Book Events for leslie.98

100th Anniversary of birth of Agatha Christie

• The Christie caper by Carolyn G. Hart

11th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

1270

• Wine of Violence (Medieval Mystery, #1) by Priscilla Royal

12th century

• Ivanhoe (Signet classics) by Walter Scott
• King John by William Shakespeare

12th century BCE

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

13th century

• King John by William Shakespeare

1460s

• The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

1480s

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

1482

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

14th century

• Richard II by William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)

1540s

• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

1547

• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

1570s

• Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1) by Alexandre Dumas

1572

• Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1) by Alexandre Dumas

15th century

• The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Henry V (Henry the Fifth) by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
• The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

1620s

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

1675

• The Liar by Pierre Corneille

1690s

• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller

1692

• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller

16th century

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Gargantua and Pantagruel : Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by François Rabelais
• Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1) by Alexandre Dumas
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• Utopia by Thomas More
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1500s)

1750s

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

1752

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

1757

• The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

1790

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

1790s

• Adam Bede by George Eliot
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

1799

• Adam Bede by George Eliot

17th century

• The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

18-yr-old Rowan traumatized by Siglen on 'lifting to Callisto Tower

• The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

1810s

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

1820s

• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
• The mill on the floss by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
• The mill on the floss by George Eliot

1860s

• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

1889

• Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries) by Gyles Brandreth

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson

18th century

• Adam Bede by George Eliot
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• Candide by Voltaire Voltaire
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
• A Tale of Two Cities (Unabridged Classics in Audio) by Charles Dickens
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Read by the Cast of the Stage Play by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1794)
• The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796)

1910s

• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

1930s

• Make Way For Lucia: The Complete Lucia, Including Queen Lucia / Lucia in London / Miss Mapp / The Male Impersonator / Mapp and Lucia / The Worshipful Lucia / Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson

1932

• Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery #1) by Ashley Weaver

1940s

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1949

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres

1960s

• The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

19th century

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
• David Copperfield (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
• The mill on the floss by George Eliot
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

1st Beetle Attack on Deneb

• The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

1st century

• Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

1st century BCE

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Asterix and Cleopatra by Goscinny,
• Asterix the Gaul (Asterix Book 1) by René Goscinny
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

2005-02-01

• Survivor In Death by J. D. Robb

2058

• Holiday in Death (In Death, #7) by J.D. Robb

2059

• Imitation In Death by J. D. Robb
• Origin In Death by J. D. Robb
• Visions in Death by J. D. Robb

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres (September 1943)

4-yr-old Jeran Gwyn-Raven melds with in-utero Cera Gwyn-Raven to calm her after battle that she joined in

• The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

4-yr-old Rowan's Terror at entering spacecraft

• The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

4th century BCE

• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
• Tao Te Ching: Text Only Edition by Lao Tsu

4th of July UFO Play

• The Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (Book 1) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2) by Suzanne Collins

7th century

• Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

80th Olympiad

• Sacred Games (The Athenian Mysteries, #3) by Gary Corby

Accession of James VI, King of the Scots

• Shakespeare : the world as a stage by Bill Bryson

Acquired claim to Sargol

• Sargasso of Space (The Solar Queen Series Book 1) by Andre Norton

Act for the Advancement of the True Religion

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1543)

Act of Conditional Restraint of Annates

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1532)

Act of Restraint of Appeals

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1533)

Act of Six Articles

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1539)

Act of Succession

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1543)

Act of Supremacy

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1534)

Afghan Civil War

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

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40) by Rex Stout

Age of Sail

• H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
• Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1) by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Aiel War

• New Spring by Robert Jordan

Alien Invasion

• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

American Civil War

• Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (1865)
• Titans by John Jakes (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

American Revolution

• Astray by Emma Donoghue
• The Bastard by John Jakes (1783)
• The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini (1783)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ( 1783)
• Rebels by John Jakes (1783)

Amritsar or Jallianwala Bagh massacre

• A rising man by Abir Mukherjee (4-13-1919)

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Shakespeare : the world as a stage by Bill Bryson

Apartheid legislation

• A beautiful place to die : a novel by Malla Nunn

Apartheid regime

• The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

Appin Murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Armageddon

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)

Assassination of Ephialtes

• The Pericles Commission (The Athenian Mysteries #1) by Gary Corby

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Winter of the World by Ken Follett (1941-12-07)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

• Red Rabbit (Tom Clancy) by Tom Clancy (1981-05-13)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Augustine's conversion

• The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of Hippo

Auspicuous Event

• The Janissary Tree: A Novel by Jason Goodwin (1826)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) by C.S. Lewis

Bal de l'Opera

• The Phantom Of The Opera [UNABRIDGED] by Gaston Leroux

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

baseball

• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Agincourt

• Henry V (Henry the Fifth) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Alexandria

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1801])

Battle of Argaon

• Sharpe's Fortress (Sharpe, #3) by Bernard Cornwell (1803-11-28)

Battle of Assaye

• Sharpe's Triumph (Sharpe, #2) by Bernard Cornwell (1803)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The Last Plantagenets by Thomas R. Costain (1485-08-22)
• The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)

Battle of Breitenfeld

• 1632 by Eric Flint

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (Oxford Time Travel, #2) (1940)
• Winter of the World by Ken Follett (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Culloden

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

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Lansdown Hill

• Skeleton Hill: An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation by Peter Lovesey (1643-07-05)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Mallavelly

• Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Mont Cenis

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (1794)

Battle of Munichia

• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Battle of Prestonpans

• Waverley by Sir Walter Scott

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Battle of Rivoli

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Battle of Solferino

• The Radetzky march by Joseph Roth

Battle of Sultanpettah Tope

• Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Battle of Talavera

• Sharpe's Eagle (Sharpe, #8) by Bernard Cornwell (1809-07)

Battle of the Alamo

• Furies by John Jakes

Battle of the Atlantic

• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Childrens Crusade a Duty Dance With Death (G K Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Nile

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ( [1798])

Battle of the Pyramids

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1798])

Battle of the Somme

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (1916)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Trafalgar

• Sharpe's Trafalgar (Sharpe, #4) by Bernard Cornwell

Battle of Waterloo

• A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
• The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (Oxford Time Travel, #2) (1815)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics) by Stendhal (1815-06-18)
• Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer (1815-06-18)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of Worcester

• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (1651)

Beat Generation

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Beetles return for second attack on Altair

• The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

The birth of democracy

• The Pericles Commission (The Athenian Mysteries #1) by Gary Corby (461 BC)

Black Death

• World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) by Ken Follett
• Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel #1) by Connie Willis (1350)
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (1350)

Blessing of the Fleet in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The Blitz

• Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
• The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1941)
• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene (1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (Oxford Time Travel, #2) (1941)
• Winter of the World by Ken Follett (1940)

Bloody Sunday

• Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (1905)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bolshevik Revolution

• Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Childrens Crusade a Duty Dance With Death (G K Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) by Kurt Vonnegut

Boxing Day

• Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson

British Occupation of India

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

British Raj

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1947)
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling (1947)

Bulgarian 9 June 1923 coup d'etat

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Caenozoic Era

• The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Book One) by Jean M. Auel

California Gold Rush

• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1848–1855)

The campaign in northern Portugal, spring 1809

• Sharpe's havoc : Richard Sharpe and the campaign in northern Portugal, spring 1809 by Bernard Cornwell

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson (1893)

Chinese Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Cholera Epidemic

• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
• The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
• Dude On Arrival: A Christmas Mystery by J. S. Borthwick
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
• Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
• Mail-Order Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 1) by Leslie Meier
• Merry, Merry Ghost a Mystery by Carolyn Hart
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Hay
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• The Twelve Clues of Christmas (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #6) by Rhys Bowen
• The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
• The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (visit from Santa)

Christmas Day

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Christmas Eve

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Classical Antiquity

• Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Aesop Aesop
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• The Odyssey by Homer Homer

Cleansing of Saidin

• Winter's Heart (Wheel of Time, #9) by Robert Jordan

Clutter family murder

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

COINTELPRO

• The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout

Cold War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• The Black Mountain (Nero Wolfe, #24) by Rex Stout
• The Clocks by Agatha Christie
• Code to Zero by Ken Follett
• Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
• The Second Confession (Nero Wolfe #15) by Rex Stout
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
• Triple Jeopardy by Rex Stout
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Construction of the Berlin Wall

• A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen (1961-08-12)

Convention of the Estates-General of 1789

• Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

Coronation of Aragorn

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

Coronation of King Arthur

• The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2) by Mary Stewart

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

• The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt (1953)

corroboree

• Sailing alone around the world by Joshua Slocum (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)

The Council of Elrond

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

Creation

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) by C.S. Lewis

Creation of Quabbin Reservoir

• Cascade: A Novel by Maryanne O'Hara

Creation of the Colony Club

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Creation of Turkey

• Birds without wings by Louis De Bernières

Crimean War

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
• The case of the cryptic crinoline by Nancy Springer (1856)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cuban Revolution

• The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez (1959)

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Liu Cixin
• Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Damia becomes Aurigae Prime

• Damia (The Tower and the Hive, #2) by Anne McCaffrey

The Day of the Dead

• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Death of Amy Robsart

• To shield the Queen by Fiona Buckley (1560-09-08)

Death of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

Death of Catherine of Aragon

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1536-01-07)

Death of Henri II, King of France

• The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1559-07-10)

Death of J. P. Morgon

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot

Death of Mary I, Queen of England

• The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1558-11-17)

Death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Dedication of the Glen Canyon Dam

• Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1966)

Denshawai Incident

• The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters (1906)

Descente de la Courtille

• The Phantom Of The Opera [UNABRIDGED] by Gaston Leroux

Destruction of Isengard

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Destruction of the One Ring

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

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Diadoch Wars

• Funeral games by Mary Renault (322-301 BCE)

Diamond Jubilee

• Sailing alone around the world by Joshua Slocum (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)

Diasia

• Clouds by Aristophanes Aristophanes

Dipolieia

• Clouds by Aristophanes Aristophanes

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

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

Disaster: Storm at Sea

• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

discovery of non-aggressive, pastoral hiver world

• Lyon's Pride (A Tower and Hive Novel Book 4) by Anne McCaffrey

Discovery of the Rimbold

• Sargasso of Space (The Solar Queen Series Book 1) by Andre Norton

Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb

• Tomb of the Golden Bird (Amelia Peabody Mysteries) by Elizabeth Peters (1922)

Dissolution of the Monasteries

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1541)

Dragon Boat Festival

• Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) (Detective Stories) by Robert van Gulik

Dreyfus Affair

• Cities of the Plain (In Search of Lost Time, #4) by Marcel Proust
• The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
• An officer and a spy by Robert Harris

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer (1815-06-15)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion

• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore (1685)

Dunkirk Evacuation

• The Charioteer by Mary Renault (1940-06-04)

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Easter

• The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Edinburgh's Fringe Festival

• Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Edwardian Era

• The Ape Who Guards the Balance : An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters (1910)
• Seeing a Large Cat (Amelia Peabody, #9) by Elizabeth Peters (1910)

Edwin steps under the ancient maple

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Egyptian Revolution of 1919, King Farouk I overthrown 1952

• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Elite Conscription Act

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

Elizabethan Era

• Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• To shield the Queen by Fiona Buckley (1603)

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

End of the Universe

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

Endurance Expedition

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1917)

English Civil War

• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer

English Reformation

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

English Renaissance

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Enlightenment

• A History of Western Philosophy (Counterpoint Edition) by Bertrand Russell
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Exclusion Crisis

• Great Roxhythe by Georgette Heyer

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1536-05-17)

Execution of Joan of Arc

• The Lark by Jean Anouilh (1431-05-30)

Execution of King Louis XVI of France

• Madame Tussaud : a novel of the French revolution by Michelle Moran

Execution of Marie Antoinette

• Madame Tussaud : a novel of the French revolution by Michelle Moran

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

• Shakespeare : the world as a stage by Bill Bryson

Existentialism

• A History of Western Philosophy (Counterpoint Edition) by Bertrand Russell

Fall of France

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

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

February Revolution

• And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
• Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (1917)

Festival of Fools

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Field of the Cloth of Gold

• The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1520)

First Anglo-Afghan War

• Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1) by George MacDonald Fraser

First atomic explosion

• The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov