Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor bookwmn1

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife: A Novel door David Ebershoff

Amerikaanse Revolutie

• Someone Knows My Name: A Novel door Lawrence Hill (1775)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel door Richard Adams

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bloomsday

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

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel 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
• The Ghost Road door Pat Barker (1918)

Franse invasie in Rusland

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Holocaust

• Time's Arrow door Martin Amis

Ierse Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog [1919|1922]

• A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup) door Roddy Doyle

Iran-Contra Affaire

• A 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 door Martin Amis

Krimoorlog

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

London Blitz

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

Mijnstaking Schotland 1984

• A Darker Domain: A Novel door Val Mcdermid

Moord op John F. Kennedy

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

Napoleontische Oorlogen

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy

Olympische Spelen

• March Violets door Philip Kerr (1936)

Opkomst Bob Dylan

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

Revolutie Chili

• The House of the Spirits door Isabel Allende

Revolutie Rode Khmer

• In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel door Vaddey Ratner

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel door Richard Adams

Slag bij Borodino

• War and Peace door Leo Tolstoy

Trojan War

• The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths, The) door Margaret Atwood

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Book Thief (Readers Circle) door Markus Zusak
• Suite Francaise door Irene Nemirovsky
• Time's Arrow door Martin Amis
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) door Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel door David Guterson (1945)

Vietnam Oorlog

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett
• The Things They Carried door Tim O'Brien

Vietnamoorlog

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

WO-I

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

WOII, bezetting Frankrijk

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

Zinken van de Titanic

• Psalm at Journey's End door Erik Fosnes Hansen (1912)