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1588

• A Murderous Affair by Jonathan Digby

17th century

• Mayflower: A Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick

1912

• Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut

1947 Partition of India and Pakistan

• Partitions by Amit Majmudar

1976 UK heat wave

• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep: A Novel by Joanna Cannon

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

19th century

• Twelve Years a Slave (Penguin Classics) by Solomon Northup
• The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 by Colson Whitehead

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Afghan Civil War

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

AIDS epidemic

• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

American Civil War

• Neverhome by Laird Hunt
• Dr. Mutter's Marvels : A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (1865)

American Revolution

• Astray by Emma Donoghue

Anatomy Act of 1832

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 by Colson Whitehead

Apartheid

• White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse

Armageddon

• The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

Armenian Genocide

• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11.22.63 by Stephen King

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Augustus: A Novel by John Williams

Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan

• Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (1981-03-30)

The Baptist War

• The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010: Now A Major BBC Drama by Andrea Levy (1832)

Battle of Actium

• Augustus: A Novel by John Williams

Battle of Philippi

• Augustus: A Novel by John Williams

Battle of the Bulge

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

Berlin Crisis of 1961

• The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor

The Blitz

• Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Bosnian War

• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (2009-01-01) (1992-1995)

Boston Marathon bombing

• Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova

Boxer Rebellion

• The Last Empress by Anchee Min

British Raj

• The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple (1947)

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Buzzards Bay Bouchard oil spill

• The End of the Point (P.S.) by Elizabeth Graver

California Gold Rush

• Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse (1848–1855)

Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822

• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Chernobyl Disaster, Ukraine, USSR

• All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon

Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

Cultual Revolution

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (1966-1976)

D Day

• When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

Discovery of the Valley of the Kings

• Shadows on the Nile: 'Breathtaking historical fiction' The Times by Kate Furnivall

Egyptian Revolution of 1919, King Farouk I overthrown 1952

• Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy 1 (The Cairo Trilogy, Vol. 1) by Naguib Mahfouz

Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fall of Saigon

• The Sympathizer: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Financial Crisis of 2008

• Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Imbolo Mbue

Finnish Civil War

• The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner

Franco-Prussian War

• White Truffles in Winter by N. M. Kelby
• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz (1871)

French Resistance

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Great Depression

• Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock

Great Leap Forward

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (1958-1962)

Great Smog of '52

• Dominion by C. J. Sansom (1952-12-05)

Great Stink of London

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz (1858)

Great Stink of Paris

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz (1880)

Halloween

• The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns
• 11.22.63 by Stephen King (1958)

Holocaust

• I Am Forbidden: A Novel by Anouk Markovits
• Sarah's Key: Now a major motion picture starring Kirstin Scott Thomas by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)

Home run battle of 1998

• This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash

Indian Mutiny

• The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple (1858-06)

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple

Infectious Diseases Act of 1889

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

Infectious Diseases Act of 1899

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (1919)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Interwar Period

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Iraq War

• Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony

Iroquois invasions of 1648–50

• The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

Israeli War of Independence

• About the Night by Anat Talshir

Japanese occupation of Malaya 1941-45

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Japanese-American Internment

• The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

Jazz Age

• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Kashmir Conflict

• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: ‘The Literary Read of the Summer’ - Time by Arundhati Roy

Kazakhstan gulags

• The Long Bridge: Out Of The Gulags by Urszula Muskus

King Philip's War

• Mayflower: A Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick ( 1676-08)

Klondike Gold Rush

• Astray by Emma Donoghue (1899)

Korean War

• Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (1953)

Kristallnacht

• Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold

Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland

• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)

Malayan Emergency

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Medical Act of 1858

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

The Mongol occupation of China 1196

• Taming Poison Dragons (Medieval China Trilogy) by Tim Murgatroyd

Normandy Invasion

• When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

Normandy Invasion, D-Day, 6 June, 1944

• When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

Nuclear Meltdown

• Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian

O. J. Simpson murder case

• Without a Doubt by Marcia Clark

Olympic Games

• The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown (1936)

Operation Barbarossa

• Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold

Orphan Train

• Orphan Train: A Novel (Rough Cut Edition) by Christina Baker Kline

Overthrow of the Marcos Regime in the Philippines

• The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti

Papal Election

• Conclave: A novel by Robert Harris

Public Health Act of 1848

• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

Saur Revolution

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1978-04-28)

Scottish Reformation

• The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean (1560)

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Siege of Malta

• Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Siege of Masada

• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Siege of Sarajevo

• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (2009-01-01) (1992)

Sierra Leone Civil War

• The Bite of Mango by Mariatu Kamara
• A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Six-Day War

• About the Night by Anat Talshir

Soviet-Afghan War

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1989)

Strike

• The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

Thanksgiving

• Mayflower: A Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick

Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Trail of Eliza Sowers

• Dr. Mutter's Marvels : A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (1839)

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman (1911-03-25)

Underground Railroad

• The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 by Colson Whitehead

Unemployed Workers Marches , London

• Shadows on the Nile: 'Breathtaking historical fiction' The Times by Kate Furnivall

Union of the Crowns

• The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean (1603)

Vel' d' Hiv'

• Sarah's Key: Now a major motion picture starring Kirstin Scott Thomas by Tatiana de Rosnay (1942)

Victorian Era

• The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple (1901)

Vietnam War

• The End of the Point (P.S.) by Elizabeth Graver
• Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
• The Sympathizer: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Voyage of the Mayflower

• Mayflower: A Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick (1620)

World War I

• Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
• The Light Between Oceans: The heartbreaking Richard and Judy bestseller by M L Stedman
• The Lives of Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
• A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
• Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• Stoner: A Novel (Vintage Classics) by John Williams (1918)

World War II

• Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hans Fallada
• I Am Forbidden: A Novel by Anouk Markovits
• At The Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
• Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• A Meal in Winter: A Novel of World War II by Hubert Mingarelli
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
• Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
• When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock (1945)
• The End of the Point (P.S.) by Elizabeth Graver (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• Sarah's Key: Now a major motion picture starring Kirstin Scott Thomas by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Stoner: A Novel (Vintage Classics) by John Williams (1945)
• Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold ( 1945)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Sarah's Key: Now a major motion picture starring Kirstin Scott Thomas by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

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

WWII Thai-Burma Railway

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Zombie Apocalypse

• World War Z by Max Brooks