Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor RichLeComte

Aftreden van president Richard M. Nixon

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

Aircrash and death of General Zia ul Haq

• A Case of Exploding Mangoes door Mohammed Hanif

Beleg van Lissabon

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

Black Sox Scandal

• Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

Bombardement van Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) door Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Crimean War

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

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• Regeneration (1917)
• The Ghost Road (William Abrahams) door Pat Barker (1918)

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

Iran-Contra Affaire

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

Jazz Age

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

Koude Oorlog

• The Fifties door David Halberstam

Midzomernacht 2008

• The Great Night: A Novel door Chris Adrian

Moord op John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving ([1963])

Nucleaire oorlog VS met China

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

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• 22 Britannia Road: A Novel door Amanda Hodgkinson
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) door Kurt Vonnegut
• Unforgiving Years door Victor Serge

Vietnamoorlog

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

WO-I

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

WO-II

• Life and Fate door Vasily Grossman (1945)

World War I

• A Farewell To Arms door Ernest Hemingway