Book Events for leahsusan
Events within the books in leahsusan's library
18th century
1950s
1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire
19th century
- Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
2008 Presidential Campaign
4th century BCE
75th Annual Hunger Games
Abduction of Sita
African-American Civil Rights Movement
AIDS epidemic
Alien Invasion
Aliens landing on Earth
American Civil War
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
- East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
- March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1865)
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1865)
American Indian Movement
American Revolution
Antebellum South
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Anti-apartheid movement
Anti-Rent War
Apartheid
Apocalypse
Argentina
Armageddon
Arthurian England
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
- The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attica Prison Riot
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1971)
Bacon's Rebellion
Bataan Death March
Battle of Ball's Bluff
- March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Hatfield Chase
Battle of Heavenfield
Battle of Salamanca on July 22, 1812
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Hornburg
- The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Battle of Waterloo
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
Beat Generation
The Beatles in Hamburg
Black Lives Matter
The Blitz
- Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Night Watch by sarah-waters
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
Bombing of Dresden
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945-02)
Bombing of Libya
Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.
- The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)
Bosnian War
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)
Burning Man
Burning of the Library of Alexandria
California Gold Rush
- Daughter of Fortune: A Novel by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)
Chernobyl Disaster
Chilean Coup
Christmas
Civil war in Afghanistan
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Cold War
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The Council of Elrond
Crimean War
Cultual Revolution
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel by Madeleine Thien (1966-1976)
Cultural Revolution
The Death
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of Katherine of Aragon
- Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)
Death of Morpheus
Death of the White Witch
Death of Willie Lincoln
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (1862)
Detroit Riot
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)
Discovery of Fillory
Discovery of Jupiter's Moons
- Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (1610)
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
Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
Dorr Rebellion
Edwin steps under the ancient maple
El Mozote Massacre
Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency
Elite Conscription Act
- Forever War, The by Joe Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)
End of the World
English Reformation
Ethiopian Revolution, 1974
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
Execution of Anne Boleyn
- Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)
Expulsion of the Jews in Spain
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]
Feminist Movement
First Opium War
- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Flour Riot of 1837
Fourth of July
- The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
French Resistance
French Revolution
- City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy (1789)
- The Sandman Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman (1799)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)
Gaspery meets Olive
Gemini 9
Gilded Age
Golden Age of Comic Books
Grace Marks Murder Trial
- alias Grace. by Margaret Atwood (1843)
Great Depression
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Fire of Smyrna
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)
Great Leap Forward
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel by Madeleine Thien (1958-1962)
The Great War
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Greek Civil War
Haiti earthquake
Halloween
Halloween 1958
Harlem Renaissance
Haymarket Massacre
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1886-05-04)
Holocaust
- Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
Hurricane San Felipe Segundo
Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton
Indonesian Invasion of East Timor
Influenza pandemic
- The Last Town on Earth: A Novel by Thomas Mullen (1918)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
Invasion of Grenada
Iran-Contra Affair
Iranian Revolution
Italian Renaissance
Jazz Age
Jim Crow Laws
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Kefauver Senate Hearings
Khmer Rouge rule of 1975–1979
Korean War
L.A. Riots of 1992
Lebanese Civil War
Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Mass Dragoning of 1955
May Day
Mayaguez incident
McCarthy Era
Meteor Age
Mexican-American War
Middle Ages
Midsummer Day
Million Man March
My Lai Massacre
Napoleonic Wars
- Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
- Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4) by Naomi Novik
- His Majesty's Dragon: 01 by naomi-novik
- Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
- The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
- Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
- Victory of Eagles (The Temeraire Series, Book 5) by Naomi Novik
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
New Year
- White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1975)
Occupation of Paris
- The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (1944)
Occupy Wall Street
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2011)
Okeechobee hurricane
Oklahoma City Airship Terminal event
Oklahoma City Bombing
Olympic Games
- White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1948)
Operation Gothic Serpent
Opioid epidemic
Pack Horse Library Project
Paul James Smith concert
Peninsular War
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)
Persian Gulf War
Philippine-American War
The Pilgrim Tours
Post-Reconstruction
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Reconstruction Ends)
Prague Spring
Prohibition in the United States
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)
Project Gemini
Quarter Quell
The Quest For The 7 Golden Keys Of Fillory
Quest of Erebor
Rape of women in Mennonite colony of Manitoba, in Bolivia 2005-2009
Rathana
Reconstruction
Reign of Terror
Renaissance
Resignation of Richard M. Nixon
Return of Father Christmas
The return of the Clay's Ark starship
Return Of The Gods
Roe v. Wade
Rum Rebellion
Rumble in the Jungle
Rwandan Genocide
Second American Civil War
Second Boer War, 1899-1902
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
Secret Wars
Seldon Crisis
Seminole Wars
September 11 Attacks
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2001-9-11)
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)
Shays' Rebellion
Siege at Ruby Ridge
Sierra Leone Civil War
Social revolt in Guatemala
Solar eclipse
Son of Sam Killings
- The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem (1976-1977)
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet-Afghan War
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (1989)
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Inquisition
Spanish-American War
Stanford prison experiment
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1971-08)
Stonewall Riots
Student Protests
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)
The Third Poppy War
Three Mile Island Accident
Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre
Transcendentalism
Tudor Era
The Turn
Two Hundred Years' War
Underground Railroad
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Unification of Norway
United States invasion of Panama
US Civil War
Victorian Era
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (A SIGNET Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Vietnam War
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1975)
Waco Branch Davidian Siege
War in Afghanistan
War on Terrorism
- Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Watergate Scandal
Weimar Republic, Germany
Whitechapel Murders
World Series
World Trade Center attack
World War I
- The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore
- East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1918)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1918)
World War II
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
- Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
- History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
- The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Random House Large Print) by Arthur Golden
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
- The Night Watch by sarah-waters
- The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore
- The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein
- White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
- 1984 by George Orwell (1945)
- 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño (1945)
- All the Light We Cannot See: The Breathtaking World Wide Bestseller (English Edition) by Anthony Doerr (1945)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1945)
- Farthing (Small Change) by Jo Walton (1945)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
- Ha'penny (Small Change) by Jo Walton (1945)
- Half a Crown (Small Change) by Jo Walton (1945)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis (1945)
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1939-1945)
World War II, British Home Front
World War II, Eastern Front
World War II, German Occupation of Denmark
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945-05-05)
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1944)
World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands
World War III
Wounded Knee Massacre
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1890-12-29)