Book Events for greenfyre

12th century

• Zen in der Kunst, das Schwert zu führen. Limitierte Sonderausgabe. by Reinhard Kammer

1790s

• Adam Bede by George Eliot

1799

• Adam Bede by George Eliot

17th century

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Matsuo Basho

1820s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

18th century

• Adam Bede by George Eliot
• Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Captain Corellis Mandolin by Louis De Bernières

1971 Abolition of US Gold Standard

• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber

19th century

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

20 July plot

• Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Anne Frank

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Captain Corellis Mandolin by Louis De Bernières (September 1943)

Abduction and Execution of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial

Afghan Civil War

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Afghan Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1879)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• The Great Believers: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai

Albigensian Crusade

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky (1229)

American Civil War

• Days Without End: A Novel by Sebastian Barry
• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel by James McBride (1865)
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears (1865)
• The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow (1865)
• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky (1865)

American Indian Movement

• How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos

American Revolution

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
• The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton (1783)
• From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 by Pauline Maier (1783)

Anti-apartheid movement

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

Anti-Vietnam War movement

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

Argentina's Dirty War

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial

Argentine brass burns all records of dirty war

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1983)

Argentine Coup of 28 June 1966

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Cover may vary) by Neil Gaiman

Armenian Deportation

• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (1915)

armies of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay burn the historical archives of Paraguay

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1870)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X

Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee

• Away by Jane Urquhart (1868)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon

Austro-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1791)

Basil Convention bans shipments of hazardous waste

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1992)

Battle of Antietam

• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears (1862)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Gandamak

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1842)

Battle of Geok Tepe

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1881)

Battle of Ghazni

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1839)

Battle of Kandahar

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Maiwand

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Shanghai

• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia (1937)

Battle of Solferino

• The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Battle of South Mountain

• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears

Battle of Stoke Field

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Battle of the Somme

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1916)

The Bell Curve is a best-seller in the United States

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1994)

Berlin Wall

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

Bishop Juan Gerardi is stoned to death

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1998)

Black Lives Matter

• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Bleeding Kansas

• The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel by James McBride (1859)

The Blitz

• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Blutmai

• Berlin by Jason Lutes

Bolshevik Revolution

• The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell

bombing in Oklahoma City

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1995)

Bombing of Berlin

• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1943)

Bombing of Nuremberg

• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)

Bombing of Plaza de Mayo

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial (Argentina, 16th June 1955)

bombing of Salvador Allende's presidential palace

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1973)

Bosnian War

• The Death of Yugoslavia (BBC) by Silber, Laura (1996) Paperback

Brexit

• Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith
• Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith
• Winter: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith

British Conquest of Sindh

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1843)

British Raj

• Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi (1947)

Bruntland Report is presented to World Commission on Environment and Development

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1987)

C.I.A., with approval of President Eisenhower, overthrows democratic government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1954)

Carolinas Campaign

• The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow (1865)

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia

Chitral Expedition

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1895)

Christmas

• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

city of Canton is bombarded

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1856)

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

climate change

• A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet

climate crisis

• The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail
• Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

Cold War

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

conference on narcotic and psychotropic drugs in Santiago, Chile

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1985)

Construction of the Trans-Aral Railway

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1906)

Construction of the Trans-Caspian railway

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1906)

Continental Congress

• From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 by Pauline Maier

Convention of Versailles

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1756-05-01)

COVID-19 pandemic

• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Creation of Turkey

• Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Crimean War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1856)

Cuban Revolution

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1959)

currency devaluation in Malaysia kills thousands of jobs in the shoe industry in southern Brazil

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1997)

Death of Alexander the Great

• The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume II by Will Durant (323 BCE-06-11)

Death of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Death of Eva Perón

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, Book 2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (1862)

demonstrations in France, Germany, Italy, and other European countries

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1998)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

• A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

Disappearance of Filipe Vallese

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dreyfus Affair

• The Guermantes Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 3 by Marcel Proust

earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (September 1985)

Easter

• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Matsuo Basho

Emancipation Proclamation

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky (1863-01-01)

End of the World

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami

English burn Washington

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1812)

English Civil War

• The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Era of Peace

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1946)

European Parliament publishes an official report entitled "Evaluation of the Technologies of Political Control"

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (March 1998)

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, Book 2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Execution of Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Execution of Perkin Warbeck

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Ezeiza massacre

• Triste's History by Horacio Vazquez Rial

Fall of Saigon

• The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

Father Diego de Landa burns Mayan books in Maní de Yucatán

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1562)

Fernando Collor becomes president of Brazil

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1990)

First Anglo-Afghan War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1842)

First Anglo-Sikh War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1846)

first euthanasia law is approved by state of Indiana

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1901)

First Parition of Poland

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1772)

first South American Police Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1979)

Fourth Crusade

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Franklin's Lost Expedition

• Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin

Freedom Summer

• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

French Revolution

• The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton
• The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI by Will Durant (1799)
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1794)

Gallipoli Campaign

• Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières (1916-01-09)

Gemini 9

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

General Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo is jailed for trafficking cocaine

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (February 1997)

General Suharto takes power in Indonesia

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1965)

Georgian Era

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

German Reunification

• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

global warming

• Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan
• A climate for change : global warming facts for faith-based decisions by Katharine Hayhoe
• Rough Winds: Extreme Weather and Climate Change (Kindle Single) by James Lawrence Powell
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

government of Brazil burns all papers that testify to three-and-a-half centuries of black slavery

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1890)

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

Great Fire of London

• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Game

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Greek Civil War

• Captain Corellis Mandolin by Louis De Bernières (1946 - 1949)

Guatemalan military burns all records of dirty war

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1995)

Guy Fawkes Night

• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Heian period

• Zen in der Kunst, das Schwert zu führen. Limitierte Sonderausgabe. by Reinhard Kammer

Holocaust

• Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Anne Frank
• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug (author)
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics) by Tadeusz Borowski
• The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

The Holocaust

• Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany by Rudolph Herzog

Hunza-Nagar Campaign

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1891)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Indian independence

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

Indian Mutiny

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1858-06)

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Influenza pandemic

• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Interbellum

• The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1939)

international women's conference in Beijing

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1995)

Interwar Period

• Berlin by Jason Lutes

invasion of Panama

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1989)

invasion of Peking

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1860)

invasion of Santo Domingo

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1965)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving (1990)

Iran-Iraq War

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (1979)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

Iraq War

• Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel by Ahmed Saadawi
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (2011)

Irish Potato Famine

• Away by Jane Urquhart

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

Japanese surrender after World War II

• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia (1945)

Japanese-American Internment

• No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature) by John Okada

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel by James McBride (18)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1951)

Korean War

• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See

Kościuszko Uprising

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1794)

Lambert Simnel Rebellion

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Late Devonian extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Lebanese Civil War

• Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage

Lebanon War

• Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War by Matti Friedman

Manifesto of Silence

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1763-06-04)

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Middle Ages

• Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Moscow Plague Riot

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1771)

Murder of Emmett Till

• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

Murder of George Floyd

• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Murder of Lily Volpert

• The Fortune Men: A novel by Nadifa Mohamed (1952)

My Lai Massacre

• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (1968-03-16)

Nanjing Massacre

• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia

Napoleonic Wars

• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
• The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI by Will Durant (1815)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen ( 1815)

National Conference on Children in Peru

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano

Nazi seizure of power

• Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany by Rudolph Herzog

New York's Museum of Modern Art (Moma) to see Douglas Gordon's installation 24 Hour Psycho

• Point Omega: A Novel by Don DeLillo

Northern Ireland peace process

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

O. J. Simpson U.S. television murder trial

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1995)

Occupy Wall Street

• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2011)

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Oklahoma City Bombing

• The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel by Lou Berney (1995)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Ordovician–Silurian extinction event

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Pacifist Movement

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

Palm Sunday

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (1942)

Pan-American Children's Congress

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1930)

Pan-American Children's Congress in Chile

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1924)

Panjdeh Incident

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1885)

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Perkin Warbeck Rebellion

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Permian Mass Extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Peterloo Massacre

• Frankissstein: A Novel by Jeanette Winterson

Pope Innocent IV authorizes the torture of those suspected of heresy

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1252)

Pope Paul V founds the Bank of the Holy Ghost

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1605)

Potsdam Conference

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon

Pottawatomie Massacre

• The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel by James McBride (26)

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Project Gemini

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

publication of The Witches' Hammer

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1546)

Pugachev's Rebellion

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1775)

Qajar Siege of Herat

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1838)

Rape of women in Mennonite colony of Manitoba, in Bolivia 2005-2009

• Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Rechnitz massacre

• A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth by Sacha Batthyany (1945-03-24)

Reformation

• The Reformation: The Story of Civilization, Volume VI by Will Durant

Regency Era

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

Renaissance

• The Renaissance: The Story of Civilization, Volume V by Will Durant

Rio summit

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1992)

Russian Conquest of Merv

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1884)

Russian Conquest of Samarkand

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1868)

Russian Conquest of Tashkent

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1865)

Russian Conquest of the Khanate of Khiva

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1873)

Russian Conquest of the Khanate of Kokand

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1875)

Russian Revolution

• The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton
• The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell

Russian-Circassian War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1864)

Russo-Japanese War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1905)

Russo-Turkish War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1878)

Sand Creek Massacre

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Sbarco dei Mille

• The Leopard: A Novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1860)

Second Anglo-Afghan War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Second Anglo-Sikh War

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1849)

September 11 Attacks

• Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (2001-09-11)
• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)

Seven Years' War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1763)

Seventh Russo-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1792)

Sherman's March to the Sea

• The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow (1864)

Shipwreck of Philip I and Joanna of Castile

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Siege of the British Residency in Kabul

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk (1879)

Sixth Russo-Turkish War

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (1774)

soldiers take away 150 workers from the Ledesma sugar refinery in Argentina

• Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano (1976)

Solidarity movement

• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

Spanish Civil War

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

Spanish Flu

• The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue

Sri Lankan civil war

• A Passage North: A Novel by Anuk Arudpragasam

Stafford and Lovell Rebellion

• Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Stalinism

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ([1924, 1953])