Book Events for kaixo

"Bloody Mayday"

• Und unsere Tage waren es doch by Shô Shibata (1953-05-01)

16th century

• Romeo und Julia. by William Shakespeare (1500s)

17th century

• Reclam Universal-Bibliothek, Nr.31, Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600s)

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir V. Nabokov

1950s

• The Bell Jar: A Novel by Sylvia Plath
• Lolita by Vladimir V. Nabokov

1964 Summer Olympics

• Asadora! 2: Die Lebensgeschichte einer Japanerin vom Ise-Wan-Taifun von 1959 bis in die Gegenwart 2020 (2) by Naoki Urasawa

1971 Abolition of US Gold Standard

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

9/11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

AIDS epidemic

• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Allied occupation of Japan

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1952)
• An Artist of the Floating World (Faber Fiction Classics) by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945-1952)

Allied Occupation of Japan

• Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1952)
• Miti and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975 by Chalmers Johnson (1952)

American Civil War

• Lincoln im Bardo: Roman by George Saunders

American Revolution

• Common Sense. by Thomas Paine (1783)

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

• Wiedergeburt am Ganges by Shusaku Endo (1984-10-31)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Die Enden der Parabel by Thomas Pynchon
• Schwarzer Regen. by Masuji Ibuse
• Barfuss durch Hiroshima: Barfuß durch Hiroshima, Band 1: Kinder des Krieges: BD 1 by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• A Pale View of Hills (Faber Firsts) by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945)

Atoombom

• Schwarzer Regen. by Masuji Ibuse (1945-08)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (1941-12-07)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar: A Novel by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Barack Obama's presidency

• The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

Barthes death

• Die siebte Sprachfunktion by Laurent Binet (1980)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• König Richard der Dritte by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Marathon

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot (490 BCE)

Battle of Salamis

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot (480 BCE-09)

Battle of the Hornburg

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• J. R. R. Tolkien. Eine Biographie by Humphrey Carpenter

Battle of Thermopylae

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot (480 BCE)

beat movement

• Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder

Bloody New Year's Eve

• Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 12 by Naoki Urasawa (2000-12-31)
• Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa (2000-12-31)
• Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 5 by Naoki Urasawa (2000-12-31)
• Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa (2000-12-31)
• Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 8 by Naoki Urasawa (2000-12-31)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Blutmai

• Berlin: City of Stones: Book One (Part 1) by Jason Lutes (1929-05-01)

Bologna massacre

• Die siebte Sprachfunktion by Laurent Binet (1980)

Bosnian War

• HERKUNFT by Saša Stanišić

Bronze Age

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
• War and the Iliad by Simone Weil

Burning of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion

• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (1950)

Christmas

• Tokyo Godfathers by Satoshi Kon
• Lolita by Vladimir V. Nabokov (1952)

Clutter family murder

• Kaltblütig by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Cold War

• Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-Formation) by Alexei Yurchak
• Unterwelt by Don DeLillo

Comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial

• Lied vom Abendrot by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Communist China

• Chinas Weg in die Moderne. by Jonathan D. Spence (1949-)

Conquest of Mexico

• Die Eroberung Amerikas: Das Problem des Anderen (edition suhrkamp) by Tzvetan Todorov

Coronation of Aragorn

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Council of Elrond

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Unterwelt by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cultural Revolution

• Fräulein Hallo und der Bauernkaiser: Chinas Gesellschaft von unten by Liao Yiwu
• Maos Großer Hunger by Frank Dikötter
• Red Dust: 3 Jahre unterwegs durch China by Ma Jian
• Die Sterblichen by Yiyun Li
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China by Jung Chang

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Hasenherz by John Updike

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln im Bardo: Roman by George Saunders (1862)

death penalty

• The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott

The Deluge

• Das Gilgamesch-Epos by Stefan M. Maul (Great Flood)

Destruction of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

Destruction of Isengard

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Destruction of the One Ring

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• Macht's gut und danke für den Fisch (6473 415). Roman. ( Science Fiction). by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

Dust Bowl Era

• Früchte des Zorns by John Steinbeck

East German popular rising

• Rummelplatz by Werner Bräunig (1953-06-17)

End of the Universe

• Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

End of the World

• Hard-boiled wonderland und das Ende der Welt : Roman by Haruki Murakami

Estado Novo

• Erklärt Pereira. Eine Zeugenaussage by Antonio Tabucchi (1933-1974)

Exile of Ovid

• Die letzte Welt. by Christoph Ransmayr (8)

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Zonenkinder. by Jana Hensel

Financial Crisis of 2008

• Crashed: Wie zehn Jahre Finanzkrise die Welt verändert haben by Adam Tooze

Financial Crisis of 2012

• Crashed: Wie zehn Jahre Finanzkrise die Welt verändert haben by Adam Tooze

Finnish Civil War

• Frommes Elend by Frans Eemil Sillanpää

French Revolution

• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm (1789)

Gay Liberation

• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Great Depression

• Früchte des Zorns by John Steinbeck
• Ein Vertrag mit Gott: Mietshausgeschichten by Will Eisner

Great Famine

• Maos Großer Hunger by Frank Dikötter (1959-1961)

Great Kantō Earthquake

• So etwas wie eine Autobiographie. by Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1923)

Great Leap Forward

• Fräulein Hallo und der Bauernkaiser: Chinas Gesellschaft von unten by Liao Yiwu
• Maos Großer Hunger by Frank Dikötter
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China by Jung Chang

Greco-Persian Wars

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot (449 BCE)

Guerra Cristera

• El Llano en llamas (Letras Hispánicas) by Juan Rulfo (1926-1929)

Guerra del Donbass

• Internat: Roman by Serhij Zhadan

Gwangju uprising

• Menschenwerk: Roman by Han Kang (1980)

Halloween

• Das Böse kommt auf leisen Sohlen. by Ray Bradbury

Heian period

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

Hiroshima Bombing

• Schwarzer Regen. by Masuji Ibuse

Holocaust

• Königreich der Dämmerung by Steven Uhly
• Das periodische System. SZ-Bibliothek Band 48 by Primo Levi (1945)

Hundred Flowers Bloom

• Fräulein Hallo und der Bauernkaiser: Chinas Gesellschaft von unten by Liao Yiwu

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• Das Zeichen der Vier: Roman (insel taschenbuch) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Industrial Revolution

• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm

Iran-Iraq War

• Persepolis. Eine Kindheit im Iran by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis. Eine Kindheit im Iran by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Irish Revolution

• Ficciones (CONTEMPORANEA, Band 26201) by Jorge Luis Borges

Islamic Revival

• Der islamische Weg nach Westen by Olivier Roy

Japan Airlines Flight 123 Crash

• Seventeen: A Novel by Hideo Yokoyama (1985)

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• Die Chroniken des Aufziehvogels: Roman by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• Die Chroniken des Aufziehvogels: Roman by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Tsunami

• Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan by Richard Lloyd Parry (2011)

Japanese-American Internment

• No-No Boy by John Okada

Korean War

• Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (1953)

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Kurdish genocide

• The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik

Leyte war

• The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi (Philippines, WWII)

Manhattan Project

• Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman. Abenteuer eines neugierigen Physikers by Richard P. Feynman

Meiji Era

• Les gardiens du Louvre by Jirô Taniguchi

Napoleonic Wars

• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm (1815)

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The Man in the High Castle (Essential Penguin) by Philip K. Dick

New Year's Day

• Tokyo Godfathers by Satoshi Kon

Occupy Wall Street

• The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers (2011)

Olympic Games

• Asadora! 2: Die Lebensgeschichte einer Japanerin vom Ise-Wan-Taifun von 1959 bis in die Gegenwart 2020 (2) by Naoki Urasawa (Tokyo, 1964)

Pacific War

• So etwas wie eine Autobiographie. by Akira Kurosawa

Palm Sunday

• Die Enden der Parabel by Thomas Pynchon (1942)

The Peloponnesian War

• Lysistrate Griechisch/Deutsch by Aristophanes

Post-reunification

• Zonenkinder. by Jana Hensel

Potsdam Conference

• Die Enden der Parabel by Thomas Pynchon

Pragmatism

• Der Spiegel der Natur: Eine Kritik der Philosophie by Richard Rorty

Prague Spring

• Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins. SZ-Bibliothek Band 1 by Milan Kundera (1968)

Publication of "The Hobbit"

• J. R. R. Tolkien. Eine Biographie by Humphrey Carpenter

Publication of "The Lord of the Rings"

• J. R. R. Tolkien. Eine Biographie by Humphrey Carpenter

Qing Dynasty

• Chinas Weg in die Moderne. by Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese history, 1644-1911)
• Verräterische Bücher: Eine Verschwörung im alten China by Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese history, 1644-1911)

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Reappearance of Earth

• Macht's gut und danke für den Fisch (6473 415). Roman. ( Science Fiction). by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

Reformation

• Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett

Reign of Amasis II

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot

Reign of Cambyses II

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot

Republican China

• Chinas Weg in die Moderne. by Jonathan D. Spence (1912-1949)

Revolución Mexicana

• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

Russian Civil War

• Arztgeschichten by Michail Bulgakow
• Werke in dreizehn Bänden: Die weiße Garde. Roman by Michail Bulgakow

Satsuma Rebellion

• The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina (1877)

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot (479 BCE)

Second Sino-Japanese War

• Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1945-09-09)

September 11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (2001-09-11)
• New York 11. September von Magnum- Fotografen by Steve McCurry (2001-09-11)
• The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)

Siege of Lisbon

• Geschichte der Belagerung von Lissabon by Jose Saramago (1147)

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins. SZ-Bibliothek Band 1 by Milan Kundera (1968)

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer by Sarah Bakewell (1572)

Stanford prison experiment

• The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers (1971-08)

Taishō period

• Spring Snow―The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima (1914)

Tang Dynasty

• 19 Arten Wang Wei zu betrachten by Eliot Weinberger

Theory of Evolution

• Der Ursprung der Arten: durch natürliche Selektion by Charles Darwin

Third Crusade

• Nathan der Weise. Ein dramatisches Gedicht in fünf Aufzügen by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1189–1192)

Tokyo gas attack

• Underground (Vintage International) by Murakami Haruki

Tokyo gubernatorial election

• Nach dem Bankett. by Yukio Mishima (1959)

Trojan War

• War and the Iliad by Simone Weil

Twenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt

• Historien: Deutsche Gesamtausgabe by Herodot

Two Hundred Years' War

• Wir: Roman by Jewgenij Samjatin

Typhoon Vera

• Asadora! 1: Die Lebensgeschichte einer Japanerin vom Ise-Wan-Taifun von 1959 bis in die Gegenwart 2020 (1) by Naoki Urasawa (1959)
• Asadora! 2: Die Lebensgeschichte einer Japanerin vom Ise-Wan-Taifun von 1959 bis in die Gegenwart 2020 (2) by Naoki Urasawa (1959)

Vietnam War

• The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers (1975)

Voyage of the Kon-Tiki

• Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

War of the Ring

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wars of the Roses

• König Richard der Dritte by William Shakespeare (1485)

World War I

• J. R. R. Tolkien. Eine Biographie by Humphrey Carpenter
• Die neununddreißig Stufen by John Buchan

World War II

• Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) by Yukio Mishima
• Die Enden der Parabel by Thomas Pynchon
• Les gardiens du Louvre by Jirô Taniguchi
• Lolita by Vladimir V. Nabokov
• Meer und Gift by Shusaku Endo
• Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt
• Reißt die Knospen ab . . . by Kenzaburo Oe
• So etwas wie eine Autobiographie. by Akira Kurosawa
• Wie man langsamer verliert by Robin Robertson
• Das Attentat. SZ-Bibliothek Band 19 by Harry Mulisch (1945)
• Barfuss durch Hiroshima: Barfuß durch Hiroshima, Band 1: Kinder des Krieges: BD 1 by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• Eine Frau in Berlin. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945 by Anonyma (1945)
• From a Ruined Empire: Letters--Japan, China, Korea 1945-46 by Otis Cary (1945)
• Das Grab der Leuchtkäfer. Zwei Erzählungen by Akiyuki Nosaka (1945)
• Die Haut by Curzio Malaparte (1945)
• Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1945)
• The Man in the High Castle (Essential Penguin) by Philip K. Dick (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1945)
• A Plague Upon Humanity by Daniel Barenblatt (1945)
• Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman. Abenteuer eines neugierigen Physikers by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (1945)
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (1945)
• An Artist of the Floating World (Faber Fiction Classics) by Kazuo Ishiguro (1939-1945)
• Entering Germany by Tony Vaccaro (1939-1945)
• Die Nackten und die Toten. Roman. [Aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen von Walter Kahnert]. Mit einem Nachwort von Karl-Heinz Schönfelder. by Norman Mailer (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman. Abenteuer eines neugierigen Physikers by Richard P. Feynman

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• Das Attentat. SZ-Bibliothek Band 19 by Harry Mulisch (1945-05-05)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Die Chroniken des Aufziehvogels: Roman by Haruki Murakami
• Barfuss durch Hiroshima: Barfuß durch Hiroshima, Band 1: Kinder des Krieges: BD 1 by Keiji Nakazawa (1945-09-02)
• Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1945-09-02)
• A Plague Upon Humanity by Daniel Barenblatt (1945-09-02)
• The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (1945-09-02)

World War II, Ultra

• Alan Turing, Enigma. (Computerkultur, Bd 1) by Andrew Hodges

World War III

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

World War One

• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (1918)

World War Two

• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (1945)

Yugoslav Wars

• Die Tigerfrau by Téa Obreht (1991-1995)

Zomia

• The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) by James C. Scott