Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor fbmount

11 september 2001

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

Beleg van Leningrad

• City of Thieves: A Novel door David Benioff

Crimean War

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

De moord op John F. Kennedy

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

Holocaust

• I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir door Esther Safran Foer

Russische Revolutie

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel door Amor Towles

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Book Thief door Markus Zusak
• City of Thieves: A Novel door David Benioff
• The Reader door Bernhard Schlink
• Sarah's Key door Tatiana de Rosnay
• The War That Saved My Life door Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society door Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)