of five rings by Musashi Miyamoto
• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller
• Cyrano de Bergerac : heroic comedy in five acts by Edmond Rostand
• Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel Philbrick
• A modest proposal and other satirical works by Jonathan Swift
• The narrow road to the deep north and other travel sketches by Matsuo Basho
• The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1) by Alexandre Dumas
• Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1820s

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• The mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• The mill on the Floss by George Eliot

18th century

• 1776 by David G. McCullough
• Adam Bede by George Eliot
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Candide by Voltaire,
• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
• Hagakure : the book of the samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
• The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• A modest proposal and other satirical works by Jonathan Swift
• The nun by Denis Diderot
• Philosophy in the boudoir, or, The immoral mentors by marquis de Sade
• A Tale of Two Cities: (150th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The rape of the lock by Alexander Pope (1714)
• Les liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
• A vindication of the rights of woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• A Sicilian romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1790s)

1903 Nobel Peace Prize for Physics

• Madame Curie : a biography by Eve Curie

1905 Russian Revolution

• The Romanovs : 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

1911 Nobel Peace Prize for Chemistry

• Madame Curie : a biography by Eve Curie

1918 Influenza Pandemic

• The orphan collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1948 Arab-Israel War

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

1948 Palestinian Exodus

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1970s

• Carrie by Stephen King

1971 Abolition of US Gold Standard

• Debt : the first 5,000 years by David Graeber

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell
• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The library book by Susan Orlean

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; &, Through the looking-glass by Lewis Carroll
• The complete poems of John Keats by John Keats
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The gay science; with a prelude in rhymes and an appendix of songs by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great expectations by Charles Dickens
• The letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
• Little women by Louisa May Alcott
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• The mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Moby-Dick, or, The whale by Herman Melville
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Selected poems by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
• Vanity fair by W. M. Thackeray
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

1st century

• Ben Hur : a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The twelve Caesars by Suetonius,

1st century BCE

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• The poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
• The twelve Caesars by Suetonius,

2005 elections to Afghan parliament

• A woman among warlords : the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice by Malalai Joya

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2008 UK Climate Change Act

• American wasteland : how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it) by Jonathan Bloom

2nd century

• Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

4th century BCE

• Apology by Plato.,
• The Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle.,
• Phaedo by Plato.,
• Poetics by Aristotle.,
• Politics by Aristotle.,
• The Republic by Plato.,
• The symposium by Plato.,
• Tao te ching by Laozi.,

5th century

• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

5th century BCE

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The histories by Herodotus.,

7 July 2005 London bombings

• This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a medical resident by Adam Kay (2005-07-07)

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching fire by Suzanne Collins

9/11 Attack on NY World Trade Center

• Red at the bone by Jacqueline Woodson

9/11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
• Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen ... by Julie Powell

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

• The residence : inside the private world of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Accession of Elizabeth I

• The life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1558-11-17)

Accession of James VI, King of the Scots

• Shakespeare : the world as stage by Bill Bryson

Accession of Victoria

• Victoria R.I. by Elizabeth Longford (1837)

Act for the Advancement of the True Religion

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1543)

Act of Conditional Restraint of Annates

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1532)

Act of Restraint of Appeals

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1533)

Act of Six Articles

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1539)

Act of Succession

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1543)

Act of Supremacy

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1534)

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 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• The fire next time by James Baldwin
• The help by Kathryn Stockett
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• March by John Lewis
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn
• Robert Kennedy : his life by Evan Thomas

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

AIDS epidemic

• The hours by Michael Cunningham

Aiel War

• New Spring by Robert Jordan

Algerian War of Independence

• Frantz Fanon: a biography by David Macey (1962)
• The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox ; introductions by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha by Frantz Fanon (1962)

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Thomas Jefferson : the art of power by Jon Meacham

American Civil War

• The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
• Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders
• Little women by Louisa May Alcott
• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Gods and generals by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1865)
• The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• Walking to Gatlinburg : a novel by Howard Frank Mosher (1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David G. McCullough (1776)

American Indian Movement

• Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
• The first American : the life and times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands
• Founding brothers : stories from the early republic by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• The highwayman by Alfred Noyes
• The power of myth by Joseph Campbell
• Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
• Thomas Jefferson : the art of power by Jon Meacham (1783)
• 1776 by David G. McCullough ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• Benjamin Franklin : an American life by Walter Isaacson (1783)
• A breath of snow and ashes by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• Common sense by Thomas Paine (1783)
• An echo in the bone : a novel by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• George III: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert (1783)
• His Excellency : George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (1783)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

American Revolution 1775-1783

• Washington : a life by Ron Chernow

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Anatomy Act

• Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach (1836)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Shakespeare : the world as stage by Bill Bryson
• The life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1585-1604)

Antebellum South

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anti-apartheid movement

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Anti-Rent War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1839)

Apartheid

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Apocalypse

• The city of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Apollo 8

• Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger

Arab Spring

• The unwanted : the story of the Syrian refugees by Don Brown
• A promised land by Barack Obama (2010-2012)

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents by Charles D. Smith

Ariadne 5 rocket self destruct

• Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world by (Mathematician) Matt Parker

Arizona's Statewide Gleaning Project

• American wasteland : how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it) by Jonathan Bloom

Armageddon

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

Arrival at the Library

• The midnight library by Matt Haig

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• The destiny of the republic : a tale of medicine, madness and the murder of a president by Candice Millard (1881)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• The help by Kathryn Stockett
• Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady by Christopher Andersen
• The residence : inside the private world of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
• Robert Kennedy : his life by Evan Thomas
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage by Christopher Andersen (1963-11-22)
• The Kennedy men : 1901-1963 : the laws of the father by Laurence Leamer (1963-11-22)
• A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy : his life by Evan Thomas
• Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• The Other Mrs. Kennedy : An Intimate and Revealing Look at the Hidden Life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy by Jerry Oppenheimer (1968)

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Assassination of the Gracchi

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

assassinations

• A promised land by Barack Obama (2011)

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

• The atomic city girls by Janet Beard

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

• The atomic city girls by Janet Beard

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English patient by Michael Ondaatje
• American power and the new mandarins by Noam Chomsky (1945)
• Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1945)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Attica Prison Riot

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1971)

August 1st, Ross Gay's birthday

• The book of delights by Ross Gay

Augustine's conversion

• Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

Austro-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman by Robert K. Massie (1791)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Babington Plot

• The life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1586)

Bacon's Rebellion

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1676)

Bal de l'Opera

• The phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Balfour Declaration

• The hundred years' war on Palestine : a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

Barack Obama's Presidency

• Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco

Bastille Day

• Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

Bataan Death March

• The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Reckoning by John Grisham

Battle of Actium

• Rubicon : the last years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Agincourt

• The life of Henry V by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• A fire sparkling by Julianne MacLean
• Atonement a novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Cannae

• Rubicon : the last years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Caporetto

• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon : the last years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Chancellorsville

• Gods and generals by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Crait

• Star wars. Last Jedi by Jason Fry

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in amber by Diana Gabaldon
• Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Five Armies

• The atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Fredericksburg

• Gods and generals by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Hogwarts

• Critical perspectives on Harry Potter
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling
• How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books by John Granger

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Marathon

• The histories by Herodotus., (490 BCE)

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse

• Written in my own heart's blood : a novel by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Quebec

• Seven stones to stand or fall : a collection of Outlander fiction by Diana Gabaldon (1759)

Battle of Salamis

• The histories by Herodotus., (480 BCE-09)

Battle of Saratoga

• An echo in the bone : a novel by Diana Gabaldon (1777)

Battle of Sluis Van

• Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

Battle of Tewkesbury

• The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1471-05-04)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and philosophy : if Aristotle ran Hogwarts by David Baggett
• How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books by John Granger
• Looking for God in Harry Potter by John Granger
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The histories by Herodotus., (480 BCE)

Battle of Towton

• The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1461-03-29)

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• The charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, (1815-06-18)
• Vanity fair by W. M. Thackeray (1815-06-18)

Battle of Yorktown

• Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Robert Kennedy : his life by Evan Thomas

Beat Generation

• On the road by Jack Kerouac

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton Raffel

Big Bang

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
• The grand design by S. W. Hawking
• Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A universe from nothing : why there is something rather than nothing by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss

Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act

• American wasteland : how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it) by Jonathan Bloom (1996)

Birth of Jesus

• Ben Hur : a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Black Death

• The time traveller's guide to medieval England : a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century by Ian Mortimer
• World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) by Ken Follett
• In the wake of the plague : the Black death and the world it made by Norman F. Cantor (1350)
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1340s)

Black Lives Matter

• The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas
• When they call you a terrorist : a black lives matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

The Blitz

• A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows (Outlander, #8.5) by Diana Gabaldon
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• Atonement a novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• The wartime house : home life in wartime Britain, 1939-1945 by Mike Brown (1940)

Bloody Sunday

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1905)

Bloomsday

• Ulises by James Joyce

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Breaking2

• Endure : mind, body, and the curiously elastic limits of human performance by Alex Hutchinson

British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years

• The age of wonder : how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes

British Occupation of India

• A passage to India by E.M. Forster (1765-1947)

British Raj

• An autobiography : the story of my experiments with truth by Mahatma Gandhi (1947)

Broad Street Cholera Outbreak

• The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world by Steven Johnson (1854)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

• Go set a watchman by Harper Lee

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The library book by Susan Orlean

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Founding brothers : stories from the early republic by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)
• Fallen founder : the life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg (1804-07-11)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Camp David Accords

• White House diary by Jimmy Carter (1978)

Catilina's Revolt

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Cedar Revolution

• Spring rain : a graphic memoir of love, madness, and revolutions by Andy Warner (Lebanon, 2005)

Centennial Exhibition of 1876

• The destiny of the republic : a tale of medicine, madness and the murder of a president by Candice Millard

Charleston church shooting

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

Chechen conflict

• A constellation of vital phenomena : a novel by Anthony Marra

Chernobyl Disaster

• The library book by Susan Orlean

Children's Crusade

• An underground education by Richard Zacks (1212)

Chilean Coup

• A long petal of the sea : a novel by Isabel Allende
• The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende (1973)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Cholera Epidemic

• The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• Ben Hur : a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• How the Grinch stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis
• Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton Raffel
• Twelfth night, or, What you will by William Shakespeare
• The velveteen rabbit : or, How toys become real by Margery Williams Bianco
• The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Zealot by Reza Aslan
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
• The night before Christmas : poem by Clement Clarke Moore (visit from Santa)

Christmas Eve

• Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner

Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

• The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• All the days past, all the days to come by Mildred D. Taylor
• David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants by Malcolm Gladwell
• Go set a watchman by Harper Lee
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• Separate : the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation by Steve Luxenberg

Classical Antiquity

• Aesop's fables by Aesop.,
• Bulfinch's mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Greek myths by Robert Graves
• The Iliad by Homer.,
• Metamorphoses : a new verse translation by Ovid,
• A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
• The Odyssey by Homer,
• Venus and Adonis : englisch / deutsch by William Shakespeare

Cleansing of Saidin

• Winter's heart by Robert Jordan

climate change

• Losing Earth : a recent history by Nathaniel Rich

climate crisis

• No one is too small to make a difference by Greta Thunberg
• This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate by Naomi Klein
• The uninhabitable earth : life after warming by David Wallace-Wells

The closing of Gourmet Magazine

• My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life by Ruth Reichl (2009)

Clutter family murder

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Cold War

• American power and the new mandarins by Noam Chomsky
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn
• The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the cold war by Ben Macintyre
• World orders, old and new by Noam Chomsky
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Cold War

• Deterring democracy by Noam Chomsky

Collapse of Theranos

• Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup by John Carreyrou (2018)

Colonizing the New World

• 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by David Cullen
• A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy by Sue Klebold

Community Mental Health Act

• The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness by Susannah Cahalan (1963)

Composting

• American wasteland : how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it) by Jonathan Bloom

Compromise of 1790

• Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Conflict of the Orders

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Conquest of Latin America

• Year 501 : the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky

Constitutional Convention

• Founding brothers : stories from the early republic by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• His Excellency : George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)
• The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis (Philadelphia, 1787)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David G. McCullough
• Washington : a life by Ron Chernow

Contra War

• The culture of terrorism by Noam Chomsky (1990)
• Deterring democracy by Noam Chomsky (1990)

Convention of Versailles

• Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman by Robert K. Massie (1756-05-01)

cooking

• Hamlyn all colour cook book : over 300 quick and easy recipes all illustrated in full colour

Coronation of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Council of Trent

• Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love by Dava Sobel

Covid-19 Epidemic

• Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the COVID-19 Crisis by Dominic Pimenta

COVID-19 pandemic

• The plague year : America in the time of Covid by Lawrence Wright
• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
• RAGE by Bob Woodward
• The sentence : a novel by Louise Erdrich
• Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

Creation

• Paradise lost by John Milton

Creation of the Colony Club

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Credit crunch

• Too big to fail : the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• The sixth extinction : an unnatural history by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Crucifixion

• The book of longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Ben Hur : a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Crusades

• Europe : a history by Norman Davies

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Robert Kennedy : his life by Evan Thomas

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Death of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

Death of Catherine of Aragon

• The six wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir (1536-01-07)
• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1536-01-07)

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• Diana her true story - in her own words by Andrew Morton (1997-08-31)

the death of Grendel

• Giants, monsters, and dragons : an encyclopedia of folklore, legends, and myth by Carol Rose

Death of J. P. Morgon

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Death of Julius Caesar

• Rubicon : the last years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (44 BCE-03-15)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

Death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders (1862)

Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms

• Thomas Jefferson : the art of power by Jon Meacham (1775-07-06)

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

• A promised land by Barack Obama (2010-04-20)

The Deluge

• The epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sandars (Great Flood)

Democratic National Convention of 1968

• The nix : a novel by Nathan Hill

Descente de la Courtille

• The phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Destruction of Earth

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

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Destruction of the Naj Hammandi Scrolls

• The gnostic gospels by Elaine H. Pagels

Destruction of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

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

Disaster: Volcano Eruption

• Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

Discovery of Radium

• Madame Curie : a biography by Eve Curie
• The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women by (Writer and editor) Kate Moore