Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor alexpriest

11 september 2001

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close door Jonathan Safran Foer (Aanslagen op WTC)

Beleg van Leningrad

• City of Thieves: A Novel door David Benioff

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

Bombardement van Dresden

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

Cuba Crisis

• Underworld: A Novel door Don DeLillo (1962)

De moord op John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel door Stephen King (22 november 1963)

Drooglegging in de VS

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1933)

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• War and Turpentine: A novel door Stefan Hertmans

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Koude Oorlog

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) door John Le Carré
• Underworld: A Novel door Don DeLillo

Praagse Lente

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1968)

President VS van 1993 tot 2001

• My Life door Bill Clinton

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1968)

Spaanse Burgeroorlog

• For Whom the Bell Tolls door Ernest Hemingway (1939)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• City of Thieves: A Novel door David Benioff
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) door Kurt Vonnegut

WO-I

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)