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11th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

13th century

• Parzival and Titurel by Wolfram von Eschenbach
• The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo

1480s

• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

1482

• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

14th century

• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1300s)

1570s

• La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas

1572

• La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas

15th century

• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

1675

• The Dutchman's Dilemma by Maan Meyers

1680s

• The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo

16th century

• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
• La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

1700s

• The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo

1775

• The Kingsbridge Plot by Maan Meyers

1798 Rebellion

• The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

17th century

• The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
• The Witches : Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1820s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

1847 North American typhus epidemic

• Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

1895

• The House on Mulberry Street by Maan Meyers

18th century

• Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Liaisons Dangereuses, Les (Penguin Classics) by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
• The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Lewis (1796)

1910s

• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

1940s

• Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski

1945

• Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski

1960s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

19th century

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection of the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

1st century

• I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves

1st century BCE

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

20th century

• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley (1900)

7th century

• Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en

9/11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Au by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
• Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh
• Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh (2004)

Affair of the Diamond Necklace

• The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas

Afghan Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1879)

Afghan Wars

• Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh (2001-)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• Freedom Riders : 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault
• Meridian by Alice Walker
• A Right to Die by Rex Stout
• W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer

Alabama claims

• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Albigensian Crusade

• Le bûcher de Montségur, 16 mars 1244 by Zoé Oldenbourg (1229)
• The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars by Stephen O'Shea (1229)

Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Algerian War

• A Savage War of Peace : Algeria, 1954-1962 by Alistair. Horne

American Civil War

• America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century by Frances Fitzgerald
• Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1865)
• The Lucifer Contract by Maan Meyers (1865)
• The March by E. L. Doctorow (1865)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1865)

American Indian Movement

• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

American Revolution

• Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
• The Kingsbridge Plot by Maan Meyers (1783)

American War of Independence

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : A Woman in World History by Linda. Colley

Anglo-Dutch War

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Anschluss

• Last Waltz in Vienna: The Rise and Destruction of a Family 1842-1942 by George Clare

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Arab Revolt

• Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918)

Arab Spring

• Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard

Ark of the Covenant

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Exodus 25:10-22)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Exodus 25:10-22)

Articles of Capitulation

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto

The assasination of President Olivero,

• The Green Child by Herbert Read (autumn, 1861)

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

• Deep River by Shūsaku Endō (1984-10-31)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Augustus by John Edward Williams
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Assassination of Ohio Governer Loneford by someone using a Glock automatic

• Hit and Run by Lawrence Block

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen (1945)

Attempted assassination of Sheik Hussein Fadlallah

• Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward

August coup

• Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (1991)

Austro-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1791)

Balaam’s Donkey

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Numbers 22:21-41)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Numbers 22:21-41)

Balfour Declaration

• Bible and Sword : England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W. Tuchman (1917)

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies : Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Battle of Actium

• Augustus by John Edward Williams
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Alexandria

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1801])

Battle of Arras

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Cannae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Caporetto

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Gandamak

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1842)

Battle of Geok Tepe

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1881)

Battle of Ghazni

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1839)

Battle of Jutland

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer (1916-06-01)

Battle of Kandahar

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Maiwand

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Maldon

• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (Battle of Maeldun)

Battle of Milvian Bridge

• The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Battle of Mons

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer (1914-08-23)

Battle of Mont Cenis

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (1794)

Battle of Osawatomie

• Pioneer Women by Joanna Stratton (1856)

Battle of Passchendaele

• A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
• The New Confessions by William Boyd (1917)
• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer (1917)

Battle of Philippi

• Augustus by John Edward Williams

Battle of Rivoli

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Battle of Roncesvalles

• The Song of Roland by Anonymous (778)

Battle of Ronceveaux Pass

• The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky

Battle of Shiloh

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1862-04-07)

Battle of Solferino

• The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Battle of Stalingrad

• Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (1943)

Battle of Tannenberg

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Bulge

• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (1945)

Battle of the Marne

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)
• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer (1914)

Battle of the Nile

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ( [1798])

Battle of the Pyramids

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1798])

Battle of the Somme

• The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer

Battle of Vittorio-Veneto

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer

Battle of Waterloo

• To Say Nothing of the Dog or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (1815)
• The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (1815-06-18)
• Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)

Beer Hall Putsch

• The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes (1923)

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous

Belle Époque

• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1871-1914)

Birth of Moses

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Exodus 2)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Exodus 2)

Black Death

• The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
• The Black Death by Philip Ziegler (1353)
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)

Black Tuesday

• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

The Blitz

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bolshevik Revolution

• Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1917)

Bosnian War

• Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick

Boston Tea Party

• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore

Bretton Woods Conference

• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (1944)

Brighton Hotel Bombing

• GB84 by David Peace (1984)

British Conquest of Sindh

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1843)

British Imperial Expansion

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : A Woman in World History by Linda. Colley

British invasion of New Amsterdam

• The Dutchman by Maan Meyers

British Raj

• Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai (1947)
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (1947)

Bronze Age

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony

Bronze Snake

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Numbers 21:4-9)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Numbers 21:4-9)

Burning of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion

• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (1950)

Busing for School Integration--Boston

• Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Camp Grant massacre

• Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby (1871-04-30)

Canudos Rebellion

• Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha

Carolinas Campaign

• The March by E. L. Doctorow (1865)

Chernobyl Disaster

• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Aleksievich

Chinese Civil War

• Mao : The Unknown Story by Jung Chang

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• Mao : The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
• Mao: A Life by Philip Short

Chitral Expedition

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1895)

Cholera Epidemic

• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Christian Reconquest of Spain

• Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience by Jane S. Gerber

Christmas

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Christmas Day

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Christmas Eve

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Circumnatigation of the World

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : A Woman in World History by Linda. Colley

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Classical Antiquity

• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Cloud seeding

• The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

COINTELPRO

• The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout

Cold War

• The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
• The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
• The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
• The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum
• The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
• Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by le Carré John
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
• Triple Jeopardy by Rex Stout
• Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
• Smiley's People by John le Carré (1946-1991)

Cold War

• Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas

Colonizing the New World

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Communist China

• Mao Zedong by Jonathan D. Spence (1949-)
• The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (1949-)

Construction of the Trans-Aral Railway

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1906)

Construction of the Trans-Caspian railway

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1906)

Construção do Convento de Mafra

• Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago

Contra War

• Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
• A Very Thin Line: Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper (1990)

Convention of Versailles

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1756-05-01)

Coup of Juan Velasco Alvarado

• The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa (1968)

Creation

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Genesis 1-2)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Genesis 1-2)

Creation of Turkey

• Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

Crimean War

• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1856)

Croatian Independence

• 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning by Slavko Goldstein (1941)

The Crusades

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas (1962)

Cuban Revolution

• Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas (1959)

Cultural Revolution

• Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter
• Mao: A Life by Philip Short
• Wolf Totem by Rong Jiang

Dakar-Niger railway strike

• God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (1948)

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit Run by John Updike

Day of Atonement

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Leviticus 16)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Leviticus 16)

The Day of the Dead

• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Long List

• Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler (Nonfiction, 2006)

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• The Red Road by Denise Mina (1997-08-31)

Death of Julius Caesar

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (44 BCE-03-15)

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

Death of Laura Rothenberg

• The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries (2003-03-20)

Death of Moses

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Deuteronomy 34)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Deuteronomy 34)

Debategate

• Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward

The Deluge

• The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction by Anonymous (Great Flood)

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Genesis 19)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Genesis 19)

Disaster: Flood

• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

Discovery of human remains, December 2010

• Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker

Discovery of Radium

• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss

Discovery of the double helix

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

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dreyfus Affair

• The Affair : The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
• The Dreyfus Affair : Art, Tuth, and Justice by Norman L. Kleeblatt
• In Search of Lost Time: Vol. 3, The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
• In Search of Lost Time: Vol. 4, Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
• The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Blackout by Connie Willis (1940-06-04)

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• A Sand County Almanac with other essays on conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold

Easter Rising

• The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa (1916)

Edinburgh Festival

• Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin (1993)

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Eelam War I

• The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss (1983-1987)

Eelam War II

• The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss (1990–1995)

Eelam War III

• The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss (1995–2002)

Eelam War IV

• The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss (2006-2009)

Eighteenth Amendment

• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

El final de la Reconquista con la toma de Granada por los castellanos

• Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf (1492)

El imperio otomano conquista Egipto

• Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

El saqueo de Roma por los luteranos.

• Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Elizabethan Era

• The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Endurance Expedition

• The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1914-1917)

English Civil War

• Prisons by Mary Lee Settle

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

English Renaissance

• The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Estado Novo

• Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi (1933-1974)

Ethiopian Revolution, 1974

• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Existentialism

• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Expedition of the Thousand

• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (1861)

Exploration of Greenland

• One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman

Extinction of Homo sapiens

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Fall of France

• My Happy Days in Hell by György Faludy (1940)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

Fall of Man

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Genesis 3)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Genesis 3)

Fall of Singapore

• The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell (1942)

Fall of the Roman Empire

• The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather

Feast of Tabernacles

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Leviticus 23:33-43, Deuteronomy 16:16, Zechariah 14:16)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Leviticus 23:33-43, Deuteronomy 16:16, Zechariah 14:16)

The Female Captive by Elizabeth Marsh

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : A Woman in World History by Linda. Colley

Festival of Fools

• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Fin de siècle

• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

First Anglo-Afghan War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1842)

First Anglo-Sikh War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1846)

First Battle of the Isonzo

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer

First Battle of Ypres

• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer (1914-11-15)

First Fleet

• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville (1788)

First Parition of Poland

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1772)

The Flood

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Genesis 6-9)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Genesis 6-9)

flu pandemic

• Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

Forced Collectivization

• The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest

Franco-Prussian War

• The Age of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold
• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

Franklin's Lost Expedition

• The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the Northwest Passage by Andrew Lambert
• Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler ( 1854)

French and Indian War

• Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson (1763)

French capture of the bridge in Clausen

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (1797)

French Resistance

• The Wolves at the Door : The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy by Judith Pearson

French Revolution

• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
• The Eleven by Pierre Michon
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ( 1799)
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1794)
• Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama (1789)
• City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy (1789)
• A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (1789)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

French Revolution of 1848

• Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner

French Revolutionary Wars

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

French Wars of Religion

• La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas

Georgian Era

• Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (1837)
• The Color of Death by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson (1837)
• Death of a Colonial by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• An Experiment In Treason by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Murder in Grub Street by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Person or Persons Unknown by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• The Price of Murder by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Rules of Engagement by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Smuggler's Moon by Bruce Alexander (1837)
• Watery Grave by Bruce Alexander (1837)

German occupation of East Africa

• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

global warming

• The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It by Albert Gore

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

Golden Calf

• The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter (Exodus 32)
• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs : Hebrew text, English Translation and Commentary by J. H. Hertz (ed.) (Exodus 32)

Grace Marks Murder Trial

• Alias Grace : A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1843)

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin : A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout (1939)

Great Famine

• Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter (1959-1961)

Great Frost

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Great Game

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk

Great Leap Forward

• Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter

Great Panic

• In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel

Great Purge

• The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest

Guerra Cristera

• The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo (1926-1929)

Guga Hunt

• The Blackhouse by Peter May

Haitian Revolution

• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James