Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor Charon07

11 september 2001

• Extremely loud & incredibly close door Jonathan Safran Foer (Aanslagen op WTC)

Beleg van Lissabon

• The history of the siege of Lisbon door José Saramago (1147)

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bombardement van Dresden

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

Crimean War

• The Eyre affair : a novel door Jasper Fforde

Cuba Crisis

• Underworld door Don DeLillo (1962)

Derrtigjarige Oorlog

• Tyll : a novel door Daniel Kehlmann (1618-1648)

Drooglegging in de VS

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

The Great War

• The dictionary of lost words door Pip Williams

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

• Underworld door Don DeLillo

Praagse Lente

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

Russische Revolutie

• A gentleman in Moscow door Amor Towles

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

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

Trojan War

• The Penelopiad door Margaret Atwood

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Diary of a Young Girl door Anne Frank
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death door Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• HHhH door Laurent Binet (1945)

Vietnam Oorlog

• The things they carried : a work of fiction door Tim O'Brien

WO-I

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

Women's Suffrage Movement

• The dictionary of lost words door Pip Williams