Book Events for xiaomarlo

11th century

• The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

12th century BCE

• The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

14th century

• The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri,
• The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri

17th century

• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller

1810s

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

1820s

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

1830s

• Felix Holt, the radical by George Eliot
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

1832

• Felix Holt, the radical by George Eliot

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The devil in the white city by Erik Larson

18th century

• Candide by Voltaire,

1940s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1950s

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lovecraft Country : a novel by Matt Ruff

1960s

• Just kids by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just kids by Patti Smith

1971 Abolition of US Gold Standard

• Debt : the first 5,000 years by David Graeber

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

19th century

• Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; &, Through the looking-glass by Lewis Carroll
• Felix Holt, the radical by George Eliot
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick, or, The whale by Herman Melville
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• The Underground Railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching fire by Suzanne Collins

Acid Precipitation Act

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (1980)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

AIDS epidemic

• Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (AAOE)

Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expediction

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (AASE)

American Civil War

• Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead

Arab Spring

• The queue : a novel by Basmah ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz

Armageddon

• Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch by Terry Pratchett

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Watchmen by 1953- Alan Moore
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Orlando Letelier

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Five Armies

• The hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Kulikovo, 1380

• The Winter of the Witch: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy Book 3) by Katherine Arden

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Scarif

• Star Wars : from a certain point of view by Ben Acker

Battle of the Bulge

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

Battle of the Hornburg

• The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The return of the king by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

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

Battle of Yavin

• Star Wars : from a certain point of view by Ben Acker

Beat Generation

• On the road by Jack Kerouac

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (1350)

The Blitz

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Life after life : A novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Bombing of Cambodia

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut

British Antarctic Survey

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Chicago World's Fair

• The devil in the white city by Erik Larson (1893)

Chilean Coup

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum (1973)

Cholera Epidemic

• The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

cigarette advertising ban

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Clean Air Act

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

climate change

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

climate crisis

• UNINHABITABLE EARTH : what climate change means by DAVID WALLACE-WELLS

Climate Impact Assessment Program

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Clutter family murder

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• The first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum
• Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes
• Welcome to the Monkey House: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Watchmen by 1953- Alan Moore (1991)

Contra War

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

The Council of Elrond

• Fellowship of the ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Crimean War

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

Cultual Revolution

• Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien (1966-1976)

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
• China in ten words by Hua Yu
• The three-body problem by Cixin Liu
• Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang

DDT ban

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders (1862)

Destruction of Earth

• The ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• The ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Discovery of Fillory

• The magicians : a novel by Lev Grossman

Dunkirk Evacuation

• The charioteer : a novel by Mary Renault (1940-06-04)

Earth Summit

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Òoku : the Inner Chambers. Vol. 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga

emissions trading

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

End of the Universe

• The ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

End of the World

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (1948)

Extinction of the dinosaurs

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Fairness Doctrine

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Falklands War

• Black Swan Green: A Novel by David Mitchell (1982-06-14)

Fall of France

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

First manned mission to Mars

• Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein

French invasion of the Marquesas Islands

• The writings of Herman Melville by Herman Melville (1842)

Galactic Civil War

• Star Wars : from a certain point of view by Ben Acker

Georgian Era

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

global warming

• UNINHABITABLE EARTH : what climate change means by DAVID WALLACE-WELLS

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Grace Marks Murder Trial

• Alias Grace : Roman by Margaret Atwood (1843)

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

The Great Exhibition

• At home : a short history of private life by Bill Bryson (1851)

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The color of magic : a novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Leap Forward

• Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang
• Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien (1958-1962)

Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

• Candide by Voltaire,

The Great Migration

• The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wilkerson

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 War

• The paying guests by Sarah Waters

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guy Fawkes Night

• V for vendetta by Alan Moore

Halloween

• Slade House : a novel by David Mitchell

Han Dynasty

• The early Chinese empires : Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis (220 CE)

Harlem Renaissance

• Their eyes were watching God : [a novel] by Zora Neale Hurston

Haun's Mill Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Oct 30, 1838)

Holocaust

• Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt
• Man's search for meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl
• Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (1945)

Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Hurricane Katrina

• All together dead by Charlaine Harris
• From dead to worse by Charlaine Harris

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their eyes were watching God : [a novel] by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Inadvertent Modification of the Stratosphere

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum (1975)

Indoor Residual Spraying

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Industrial Revolution

• At home : a short history of private life by Bill Bryson
• Charles Dickens' Hard times by Charles Dickens

Influenza pandemic

• Life after life : A novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (IPCC)

International Geophysical Year

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

International Symposium on Acid Precipitation and the Forest Ecosystem

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Interwar Period

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Iran-Iraq War

• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Iraq War

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes
• Generation kill : Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war by Evan Wright (2004)

Iraqi war

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Irish Revolution

• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Jazz Age

• Their eyes were watching God : [a novel] by Zora Neale Hurston

Jim Crow Laws

• Lovecraft Country : a novel by Matt Ruff

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1951)

Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

• Just kids by Patti Smith (1973-04-15)

Kishinev pogrom

• The sisters of the winter wood by Rena Rossner (1903)

Korean War

• Lovecraft Country : a novel by Matt Ruff

Kristallnacht

• Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt

Kyoto Protocol

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Manhattan Project

• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard Phillips Feynman
• Watchmen by 1953- Alan Moore

market failures

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Massachusetts et a. v. the EPA

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

masturbation

• Portnoy's complaint by Philip Roth

May Day

• Howl's moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones

McCarthy Era

• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller

Middle Ages

• The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri,
• The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Midsummer Day

• Howl's moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Ming Dynasty

• The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties by Timothy Brook (1644)

Mint 400 Race

• Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Mountain Meadows Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Sept. 11, 1857)

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen ( 1815)

National Climate Act

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (1978)

National Environmental Policy Act

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (1970)

National Ozone Experiment

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

New Deal

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Nicaraguan Revolution

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

Nierenberg Acid Rain Peer Review Panel

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Northern and Southern Dynasties

• China between empires : the northern and southern dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis (589)

nuclear freeze movement

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

nuclear winter theory

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt

Occupy Wall Street

• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (2011)

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their eyes were watching God : [a novel] by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Operation Ajax

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

Operation Condor

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

Operation PBSUCCESS

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

ozone depletion

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Ozone Trends Panel

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Panel on Atmospheric Chemistry

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Peninsular War

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

Phoenix Program

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

plagues

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)

Post-apocalypse

• The penultimate truth by Philip K. Dick

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Qin Dynasty

• The early Chinese empires : Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis (207 BCE)

Quarter Quell

• Catching fire by Suzanne Collins

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

• A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn (1887)

The Quest For The 7 Golden Keys Of Fillory

• The magician king : a novel by Lev Grossman

Quest of Erebor

• The hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

The Reappearance of Earth

• The ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Regency Era

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

Return Of The Gods

• The magician king : a novel by Lev Grossman

RICO Act

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Russian Revolution

• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1917)

Salem witch trials

• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller (1692)

Salvadoran Civil War

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum

San Fermin & Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Science and Environmental Policy Project

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (SEPP)

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

September 11 Attacks

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)

Siege of Leningrad

• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1944-01-27)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down : a novel by Richard Adams

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Civil War

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1939)

Stanford prison experiment

• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (1971-08)

Stonewall Riots

• Stone butch blues : a novel by Leslie Feinberg

Strategic Defense Initiative

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes (SDI)

Strategic Objectives Panel

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Student Protests

• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)

Tang Dynasty

• Bridge of birds : a novel of an ancient China that never was by Barry Hughart (907)
• China's cosmopolitan empire : the Tang dynasty by Mark Edward Lewis (907)

The Third Poppy War

• The Poppy War: A Novel by R. F. Kuang

Third Wave Feminism

• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics) by Judith Butler

Thirty Years' War

• The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre

• Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien

Trial of Adolf Eichmann

• Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt

Trojan War

• The silence of the girls : a novel by Pat Barker
• The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Tsunami

• A tale for the time being by Ruth L. Ozeki (2011)

Two Hundred Years' War

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes

Underground Railroad

• The Underground Railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead

Victorian Era

• Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; &, Through the looking-glass by Lewis Carroll
• The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The worm in the bud : the world of Victorian sexuality by Ronald Pearsall

Vietnam War

• Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II by William Blum
• Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes
• The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers (1975)
• Watchmen by 1953- Alan Moore (1975)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

the Voodoo Wars

• Sunshine by Robin McKinley

War of the Five Kings

• A clash of kings : book two of A song of ice and fire 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 Usurper

• A GAME OF THRONES : Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Watergate Scandal

• Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

World War I

• Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Life after life : A novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

World War II

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• The first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The lost garden by Helen Humphreys
• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden
• Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• The penultimate truth by Philip K. Dick
• A tale for the time being by Ruth L. Ozeki
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard Phillips Feynman (1945)
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• The charioteer : a novel by Mary Renault (1945)
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1945)
• Farthing by Jo. Walton (1945)
• Ha'penny by Jo. Walton (1945)
• Half a crown by Jo. Walton (1945)
• House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
• Life after life : A novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1945)
• Man's search for meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard Phillips Feynman

World War II, British Home Front

• The lost garden by Helen Humphreys

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• Lilith's brood by Octavia E. Butler
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• The penultimate truth by Philip K. Dick

World War Terminus

• Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick

World's Columbian Exposition

• At home : a short history of private life by Bill Bryson (1893)
• The devil in the white city by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's game by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Yalta Conference

• The penultimate truth by Philip K. Dick

Yuan Dynasty

• The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties by Timothy Brook (1368)