Book Events for jomajimi

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• Book Without Words, The: A Fable of Medieval Magic by Avi

1920s

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1923

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1940s

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1941

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1949

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1990s

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1999

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

19th century

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

AIDS epidemic

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

American Civil War

• Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Revolution

• Traitor to the Crown: The Patriot Witch by C. C. Finlay
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Michael L Printz Honor Book (Awards)) by M.T. Anderson (1783)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman

Arno River flood

• Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6) by C. S. Lewis

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Antietam

• Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

Battle of Britain

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Bunker Hill

• Traitor to the Crown: The Patriot Witch by C. C. Finlay

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Lexington

• Traitor to the Crown: The Patriot Witch by C. C. Finlay

Battle of Manhattan

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Labyrinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

The Blitz

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Bosnian War

• How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic (1992-1995)
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

British Raj

• Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (1947)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Coronation of King Arthur

• The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2) by Mary Stewart

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Cuban Revolution

• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Digging 'The Big Ditch' irrigation canal

• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Hilary Mantel

DomDaniel is Defeated

• Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage

Dust Bowl

• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Hilary Mantel

Ethiopian Revolution, 1974

• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Excavation of Masada by Yigael Yadin

• Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan Novels) by Kathy Reichs (1965)

Expulsion of the Jews in Spain

• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Extinction of Homo sapiens

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Fate of the Labryinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Fimbulwinter

• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley by Alan Garner

Fourth of July

• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin

Gilded Age

• Passage by Connie Willis

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Depression

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Game

• Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling

The Great Revelation

• All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead to the World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris
• Living Dead in Dallas (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 2) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5) by Charlaine Harris (fictional)

The Great War

• Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries) by Jacqueline Winspear

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Halley's Comet

• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (1910)

Halloween

• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin

Hartford circus fire

• Passage by Connie Willis (1944-07-06)

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Passage by Connie Willis (1937-05-06)

Hogswatch

• Hogfather (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett (Dec. 32)

Holocaust

• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)

Hurricane Katrina

• All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris

Iditarod Sled Dog Race

• Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen

Interbellum

• The Moor by Laurie R. King (1939)

Iran-Iraq War

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Irish Civil War

• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Korean War

• Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Hilary Mantel

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
• Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle

morris dancing

• Wintersmith (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett

Napoleonic Wars

• Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3) by Naomi Novik
• Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4) by Naomi Novik
• His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik
• Throne of Jade (Temeraire, Book 2) by Naomi Novik
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)

plagues

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)

Prohibition

• Out of the Deep I Cry (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ragnarok

• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley by Alan Garner

Rebirth of Kronos

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Restoration of the Monarchy

• I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

Return of Father Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Russian Revolution

• The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
• The People's Act of Love: A Novel by James Meek (1917)

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• Locked Rooms (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Second Titan War

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan
• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
• Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson) by Rick Riordan
• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

September 11 Attacks

• Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)

Sinking of the Titanic

• Passage by Connie Willis (1912)

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Civil War

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish Inquisition

• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Summer solstice

• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

Thanksgiving

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Thirty Years' War

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Tokugawa shogunate

• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (The Samurai Mysteries) by Dorothy Hoobler

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling

Trujillo dictatorship

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (1961)

United States presidential election

• Citizen Vince: A Novel by Jess Walter (1980)

Victorian Era

• A Christmas Guest by Anne Perry (1901)
• A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry (1901)
• A Christmas Secret: A Novel (The Christmas Stories) by Anne Perry (1901)

Vietnam War

• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene

Virginia Woolf's suicide

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

the Voodoo Wars

• Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

• Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by SIMON SINGH (1993)

Winter Solstice

• Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson) by Rick Riordan

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (1918)

World War II

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
• Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 3.) by Terry Pratchett
• Nick of Time by Ted Bell
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
• Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson
• Resistance by Owen Sheers
• Restless: A Novel by William Boyd
• Rogue Male (New York Review Books Classics) by Geoffrey Household
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolano (1945)
• Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (1945)
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)
• Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1945)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1945)
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1939-1945)

World War II, British Home Front

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

World War II, Eastern Front

• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

Xenocide of the Formics

• Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2) by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Yugoslav Wars

• How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic (1991-2001)