British Historical Fiction

Ancient and Legendary Britain
Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell
The Winter King: A Story of Arthur, Bernard Cornwell
Enemy of God: A Story of Arthur, Bernard Cornwell
Excalibur: A Story of Arthur, Bernard Cornwell

Roman Britain
Under the Eagle, Simon Scarrow
The Eagle's Conquest, Simon Scarrow
When the Eagle Hunts, Simon Scarrow

The Birth of England: Anglo-Saxons and the Viking Era
The Last Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell
The Pale Horseman, Bernard Cornwell
Lords of the North, Bernard Cornwell
Sword Song: the Battle for London, Bernard Cornwell
The Burning Land, Bernard Cornwell
Death of Kings, Bernard Cornwell
The Pagan Lord, Bernard Cornwell
The Empty Throne, Bernard Cornwell
Warriors of the Storm, Bernard Cornwell
Finn Gall, James Nelson (IRISH EXTRA)
Dubh-Linn,  James Nelson. (IRISH EXTRA)

High Middle Ages
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Acquitaine, Alison Weir
In a Dark Wood, Michael Cadnum
Here There Be Dragons, Sharon Penfield
The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell
1356, Bernard Cornwell
Heretic, Bernard Cornwell
Azincourt, Bernard Cornwell

Tudors, Stewarts
Katherine of Aragon: the True Queen, Alison Weir
The Other Queen, Phillipa Gregory
The Lady Elizabeth, Alison Weir
The Marriage Game, Alison Weir
Armada, John Stack
Come Rack! Come Rope!, Robert Hugh Benson
Innocent Traitor, Alison Weir

Age of Discovery and Early Empire
A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss
A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss
The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War, Bernard Cornwell
Redcoat, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Tiger, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Triumph, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Fortress, Bernard Cornwell

England against the World: the Napoleonic Era
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, C. Northcote Parkinson
Young Hornblower, C.S. Forester
Captain Horatio Hornblower, C.S. Forester
Commodore Hornblower, C.S. Forester
Lord Hornblower, C.S. Forester
Hornblower and the Hotspur, C.S. Forester
Hornblower during the Crisis, C.S. Forester
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, C.S. Forester
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brien
Sharpe's Rifles, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Eagle, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Trafalgar, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Havoc, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Gold, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Escape, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Fury, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Battle, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Company, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Sword, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Enemy, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Honor, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Regiment, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Siege, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Revenge, Bernard Cornwell
Waterloo, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Christmas, Bernard Cornwell


...and thereafter
Gallows Thief, Bernard Cornwell
Aces over Ypres, John Stack (WW1)
Enigma, Robert Harris (WW2)

*cackles*

Mideast Index

(The Pyramids, Shah Mosque, Nile River, Ishtar Gate, and Jerusalem)

Cradle of Civilization: Ancient Mesopotamia

• The Near East,  Isaac Asimov
• The Egyptians,  Barbara Watterson

Age of Empires

• The Lost History of Christianity, Phillip Jenkins
• The Persians: Ancient, Medieaval, and Modern Iran , Homa Katouzian
• The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam, Peter Crawford

Dar al-Islam

• Destiny, Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, Tamim Ansary
• In God's Path , Robert Hoyland
• After the Prophet , Lesley Hazleton
• Sailing from Byzantium , Colin Wells
• Ornament of the World, Maria  Rose Menocal (See also: Vanished World, Chris Lowney)
• Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age, S. Frederick Starr

The Turkish Span: Medieval to Modernity

• The Spice Route,  John Keay
• Gallipoli , Alan Moorehead

The Widening Gyre

• All the Shah's Men, Stephen Kinzer
• Iran and the United States, Seyed Hossein Mousavian
• Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Stephen Kinzer
• What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle-Eastern Response, Bernard Lewis
• The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Hooman Majd
• Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, Scott Horton
• The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's 30 Year War with Iran, David Crist
• Inside the Kingdom:  The Struggle for Saudi Arabia, Robert Lacey

Fiction

• The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani (Persia - Historical)
• Equal of the Sun, Anita Amirrezvani (Persia - Historical)
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan - Modern)
• Before the Throne, Naguib Mafouz (Egypt - General)

Literature, Memoirs, and Culture

• Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
• Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas
• Reading More than Lolita in Tehran,  Fatemah Keshavarz
• Mirrors of the Unseen: Travels in Iran, Jason Elliot
• Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey through the Islamic Republic of Iran, Christiane Bird

So You Want to Read about the Revolution

Although I'm reading American literature for Independence Day instead of history, why not share some favorites from previous years' Independence Day salutes?

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin from HBO's John Adams.

Founding Biographies
John Adams, David McCullough
First Family: John and Abigail Adams, Joseph Ellis
American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, Bradley Birzer
The Cost of Liberty: the Life of John Dickinson, William Murchinson
Alexander Hamilton, Rob Chernow
American Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph Ellis

Give me Liberty...
Common Sense, Tom Paine
Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation, Joseph Ellis
Chainbreaker's War: a Seneca Chief Remembers the Revolution, Jeanne Adler
A People's History of the American Revolution, Ray Ralphael

...or Give Me Death
George Washington's Secret Six: the Spy Ring that Saved the Revolution, Brian Kilmead
1776, David McCullough

God Save the King
The Men Who Lost America,  Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
The American Tory, ed. Morten Borden and Penn Borden

A More Perfect Union: the Early Republic
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, Joseph Ellis
Founding Rivals: Madison vs Monroe, Chris DeRose

Fiction
The Fort, Bernard Cornwell
Redcoat, Bernard Cornwell



Books of note but which I don't have review for are McCullough's 1776, and Jeff Shaara's revolutionary war fiction, beginning with The Glorious Cause.  Looking at a list of the books makes me realize I've read virtually nothing about the military aspect of the war, aside from 1776.   Something to remedy!

Science: the Index

This list includes most of the science books I've read since 2007, omitting  titles that received only scant mention.

Brane and Brane! What is Brane?!- Cosmology and Astrophysics*

• The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
• Black Holes and Baby Universes, Stephen Hawking
• A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
• The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Milky Way: Local Astronomy

• How I Killed Pluto (and Why It Had it Coming), Mike Brown
• The Planets, Dava Sobel
• Lives of the Planets, Richard Corfield
• The Sun's Heartbeat, Bob Berman
• Death from the Skies!, Phil Plait
• Asimov on Astronomy, Isaac Asimov

Space: the Final Frontier

• Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir, Tom Jones
• The Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A Man on the Moon, Neil Chaikin
• The Cosmic Connection, Carl Sagan

Third Rock from the Sun: Geology and Planetary Science

• Earth, Richard Fortey
• The Oceans, Ellen Prager and Sylvia Earle
• Earth Science Made Simple, Edward Albin
• Africa: Biography of a Continent,  John Reader

Weather and Climate

• Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future, Climate Central
• Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations, Brian Fagan
• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, Brian Fagan.
• It's Raining Frogs and Fishes, Jerry Dennis
• The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Brian Fagan

Chemistry and Physics

• Napoleon's Buttons, Penny LeCouter
• Why We Get Fat, Gary Taubes
• The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements, Phillip Ball
• Electric Universe: The Story of Electricity, David Bodanis
• Atom, Isaac Asimov
• The Disappearing Spoon and Other Tales from the Periodic Table, Sam Kean

Flora and Fauna

• Winter World: the Ingenuity of Winter Survival, Bernd Heinrich
• Diving Companions, Jacque-Yves Cousteau
• Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions, Paul Martin
• When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Susan McCarthy  and Jeffrey Masson
• Chimpanzee Politics, Frans de Waal
• Sex on Six Legs: Lessons from the Insect World, Marlene Zuk
• The Life of Birds, David Attenborough
• The Trials of Life, David Attenborough
• The Private Life of Plants, David Attenborough
• Beautiful Minds: the Parallel Lives of Dolphins and Chimpanzees, Maddalena Bearzi, Craig B. Stanford
• Dolphins, Jacque-Yves Cousteau
• Through a Window: Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, Jane Goodall
• Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer
• Dinosaur Lives,  John Horner
• Walking with Dinosaurs, Tim Haines

Evolution

• The Making of the Fittest, Sean B. Carroll
• The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsense Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms, Connie Barlow
• Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, Nick Lane
• The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins
• Evolution for Everyone, David Sloan Wilson

Biology and Anthropology

• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matthew Ridley
• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human,  Richard Wrangham
• African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity, Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie
• Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal
• Anthropology for Dummies, Cameron Smith and Evan T. Davies
• The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived,  Clive Finlayson
• The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners that Shape Who We Are Today, Rob Dunn
• Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, Randolph Nesse & George 
• Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Underrated Organ, Giulia Enders
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us,  Ed Yong
• 10% Human:  Your Body's Microbes, Alanna Collen

Neurology and Psychology

• On Desire: Why We Want What We Want, William Irvine
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman
• The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sachs
• The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head, Oliver Sachs
• When More Isn't Enough, David Whybrow
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker
• Phantoms in the Brain, V.S. Ramachandran
• The Future of the Mind, Michio Kaku

History of Science

• Medical Firsts, Robert Adler
• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, Roy Porter
• Great Feuds in Science, Hal Hellman
• On the Shoulders of Giants Series, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser:
•  The History of Science from the Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, The History of Science in the 18th Century, The Rise of Reason, The History of Science in the 19th Century, The Age of Synthesis, History of Science 1895- 1945, Modern Science, History of Science  from 1945-1990s,  Science Frontiers,
• Theories for Everything, various authors
• Universe on a T-Shirt, Dan Falk

Thinking Scientifically

• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
• Varieties of Scientific Experience, Carl Sagan
• The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist,  Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Almost Everyone's Guide to Science,  John Gribbin

Misc

• The Tragedy of the Moon, Isaac Asimov (Essays)
• The Planet that Wasn't, Isaac Asimov (Essays)
• The Roving Mind, Isaac Asimov (Essays)
• The Sun Shines Bright, Isaac Asimov (Essays)

* I actually use this as a shelf label on Goodreads. I live in hope that anyone will recognize it. Ten years, no luck so far.

American History: the Index

Across the Bering:  Native America

• Twilight of the Mammoths,  Paul Martin
• The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America, James Wilson
• Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: Peopling the Americas, Brian Fagan
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann

The Age of Discovery and Colonization

• American Colonies,  Alan Taylor
• The Americans: the Colonial Experience, Daniel Boorstin
• Tobacco:  A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant TSeduced Civilization, Iain Gately
• Everyday Life in Early America, David Freeman Hawke

The American Revolution

• The Birth of the United States, Isaac Asimov
• The Cost of Liberty: the Life of John Dickinson, William Murchinson
• Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation, Joseph Ellis
• Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution, Jeanne Adler
• 1776, David McCullough
• A People's History of the American Revolution,  Ray Ralphael
• American Cicero: the Life of Charles Carroll, Brad Birzer
• His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph Ellis
• John Adams, David McCullough
• American Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Ellis

Early American Republic

• The First Congress: How a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, Marcus Bordewich
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies, Joseph Ellis
• Founding Rivals: Madison vs Monroe, Chris DeRose
• Alexander Hamilton, Rob Chernow
• The Artificial River: the Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, Carol Sheriff

Sectional Division and Civil War

• Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, John Hope Franklin
• Look Away!  A History of the Confederate States of America, William C. Davis
• Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War, David Williams
• A People's History of the Civil War, David Williams
• The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama,  Kenneth Noe
• The Most Glorious Fourth, Duane Schultz
• The South Since the War,  Sidney Andrews

Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

• The Golden Door, Isaac Asimov
• Stagecoach: Wells-Fargo and the American West, Phillip Fradkin
• Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America, Ann Norton
• The Great Railroad Revolution, Christian Wolmar
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C.Van Woodward
• The Spanish-American War, Albert Marrin
• The Gangs of New York, Herbert Ashbury

Early Modern

• Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in America, Daniel Okrent
• Disaster 1906: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Edward. F. Dolan

American Zenith

• A Man on the Moon, Neil Chakin

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Constitutional History

• Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College, Gary Gregg II
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, Joseph Ellis
• The Cult of the Presidency, Gene Healy
• Nullification: Resisting Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, Tom Woods

Ethnographies

• The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, James Leyburn
• Dixie's Forgotten People: the South's Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt
• The Redneck Manifesto, Jim Goad
• Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt

Intellectual and Social Movements

• Ain't My America: the Long and Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism, Bill Kauffman
• Selma 1965: The March that Changed America, Chuck Fager

Social History

• More Work for Mother: The Ironies of American Housework, Ruth Cowan
• A Consumer's Republic, Lizbeth Cohen
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth Jackson
• Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market, Susan Strasser
• Never Done: A Social History of American Housework, Susan Strasser
• Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America, Laura Shapiro
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler

Surveys

• A Renegade History of the United States, Thaddaeus Russell
• A People' History of American Empire, Howard Zinn

World War 2 Index

This index includes only books read during the tenure of the blog, omitting those consulted but not read completely, like Walter Boyne's Influence of Air Power Upon History,  as well those given only marginal comments, like Primo Levi's Surviving Auschwitz.  Because this index will help guide my future reading, I have included empty categories.

Past is Prologue:  Weimar, Depression Politics, and the Rise of Japan

Hitler's Autobahn: The Road to War

Axis-Soviet Expansion

• Time-Life: Blitzkrieg
• I Saw it Happen in Norway, C.J. Hambro
• Time-Life: Battles for Scandinavia
• Alone: 
• The Miracle of Dunkirk, Walter Lord
• Convoy: The Greatest U-Boat Battle of the War,  Martin Middlebrook
• Time-Life: The Battle of Britain
• The Battle of Britain, Len Deighton
• With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain, Michael Korda
• The Devil's Alliance:  Hitler's Pact with Stalin, Roger Moorhouse

War in Asia

• Time-Life: the Rising Sun
• Forgotten Ally: China's World War 2, Rana Mitter 
• The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
• When Tigers Fight, Dick Wilson

Duel of the Devils: Hitler v Stalin

• Time-Life: Russia Besieged
• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, Anthony Beevor

The African Front

• Foxes of the Desert, Paul Carrell
• Operation Compass 1940
• An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson

War in the Pacific

• Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History, Dan van der Vat
• Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor, Edwin Hoyt
• We Band of Angels: the Untold Story of American Women Trapped on Bataan,  Elizabeth Norman
• Bataan: March of Death, Stanley Falk
• With the Old Breed at Pelieu and Okinawa, Eugene Sledge
• Miracle at Midway, Gordon Prange

Espionage and Resistance

• Hitler's Undercover War, William Breuer
• An Honorable Defeat: German Resistance to Hitler, Peter Gill
• Church of Spies: The Vatican's Secret War Against Hitler, Mark Riebling
• The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom

The Holocaust

Allied-Soviet Offenses

• A Clash of Wings: World War 2 in the Sky, Walter Boyne

Towards Victory

Combatant Memoirs

• Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters,  Richard Winters
• Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Conscience and Combat by a Member of the Waffen-SS,  Johann Voss

Special Interest - WW2 Tie

• A Higher Call,  Adam Makos and Larry Alexander
• The Forgotten 500, Gregory Freeman
• London at War, Phillip Ziegler

The City: the Index

Citizen Politics

• Edens Lost and Found,  Harry Wiland, Dale Bell,  Joseph D'Agnes'

City as Community

• The Small-Mart Revolution,  Michael Schuman
• The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and the Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, Ray Oldenburg
• Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam

Commerce

• Pedal to the Metal: The Work Lives of Truckers, Lawrence Ouelett
• Ninety Percent Of Everything:  Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate, Rose George
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller  and the World Economy Bigger , Marc Levinson 
• Call of the Mall, Paco Underhill

Development

• Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, Robert Fogelson
• Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels, Paul Growth
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth Jackson
• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time,  Jeff Speck
• Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, James H. Kunstler
• Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Vol I, Chuck Marohn
• The Green Metropolis:  Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, David Owen
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
• Big Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell

Law Enforcement 

• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, Radley Balko
• The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop, Steve Osborn

Social Problems

• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Sudhir Venkatesh
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, Sudhir Venkatesh
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara  Ehrenreich

Transportation

• Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, Peter Norton
• Straphanger: Saving Our Cities from the Automobile, Taras Gresco
• Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities,  Jeff Mapes
• Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, Jane Holtz Keay
• Waiting on a Train: the Embattled Future of Passenger Rail, James McCommons
• Taxi! A Social History of the NYC Cab Driver, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
• Getting There: The Epic Battle Between Road and Rail in the American Century,  Stephen Goddard
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, Tom Vanderbilt
• Divided Highways: Building the Interstates, Transforming American Life. Tom Lewis
• The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure, Henry Petroski

Urban Economics:

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

Utilities

• The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World, Phillip Schewe
• Oil on the Brain, Lisa Magonelli
• On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work, Scott Huler
• Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Urban Landscape,  Brian Hayes

Waste Management

• Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City,  Robin Nagle
• Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Royte
• Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers
• Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization, W. Hodding Carter
• Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash, Susan Strasser

The City Historic

• Horses at Work: Powering the Industrial Economy, Ann Norton Greene
• The Horse in the City, Clay McShane, Joel Tarr
• The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, James Howard Kunstler
• The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage

New Feature

Although frequent visitors here know there is little I will not read about, some subjects pop up more often than others, and I thought it might serve both me and interested readers if I organized things a bit.  I'm an energetic user of labels, but they don't go far enough. So, for a few select topics, I'll be maintaining....indexes!  Woo!

..yes, I know it sounds terribly exciting. Essentially they'll be lists that I update as I come across relevant books. I've already planned and created three indexes: World War 2, The City, and American History.  The index will have subcategories: WW2, for instance, will have War in Asia and War in Africa sections. More will follow, including one for The Great War.   When I read a book, not only will I add it to the list, as I do my "What I've Read This Year" list, but I will link to the relevant list so that people whose interest is engaged can click through, and see related books without having to wade through page after page using the labels.  The trick will be choosing topics that I read a lot of, and consistently, but which are not so broad that they'd rival the Talmud in length.  There will never be a General History  index, because that would be nuts.    

If you actually read all that, bless you. Isn't organizing things fun? Look for the first couple this coming week.