Book Events for whatathymeitwas

11th century

• The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris

14th century

• Inferno (The Divine Comedy) by Dante

1620s

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

16th century

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

17th century

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1940s

• Lolita by Craig Raine

1950s

• Lolita by Craig Raine

1956

• The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc: A Novel by Loraine Despres

1980s

• 1984 by Erich Fromm
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Let the Right One in

1984

• 1984 by Erich Fromm

19th century

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• From Hell by Alan Moore
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (The Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• The Looking Glass Wars (Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor

5th century BCE

• The Histories by Herodotus

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Dry Grass of August, The by Anna Jean Mayhew
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham

Alien Invasion

• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

American Civil War

• The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1865)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Revolution

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1783)

Anglo Saxon period

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

Anti-Rent War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1839)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Lost Girls, Vols. 1-3 by Alan Moore

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea
• The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• American Tabloid by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
• Replay by Ken Grimwood (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Attica Prison Riot

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1971)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) by Pauline Baynes

Bacon's Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1676)

Battle of Artemisium

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE August or September)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Mycale

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE-06)

Battle of Plataea

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE-06)

Battle of Salamis

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE-09)
• The Histories by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories by Herodotus (480 BCE)
• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE August or September)

Battle of Waterloo

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

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• American Tabloid by James Ellroy

Beat Generation

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Black Death

• The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson (1350)

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1986)

Bozeman Trail

• The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury

Children's Crusade

• Crusade in Jeans by Thea Beckman (1212)

Chilean Coup

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1973)

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The classic collection) by Dr. Seuss
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• Lolita by Craig Raine (1952)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Classical Antiquity

• Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) by Aesop
• The Iliad by Homer
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Cold War

• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Creation of humankind

• The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Creation of the universe

• The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

Creation of the world

• The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1775-07-06)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Discovery of Fillory

• The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) by Lev Grossman

Dorr Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1842)

Dress to Get Screwed Party

• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

El Mozote Massacre

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1981)

Embargo Act

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1807)

End of the World Party

• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis

Feminist Movement

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

First Barbary War

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1801–1805)

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Flour Riot of 1837

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

French Revolution

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1789-1799)

George Washington's First Inauguration

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1789-04-30)

The Great Collapse

• The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Harpo Speaks! (Limelight) by Harpo Marx
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel by Anton DiSclafani

The Great Exhibition

• The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal (Hyde Park, London, 1851)

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

The Great Wars

• The Sword of Shannara Trilogy [Rough Cut binding] by Terry Brooks

Greco-Persian Wars

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (449 BCE)
• The Histories by Herodotus ( 449 BCE)

Greco-Turkish War

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

Greek Civil War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1949)

Gulf War, 1990-1991

• Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

Haitian Revolution

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1791–1804)

Halloween

• The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Harvest Home

• Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

Haymarket Massacre

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1886-05-04)

Heian period

• The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris

Holocaust

• COMPLETE MAUS,THE by art Spiegelman
• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Hope defends Spirit from a wealthy man.

• Bio of a Space Tyrant Vol. 1. Refugee by Piers Anthony

Hundred Years' War

• Timeline (Hors Catalogue) by Michael Crichton (1453)

Hurricane Hugo

• South of Broad by Pat Conroy (1989)

Hyborian Age

• Conan Vol. 2: The God in the Bowl and Other Stories (v. 2) by Kurt Busiek
• Conan Volume 1: The Frost-Giant's Daughter and Other Stories: Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories v. 1 (Conan (Dark Horse)) by Kurt Busiek

Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Indira Ghandi's assassination

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (2004) Paperback by Gregory David Roberts

Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1975)

Invasion of Grenada

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1983)

Ionian Revolt

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (493 BCE)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1986)

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus Iii (1979)

Iraq War

• Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (2004)

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Jack the Ripper Murders

• From Hell by Alan Moore

Japanese-American Internment

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)

Jay Treaty

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1794)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1859)

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt (1981)

Klondike Gold Rush

• White Fang (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London (1899)
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (1898)

Korean War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1953)

Lebanese Civil War

• DEN OF LIONS by Terry Anderson
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1990)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham

Louisiana Purchase

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

May Day

• Stardust (New Edition) by Neil Gaiman

Mayaguez incident

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1975)

McCarthy Era

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller

Medieval Era

• Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0) by Scott Meyer

Mexican-American War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1848)

Middle Ages

• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) by Seamus Heaney
• Inferno (The Divine Comedy) by Dante
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George MacDonald

Million Man March

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1995)

Mint 400 Race

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Murders of DeFeo Family

• The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson (1974)

My Lai Massacre

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1968)

Napoleonic Wars

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1803-1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1831)

Nest War

• Priest-Kings of Gor: (#3) by John Norman

The Neutrality Proclamation

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1793)

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham

Notes on the State of Virginia

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1785)

Oklahoma City Bombing

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1995)

Operation Gothic Serpent

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1993)

Ordinance of 1784

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham

Oregon Trail

• The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury

Pendle witch trials

• The Familiars by Stacey Halls

Peninsular War

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

Persian Gulf War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1991)

Philippine-American War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1902)

Prague Spring

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

• Lost Girls, Vols. 1-3 by Alan Moore (1913)

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

The Quest For The 7 Golden Keys Of Fillory

• Magician King by Lev Grossman

Quest for the Holy Grail

• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ragnarok

• The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

Ratification of the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1776-07-04)

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1877)

Red Cloud's War

• The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury

Reign of Amasis II

• The Histories by Herodotus

Reign of Caligula

• Caligula by Albert Camus (41-01-24)

Reign of Cambyses II

• The Histories by Herodotus

Renaissance

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Resignation of Richard M. Nixon

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Return of Father Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis

Return Of The Gods

• Magician King by Lev Grossman

The Riftwar

• Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by Robert Silverberg

Roe v. Wade

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1973)

Romanticism

• The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Margaret Raine Hunt
• Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by H. C. Andersen

Russia Invasion of Afghanistan

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (2004) Paperback by Gregory David Roberts

Rwandan Genocide

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1994)

Salem witch trials

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1692)

Scarlet Fever Epidemic

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Second Boer War, 1899-1902

• A Little Princess (Penguin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Second Continental Congress

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1781)

Second Governor of Virginia

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1781)

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE)
• The Histories by Herodotus ( 479 BCE)

Seminole Wars

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1858)

September 11 Attacks

• False Impression by Jeffrey Archer
• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Seven Years' War

• Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by Robert Silverberg

Shay's Rebellion

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1786)

Shays' Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1787)

Siege of La Rochelle

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1628)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Sinking of the Sussex

• Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.) by Sena Jeter Naslund

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Spanish Civil War

• The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Lucia Graves

Spanish Golden Age

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish Renaissance

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish-American War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1898)

Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Harpo Speaks! (Limelight) by Harpo Marx

Stonewall Riots

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1969)

Storming of the Bastille

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1789-07-14)

Summer

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare

Super Bowl

• Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Superflu epidemic

• The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass v. 4 by Stephen King
• The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King

Superhuman Civil War

• Civil War by Mark Millar

Tang Dynasty

• Bridge of Birds (Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox) by Barry Hughart (907)

Tarl Cabot returns to Gor

• Outlaw of Gor (The Chronicles of Counter-Earth Volume 2) by John Norman

Tate–LaBianca murders

• Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murder by Vincent Bugliosi (1969-08)

Three Mile Island Accident

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1979)

Transcendentalism

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Treaty of Paris

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1783)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by Mary GrandPre

Trojan War

• The Iliad by Homer
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Trujillo dictatorship

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (1961)

Twenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt

• The Histories by Herodotus

United States invasion of Panama

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Victorian Era

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• From Hell by Alan Moore
• Great Expectations (The Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
• The Looking Glass Wars (Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor

Vietnam War

• Dispatches by Michael Herr
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)

Virginia Woolf's suicide

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

Waco Branch Davidian Siege

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1993)

Wall Street Crash

• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1929)

War in Afghanistan

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R. R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R. R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin

War on Terrorism

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1968)

Watergate Scandal

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Whiskey Rebellion

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1791-1794)

Winter

• Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) by Edith Wharton

Woodstock Music and Art Fair

• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend. (German Edition) by Hermann Hesse
• Harpo Speaks! (Limelight) by Harpo Marx
• A House of Ghosts by William Ryan
• Lost Girls, Vols. 1-3 by Alan Moore
• The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman (1918)
• All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1918)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• The Distant Hours: A Novel by Kate Morton
• Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Harpo Speaks! (Limelight) by Harpo Marx
• The Light Between Worlds by Laura E Weymouth
• Lolita by Craig Raine
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
• The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
• 1984 by Erich Fromm ( 1945)
• COMPLETE MAUS,THE by art Spiegelman (1945)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)
• House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski (1945)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1945)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• The Violets of March: A Novel by Sarah Jio (1945)

World War II, British Home Front

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 by Erich Fromm

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 by Philip K. Dick

Wounded Knee Massacre

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1890-12-29)

WTO Protests of 1999

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Xenocide of the Formics

• Speaker for the Dead (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

XYZ Affair

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham (1797)