Book Events for rachaelevelyn

14th century

• The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1980s

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

1984

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

19th century

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics) by Lewis Carroll

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

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

Beat Generation

• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut

Christmas

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

Classical Antiquity

• Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Cold War

• Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories by Kurt Vonnegut

Discovery of the double helix

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson

Great Depression

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Iran-Iraq War

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Middle Ages

• The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri

Olympic Games

• Swimming by Nicola Keegan

Prague Spring

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1968)

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

Siege of Leningrad

• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1944-01-27)

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1968)

Spanish Civil War

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1939)

Super Bowl

• Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics) by Lewis Carroll

Walpurgis Night

• Dracula's Guest (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by Bram Stoker

World Series

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

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War II

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ( 1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

World War II, Eastern Front

• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (1945-05-05)

World War III

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell