Eventi nei libri di sialia

American Civil War

• Little women di Louisa May Alcott

Assedio di La Rochelle

• The Three Muskateers di Alexandre Dumas (1628)

Grande depressione economica mondiale del 1930

• Memoirs of a Geisha di Arthur Golden

Guerra bosniaca

• People of the Book: A Novel di Geraldine Brooks (1995)

Guerra Civile Cinese

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared di Jonas Jonasson

Guerra Civile Spagnola

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared di Jonas Jonasson (1939)

Guerra in Afghanistan

• The Kite Runner di Khaled Hosseini

Guerra sovietico-afghana

• The Kite Runner di Khaled Hosseini (1989)

Inquisizione spagnola

• People of the Book: A Novel di Geraldine Brooks

Mutiny on the Bounty

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

Olocausto

• The Book Thief di Markus Zusak
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) di Elie Wiesel

Prima Guerra Mondiale

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared di Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• The Light Between Oceans: A Novel di M.L. Stedman (1918)

Seconda Guerra Mondiale

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared di Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• The Book Thief di Markus Zusak (1945)
• Memoirs of a Geisha di Arthur Golden (1945)
• People of the Book: A Novel di Geraldine Brooks (1945)

Torneo Tremaghi

• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire di J. K. Rowling