Book Events for HelenBaker

16th century

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

1820s

• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1830s

• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1920s

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

1923

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

1930s

• The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

1940s

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
• The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

1941

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

1946

• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

1948 Arab-Israel War

• Mornings in Jenin: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa

1949

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis De Bernieres

1976 UK heat wave

• Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

1990s

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

1999

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

19th century

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Great Expectations (The Great writers: Their lives, works and inspiration) by Charles Dickens
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• The Underground Railroad (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray

2005 London bombings

• Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis De Bernieres (September 1943)

Aberfan disaster

• A Terrible Kindness: The Bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick by Jo Browning Wroe

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

Afghan Wars

• Burnt Shadows: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie

Afghanistan War

• Born Under a Million Shadows: A Novel by Andrea Busfield

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

AIDS epidemic

• The Great Believers: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

American Civil War

• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles
• O'Hara's Choice by Leon Uris
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• A Shout in the Ruins by Kevin Powers (1865)
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy (1861-1865)

American Revolution

• Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough

Anglo-Persian War

• The King by Kader Abdolah (1856-1857)

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
• The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Apartheid

• Skinners Drift by Lisa Fugard

Arab Spring

• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Apeirogon by Colum McCann
• The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

Armenian Deportation

• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (1915)

Armenian Genocide

• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Augustus: A Novel by John Williams

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The Lacuna LP: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

• HHhH by Laurent Binet

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Burnt Shadows: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie
• Dreams of speaking by Gail Jones
• The English Patient: Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize by Michael Ondaatje
• Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins (1945)
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945)
• Radiance by Shaena Lambert (1945)

Atomic Testing

• Maralinga by Judy Nunn

Balkan Wars

• Black Rock White City by A. S. Patric

Bangladesh War for Independence

• A golden age by Tahmima Anam
• The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

The Baptist War

• The Long Song: A Novel by Andrea Levy (1832)

Bataan Death March

• THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Actium

• Augustus: A Novel by John Williams

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Brisbane 1943

• Amnesia by Peter Carey

Battle of Britain

• Reach for the Sky The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain by Paul Brickhill

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Jenin

• Mornings in Jenin: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa (2002-04)

Battle of Passchendaele

• The New Confessions by William Boyd (1917)

Battle of Philippi

• Augustus: A Novel by John Williams

Battle of Shanghai

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)

Battle of Stalingrad

• The Undertaking by Audrey Magee

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• BIRDSONG by SEBASTIAN FAULKS
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1916)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Waterloo

• Julian Fellowes's Belgravia: A tale of secrets and scandal set in 1840s London from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY (Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Series) by Julian Fellowes (1815)
• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of Điện Biên Phủ

• Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung (1954)

Beat Generation

• On the Road (Popular Penguins) by Jack Kerouac

Black Lives Matter

• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Black Saturday 2009

• The arsonist : a mind on fire by Chloe Hooper

The Blitz

• Coventry: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
• Days of Grace: A Novel by Catherine Hall
• Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Noonday by Pat Barker
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1941)
• The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison (1940)

Bombing of Berlin

• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (1943)

Bombing of Nuremberg

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

Bonfire of Vanities

• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (the original)

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The Lacuna LP: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

Bosnian War

• Black Rock White City by A. S. Patric
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Galloway Steven (1992-1995)
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

Bosnian War 1992|1995

• Black Butterflies: Longlisted for the Women's Prize by Priscilla Morris

Brexit

• Autumn by Ali Smith
• Middle England by Jonathan Coe
• Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith
• Winter: from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author (Seasonal Quartet) by Ali Smith

British Occupation of India

• A Passage To India by E. M. Forster (1765-1947)

British Raj

• Old Filth by Jane Gardam
• Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai (1947)
• The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) by J.G. Farrell (1947)

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98

• The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

Cairo Peace Conference, 1921

• Dreamers Of The Day by Mary Doria Russell

California Gold Rush

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)
• At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier (1849)

Chechen conflict

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Chilean Coup

• A Long Petal of the Sea: 'Allende's finest book yet' – now a Sunday Times bestseller by Isabel Allende

Chinese Civil War

• Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed by Jonas Jonasson

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• City of Tranquil Light: A Novel by Bo Caldwell

Christchurch Earthquake

• The elusive language of ducks by Judith White (2011)

Christmas

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize by Claire Keegan

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

climate change

• The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy
• Weather: A novel by Jenny Offill

Cold War

• Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed by Jonas Jonasson
• The Innocent by Ian McEwan
• THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

Cold War Espionage

• Exposure by Helen Dunmore

Colfax Massacre

• Red River by Lalita Tademy (1873-04-13)

Colombian civil war

• The Armies by Evelio Rosero

Columbine School Shootings

• The Hour I first Believed by Wally(Author) Lamb

Contagious Diseases Act

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1864)

Coronation of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

• Mr. Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

COVID-19 pandemic

• Lucy by the Sea: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
• The Sentence: Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Creation of Turkey

• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

Credit crunch

• A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

Crimean War

• The Rose Of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon (1856)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Cultual Revolution

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (1966-1976)

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
• The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
• The vagrants by Yiyun Li

Cypriot Revolution

• Aphrodite's War by Andrea Busfield

D-Day

• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

Death of Charles Dickens

• Sixty lights by Gail Jones

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (1997-08-31)

Death of Edward VII

• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Death of La Mennulara

• The almond picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby (1963-09-23)

Death of Pope John Paul I

• A History of Loneliness: A Novel by John Boyne

Death of Prince Albert

• Sixty lights by Gail Jones

Death of Queen Victoria

• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Death of Thomas Hardy

• Max Gate by Damien Wilkins (1928)

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (1862)

Decrees of the Council of Trent

• Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (1563)

Democratic National Convention of 1968

• The Nix by Nathan Hill

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Destruction of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel

Draper's Meadow massacre

• Follow the River by JAMES ALEXANDER Thom (1755)

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Reach for the Sky The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain by Paul Brickhill
• The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons (1940-06-04)

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Easter

• ACCORDING TO MARY: The Life of Mary Magdalene- a Novel by Marianne Fredriksson
• The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1) by Richard Ford

Easter Rising

• A Star Called Henry (The last roundup) by Roddy Doyle (1916)

Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel

Establishment of penal colony in New South Wales

• Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough

Estado Novo

• Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi (1933-1974)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• Days of Grace: A Novel by Catherine Hall

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Execution of the Báb

• The King by Kader Abdolah

Execution of the Romanov family

• The house of special purpose by John Boyne (1918-07-17)

Exposition Universelle

• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (1900)

Expulsion of the Jews in Spain

• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Falklands War

• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (1982-06-14)

Fall of Constantinople

• Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr (1453-05)

Fall of Ghadaffi

• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar

Fall of Saigon

• The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (The Sympathizer, 1) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fall of Singapore

• The Singapore Grip (New York Review Books Classics) by J.G. Farrell (1942)

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

February Revolution

• The house of special purpose by John Boyne (1917)

Financial Crisis of 2008

• Behold the Dreamers: An Oprah’s Book Club pick by Imbolo Mbue

First Fleet

• The lieutenant by Kate Grenville (1788)

Florence flood in 1966

• Still Life: The instant Sunday Times bestselling novel by Sarah Winman

Frank, Alberta landslide

• The outlander by Gil Adamson

Franklin Dam protest

• The world beneath by Cate Kennedy (1982)

Freedom Summer

• We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg (1964)

French Resistance

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival by Caroline Moorehead

French Revolution

• Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
• Little: A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year by Edward Carey

Gallipoli Campaign

• Traitor by Stephen Daisley
• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières (1916-01-09)
• A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey (1916-01-09)

Games of the XXVI Olympiad

• Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas (1996)

Games of the XXVI Olympiad, Atlanta

• Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas (1996)

Games of the XXVII Olympiad, Sydney

• Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas (2000)

Georgian Era

• Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore (1837)

German occupation of Italy

• The English Patient: Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize by Michael Ondaatje (1943-1945)

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The House Of Mirth (VMC) by Edith Wharton

Glasgow International Exhibition

• Gillespie and I by Jane Harris (1888)

Gold Rush

• The Colour by Rose Tremain
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (1855)

Good Friday Agreement

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

Good Friday Agreement, Belfast

• The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (1998-04-10)

Great Depression

• All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
• Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
• Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
• Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
• To kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee
• The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel by Anton DiSclafani
• Of Mice and Men (Popular Penguins) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Exhibition

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1851)

Great Fire of London

• Restoration by Rose Tremain (1666)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Game

• The King by Kader Abdolah

Great Leap Forward

• Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (1958-1961)
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (1958-1962)

Great Plague

• Restoration by Rose Tremain (1666)

The Great War

• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Greek Civil War

• CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis De Bernieres (1946 - 1949)

Gunfight at the OK Corral

• Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell (2016-02-16) by Mary Doria Russell (1881-10-26)

Guy Fawkes Night

• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Habitual Drunkards Act

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1879)

Haiti earthquake

• In Darkness by Nick Lake (2010), Haiti Revolution (1791-1804)

Haitian Revolution

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (1804)

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Holocaust

• All that I am by Anna Funder
• All The Broken Places: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
• The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada
• The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
• Far to Go by Alison Pick
• Good Living Street : the fortunes of my Viennese family by Tim Bonyhady
• The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
• The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) by Julie Orringer
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
• The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
• The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival by Caroline Moorehead
• Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel (1945)
• The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons (1945)
• SCHINDLERS ARK by Thomas Keneally (1945)
• Two Brothers by Ben Elton (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Reader by John Boyne (1945)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay (1945)

Holocaust 1933-1945

• They Went Left by Monica Hesse

Hurricane Agnes

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride

Hurricane Katrina

• Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
• Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
• Zeitoun (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (2005)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Indian independence

• Burnt Shadows: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie

Indian Mutiny

• The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) by J.G. Farrell (1858-06)

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) by J.G. Farrell

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by Salman Rushdie

Influenza pandemic

• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (1919)
• Dreamers Of The Day by Mary Doria Russell (1918)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Interbellum

• The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (1939)

Iran-Contra Affair

• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Iran-Iraq War

• The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog: A Novel by Andre Dubus Iii (1979)
• The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah (1979)

Iraq War

• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)

Irish Civil War

• Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Irish Revolution

• A Star Called Henry (The last roundup) by Roddy Doyle

Iroquois invasions of 1648–50

• The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

Italian Renaissance

• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Jack the Ripper Murders

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Jacobite Rebellion

• Sophia's Secret by Susanna Kearsley

Japanese occupation of Malaya 1941-45

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Japanese occupation of Malaysia

• The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

Japanese-American Internment

• The Japanese Lover: A Novel by Allende, Isabel(November 3, 2015) Hardcover by Isabel Allende
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945)

Jazz Age

• The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The July Revolution

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (1830)

Kashmir Conflict

• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel by Arundhati Roy

Katla eruption 1918

• Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjon

Khmer Rouge rule of 1975–1979

• In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner

Khmer Rouge rule over Kampuchea

• Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung (1975-79)

Kindertransport

• Far to Go by Alison Pick

Korean War

• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller
• Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
• The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
• Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay (1953)

Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland

• Burial Rites: A Novel by Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)

Lebanese Civil War

• Beirut Hellfire Society - A Novel by Rawi Hage

Louisiana Purchase

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Malayan Emergency

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel

Matrimonial Causes Act

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (1857)

Mau Mau Uprising

• Blood Sisters by Barbara Keating

May 13 Incident

• Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (May 13, 1969 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

May Thirtieth Movement

• White Shanghai A Novel of the Roaring Twenties in China by Elvira Baryakina (1925)

McCarthy Era

• The Lacuna LP: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy

Men's 1500m freestyle

• Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas

Millennium

• The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

Miners' Strike

• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (1984)

Murder of George Floyd

• The Sentence: Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Murder of Lily Volpert

• The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Nadifa Mohamed (1952)

Murder of Sir Harry Oakes

• Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Mutiny on the Bounty

• Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty by John Boyne (1789)

Nanjing Road Incident

• White Shanghai A Novel of the Roaring Twenties in China by Elvira Baryakina (1925-05-30)

Nanking Incident

• White Shanghai A Novel of the Roaring Twenties in China by Elvira Baryakina (1927)

Napoleonic Wars

• Longbourn: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice Below Stairs by Jo Baker
• The vintner's luck by Elizabeth Knox
• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1815)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)

Naxalite rebellion

• The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (1967)

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The Song Before it is Sung by Justin Cartwright

New Year

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1975)

New Zealand Wars

• The house of strife by Maurice Shadbolt
• Monday's warriors by Maurice Shadbolt
• Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt

Nigerian-Biafran War

• Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)

Northern Ireland peace process

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

Occupy Wall Street

• The Overstory by Richard Powers (2011)

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Olympic Games

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1948)
• Gold by Chris Cleave (2004 & 2012)

Operation Dragoon

• The New Confessions by William Boyd (1944)

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Opium Wars

• River of Smoke: A Novel (Ibis Trilogy) by Amitav Ghosh (1860)
• Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (1860)

Orphan Train

• Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline

Overthrow of Batista

• Of Women and Salt: A Novel by Gabriela Garcia

Oxford Movement

• Barchester Towers (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Trollope

Pack Horse Library Project

• Giver Of Stars C/F by Moyes Jojo

Panacea Society

• The Rapture by Claire McGlasson

Papacy of Pope Alexander VI

• The Borgia Bride : A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis (1503)