Book Events for natbat

17th century

• Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1893 Chicago World's Fair

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

1960s

• Just Kids Illustrated Edition by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just Kids Illustrated Edition by Patti Smith

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

2020 U.S. Presidential Election

• Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston

9/11 Attacks

• How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

AIDS epidemic

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

American Civil War

• Little Women(with 'Good Wives') (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection) by Louisa Alcott

August 1st, Ross Gay's birthday

• The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Illustrations by Mary GrandPre. Rowling

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Calanmai

• A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 1) by Sarah J. Maas

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Chicago World's Fair

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

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• Little Women(with 'Good Wives') (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection) by Louisa Alcott

Community Mental Health Act

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (1963)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Election of John F. Kennedy

• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

Fourth of July

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Gay Liberation

• How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Goldwater Rule

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (1973)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Frost

• Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Greco-Turkish War

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

Halloween

• Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Holocaust

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Hurricane Betsy

• The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) by Sarah M. Broom (1965)

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck (1960)

Hurricane Katrina

• The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) by Sarah M. Broom (2005)

Hurricane Sandy

• M Train by Patti Smith

Kentucky Derby

• Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

• Just Kids Illustrated Edition by Patti Smith (1973-04-15)

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

Osage murders

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Renaissance

• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Rosenhan Experiment

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (1973)

September 11 Attacks

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

• Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell (2015)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4) by J. K. Rowling

United States Presidential Election 1960

• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

US presidential election

• Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (2016)

Victorian Era

• Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1862)

World War II

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (1945)

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)