Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor starbookworm

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bloomsday

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

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel door Jasper Fforde

De Amerikaanse Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog

• Time's Convert: A Novel door Deborah Harkness

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Franse invasie in Rusland

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy (1812)

The Great War

• The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel door Pip Williams

Iraanse Revolutie

• Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books door Azar Nafisi (1979)

Iran-Contra Affaire

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

Jazz Age

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

Moord op John F. Kennedy

• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) door John Irving ([1963])

Napoleontische Oorlogen

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy

Orkaan Katrina

• Zeitoun door Dave Eggers (New Orleans, 2005)

Slag bij Borodino

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Book Thief door Markus Zusak
• The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance door Anders Rydell
• The Diary of a Young Girl door Anne Frank
• The Reader door Bernhard Schlink
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel door Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• The Librarian of Auschwitz door Antonio Iturbe (1945)

Vietnamoorlog

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

WO II

• The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel door Patti Callahan Henry

WO-I

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

Women's Suffrage Movement

• The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel door Pip Williams