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2005 - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared While this book flashes back over the 100 years of Allan's life, the major events happen in 2005.
2004 - Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog by Mike Dowling
1920's - Unnatural Death
2001 - The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
1770's - Person or Persons Unknown
2010's - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
1640's - Twenty Years After
2001 - The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
1770's - Person or Persons Unknown
2010's - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
1640's - Twenty Years After
I really hope I have these right -- sometimes it's hard to tell when something is set (I also like a lot of dual-timeline books, which does not help).2700s B.C. - The Epic of Gilgamesh
1327 - The Name of the Rose
1771 - The Sorrows of Young Werther
1819-1840 & 1976 - Kindred
1940s - Transcription
1946 - House of Meetings
1947 & 2016 - The Gown
1958 & 2017 - Next Year in Havana
1960s - The Egypt Game
1981 - Melal: A Novel of the Pacific
1985-2014 - A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
2010s - Harry's Trees
2384 - Altered Carbon
1660 - Caleb's Crossing1861 - March
1899 - Coming Up for Air
1936 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
1961 - Ordinary Grace
2005 - Salvage the Bones
2354 B.C.- Many Waters (Approximate date of Noah's Flood) 1425- The Peasant's Dream (Approximate date is based off of the references to other characters in the book that had dates associated with them in previous books of the series.)
Early 1800's - Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Oliva Campbell
2020: The Only Good Indians1969: Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
2010s: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
1982, 1991, 2015, 1999, 2017 - Oona Out of Order1950–present - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
1945 - The Shadow of the Wind
Uh.... all of written history? - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
1990s - Ishmael
1866 - Crime and Punishment
1986–2019 - Recursion
mid 1970s – early 2000s - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
1970s - Daisy Jones & The Six
3rd Century BC, 17th Century, 19th Century, Present Day - Ursula, Under
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1910s--The Secret Adversary
1980s--Howliday Inn
2020s--Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses