Book Events for mfmorgan

18th century

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

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

19th century

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

AIDS epidemic

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

American Civil War

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Beat Generation

• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac

Christmas

• A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
• Holidays on Ice. Neue Geschichten. by David Sedaris
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Christmas Day

• Holidays on Ice. Neue Geschichten. by David Sedaris

Coronation of King Arthur

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

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

French Revolution

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

General Strike of 1926

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics) by Harper Lee

The Great Revelation

• Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead to the World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5) by Charlaine Harris (fictional)

Harvest Home

• Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

Hurricane Katrina

• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library) by John Berendt (1981)

Klondike Gold Rush

• The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London (1898)

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)

Murders of DeFeo Family

• The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson (1974)

New Year

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1975)

Olympic Games

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1948)

Reign of Terror

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

Rose's escape

• Rose Madder by Stephen King

Super Bowl

• Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand by Stephen King

United States presidential election

• The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1976)

Victorian Era

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Vietnam War

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

Virginia Woolf's suicide

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

Watergate Scandal

• The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1974)

Winter

• Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) by Edith Wharton

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey

World War I

• Pasadena: A Novel by David Ebershoff
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (1918)
• The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
• The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh ( 1945)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1945)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• Swan Song by Robert McCammon