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1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

1909 Seattle World's Fair

• Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel by Jamie Ford (Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition)

1922

• The Collector's Apprentice: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro

1946

• The Ship of Brides: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

1962 Seattle World's Fair

• Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel by Jamie Ford (Century 21 Exposition)

1967 Tony Awards

• The Chelsea Girls: A Novel by Fiona Davis

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

AIDS epidemic

• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

American Civil War

• News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles

The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1135 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order. The conflict was a succession crisis precipitated by the accidental death by drowning of William Adelin, the only legitimate son of Henry I, in the sinking of the White Ship in 1120.

• The Pillars of the Earth: The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1 by Ken Follett

Anschluss

• The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel by Marie Benedict

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

Argentine Revolution of '43

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone (1943-06-04)

Armenian Genocide

• Orhan's Inheritance: A Novel by Aline Ohanesian
• The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (

• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

The Blitz

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner (1940)

Bosnian War

• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

Breaking of Purple

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822

• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Chicago World's Fair

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

Chinese Civil War

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

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Cold War

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

Creation of the Colony Club

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

Death of Edward VII

• Falling Angels: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier

Death of J. P. Morgon

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Death of Queen Victoria

• Falling Angels: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

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

Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as King of Poland

• The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak (1764)

Expulsion of the Jews in Spain

• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Fall of France

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

Financial Crisis of 2008

• Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue

The Flood

• The Preservationist: A Novel by David Maine (Genesis 6-9)

Formation of the National Security Agency

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

French Resistance

• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

Garner Heist- Largest Art Theft in History

• The Art Forger: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro (March 18, 1990)

Gemini 9

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Great Depression

• Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel by Jamie Ford
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Plague

• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks (1666)

The Great War

• The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel by Pip Williams

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Hellmuth Affair

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Hiroshima Bombing

• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

Holocaust

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, 0) by Pam Jenoff
• The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
• The Muralist: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
• The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant (1919)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood (1919)

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog: A Novel by Andre Dubus III (1979)

Japanese-American Internment

• The Japanese Lover: A Novel by Isabel Allende
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945)

Jazz Age

• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Jim Crow Laws

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Kefauver Senate Hearings

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

Kennedy Inauguration

• The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood

Korean War

• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel

Malayan Emergency

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Manhattan Project

• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

McCarthy Era

• The Chelsea Girls: A Novel by Fiona Davis

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth: The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1 by Ken Follett (1154)

Nuclear Meltdown

• Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian

Operation Bolivar

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Oradour-sur-Glane fire, June 10, 1944

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

Orphan Train

• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Pack Horse Library Project

• The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

Panic of 1907

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.

• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann

The Plane Crash

• Dear Edward: A Novel by Ann Napolitano

Polio epidemic

• The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel by Susan Jane Gilman

Post World War I

• The Ambassador's Daughter: A Novel by Pam Jenoff

Prohibition

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Project Gemini

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Russian Coup d'état of 1762

• The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak

Russian Revolution

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel (172 POCHE) by Amor Towles

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood (1906)

September 11 Attacks

• A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
• So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
• The Submission: A Novel by Amy Waldman

Seven Years' War

• The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak (1763)

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Siege of Masada

• The Dovekeepers: A Novel by Alice Hoffman

Sinking of the SS Athenia

• The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)

Spanish Inquisition

• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Suffragette Movement

• Falling Angels: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Suicide

• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Hannah Baker's)

Taiping Rebellion

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See (1864)

Taliesin Murders

• Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan (1914-08-15)

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
• The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman (1911-03-25)

Trujillo dictatorship

• In The Time Of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Tsunami

• A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
• A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki (2011)

Vel' d' Hiv'

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1942)

Vietnam War

• Beach Music: A Novel by Pat Conroy

VJ Day

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

Vélodrome d'Hiver / Operation Spring Breeze

• The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman

Women's Suffrage Movement

• The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel by Pip Williams

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel by Pip Williams
• The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer
• The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
• 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 Sandcastle Girls: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• The Summer Before the War: A Novel by Helen Simonson (1918)

World War II

• The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
• Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel (172 POCHE) by Amor Towles
• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
• The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel by Susan Jane Gilman
• The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer
• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See
• Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden
• Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon
• The Muralist: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• The Paris Architect: A WWII Novel by Charles Belfoure
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore
• Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
• A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
• A Thread of Grace: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
• Warlight: A novel by Michael Ondaatje
• The Woman Who Heard Color by Kelly Jones
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
• The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (1945)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945)
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
• The Things We Cherished: A Novel by Pam Jenoff (1945)
• The Women in the Castle: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck (1945)
• The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, 0) by Pam Jenoff (1939-1945)
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1939-1945)

World War II, Breaking of Enigma

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of Poland

• Once We Were Brothers: A Novel (Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart, 1) by Ronald H. Balson
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

World War II, Italian Campaign

• Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan (1943-1945)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945-09-02)

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Y2K

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Zimmermann Telegram

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone