Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor bookishwoman

Aardbeving in San Francisco

• Dragonwings door Laurence Yep (1906)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel door Richard Adams

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bloomsday

• Ulysses door James Joyce (1904-06-14)

Bombardement van Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death door Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

D-Day

• Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy door Donald R. Burgett

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel door Richard Adams

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Iraanse Revolutie

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books door Azar Nafisi (1979)

Jazz Age

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

Koude Oorlog

• The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel door John le Carre

Praagse Lente

• The unbearable lightness of being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel door Richard Adams

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The unbearable lightness of being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The book thief door Markus Zusak
• The reader door Bernhard Schlink
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death door Kurt Vonnegut

Vietnam Oorlog

• If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home door Tim O'Brien
• The things they carried : a work of fiction door Tim O'Brien

WO-I

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