Eventi nei libri di Borrows-N-Wants

1893 Chicago World's Fair (Inglese)

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America di Erik Larson

2-3-74 (Inglese)

• The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick di Philip K. Dick

African-American Civil Rights Movement (Inglese)

• Meridian di Alice Walker

American Civil War (Inglese)

• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary di Simon Winchester (1865)

American Revolution (Inglese)

• Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson di Sheila Solomon Klass (1783)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath (Inglese)

• The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) di Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Autumn Feast (Inglese)

• The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia #4) di C. S. Lewis

Avianca aircrash (Inglese)

• Outliers: The Story of Success di Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of the Hornburg (Inglese)

• The Return of the King di J.R.R. Tolkien

Black Sox Scandal (Olandese, Francese)

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

Bombing of Dresden (Inglese)

• Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22 di Joseph Heller

Chicago World's Fair (Inglese)

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America di Erik Larson (1893)

Christmas (Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis

Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Inglese)

• The Secret Life of Bees di Sue Monk Kidd

The Council of Elrond (Svedese, Inglese)

• The Fellowship of the Ring di J. R. R. Tolkien

Creation of Narnia (Inglese)

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

Death and Resurrection of Aslan (Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis

The death of Gandalf the grey (Svedese)

• The Fellowship of the Ring di J. R. R. Tolkien

Death of the White Witch (Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis

The Dome Appears (Spagnolo)

• Under the Dome: A Novel di Stephen King

Dress to Get Screwed Party (Inglese)

• The Rules of Attraction di Bret Easton Ellis

Drooglegging in de VS (Olandese)

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

Dust Bowl (Inglese)

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) di John Steinbeck

The Dust Bowl (Francese)

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) di John Steinbeck

Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (Inglese)

• The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt di Kara Cooney

Einde van het universum (Olandese)

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe di Douglas Adams

End of the Universe (Olandese, Inglese)

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe di Douglas Adams

End of the World Party (Inglese)

• The Rules of Attraction di Bret Easton Ellis

Evacuation of British Children in WW2 (Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis

Exposition universelle colombienne (Francese)

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America di Erik Larson (1893 ∙ Chicago ∙ Illinois ∙ Etats-Unis)

Exposition universelle de Chicago (Francese)

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America di Erik Larson (1893)

Fine dell'universo (Italiano)

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe di Douglas Adams

Grande depressione (Italiano)

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) di John Steinbeck

Grande depressione economica mondiale del 1930 (Italiano)

• Memoirs of a Geisha di Arthur Golden

Grande Dépression (Francese)

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) di John Steinbeck

Great Depression (Francese, Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) di John Steinbeck
• The Shining Girls: A Novel di Lauren Beukes
• Of Mice and Men di John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork (Inglese)

• The Colour of Magic: The First Discworld Novel: 1 by Terry Pratchett (1985) Paperback

Holocaust (Inglese)

• Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) di W. G. Sebald
• Everything Is Illuminated di Jonathan Safran Foer

Jazz Age (Olandese, Francese, Inglese)

• The Great Gatsby di F. Scott Fitzgerald (1929)

La démolition de la Terre (Francese)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy di Douglas Adams

The long-expected party (Svedese)

• The Fellowship of the Ring di J. R. R. Tolkien

New Kingdom of Egypt (Inglese)

• The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt di Kara Cooney

New York World's Fair (Inglese)

• Wonderstruck (Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner) di Brian Selznick (1965)

The Noble Experiment (Norvegese)

• The Great Gatsby di F. Scott Fitzgerald

The parting of the fellowship of the ring (Svedese)

• The Fellowship of the Ring di J. R. R. Tolkien

Première Guerre mondiale (Francese)

• The Great Gatsby di F. Scott Fitzgerald (1918)

Prohibition aux Etats Unis (Francese)

• The Great Gatsby di F. Scott Fitzgerald (1933)

Prohibition in the United States (Norvegese)

• The Great Gatsby di F. Scott Fitzgerald ([1920, 1933])

Resignation of Margaret Thatcher (Inglese)

• How to Build a Girl: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback)) di Caitlin Moran

Return of Father Christmas (Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis

Seconda Guerra Mondiale (Italiano)

• Memoirs of a Geisha di Arthur Golden (1945)

September 11 Attacks (Inglese)

• Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen di Alyssa Shelasky

Stalinism (Inglese)

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

Three Mile Island (Inglese)

• Outliers: The Story of Success di Malcolm Gladwell

Toinen maailmansota (Finlandese)

• 1984 (Signet Classics) di George Orwell

Virginia Woolf's suicide (Inglese)

• The Hours: A Novel di Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

WO-I (Olandese)

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

World War I (Inglese, Norvegese)

• Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, No. 8) di L.M. Montgomery
• The African Queen di C. S. Forester (1918)
• The Great Gatsby di F. Scott Fitzgerald ([1914, 1918])

World War II (Francese, Inglese, Norvegese)

• 1984 (Signet Classics) di George Orwell
• And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life di Charles J. Shields
• Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) di W. G. Sebald
• Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22 di Joseph Heller
• Memoirs of a Geisha di Arthur Golden
• A Separate Peace di John Knowles
• The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Edition di Alice Walker (1945)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis (1945)
• The Member of the Wedding Publisher: Mariner Books di Carson McCullers (1945)

World War II, British Home Front (Inglese, Norvegese)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) di C. S. Lewis

World War II, Eastern Front (Inglese)

• Everything Is Illuminated di Jonathan Safran Foer

World War III (Italiano, Francese, Inglese)

• 1984 (Signet Classics) di George Orwell
• Blade Runner (Movie-Tie-In Edition) di Philip K. Dick

World War Terminus (Inglese)

• Blade Runner (Movie-Tie-In Edition) di Philip K. Dick

World's Columbian Exposition (Inglese)

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America di Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

The Xenocide of the Formics (Francese)

• Ender's Game di Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Xenocide of the Formics (Inglese)

• Ender's Game di Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Zweiter Weltkrieg (Tedesco)

• Everything Is Illuminated di Jonathan Safran Foer