Book Events for eliza_murph

10th Annual Hunger Games

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) by Suzanne Collins

11th century

• The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Murasaki Shikibu
• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

1290

• Catherine, Called Birdy (Summer Reading Edition) by Karen Cushman

1290s

• Catherine, Called Birdy (Summer Reading Edition) by Karen Cushman

12th Century

• The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: A New Fantasy Series Set a Thousand Years Before the City of Brass by Shannon Chakraborty

12th century

• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
• The Lion in Winter: A Play by James Goldman

12th century BCE

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

13th century

• Catherine, Called Birdy (Summer Reading Edition) by Karen Cushman

14th century

• The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine/Cantica III Paradise [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1962] Dante by Dante Alighieri; translated by Dorothy L. Sayers And Barbara Reynolds
• The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri
• Inferno (The Divine Comedy) by Dante
• Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1300s)

1540s

• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

1547

• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

15th century

• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• King Henry IV, Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare
• The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare

1620s

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

1690s

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller

1692

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller

16th century

• Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• King Henry VIII: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
• Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Thomas More

1770s

• 1776 by David McCullough

1776

• 1776 by David McCullough

1780s

• U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers

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

17th century

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
• Discourse on Method by René Descartes
• Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes
• On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Basho Matsuo
• Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1805

• When Strangers Marry by Lisa Kleypas

1810s

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

1818-08

• Devil's Bride (Cynster Novels, 1) by Stephanie Laurens

1820s

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

1822

• Ten Things I Love About You (Tom Thorne Novels) by Julia Quinn

1823

• Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers, 1) by Sarah MacLean

1823

• Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, 3) by Sarah MacLean

1830

• Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas

1830s

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

1832

• Again The Magic by Lisa Kleypas

1836

• Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas

1839

• Worth Any Price (Bow Street Runners, #3) by Lisa Kleypas

1841

• Secrets of a Summer Night (The Wallflowers, Book 1) by Lisa Kleypas

1843

• Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3) by Lisa Kleypas

1893 Chicago World's Fair

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

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Rip Van Winkle (Penguin Little Black Classics) by Washington Irving
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• The Monk (Penguin Classics) by Matthew Lewis (1796)

1920s

• Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures) by KJ Charles

1940s

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

1949

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Edith Wharton
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• ArchEnemy (Looking Glass Wars (Hardcover)) by Frank Beddor
• A Christmas Carol (Holiday Classics Illustrated by P.j. Lynch) by Charles Dickens
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Hatter M, Vol. 2: Mad With Wonder by Frank Beddor
• Hatter M, Volume 1: The Looking Glass Wars (Hatter M, #1) by Frank Beddor
• Hatter M: Nature of Wonder (Hatter M Looking Glass Wars) by Liz Cavalier
• Hatter M: Zen of Wonder by Frank Beddor
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Looking Glass Wars (Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Seeing Redd (The Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor
• Twelve Years a Slave
• The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

1st century

• Germania (Clarendon Ancient History Series) by Tacitus

1st century BCE

• Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare

4th century BCE

• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
• The Symposium (Penguin Classics) by Plato

5th century BCE

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Histories by Herodotus

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The hunger games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Aberfan disaster

• A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

Accession of Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey (1558-11-17)
• The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory (1558-11-17)

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

• Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell
• The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1543)

Act of Supremacy

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

Afghan Civil War

• First Printing. A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929) by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Age of Anarchy

• Renegades (Renegades, 1) by Marissa Meyer

Age of Sail

• Master and Commander (Book 1) by Patrick O'Brian
• Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Alien Invasion

• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

American Civil War

• Hatter M: Nature of Wonder (Hatter M Looking Glass Wars) by Liz Cavalier
• A Hope Divided (The Loyal League #2) by Alyssa Cole
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series) by Gore Vidal (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 Indian Movement

• Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
• U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers
• 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• Common Sense (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thomas Paine (1783)
• Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1783)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ( 1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

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: A Novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Armada! (Wordsworth Military Library) by Robert Milne-Tyte (1604)
• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1604)

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Apocalypse

• The City of Ember (The City of Ember Book 1) by Jeanne DuPrau

Arthurian England

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

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series) by Gore Vidal (1865-04)
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Leviathan (The Leviathan Trilogy) by Scott Westerfeld (1914)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) 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 the Gracchi

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

B'Wa Kell Rebellion

• The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, #2) by Eoin Colfer

Babington Plot

• Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell (1586)
• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1587)

Bal de l'Opera

• The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (covers may vary) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest (Inheritance Cycle, Book 2) (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Agincourt

• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• No Other Duke Will Do by Grace Burrowes
• The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)
• The White Queen: A Novel (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms [Lingua inglese]: Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Clontarf

• Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (1014-04-23)

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2) by Diana Gabaldon
• Voyager: A Novel (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Fulford

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Classics S) by Snorri Sturluson (1066-09-20)

Battle of Hastings

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Classics S) by Snorri Sturluson (1066-10-14)

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Ligny

• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-16)

Battle of Lincoln

• When Christ and His Saints Slept: A Novel by Sharon Kay Penman (1141)

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Manhattan

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Quatre Bras

• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-16)

Battle of Salamis

• The Histories by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)

Battle of Stamford Bridge

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Classics S) by Snorri Sturluson (1066-09-25)

Battle of Tewkesbury

• The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

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

Battle of the Labyrinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4) by Rick Riordan

Battle of the Nissa

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Classics S) by Snorri Sturluson (1062)

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms [Lingua inglese]: Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Waterloo

• The Armor of Light: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)
• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-18)

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) by Anonymous

Big Bang

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of Night: A Novel (All Souls Series) by Deborah Harkness

Black Death

• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
• World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) by Ken Follett
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)

The Blitz

• Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
• The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Martin
• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bombing of Coventry

• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut

Bonfire of Vanities

• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (the original)

Bosworth Field

• The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir

British Occupation of India

• A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) by Pankaj Mishra (1765-1947)

British Raj

• The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel

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)

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)

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 (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 1) by Sarah J. Maas

California Gold Rush

• O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (1848–1855)
• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (1848–1855)

Capture of the Rose Pink

• A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself by Katherine Howe (1723)

Catilina's Revolt

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Chernobyl Disaster

• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Chicago World's Fair

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

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christian conversion of Iceland

• Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (999)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol (Holiday Classics Illustrated by P.j. Lynch) by Charles Dickens
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The classic collection) by Dr. Seuss
• The Lion in Winter: A Play by James Goldman
• 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
• Madeline In America And Other Holiday Tales by Ludwig Bemelmans
• The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories by P.D. James
• Once Upon a Duke (12 Dukes of Christmas, #1) by Erica Ridley
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) by Anonymous
• Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (visit from Santa)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Classical Antiquity

• Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) by Aesop
• D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
• Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics) by Homer
• The Iliad by Homer
• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

climate change

• Migrations: A Novel by Charlotte McConaghy

Clutter family murder

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

Cold War

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (covers may vary) by Barbara Kingsolver
• Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone

Conflict of the Orders

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Constitution of the United States

• U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers

Constitutional Convention

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Contagious Diseases Act

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1864)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough

Coronation of King Arthur

• The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2) by Mary Stewart

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

• Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire (1953)

Creation

• Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton

Creation of man

• D'Aulaires' Book Of Norse Myths (New York Review Children's Collection) by Ingri D'Aulaire

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Creation of the world

• American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes
• D'Aulaires' Book Of Norse Myths (New York Review Children's Collection) by Ingri D'Aulaire

Crimean War

• Love in the Afternoon (Hathaways, Book 5) by Lisa Kleypas (1856)

Cádiz Raid

• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1587)

D-Day

• The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn

The Dance Off

• Take the Lead (A Dance Off Novel, 1) by Alexis Daria

Day of Triumph

• Renegades (Renegades, 1) by Marissa Meyer

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 Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

Death of King George III

• A Gathering of Shadows: A Novel (Shades of Magic, 2) by Victoria Schwab

Death of the White Witch

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

The Deluge

• The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics) by N. K. Sandars (Great Flood)

Descente de la Courtille

• The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Disaster: Shipwreck

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Discovery of Pluto

• The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson (1930)

Discovery of Radium

• The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore

Dissolution of the Monasteries

• Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell (1541)
• The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1541)

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

DomDaniel is Defeated

• Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage

Dreyfus Affair

• The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Duchess of Richmond's ball

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

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1931 ∙ 1939)

East End 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 (1866)

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Basho Matsuo

Edwin steps under the ancient maple

• Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel

Elizabethan Era

• Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
• Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell
• Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell (1603)
• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1603)

English Civil War

• A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France by Katie Whitaker

English Reformation

• The King's Curse (COUSINS' WAR) by Philippa Gregory
• The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

English Renaissance

• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare

Enlightenment

• Discourse on Method by René Descartes
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris (79 AD)

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

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

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir (1536-05-17)
• The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1536-05-17)
• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1587)

Expedition 34

• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield

Expedition 35

• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield

Fall of France

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

Fall of Saigon

• Inside Out and Back Again: A Newbery Honor Award Winner by Thanhha Lai

Fate of the Labryinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4) by Rick Riordan

Federalist Era

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

Field of the Cloth of Gold

• The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1520)

Finnish War of Continuation

• The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna

First Opium War

• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F Kuang

French Resistance

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

French Revolution

• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1799)
• Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1799)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Burke (1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness (1789-1799)

Funeral Rule

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

Gaspery meets Olive

• Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel

Gemini 9

• Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng

General Strike of 1926

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Genesis creation narrative

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1837)
• An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3) by Julia Quinn (1837)
• On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn (1837)
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (1837)
• To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgerton Series, Book 5) by Julia Quinn (1837)
• When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons) by Julia Quinn (1837)

German occupation of Italy

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

German Occupation of the Netherlands

• Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes by Tim Brady

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Edith Wharton
• Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age by Donna M. Lucey
• The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
• The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York by Greg King (1901)

Gordon Riots

• Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1780)

Grace Marks Murder Trial

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1843)

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award) by Sarah Stewart
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Depression

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

The Great Exhibition

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1851)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Frost

• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire

The Great Stink

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1858)

Greco-Persian Wars

• The Histories by Herodotus ( 449 BCE)

Greco-Turkish War

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

Gunpowder Plot

• The King's Witch (Frances Gorges Trilogy, #1) by Tracy Borman
• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1605)

Guy Fawkes Night

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Habitual Drunkards Act

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1879)

Hale-Bopp

• The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Halley's Comet

• The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Halloween

• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Hamilton–Reynolds affair

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1797)

Hanging of William Fly

• A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself by Katherine Howe (1726-07-12)

Harlem Renaissance

• Dead Dead Girls (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery) by Nekesa Afia
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Haun's Mill Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Oct 30, 1838)

Heian period

• The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Murasaki Shikibu

Hellenistic Period

• Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare

Holocaust

• A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz: A Memoir by Göran Rosenberg
• Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) by Viktor E. Frankl
• My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
• The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
• The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics) by Jane Yolen (1945)
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)

Holy Week

• The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri

Hundred Days

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

Hundred Years' War

• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman ( 1453)
• Edward III: The Perfect King by Ian Mortimer (1453)
• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare ( 1453)

Hungarian Grand Prix

• Cross the Line (Lights Out #1) by Simone Soltani

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Inauguration of John F. Kennedy

• Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire (1961)

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick by Salman Rushdie