Book Events for snurp

1241

• The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson

14th century

• The Divine Comedy, Complete, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1300s)

1521

• The White Rose Murders by Michael Clynes

1523

• A Brood of Vipers by Michael Clynes
• The Gallows Murders by Paul Doherty

1620s

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

16th century

• Der Fürst by Niccolo Machiavelli

17th century

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

1985 Mexico City Earthquake

• Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey

19th century

• Alice im Wunderland [unabr. audiobook] by Lewis Carroll
• Der Graf von Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
• Krieg und Frieden by Lew Tolstoi
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte [unabr. audiobook] by Charles Dickens

1st century BCE

• The Cleopatra Crisis by Simon Hawke

50 BCE

• Das Orakel des Todes by John Maddox Roberts

7 July 2005 London bombings

• This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay (2005-07-07)

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set by Suzanne Collins

75th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

Accession of James VI, King of the Scots

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Age of the Dreamers

• Das wilde Land by David Eddings

Aiel War

• New Spring (Prequel to 'Wheel of Time') by Robert Jordan

Albigensian Crusade

• The Albigensian Crusades by Joseph Strayer (1229)

Alien Invasion

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 by Alan Moore

Alien Landing

• The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber

American Civil War

• Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (1865)

American Revolution

• Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Aphrodisia

• Die Schiffe der Kleopatra by John Maddox Roberts

Armageddon

• The Illustrated Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Lost Girls by Alan Moore
• Leviathan - Die geheime Mission by Scott Westerfeld (1914)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Illuminatus! Part 1: the Eye in the Pyramid by Robert J. Shea
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• The Cleopatra Crisis by Simon Hawke
• Doing Time: Time Police, Book 1 by Jodi Taylor

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Illuminatus! Part 1: the Eye in the Pyramid by Robert J. Shea

Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus

• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Auspicuous Event

• The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (1826)

Battle of Agincourt

• A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor

Battle of Borodino

• Krieg und Frieden by Lew Tolstoi

Battle of Bosworth Field

• What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor

Battle of Breitenfeld

• 1632 by Eric Flint

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Hastings

• And the Rest is History by Jodi Taylor (1066)
• Das zweite Königreich by Rebecca Gablé (1066)

Battle of Hattin

• Die Templer: Geschichte und Mythos by Malcolm Barber (1187)

Battle of Krefeld

• Lord John and the brotherhood of the blade by Diana Gabaldon (23-06-1758)

Battle of Lincoln

• Dead Man's Ransom [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1141)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Munichia

• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Battle of Stoney Creek

• 1812: The Rivers of War by Eric Flint

Battle of the Hornburg

• Der Herr der Ringe 2: Die Zwei Türme by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Der Herr der Ringe 3: Die Rückkehr des Königs by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Solent

• Heartstone by C. J. Sansom (1545-07-19)

Battle of Thermopylae

• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor

The Battle of Troyes-Le-Mont

• Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Battle of Tukayyid

• Dunkles Schicksal by Michael A. Stackpole

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

the Big Ride

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Birth of twins Alastair and Conn of Hammerfell

• Die Erben von Hammerfell by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Black Death

• The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent by Gordon R. Dickson
• Der König der purpurnen Stadt by Rebecca Gablé
• World Without End by Ken Follett
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)

The Blitz

• Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

The Bloodstone Wars

• Bloodstone Pass by Douglas Niles
• The Bloodstone Wars by Douglas Niles
• The Mines of Bloodstone by Michael Dobson
• The Throne of Bloodstone by Douglas Niles

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson

Bonfire of the Vanities

• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor

the break up of the Moon

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Breaking of the Compact

• Hasturs Erbe by Marion Zimmer Bradley

British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years

• The Age Of Wonder - How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science by Richard Holmes

Bronze Age

• Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling

Burning of Anne Askew

• Lamentation by C. J. Sansom (1546)

Catalinarian Rebellion

• SPQR. Die Catalina Verschwörung by John Maddox Roberts

Christmas

• Fables Vol. 9: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham
• Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind by Bill Willingham
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Vorhang auf für eine Leiche by Alan Bradley
• Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte [unabr. audiobook] by Charles Dickens

Clan Invasion

• Blutiges Vermächtnis by Michael A. Stackpole
• Blutrecht by Robert Thurston
• Dunkles Schicksal by Michael A. Stackpole
• Falkenwacht by Robert Thurston
• Tödliches Erbe by Michael A. Stackpole

Classical Antiquity

• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Cleansing of Saidin

• Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

Cold War

• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Coronation of William the Conqueror

• When a Child Is Born by Jodi Taylor

The Council of Elrond

• Der Herr der Ringe 1: Die Gefährten des Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Creation

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

Crusades

• Europe: A History by Norman Davies

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Long List

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

Death of Henry VIII, King of England

• Lamentation by C. J. Sansom (1547)

Death of King George III

• A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

Death of Moander

• Song of the Saurials by Kate Novak (1333 CR)

Death of Morpheus

• The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

Decembrists' Rebellion

• Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia

Declaration of Helsinki

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Destruction of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Dictatorship of Sulla

• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

Discovery of Uranus

• The Age Of Wonder - How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science by Richard Holmes (1781)

Dissolution of the Monasteries

• Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (1541)

Dragon Boat Festival

• Merkwürdige Kriminalfälle des Richters Di by Robert van Gulik

Durban Declaration

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson

El Gran Consejo de los Señores de los Dragones

• Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis

Emperor Domitian's Triumph after the Chatti and Dacians campaign, AD 89/89 CE

• A Capitol Death by Lindsey Davis

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

End of the Universe

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

England beat Australia at Cricket

• Der Lügner by Stephen Fry (1981)

English Civil War

• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor

English Reformation

• Revelation by C. J. Sansom

Everstorm

• Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

evolution

• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Execution of Catherine Howard

• Sovereign by C.J. Sansom (1542)

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Fall of Constantinople

• Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley (1453)

Fall of the Roman Empire

• Fall of the West by Adrian Goldsworthy

Festival of the October Horse

• SPQR. Die Catalina Verschwörung by John Maddox Roberts

First Hot Air Balloon Flights

• The Age Of Wonder - How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science by Richard Holmes

Fourth Crusade

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Fourth Succession War

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette
• Coupé by Michael A. Stackpole (3028-3030)
• En Garde by Michael A. Stackpole (3028-3030)
• Riposte by Michael A. Stackpole (3028-3030)

Frankenstein - writing of

• The Age Of Wonder - How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science by Richard Holmes

French Revolution

• Das Pimpernell-Komplott by Simon Hawke (1799)
• The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman (1799)

Frost Fair on the Thames, 1814

• Why Kill the Innocent by C. S. Harris

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson

Glorious Revolution of 1688

• When Gods Die by C.S. Harris

The Great Exhibition

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (1851)
• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor (1851)

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations

• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor (Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851)

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor
• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

The Great Revelation

• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
• Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
• Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
• Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (fictional)

The Great Stink

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

The Great Wars

• The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Guy Fawkes Night

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Halley's Comet

• Year of the Comet by Rob Boyle (2061)

Hanse Davion-Melissa Steiner Wedding

• Riposte by Michael A. Stackpole

the Hard Rain

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Henry VIII Great Progress

• Sovereign by C.J. Sansom (1541)

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Hogswatch

• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Dec. 32)

Holocaust

• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Holy Week

• The Divine Comedy, Complete, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri

Hundred Days

• Der Graf von Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas ( 1815-07-08)

Hundred Years' War

• Der König der purpurnen Stadt by Rebecca Gablé
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman ( 1453)

Hurricane Katrina

• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

the Illearth War

• Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson

Industrial Revolution

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• Europe: A History by Norman Davies

The intrusion of Publius Clodius Pulcher into the women-only rites of the Bona Dea

• Der Frevel des Clodius by John Maddox Roberts

Invention of Miner's Safety Lamp

• The Age Of Wonder - How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science by Richard Holmes (1816)

Iraq War

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Italian Renaissance

• Der Fürst by Niccolo Machiavelli

Jack the Ripper Murders

• A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

Jacobite Rising of 1745

• When Gods Die by C.S. Harris

Joan of Arc burnt at the stake in Rouen

• What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor

Julian Calendar instituted

• Die Feinde des Imperators by John Maddox Roberts

Kett's Rebellion

• Tombland by C. J. Sansom (1549)

Krynn

• Tales of the Lance by Harold Johnson

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

McAllister Rebellion

• Fernes Land by Peter Rice

Meteor Age

• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (fictitious)

Middle Ages

• The Divine Comedy, Complete, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Ming dynasty

• Mord im Labyrinth by Robert van Gulik (1368–1644 CE: frame story)

Mongol Invasion of Europe

• The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson
• The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson

morris dancing

• Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Mueller investigation

• Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Murder of Thomas Becket

• A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• Krieg und Frieden by Lew Tolstoi (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
• Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
• Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
• Krieg und Frieden by Lew Tolstoi
• League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
• Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
• Der Graf von Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas ( 1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)

The Night of the Last Hope

• City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

Nineteen Year Winter

• Cadfael: Das Mönchskraut / Der Aufstand auf dem Jahrmarkt by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Cadfael: Der Hochzeitsmord / Die Jungfrau im Eis by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Cadfael: Im Namen der Heiligen / Ein Leichnam zuviel by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Cadfael: Zuflucht im Kloster / Des Teufels Novize by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Dead Man's Ransom [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Excellent Mystery [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Hermit of Eyton Forest [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Leper of St.Giles [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Monk's Hood [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• One Corpse Too Many [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Pilgrim of Hate [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1154)
• The Rose Rent [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Saint Peter's Fair [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Sanctuary Sparrow [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Virgin in the Ice [unabr. audiobook] by Ellis Peters (1154)

Norman Conquest of England

• Das zweite Königreich by Rebecca Gablé (1066)

Nuclear winter

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Open Day at St. Mary's

• No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor

Operation Doppleganger

• Das Schwert und der Dolch by Ardath Mayhar

Operation Galahad

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette

Operation Guillotine

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette

Operation Orochi

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette

Operation Sakkaku

• Tödliches Erbe by Michael A. Stackpole

Operation Scorpion

• Dunkles Schicksal by Michael A. Stackpole

Operation Thor

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette

The original colonization of Darkover

• Landung auf Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Papal Election

• Illuminati by Dan Brown

Peloponnesian War

• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

The Pilgrim Tours

• Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

plagues

• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)
• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (Plague of Athens, 430-429)

Pleistocene Epoch

• Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade

Premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

• Lost Girls by Alan Moore (1913)

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Protestant Reformation

• Revelation by C. J. Sansom

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Reappearance of Earth

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams

Reformation

• Europe: A History by Norman Davies

Regency Crisis of 1788

• What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris

Regency Era

• Where Serpents Sleep by C.S. Harris
• Who Buries the Dead by C. S. Harris

Reign of Domitian

• Deadly Election by Lindsey Davis (96-09-18)
• Enemies at Home by Lindsey Davis (96-09-18)
• The Graveyard of the Hesperides by Lindsey Davis (96-09-18)
• The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis (96-09-18)
• Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis (96-09-18)
• The Third Nero by Lindsey Davis (96-09-18)

Reign of Edward I, King of England

• Satan in St.Mary's by P.C. Doherty (1307-07-07)

Reign of Henry VIII

• Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (1547-01-28)

Reign of Vespasian

• Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis
• The Accusers by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Alexandria by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Body in the Bath House by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• A Dying Light In Corduba by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• The Iron Hand Of Mars by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Last Act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Nemesis by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Ode to a Banker by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• One Virgin Too Many by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Poseidon's Gold by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Saturnalia by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Scandal Takes A Holiday by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Three Hands in the Fountain by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Time To Depart by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)
• Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis (79 AD)

Renaissance

• A Brightness Long Ago: A profound and unforgettable historical fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Der Fürst by Niccolo Machiavelli

Reod

• Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

Revolt of the Batavi

• The Iron Hand Of Mars by Lindsey Davis (70)

Roman occupation of Britain

• Body in the Bath House by Lindsey Davis
• The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis
• The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

Ronin War

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette

The Rule of the Thirty Tyrants

• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Rum Rebellion

• Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik

The Sack of Magdeburg

• Die Henkerstochter by Oliver Pötzsch (1630)

Sacking of Constantinople

• And the Rest is History by Jodi Taylor (1204)

Seleucid-Roman War

• Adept's Gambit by Fritz Leiber (a.k.a. Syrian War)

September 11 Attacks

• The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling

Servile War

• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

Seven Years' War

• Lord John and the brotherhood of the blade by Diana Gabaldon
• Lord John and the private matter by Diana Gabaldon

Sicilian Expedition

• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Siege of La Rochelle

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1628)

The sinking of the Mary Rose

• Heartstone by C. J. Sansom (1545-07-19)

Social War 91–88 BCE

• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

Storming of the Bastille

• When Gods Die by C.S. Harris

Summer

• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The Summer of Black Rivers

• City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

Taiping Rebellion

• Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia

Takes place between the years of 1354, the Year of the Bow and 1369, the Year of the Gauntlet.

• Sea Devil's Eye by Mel Odom

Tang Dynasty

• Merkwürdige Kriminalfälle des Richters Di by Robert van Gulik ( 907)
• Mord im Labyrinth by Robert van Gulik (618-907 CE: core story)

Tarmon Gai'don

• A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan

The Third Poppy War

• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

Thirty Years' War

• 1632 by Eric Flint
• The Confusion (Rough Cut) by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver [unabr. audiobook] by Neal Stephenson
• Ring of Fire by Eric Flint
• The System of the World (Rough Cut) by Neal Stephenson
• 1633 by Eric Flint (1648)
• Europa im Dreißigjährigen Krieg by Peter-Matthias Gaede (1648)

Threadfall

• Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Trojan War

• A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
• Against the tide of years by S. M. Stirling (alternate)

Tuskegee syphilis study

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Union of the Crowns

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Vespasian and Titus' Triumph

• The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis (71)

Vesuvius eruption, 79-08-24 AD

• A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor

Victorian Era

• Alice im Wunderland [unabr. audiobook] by Lewis Carroll
• Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte [unabr. audiobook] by Charles Dickens
• The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry (1901)
• Mere Mortals by Erastes (1901)

Vietnam War

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)

Voyage of the HMS Beagle

• Darwin und die Götter der Scheibenwelt by Terry Pratchett (1836)

Voyage of the HMS Endeavor

• The Age Of Wonder - How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science by Richard Holmes

Walpurgis Night

• Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

War of 1812

• 1812: The Rivers of War by Eric Flint (1812-1815)

War of 3039

• Ein Erbe für den Drachen by Robert N. Charrette

War of Souls

• Dragons of a Fallen Sun by Margaret Weis
• Dragons of a Lost Star by Margaret Weis
• Dragons of a Vanished Moon by Margaret Weis

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

War of the Races

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Whitechapel Murders

• The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
• Ripping Time by Robert Asprin (1891)

Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

• Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh (1993)

Winemaking

• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

Wolf's Dragoons Civil War

• Wolfsrudel by Robert N. Charrette

World War I

• Europe: A History by Norman Davies
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Black Dossier by Alan Moore
• Lost Girls by Alan Moore
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (1918)
• Fiddler Fair by Mercedes Lackey (1918)
• Leviathan - Die geheime Mission by Scott Westerfeld (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Europe: A History by Norman Davies
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Black Dossier by Alan Moore
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1945)

World's Columbian Exposition

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (1893)

The Year without a Summer

• Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal (1816)

The Yellow March

• City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

Zombie Apocalypse

• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks