Esdeveniments als llibres de deark

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire (Anglès)

• The Library Book de Susan Orlean

2008 Presidential Campaign (Anglès)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations de Mira Jacob

2016 US presidential election (Anglès)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations de Mira Jacob
• What Happened de Hillary Rodham Clinton

7 July 2005 London bombings (Anglès)

• This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor de Adam Kay (2005-07-07)

9/11 Attacks (Anglès)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations de Mira Jacob
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays de Alexander Chee

Afghan Civil War (Anglès)

• First Printing. A Thousand Splendid Suns de Khaled Hosseini

AIDS epidemic (Anglès)

• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays de Alexander Chee
• The Immortalists: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live? de Chloe Benjamin

Algerian War of Independence (Anglès)

• The Wretched of the Earth de Frantz Fanon (1962)

Barack Obama's presidency (Anglès)

• From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir de Beck Dorey-Stein

British Raj (Anglès)

• The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Perveen Mistry Novel) de Sujata Massey

Burning of the Library of Alexandria (Anglès)

• The Library Book de Susan Orlean

Chernobyl Disaster (Anglès)

• The Library Book de Susan Orlean

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction (Anglès, Rus)

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History de Elizabeth Kolbert

Dakota Access Pipeline protests (Anglès)

• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock de Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Discovery of Radium (Anglès)

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women de Kate Moore

Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency (Anglès)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations de Mira Jacob

Election of Donald Trump to U.S. Presidency, 2016 (Anglès)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations de Mira Jacob

Foča ethnic cleansing (Anglès)

• The Unquiet Dead (Book 1): Detective Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty Mysteries de Ausma Zehanat Khan (1994)

French Resistance (Anglès)

• Nightingale de Kristin Hannah

Gay Liberation (Anglès)

• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays de Alexander Chee

The Great War (Anglès)

• The Paying Guests de Sarah Waters

Guerra Civil Española (Castellà)

• The Shadow of the Wind de Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1939)

Guerra Civile Spagnola (Italià)

• The Shadow of the Wind de Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1939)

Iran-Iraq War (Anglès)

• The Complete Persepolis de Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution (Anglès)

• The Complete Persepolis de Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland (Anglès)

• Burial Rites de Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)

Late Devonian extinction (Anglès, Rus)

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History de Elizabeth Kolbert

Mexican Land Reforms (Anglès)

• The Murmur of Bees de Sofía Segovia

Mexican Revolution (Anglès)

• The Murmur of Bees de Sofía Segovia ( [1920])

Napoleonic Wars (Anglès)

• The Passion de Jeanette Winterson

Operation Enduring Freedom (Anglès)

• First Printing. A Thousand Splendid Suns de Khaled Hosseini

Ordovician–Silurian extinction event (Anglès, Rus)

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History de Elizabeth Kolbert

Peekskill riots of 1949 (Anglès)

• The Glass Forest: A Novel de Cynthia Swanson

Permian Mass Extinction (Anglès, Rus)

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History de Elizabeth Kolbert

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

• Women Talking: A Novel de Miriam Toews

Seconda guerra mondiale (Italià)

• All the Light We Cannot See de Anthony Doerr (1945)

September 11 Attacks (Anglès)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations de Mira Jacob
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation de Ottessa Moshfegh

Siege at Ruby Ridge (Anglès)

• Educated: A Memoir de Tara Westover

Slavery Abolition Act (Anglès)

• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel de Jean Rhys (1833)

Spanish Civil War (Anglès)

• The Shadow of the Wind de Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish Flu Pandemic (Anglès)

• The Murmur of Bees de Sofía Segovia (1918)

Srebrenica Massacre (Anglès)

• The Unquiet Dead (Book 1): Detective Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty Mysteries de Ausma Zehanat Khan (1995)

Syrian Civil War (Anglès)

• The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel de Zeyn Joukhadar

The Third Poppy War (Anglès)

• The Poppy War: A Novel de R. F Kuang

Triassic–Jurassic extinction event (Anglès, Rus)

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History de Elizabeth Kolbert

The Troubles (Anglès)

• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland de Patrick Radden Keefe

Trujillo dictatorship (Anglès)

• In the Time of the Butterflies de Julia Alvarez

War on Terror (Anglès)

• Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 de Kamila Shamsie

World War I (Anglès)

• Lolly Willowes de Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Lovely War de Julie Berry
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women de Kate Moore
• The Murmur of Bees de Sofía Segovia ( [1918])

World War II (Anglès)

• The Library Book de Susan Orlean
• Lovely War de Julie Berry
• Nightingale de Kristin Hannah
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women de Kate Moore
• All the Light We Cannot See de Anthony Doerr (1945)

Y2K (Anglès)

• Educated: A Memoir de Tara Westover

Yugoslav Wars (Anglès)

• The Tiger's Wife de Tea Obreht (1991-1995)