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11th century

• Macbeth (Shakespeare, Pelican) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

12th century

• The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid al-Din Attar
• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott

13th century

• The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 1) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• The Masnavi: Book Two (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 2) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• Parzival (Penguin Classics) by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
• La Vita Nuova (Dover Thrift Editions) by Dante

1480s

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

1482

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

1490s

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

14th century

• THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER by R.M. Lumiansky (1300s)

15th century

• Henry IV, part I (A Bantam classic) by William Shakespeare
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

16th century

• The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe (1500s)

1750s

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

1757

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

1790s

• Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

1798 Rebellion

• Irish Folktales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Francine Kass

1799

• Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

1810s

• Persuasion (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen

1820s

• Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by George Eliot

1830s

• Felix Holt, the Radical (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
• Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by George Eliot

1832

• Felix Holt, the Radical (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

1860s

• Daniel Deronda (Barnes & Noble Classics) by George Eliot

1870s

• THE YEARLING

18th century

• Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe (1794)

19th century

• The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Edith Wharton
• Alice in Wonderland Centennial Edition by Lewis Carroll
• Daniel Deronda (Barnes & Noble Classics) by George Eliot
• David Copperfield (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Felix Holt, the Radical (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
• Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Persuasion (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen
• Through the Looking Glass.
• THE YEARLING

5th century BCE

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

7th century

• Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng-en

Aemilius Scaurus leads Pompey's armies into Judea

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (63)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Age of Sail

• The Far Side of the World (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian

Allied occupation of Japan

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

American Civil War

• The Hearts of Soldiers by DK Publishing
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
• White Doves at Morning : A Novel by James Lee Burke
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (Vintage) by Herbert Asbury (1865)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1865)
• On Agate Hill: A Novel by Lee Smith (1865)

American Revolution

• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)

Anglo-Spanish War

• The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser (1604)

Antiochus IV desecrates the Temple

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (167)

Appalachian Catastrophe

• Fall With Honor: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight (Battle)

Arab Revolt

• Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell (1918)
• Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Ronald Florence (1918)
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918)
• A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack (1918)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence (1918)

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Ronald Florence (1948-)

Assassination of Abdul Haq

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Mohammad Najibullah

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Actium

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Breitenfeld

• 1632 (The Assiti Shards) by Eric Flint

Battle of Camlann

• The Romance of Arthur, New, Expanded Edition: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation (Garland Reference Library o by Wilhelm

Battle of Cannae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Clontarf

• Njal's Saga (Classics) by Magnus Magnusson (1014-04-23)
• Lion of Ireland (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn) by Morgan Llywelyn (1014-10-23)

Battle of Crécy

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1346)

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, Book 2) by Diana Gabaldon
• Voyager (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Hastings

• The The Conqueror: A novel of William the Conqueror, the bastard son who overpowered a kingdom and the woman who melted his heart by Georgette Heyer (1066)

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Krefeld

• Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon (23-06-1758)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Lützen

• Mutter Courage Und Ihre Kinder by Bertolt Brecht (1632)

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Montiel

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1369)

Battle of Otterburn

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart ('Chevy Chase', 1388)

Battle of Poitiers

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1356-09-19)

Battle of Prestonpans

• Waverley (Penguin English Library) by Walter Scott

Battle of Qala-i-Jangi

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Battle of Roncesvalles

• The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (778)

Battle of Roosebeke

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1382)

Battle of Salamis

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)
• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland (480 BCE-09)

Battle of Saratoga

• An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (1777)

Battle of Sluys

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1340)

Battle of Stoney Creek

• 1812: The Rivers of War by Eric Flint

Battle of Tewkesbury

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

Battle of the Atlantic

• Das Boot: The Boat by Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)

Battle of the Hornburg

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

• Napoleon's Pyramids: An Ethan Gage Adventure by William Dietrich (1798-07-21)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Tora Bora

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Battle of Towton

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

The Battle of Troyes-Le-Mont

• Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
• An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War by Georgette Heyer (1815-06-18)

Battle of Winchelsea

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1350-08-29)

Battle of Worcester

• Royal Escape: In which a dare-devil King with a price on his head fools his enemies and terrifies his friends by Georgette Heyer (1651)

Beheading game

• Irish Folktales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Francine Kass
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Literary Texts) by James Winny

Billy Goat Cut

• Fall With Honor: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight (Battle)

Birth of Jesus

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (6) (Luke 2:4-7)

Black Death

• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (1350)

The Blitz

• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Bloomsday

• Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce

Bonfire of Vanities

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

British Occupation of India

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

British Raj

• Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (1947)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 4) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cairo Peace Conference, 1921

• Dreamers of the Day: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell

Captivity

• Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg

Chagai-I

• Moth Smoke: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid (five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on 28 May 1998)

Christian conversion of Iceland

• Njal's Saga (Classics) by Magnus Magnusson (999)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Literary Texts) by James Winny
• Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Civil Rights Movement

• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

civil war between Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (67)

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid (1992–96)

Classical Antiquity

• D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire
• The Iliad of Homer by Homer
• Odyssey of Homer (Harper Colophon Books, CN 479) by Richmond Lattimore

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• Declare by TIM POWERS
• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Hecht
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Coronation of Aragorn

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

Coronation of King Arthur

• Mordred's Curse by Ian McDowell

The Council of Elrond

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

Creation

• Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg (Genesis 1+2)
• Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton (Genesis 1-2)

Creation of the world

• American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Richard Erdoes

Creation of Turkey

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

Crimean War

• Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes (1856)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Cuban Revolution

• Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Oscar Hijuelos

D-Day

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)
• Jackdaws by Ken Follett (1944-06-06)

Death of Amy Robsart

• Kenilworth (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott

death of Judas Maccabeus

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (160)

Death of Julius Caesar

• Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (44 BCE-03-15)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by George Eliot

Decembrist Uprising

• Thirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent (26 December 1825)

The Deluge

• Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Anonymous (Great Flood)

Demetrius III Eukairos invades Palestine

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (88)

Destruction of Isengard

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Destruction of the Naj Hammandi Scrolls

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Destruction of the One Ring

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

disappearance of two strangers

• The Storyteller of Marrakesh: A Novel by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Discovery of Fillory

• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman

Discovery of the Galilean moons

• Galileo: A Play by Bertolt Brecht (English version by Charles Laughton) by Bertolt Brecht (1610)

Discovery of the Naj Hammandi Scrolls

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Discovery of the source of the Nile River

• The White Nile by Alan Moorehead

Dracula Night

• A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories) by Charlaine Harris

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War by Georgette Heyer (1815-06-15)

Easter Rising

• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (1916)
• The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 by William Irwin. Thompson (1916)
• A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle (1916)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Elizabethan Era

• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by William Shakespeare

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

End of the World

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami

English Civil War

• Royal Escape: In which a dare-devil King with a price on his head fools his enemies and terrifies his friends by Georgette Heyer
• Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd

English Renaissance

• Complete Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by William Shakespeare

Establishment of Israel

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

Exile

• Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg

Existentialism

• The Second Sex. Simon de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir

Fall of Communism

• McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Vintage) by Misha Glenny

Fall of Man

• Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton (Genesis 3)

Festival of Fools

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

First Jewish-Roman War

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (73)
• The Jewish War: A New Translation (Penguin Classics, L90) by Josephus (73)

Flood

• Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg (Genesis 7-8)

The Flood

• Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell (Genesis 6-9)
• Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle (Genesis 6-9)

Fourth Crusade

• The Hound and the Falcon: The Isle of Glass, The Golden Horn, and The Hounds of God by Judith Tarr (1204)

Franklin's Lost Expedition

• Across the Top of the World : The Quest for the Northwest Passage by James P. Delgado

French and Indian War

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

French invasion of the Marquesas Islands

• Typee: A peep at Polynesian life during a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas, with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the ... Islands to Lord Paulet (Classics series, CL) by Herman Melville (1842)

French Resistance

• A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII by Sarah Helm

French Revolution

• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Hecht
• The Second Sex. Simon de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
• A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

French-Italian Wars

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Harper's Ferry

• The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Galileo affair

• Galileo: A Play by Bertolt Brecht (English version by Charles Laughton) by Bertolt Brecht (1610-1643)

Genesis creation narrative

• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen
• The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
• These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
• An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War by Georgette Heyer (1837)

German occupation of Italy

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

Germanus, bishop of Auxerre's first visit to Britain

• The Eagles' Brood (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 3) by Jack Whyte

Gettysburg Campaign

• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1863-07)

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Great Depression

• Oh, Play That Thing (Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Game

• Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Rudyard Kipling

The Great Revelation

• All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead to the World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1) by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 8) by Charlaine Harris
• Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 2) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5) by Charlaine Harris (fictional)

Great Schism

• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1376-1379)

The Great Wars

• Armageddon's Children (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 1) by Terry Brooks

Greco-Persian Wars

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus ( 449 BCE)
• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland (449 BCE)

Green River

• Fall With Honor: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight (Ambush)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Thin Red Line by James Jones (1943-02-09)

Guy Fawkes Night

• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Harlem Renaissance

• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Hecht
• Dust Tracks on a Road/an Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Highbeam

• Fall With Honor: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

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

Holocaust

• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Hecht
• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
• Tagebuch. Die endgültige deutschsprachige Fassung. by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Pamela Marcantel
• Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Friedrich Schiller (1453)
• Chronicles (Penguin Classics) by Froissart (1337-1453)

Hurricane

• Cape Storm by Rachel Caine

Hurricane Katrina

• All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 8) by Charlaine Harris

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Indira Ghandi's assassination

• Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts

Industrial Revolution

• Hard Times (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens
• The Second Sex. Simon de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir

Influenza pandemic

• Dreamers of the Day: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (1918)

Interregnum

• Royal Escape: In which a dare-devil King with a price on his head fools his enemies and terrifies his friends by Georgette Heyer

Interwar Period

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Iranian Revolution

• The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov (1979)

Iraq War

• Fobbit by David Abrams
• Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid
• Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
• Generation Kill by Evan Wright (2004)

Irish Potato Famine

• Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor (1852)

Irish Revolution

• A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle

Islamic Golden Age

• The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid al-Din Attar
• The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 1) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• The Masnavi: Book Two (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 2) by Jalal al-Din Rumi

Israeli war of independence

• The Hope: A Novel by Herman Wouk

Italian Renaissance

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Jacobean Era

• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by William Shakespeare

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Waverley (Penguin English Library) by Walter Scott (1745)

Jacobite rising of 1715

• Rob Roy (Signet Classics) by Walter Scott

Jacobite Rising of 1745

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, Book 2) by Diana Gabaldon

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

Javelin

• Fall With Honor: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight

Jazz Age

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jesus calls his disciples

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jesus’ burial

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jesus’ death

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jesus’ resurrection

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Jewish-Roman Wars

• The Jewish War: A New Translation (Penguin Classics, L90) by Josephus

Jews throw off Syrian rule

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (165)

Johnson County War

• The Virginian (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Owen Wister (1892-04)

Josephus wrote Antiquities

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (95)

Josephus wrote Wars

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (78)

June 'teenth

• White Doves at Morning : A Novel by James Lee Burke

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1951)

King Edward III's death

• The Nightingale Gallery: Being the First of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan by Paul Harding (1377-06-21)

Kobe earthquake

• After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (1995)

Kunduz airlift, "the Airlift of Evil"

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Kurukshetra War

• The Bhagavad Gita (1965) by Franklin Edgerton

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night by Elie Wiesel

McCarthy Era

• The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Mecca Grand Mosque Seizure

• The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov (1979)

Mesopotamian Campaign

• A 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)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence (1918-11-14)

Middle Ages

• Beowulf (Mentor) by Anonymous
• THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER by R.M. Lumiansky
• The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid al-Din Attar
• The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• Henry IV, part I (A Bantam classic) by William Shakespeare
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• Idylls of the King (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by Alfred Tennyson, Lord
• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
• Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (Penguin Classics) by Sigrid Undset
• The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
• Macbeth (Shakespeare, Pelican) by William Shakespeare
• The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 1) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• The Masnavi: Book Two (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 2) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• Morte d'Arthur, Le: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mentor) by Thomas Malory
• Parzival (Penguin Classics) by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Literary Texts) by James Winny
• La Vita Nuova (Dover Thrift Editions) by Dante

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Murder of Sir Harry Oakes

• Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• Twelve by Jasper Kent (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3) by Naomi Novik
• A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
• Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4) by Naomi Novik
• His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Love and War by Georgette Heyer
• Throne of Jade (Temeraire, Book 2) by Naomi Novik
• Victory of Eagles (Temeraire) by Naomi Novik
• An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War by Georgette Heyer (1815)
• Napoleon's Pyramids: An Ethan Gage Adventure by William Dietrich (1815)
• Persuasion (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen ( 1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1831)

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

New Year

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Literary Texts) by James Winny

New York City Draft Riots

• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (Vintage) by Herbert Asbury (1863-07-16)

Nigerian-Biafran War

• Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)

Night of the Long Knives

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

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser (1154)

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Operation Market Garden

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-09-25)

Operation Overlord

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-08-30)
• Jackdaws by Ken Follett (1944-08-30)

Paul wrote letter to Galatians

• The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (50)