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16th century

• The mysteries of Udolpho : a romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1500s)

18th century

• The mysteries of Udolpho : a romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1794)

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

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

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Borodino

• War and peace by graf Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Hornburg

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

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Waterloo

• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1815)
• Vanity fair by W. M. Thackeray (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

The Blitz

• The night watch by Sarah Waters
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by James Joyce

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut

Britain under Thatcher

• What a carve up! by Jonathan Coe

British Occupation of India

• A passage to India by E.M. Forster (1765-1947)

Buzz Meeks

• The big nowhere by James Ellroy

Christmas

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

Cold War

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Le Carré
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Coronation of Aragorn

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

The Council of Elrond

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

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Danny Upshaw

• The big nowhere by James Ellroy

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

Destruction of Isengard

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

Destruction of the One Ring

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

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity fair by W. M. Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Dudley Smith

• The big nowhere by James Ellroy

Easter

• The cruellest month by Louise Penny

Falklands War

• Black swan green : a novel by David Mitchell (1982-06-14)

Fall of France

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

Fermat's Last Theorem

• Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D. Aczel

General Strike of 1926

• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Essential Penguin) by Evelyn Waugh

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Heian period

• The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki

Holocaust

• The periodic table by Primo Levi (1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (1945)

House Un-American Activities Committee

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

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Iraq War

• Saturday by Ian Mcewan (2011)

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
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Kefauver Senate Hearings

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

Malcolm Considine

• The big nowhere by James Ellroy

Marriage of Charles and Diana

• Money by Martin Amis (1981)

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and peace by graf Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• War and peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
• Vanity fair by W. M. Thackeray (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (1815)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1815)

Natsume frees Nyanko-sensei

• Natsume's book of friends by Yuki Midorikawa

Natsume meets Tanuma

• Natsume's book of friends by Yuki Midorikawa

New Year's Eve

• The mysterious Mr Quin by Agatha Christie

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Palm Sunday

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1942)

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Potsdam Conference

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Progressive Era

• Inventing the dream : California through the Progressive Era by Kevin Starr

Renaissance

• How to be both by Ali Smith

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver

Russian Civil War

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 (1917)

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

Second Boer War

• Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung

September 11 Attacks

• Changing my mind : occasional essays by Zadie Smith (2001-09-11)

Sino-Japanese War

• When we were orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Slavery Abolition Act

• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel by Jean Rhys (1833)

Son of Sam Killings

• The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem (1976-1977)

South Sea Bubble

• Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen

Spanish Civil War

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Student Protests

• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Tsunami

• A tale for the time being by Ruth L. Ozeki (2011)

Victorian Era

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1850s)
• The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1850s)

Vietnam War

• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene

War of the Five Kings

• A feast for crows by George R. R. Martin

War of the Ring

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

World War I

• Demian : the story of Emil Sinclair's youth by Hermann Hesse
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960
• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
• The Ghost Road (William Abrahams) by Pat Barker
• Maisie Dobbs : a novel by Jacqueline Winspear
• Regeneration Tie In by Pat Barker
• Toby's room by Pat Barker
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• The mysterious affair at Styles : Hercule Poirot's first case by Agatha Christie (1918)
• The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Labyrinths; Selected stories & other writings by Jorge Luis Borges
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• The night watch by Sarah Waters
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
• A tale for the time being by Ruth L. Ozeki
• 1984 by George Orwell (1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (1945)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Essential Penguin) by Evelyn Waugh ( 1945)
• Put out more flags by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1945)
• When we were orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro ( 1945)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell

Wreck of the Méduse

• A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes