Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor jenreidreads

1767, de vooravond van de Amerikaans burgeroorlog

• Drums of Autumn door Diana Gabaldon

1805 - 1806, Lewis and Clark expeditie

• Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition) door Anna L. Waldo

7-jarige Oorlog

• Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey Novels) door Diana Gabaldon

Atoombom

• Black Rain: A Novel (Japan's Modern Writers S.) door Masuji Ibuse (1945-08)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down door Richard Adams

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bombardement van Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five door Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

De Mars op Washington met M.L.King

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

De moord op John F. Kennedy

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down door Richard Adams

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• The Wild Rose door Jennifer Donnelly

Franse Revolutie

• The Red and the Black, (A Bantam classic) door Stendhal

Iraanse Revolutie

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books door Azar Nafisi (1979)

Iran-Contra Affaire

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

Jazz Age

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

Moord op John F. Kennedy

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

Opkomst Bob Dylan

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett

Praagse Lente

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) door Milan Kundera (1968)

Revolutie Chili

• The House of the Spirits door Isabel Allende

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down door Richard Adams

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) door Milan Kundera (1968)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• Slaughterhouse-Five door Kurt Vonnegut

Vietnam Oorlog

• The Help door Kathryn Stockett
• If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home door Tim O'Brien

Vietnamoorlog

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

WO-I

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

World War II

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas door Boyne John