Book Events for jaydenmccomiskie

11th century

• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

16th century

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

17th century

• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

18th century

• The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe (1794)
• The Monk (Penguin Classics) by Matthew Lewis (1796)

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

2008 global recession

• Sunset Park by Paul Auster

Abolitionist Movement

• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Allied occupation of Japan

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

American Civil War

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• Bring the Jubilee (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks) by Ward Moore (1865)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

Apartheid

• Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Libra by Don DeLillo
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Augustus by John Williams

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

• HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945)
• Empire Of The Sun by J. G. Ballard (1945)
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Battle of Actium

• Augustus by John Williams

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway (Arrow classic) by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Philippi

• Augustus by John Williams

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway (Arrow classic) by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

The Blitz

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Brexit

• Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith
• Winter by Ali Smith

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

California Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick deWitt

Christmas

• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

COINTELPRO

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

Cold War

• The Innocent by Ian McEwan
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

The Council of Elrond

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

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem 1 by Cixin Liu

The Day of the Dead

• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Death of King Georg IV

• Mod Lib Middlemarch (Modern Library) by George Eliot

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (1862)

Deportation of the Hungarian Jews

• Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas (1945)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Dot-com bust

• Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

Dress to Get Screwed Party

• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston (1989)

Elite Conscription Act

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

End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

End of the World

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

End of the World Party

• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Establishment of Israel

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

Falklands War

• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (1982-06-14)

Fall of France

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (1989)

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

German occupation of Italy

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

Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick deWitt (1855)

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Frost

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Greco-Turkish War

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

Gulf War

• The Crow Road by Iain Banks (1990-1991)

Halloween

• Slade House by David Mitchell

Harlem Renaissance

• Passing by Nella Larsen

Holocaust

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
• Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence by Martin Amis
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (1945)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1945)

House Un-American Activities Committee

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

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas (1956)

Hurricane Ike

• Galveston: A Novel by Nic Pizzolatto

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Industrial Revolution

• Hard Times, A Longman Cultural Edition by Charles Dickens

Iran-Contra Affair

• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Iraq War

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks (1859)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

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

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel

Marriage of Charles and Diana

• Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1981)

Martian invasion of Earth

• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

Mint 400 Race

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Nazi Germany; World War II

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

New Year's Day

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1975)

Newark riots

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1967)

Nore Mutiny

• Melville's Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1797; the Great Mutiny)

Occupy Wall Street

• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2011)

Olympic Games

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1948)

Operation Barbarossa

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (1941-12-05)

Palm Sunday

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1942)

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.

• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann

Potsdam Conference

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Pottawatomie Massacre

• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks (1856)

Prague Spring

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

The Reappearance of Earth

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Renaissance

• How to be Both by Ali Smith

Revolución industrial

• Hard Times, A Longman Cultural Edition by Charles Dickens

Salem Witch Trials

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1692)

San Fermin & Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

September 11 Attacks

• Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo
• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith (2001-09-11)
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (2001-09-11)
• Dead Air by Iain Banks (2001-09-11)
• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)

Sino-Japanese War

• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Spanish Flu

• Bereft by Chris Womersley

Stanford prison experiment

• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1971-08)

Student Protests

• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)

Super Bowl

• Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Trojan War

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
• Ransom by David Malouf

The Troubles

• Milkman by Anna Burns

Vietnam War

• 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
• In Pharaohs Army Memories of a Lost War by Tobias Wolff
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1975)
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

Virginia Woolf's suicide

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1968)

World War I

• Bereft by Chris Womersley
• C by Tom McCarthy
• Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1918)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1918)
• A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway (Arrow classic) by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• Fly Away Peter by David Malouf (1918)
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (1918)
• Stoner by John A. Williams (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• Europe Central by William T Vollmann
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet
• Killing Commendatore (182 GRAND) by Murakami Haruki
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: Robin Robertson by Robin Robertson
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
• The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
• Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence by Martin Amis
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño (1945)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (1945)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• Empire Of The Sun by J. G. Ballard (1945)
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1945)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (1945)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (1945)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (1945)
• Puhdistus by Sofi Oksanen (1945)
• Reader by Bernhard Schlink (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945)
• Stoner by John A. Williams (1945)
• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (1945)
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro ( 1945)
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1939-1945)
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (1939-1945)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1939-1945)

World War II, Eastern Front

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (1945-05-05)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

World War III

• The Martian Chronicles the Grand Master Editions by Michael Whelan
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

World's Columbian Exposition

• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1893 ! Chicago, Illinois, USA)

WWII Thai-Burma Railway

• The narrow road to the deep north by Richard Flanagan