Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Reading can not only transport us to different locations or even worlds. They often also take us to other times. This project is dedicated to creating a timeline of the group's 2021 reads.

Rules:

Only submit the books you've finished reading.
Sure, a lot of us have our reading plans solidified for the whole year but plans have a way of changing even when we don't expect it. It is for this reason we ask that you only submit books that you're done reading. This way, if that book you thought you'd love ends up in your did-not-finish pile or you take an unexpected hiatus from the group, we won't have to go back and try and figure out what was or wasn't read and we can end the year with a pretty accurate record.

Around the Year Challenge books only, please.
We're going to limit this to books for the main challenge to keep things simpler. If you want to create your own timeline, the mods would be happy to send you the info on the site used.

Fiction, non-fiction, doesn't matter.
As long as the book is provides reasonable information about the dates in which it takes place, you can share all books read. Some books let us know a general idea of setting (i.e. present time). This timeline is only going to provide books by the decade (with specific years when possible) so a general idea is likely fine.

Multiple years/decades:
For now, you can feel free to include multiple years for a single book. As you will see in the early books added (Recursion, for example), we can list a book once within a decade even if there are multiple years represented. Just keep in mind, your book will likely not be the "Featured Book" for the displayed decade.

Special requests?
I have created a preliminary timeline based on predicted decades. Please just post your book's info in the comments and I can expand the timeline if needed (i.e. before or after current decades)

The software allows the timeline to be updated as soon as I enter data in the source spreadsheet. Just click the link below to see the current graphic. Note, the source spreadsheet will be updated when possible, likely once per month.

The timeline link will be available after the first update.

2036 - Woman of God (two timelines but begins and ends around this year)

1899 - (approximately from references in the book.) The Magician's Nephew.

Early 2000s (approx) - The Nakano Thrift Shop

1870s -Mycroft Holmes

1990s - Fight Club

2020s - The Wife Upstairs

1973 Bag Man: The Wild Crimes,Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall Of A Brazen Crook In The White House by Rachel Maddow & Michael Yarvitz

1882 - Olivia

1910s - The Garden Party and Other Stories

2009 - How It All Began

1940s - The Old Man and the Sea
1920s - The Last Kashmiri Rose

2010s - The Garden of Small Beginnings

1953 - A Time to Keep Silence

1970's - The Virgin Suicides

1940's - The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

2017 Watching You

What We Lose - I had trouble to find the timeline for this book, because it is not mentioned! It could be something around 2015, or 2017. The author never mentioned anything.

2020 In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together

(Approximate, given it comes out early 2021--I read an ARC-- and is loosely based on recent moments in the author's life.)

1956 and 1978 The Vanishing Half

1977 - Everything I Never Told You

2020 - Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter

1970 and 1876-1890s - Angle of Repose

2020s - Winter Counts

2020s - It Calls From the Sky: Terrifying Tales from Above

180 - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

1819-1841 Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac

1990 - 2010 - Americanah

1984 My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

1773-74 The Captain's Daughter based around the Pugachev rebellion which took place between 1773 and 1774

1885-1906 Of Human Bondage

2019 - Get a Life, Chloe Brown (It doesn't actually say, but that was the year it was published)
2015 - My Kind of Wonderful (It doesn't actually say, but that was the year it was published)
2020 & 1820 - A Stitch in Time (It doesn't actually say, but that was the year it was published and then the MC goes back 200 years in the past)
2014 - Forsaken

1950's - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1980's to 2010's - All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

1750s - The Blue

2010's - Song for the Unraveling of the World

1960s - Half of a Yellow Sun

Around 2016 (modern day) - A Burning

2053 - Blood Heir

1979 - Carrie

1960s - Flowers for Algernon

Around 2020 (present day) - Beatrice

Early 1950s - The Lonely Londoners

I'm not sure about it, but I just found in Google two distinct informations:

1) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus takes place in postcolonial Nigeria. The story takes place in the 1960s during the Civil War and post World War II. The novel also centers around the economic and financial crisis in Africa after the European settlement.

2) Nigeria first gained its independence from British colonialism in 1960, but then faced a brutal civil war seven years later (described in Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun). Purple Hibiscus takes place years after that, probably in the 1980s.

an then I found the 3rd one:
3) (view spoiler)[Achidie's Purple Hibiscus was set in Nigeria in the 1980s, after the civil war following its independence from Britain. The character of Ada Coker is based on real-life Nigerian journalist Dele Giwa, who was murdered with a package bomb in 1986. (hide spoiler)]

1938 - Rules of Civility
2020 - I Was Told It Would Get Easier

2005 - 2011 - Cherry

2010's - The Girl Who Chased the Moon

1851 - The Doll Factory

1695 - Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

2014 -2015 - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor - I didn't come across a specif date, but once one of the characters mentioned (view spoiler)[the 1st of May beins set on a Monday. Last time this happened was 2017. (hide spoiler)]

Please, help!