Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor VaniceD

1767, de vooravond van de Amerikaans burgeroorlog

• Drums of Autumn (Outlander) door Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down door Richard Adams

Black Sox Scandal

• The 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

De Mars op Washington met M.L.King

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

De moord op John F. Kennedy

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

Dekolonisatie van India

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down door Richard Adams

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• Drowning Ruth: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) door Christina Schwarz

Franse Revolutie

• The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) door Stendhal

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)

Japanese invasion, Malaya

• Town Like Alice door Nevil Shute

Jazz Age

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

Koude Oorlog

• The Fifties door David Halberstam
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

London Blitz

• The End of the Affair door Graham Greene

Moord op John F. Kennedy

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

Opkomst Bob Dylan

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

Orkaan Katrina

• Zeitoun door Dave Eggers (New Orleans, 2005)

Praagse Lente

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

Revolutie Chili

• The House of the Spirits door Isabel Allende

Russische Revolutie

• A Gentleman in Moscow door Amor Towles

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down door Richard Adams

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

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

Spaanse Burgeroorlog

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel door Isabel Allende

Staatsgreep in Chili

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel door Isabel Allende (1973)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Book Thief door Markus Zusak
• The Diary of a Young Girl door Anne Frank
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) door Kurt Vonnegut
• Suite Française door Irène Némirovsky
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel door Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

Vietnam Oorlog

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

Vietnamoorlog

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

WO-I

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