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1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

1900 Galveston Hurricane

• Hurricane (Deep in the Heart of Texas Book 1) by Janice Thompson

1960s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

2004 Olympics

• Who Do You Love: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

AIDS epidemic

• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

American Civil War

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1865)
• Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire) by Lynn Austin (1861 ∙ 1865)

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Armenian Genocide

• The Sandcastle Girls (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (1881)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford (1963-11-22)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Austro-Turkish War

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

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Shanghai

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)

Black Death

• Katherine by Anya Seton
• World Without End: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett

The Blitz

• The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bombing of Berlin

• God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (1943)

Bombing of Nuremberg

• God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

Boxer Rebellion

• The Last Empress: A Novel by Anchee Min

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

California Gold Rush

• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1855)

Centennial Exhibition of 1876

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• The Gift of the Magi by Henry O
• Knit the Season (Friday Night Knitting Club series Book 3) by Kate Jacobs
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving

Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire

• Maine (Vintage Contemporaries) by J. Courtney Sullivan

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Community Mental Health Act

• The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan (1963)

Convention of Versailles

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

Crimean War

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (1997-08-31)

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (1862)

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

• God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

Discovery of Radium

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dust Bowl Era

• The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

Dyatlov Pass Incident

• Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival) by Donnie Eichar (1959-2)

Easter

• The House We Grew Up In: A Novel by Lisa Jewell

Endurance Expedition

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1917)

English Reformation

• The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Fall of France

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

First Parition of Poland

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

Freedom Summer

• We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg (1964)

French Revolution

• Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette (P.S.) by Sena Jeter Naslund (1799)
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1794)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gemini 9

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Gilded Age

• Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt by Arthur T Vanderbilt II
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1900)

Goldwater Rule

• The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan (1973)

Good Friday Agreement, Belfast

• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (1998-04-10)

The Good Parliament

• Katherine by Anya Seton (1376)

Grace Marks Murder Trial

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

Great Depression

• Angel Sister: A Novel by Ann H. Gabhart
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary by Margaret Atwood
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson
• The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
• The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
• Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (1939)

Green Mountain Train Wreck

• Completely Restored by Robert Kerr

Haun's Mill Massacre

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

Holocaust

• After Long Silence: A Memoir by Helen Fremont
• Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
• Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack Sutin
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

House Un-American Activities Committee

• The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Hundred Years' War

• Katherine by Anya Seton (1453)

Hurricane Hugo

• South of Broad: A Novel by Pat Conroy (1989)

Hurricane Katrina

• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2005)

Influenza pandemic

• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Influenza Pandemic

• Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (1918)

Iran-Contra Affair

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

Iraqi war

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Irish Civil War

• The Secret Scripture: A Novel by Sebastian Barry

Jazz Age

• The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

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

King Philip's War

• Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War by Nathaniel Philbrick (1676-08)

Korean War

• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See

Kościuszko Uprising

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1794)

Lusitania sinking

• The American Heiress by Dorothy Eden

Manifesto of Silence

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1763-06-04)

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Moscow Plague Riot

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1771)

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen
• Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Jane Austen (1815)

New Jersey plane crashes in the early 1950s

• In the Unlikely Event: A Novel by Judy Blume

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett ( 1154)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Pack Horse Library Project

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson

Peasants' Revolt

• Katherine by Anya Seton (1381)

plagues

• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks (Great Plague, 1665-1666)

The Plane Crash

• Dear Edward: A Novel by Ann Napolitano

Project Gemini

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Pugachev's Rebellion

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1775)

Qing Dynasty

• Empress Orchid: A Novel by Anchee Min

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

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

Raid on Yearning for Zion Ranch, Eldorado, Texas

• Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons by Carolyn Jessop (2008)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Rosenhan Experiment

• The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan (1973)

Russian Revolution

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

Salem Witch Trials

• Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

The Schoolchildren's Blizzard

• The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin

Second Sino-Japanese War

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See

September 11 Attacks

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Who Do You Love: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (2001-09-11)
• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (2001-09-11)

Seven Years' War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1763)

Seventh Russo-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1792)

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Sierra Leone Civil War

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Sinking of the Lusitania

• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Sinking of the Narragansett

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (1880-06-11)

Sinking of the Titanic

• Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic by Elizabeth Kaye
• Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster (1912)

Sixth Russo-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1774)

Soviet-Afghan War

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

Spanish Civil War

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary by Margaret Atwood
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Taiping Rebellion

• Empress Orchid: A Novel by Anchee Min
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See (1864)

Taliesin Murders

• Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan (1914-08-15)

Theory of General Relativity

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (1916)

Theory of Special Relativity

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (1905)

Third Anglo-Burmese War

• The Glass Palace: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1774-07-21)

Treaty of Saint Petersburg

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1762-05-05)

Treaty of Sistova

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1791-08-04)

Tudor Era

• The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory (1603)

United States presidential election

• Barbara Bush: A Memoir by Barbara Bush (1980, 1988, 1992)

Vietnam War

• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving (1975)

Voyage of the Mayflower

• Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War by Nathaniel Philbrick (1620)

War of the Austrian Succession

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1748)

Wars of the Roses

• The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels) by Philippa Gregory (1485)

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel by Kate Morton
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
• The House at Riverton: A Novel by Kate Morton
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore
• The Sandcastle Girls (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

World War II

• After Long Silence: A Memoir by Helen Fremont
• Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary by Margaret Atwood
• The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
• Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
• The Glass Palace: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
• God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
• The Good Liar: A Novel by Nicholas Searle
• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See
• Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack Sutin
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• Lilac Girls: A Novel (Woolsey-Ferriday) by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice) by Kate Moore
• The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
• All the Light we Cannot See Paperback – 10 Dec 2015 by Anthony Doerr (Author) by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1945)
• Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Y2K

• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover