Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor JRsLibrary

11 september 2001

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

Aftreden van president Richard M. Nixon

• Memories of the Ford Administration door John Updike ([1974])

Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

• The unvanquished door William Faulkner (1861 ∙ 1865)

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bloomsday

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

Cuba Crisis

• Underworld door Don Delillo (1962)

De moord op John F. Kennedy

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

Dekolonisatie van India

• Midnight's Children door Salman Rushdie (1947-08-15)

Dood van Robert F. Kennedy

• The cold six thousand : a novel door James Ellroy (1968)

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• War and Turpentine: A Novel door Stefan Hertmans
• Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) door John Williams (1918)
• The First World War door Hew Strachan (1914-1918)
• Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy (Plume Books)) door Pat Barker (1917)
• The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy) door Pat Barker (1918)

Einde van de Derde Era

• The Silmarillion door J.R.R. Tolkien

Franse Revolutie

• The Red and the Black[ THE RED AND THE BLACK ] By Stendhal ( Author )Sep-24-2002 Paperback door Stendhal

Iraanse Revolutie

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

Irak Oorlog

• The Yellow Birds: A Novel door Kevin Powers

Jazz Age

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

Koude Oorlog

• Underworld door Don Delillo
• The Innocent: A Novel door Ian McEwan (1955)

London Blitz

• The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) door Graham Greene

Mexicaanse Revolutie

• The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel door Carlos Fuentes (1910)

Midzomernacht 2008

• The Great Night: A Novel door Chris Adrian

Moord op John F. Kennedy

• Libra (Penguin Modern Classics) door Don DeLillo
• The cold six thousand : a novel door James Ellroy (1963)

Moord op Martin Luther King

• The cold six thousand : a novel door James Ellroy (1968)

Nucleaire oorlog VS met China

• Toward the End of Time door John Updike (fictief; 2020)

Orkaan Katrina

• Zeitoun door Dave Eggers (New Orleans, 2005)

Paasopstand, Ierland, 24-30 april 1916

• At Swim, Two Boys door Jamie O'Neill

Praagse Lente

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Spaanse Burgeroorlog

• FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS door Ernest Hemingway (1939)

Stonewall Riots

• The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel door Edmund White

Trojan War

• The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus door Margaret Atwood

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Kindly Ones door Jonathan Littell
• New Finnish Grammar (Dedalus Europe 2011) door Diego Marani
• The path to the spiders' nests door Italo Calvino
• The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) door Bernhard Schlink
• Suite Francaise door Irene Nemirovsky
• The English Patient door Michael Ondaatje (1945)
• HHhH: A Novel door Laurent Binet (1945)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel door Philip Roth (1945)
• Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) door John Williams (1945)

Vietnam Oorlog

• If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home door Tim O'Brien
• The Things They Carried door Tim O'Brien
• The cold six thousand : a novel door James Ellroy (1959-1975)

Vietnamoorlog

• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War door Karl Marlantes

Wereld oorlog I

• Undertones of War door Edmund Blunden

WO-I

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

WO-II

• Across the River and Into the Trees door Ernest Hemingway
• The Tin Drum door Gunter Grass

World War I

• A Farewell To Arms [Estonian translation] door Ernest Hemingway

Zelfmoord Kurt Cobain

• About a Boy door Nick Hornby (Nirvana)