I've found this topic enjoyably challenging, and while I've found some others that more obviously fit I'm going more outside the box to nominate
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes. It features the biblical milestone of the great flood and Noah's Ark as well as the historical milestone of the Titanic journey (with being first voyage of the largest ship and one of the deadliest marine disasters), among possibly others.
Goodreads 311 pages, 1989, England
Quote:
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...
This is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
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