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14th century

• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1300s)

1820s

• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

1830s

• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

18th century

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1980s

• 1984 (Spanish Edition)

1984

• 1984 (Spanish Edition)

19th century

• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
• The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Accession of James VI, King of the Scots

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Age of Vivisection

• Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (1600s)

Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics) by Charles Mackay

American Civil War

• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)

Anatomy Act

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1836)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

Antebellum South

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

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Hornburg

• El Retorno del Rey = The Return of the King (Senor de los Anilos) (Spanish Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Black Death

• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)

Chernobyl Disaster

• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

Christmas

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

The Council of Elrond

• El Señor De Los Anillos: La Comunidad Del Anillo (Lord of the Rings) (Spanish Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Crusades

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics) by Charles Mackay

Death of King George III

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

Declaration of Helsinki

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

doctors

• Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre

Durban Declaration

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Easter Rising

• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (1916)

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

The Flare

• The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, Book Two) by James Dashner

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Funeral Rule

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

Gilded Age

• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Grace Marks Murder Trial

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1843)

Great Depression

• To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1) by Harper Lee

The Great Revelation

• Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
• Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 2) by Charlaine Harris

Holocaust

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman ( 1453)

Iraq War

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Kobe earthquake

• After the Quake by Jay Rubin (1995)

Korean War

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

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel

medical research

• Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre

Middle Ages

• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Mississippi Bubble

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics) by Charles Mackay

Napoleonic Wars

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• El idiota (1803-1815)

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

Renaissance

• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Russian Revolution

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

Rwandan Genocide

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (1994)

Second Wave Feminism

• The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition) by Betty Friedan

September 11 Attacks

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (2001-09-11)

Solar eclipse

• The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro (2010)

Solar flares

• The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, Book Two) by James Dashner

South Sea Bubble

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics) by Charles Mackay

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 Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo (1971)

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Tulip mania

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics) by Charles Mackay

Tuskegee syphilis study

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Underground Railroad

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

Union of the Crowns

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

Victorian Era

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde

Vietnam War

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin

Washington Consensus

• The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy by Dani Rodrik

Witch trials in the early modern period

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics) by Charles Mackay

World War I

• Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend. (German Edition) by Hermann Hesse
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1918)

World War II

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
• Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• 1984 (Spanish Edition) ( 1945)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

World War III

• 1984 (Spanish Edition)