Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor RoseCityReader

11-09-2001 : terreuraanslag op de Twin Towers New York

• Truth and Consequences door Alison Lurie

1712 - 1786

• Frederick the Great door Nancy Mitford

1900 Galveston Orkaan

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History door Erik Larson

9/11 AAnvallen

• Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series) door Jo Nesbo

Aftreden van president Richard M. Nixon

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

Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

• The Unvanquished door William Faulkner (1861 ∙ 1865)

Beeldenstorm

• Headlong: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) door Michael Frayn (1566)

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bloomsday

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

Bombardement van Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: Or The Children's Crusade, A Duty Dance With Death (25th Anniversary) door Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Christenvervolgingen in begintijd christendom

• Quo Vadis door Henryk Sienkiewicz (1ste eeuw na. Chr.)

Cuba Crisis

• Underworld door Don DeLillo (1962)

Dekolonisatie van India

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

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• August 1914 door Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1914)
• Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) door John Williams (1918)
• The First World War door Hew Strachan (1914-1918)
• Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy) door Pat Barker (1917)
• The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy) door Pat Barker (1918)

Einde Tweede Wereldoorlog

• Fall of Berlin, The 1945 door Antony Beevor

emigratie

• The Twin door Gerbrand Bakker

Franklin Expeditie

• Solomon Gursky Was Here door Mordecai Richler (1845 ∙ 1854)

Franse invasie in Rusland

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Franse Revolutie

• The Red and the Black door Stendhal

Gallische oorlog

• The Conquest of Gaul door Julius Caesar (58-52 v.Chr.)

Guernica

• The Age of Reason door Jean-Paul Sartre

Holocaust

• Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense door Martin Amis

Huwelijk van Charles and Diana

• Money door Martin Amis (1981)

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)

Japanese invasion, Malaya

• A Town Like Alice door Nevil Shute

Jazz Age

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

Jodenvervolging

• Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense door Martin Amis

Koude Oorlog

• Dead Lions (Slough House) door Mick Herron
• The fifties door David Halberstam
• The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel door John le Carre
• The Looking Glass War door John Le Carre
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold door John Le Carre
• Underworld door Don DeLillo
• The Innocent: A Novel door Ian McEwan (1955)

Krimoorlog

• Master Georgie (Bainbridge, Beryl) door Beryl Bainbridge (1854-1856)

Lady Franklin Bay Expedition

• Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition door Leonard F. Guttridge (1881-1884)

London Blitz

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

Moord op John F. Kennedy

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

Napoleontische Oorlogen

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy

Nucleaire oorlog VS met China

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

Olympische Spelen

• March Violets: A Bernie Gunther Novel (No 1) door Philip Kerr (1936)

Operatie Entebbe

• Solomon Gursky Was Here door Mordecai Richler (1977)

Orkaan Katrina

• Zeitoun door Dave Eggers (New Orleans, 2005)

Praagse Lente

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

Proces Demjanjuk

• Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International) door Philip Roth (1988)

Revolutie Chili

• The House of the Spirits door Isabel Allende

Russische Revolutie

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel door Amor Towles

Slag bij Borodino

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

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

Spaanse Burgeroorlog

• The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 door Antony Beevor (1939)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls door Ernest Hemingway (1939)
• Homage to Catalonia door George Orwell (1939)

Trojaanse Oorlog

• The Songs of the Kings: A Novel door Barry Unsworth

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Age of Reason door Jean-Paul Sartre
• Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) door Stefan Zweig
• The reader door Bernhard Schlink
• Sarah's Key door Tatiana de Rosnay
• Slaughterhouse-Five: Or The Children's Crusade, A Duty Dance With Death (25th Anniversary) door Kurt Vonnegut
• Suite Francaise door Irene Nemirovsky
• A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth door William Styron
• Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense door Martin Amis
• The English Patient (Vintage International) door Michael Ondaatje (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society door Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel door Philip Roth (1945)
• Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) door John Williams (1945)
• Empire of the Sun door J. G. Ballard (1945)

Uitsterven van de dinosaurus

• "T. rex" and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library) door Walter Alvarez

Vietnam Oorlog

• The Things They Carried door Tim O'Brien

Vietnamoorlog

• Dog Soldiers door Robert Stone
• Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving (1959 ∙ 1975)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• Mila 18 door Leon Uris (1943)

Watergate Schandaal

• Solomon Gursky Was Here door Mordecai Richler

WO-I

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

WO-II

• The Age of Reason door Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Tin Drum door Gunter Grass

WOII, bezetting Frankrijk

• Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.) door Joanne Harris

World War I

• A Farewell To Arms door Ernest Hemingway

World War II

• Mila 18 door Leon Uris

Zelfmoord Kurt Cobain

• About a Boy door Nick Hornby (Nirvana)