Book Events for nathanhobby
Events within the books in nathanhobby's library
1940s
1950s
1980s
1984
19th century
- Miserables, Les (Signet classics) by Victor Hugo
- Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
- War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Autumn Feast
baseball
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Britain
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Quoriston
Battle of the Bulge
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Battle of the Hornburg
Battle of Waterloo
- Miserables, Les (Signet classics) by Victor Hugo (1815)
The Blitz
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
Bloomsday
Bombing of Dresden
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Bosnian War
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)
British Occupation of India
- A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) by E. M. Forster (1765-1947)
Christmas
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
Classical Antiquity
Clutter family murder
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)
Cold War
Coronation of Aragorn
Council of Chalcedon
The Council of Elrond
- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Council of Trent
Creation of Narnia
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)
Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
- The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (1997-08-31)
Death of the White Witch
Destruction of Isengard
Destruction of the One Ring
Detroit Riot
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)
The Disappearance of the Dolphins
Dust Bowl Era
Establishment of Israel
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
Expulsion of the Jews in Spain
Fall of France
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)
Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1989)
First manned mission to Mars
Galactic Civil War
- Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
- Second Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
Good Friday Agreement, Belfast
- The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (1998-04-10)
Great Depression
- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee
Great Fire of Smyrna
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Holocaust
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
Indira Ghandi's assassination
Iraq War
- Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)
Jazz Age
July Revolution
- Miserables, Les (Signet classics) by Victor Hugo (1830)
June Rebellion
- Miserables, Les (Signet classics) by Victor Hugo (1832)
Korean War
- The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok (1950-1953)
masturbation
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1812)
Napoleonic Wars
Nazi Germany; World War II
Nuclear War
Prague Spring
Prohibition in the United States
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)
Quest of Erebor
The Reappearance of Earth
Return of Father Christmas
Russia Invasion of Afghanistan
Screaming Fist
Seldon Crisis
- Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
- Second Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
September 11 Attacks
- Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
- The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (2001-09-11)
Seymour Glass's wedding
Sino-Japanese War
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Inquisition
Stalinism
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ([1924, 1953])
Tate–LaBianca murders
Trojan War
Vatican Council II
Vietnam War
War of the Ring
World War I
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
- Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles (1914-1918)
World War II
- The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
- Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro ( 1945)
- Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1939-1945)
- Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles (1939-1945)
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1939-1945)