Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor fraugrau

Beleg van Lissabon

• The History of the Siege of Lisbon door Jose Saramago (1147)

Bloomsday

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

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair door Jasper Fforde

Cuba Crisis

• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL door Don DeLillo (1962)

Dertigjarige Oorlog

• The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus door Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1618-1648)
• The meeting at Telgte door Günter Grass (1618-1648)

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• English Music door Peter Ackroyd
• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It door Gina Kolata
• The Good Soldier Svejk (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) door Jaroslav Hasek
• The Radetzky march door Joseph Roth
• Regeneration (William Abrahams Book) door Pat Barker (1917)

Einde van het universum

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe door Douglas Adams

End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe door Douglas Adams

Fluwelen Revolutie

• Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light: A Novel door Ivan Klima (1989)

Franse Revolutie

• The Red and the Black (Barnes & Noble Classics) door Stendhal
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Dover Thrift Editions) door Baroness Orczy (1792)

Gallische oorlog

• The Gallic War (World's Classics) door Julius Caesar (58-52 v.Chr.)

Griep Epidemie

• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It door Gina Kolata (1918)

Ierse Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog [1919|1922]

• A Star Called Henry door Roddy Doyle

Iraanse Revolutie

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

Iran-Contra Affaire

• Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving (1985 ∙ 1990)

Koude Oorlog

• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL door Don DeLillo

Libanese Burgeroorlog

• Beirut Blues door Al-Shaykh Hanan

London Blitz

• The End of the Affair (movie tie-in) door Graham Greene

Manhattan Project

• In Babylon door Marcel Moring

Moord op John F. Kennedy

• Libra (Contemporary American Fiction) door Don DeLillo
• Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving ([1963])

Praagse Lente

• Die Unertragliche Leichtigkeit des Seins...The Unbearable Lightness of Being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• Die Unertragliche Leichtigkeit des Seins...The Unbearable Lightness of Being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Book Thief door Markus Zusak
• Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) door Stefan Zweig
• Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) door Yukio Mishima
• Billard um halbzehn Roman door Heinrich Böll (1945)
• The English Patient (Vintage International) door Michael Ondaatje (1945)

Val van de Muur, Die Wende

• Too Far Afield door Gunter Grass (1989)

Vietnamoorlog

• Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving (1959 ∙ 1975)

WO-II

• The tin drum door Günter Grass