ScopeBroad enough for its own sub-branch
AfterWho We Are and How We Got Here
Leads toBreakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Lineage11 books back to the Big Bang
I also know very little about Oceania and the Pacific, including how its peoples settled such an enormous area, how their societies developed, and how those societies subsequently changed or collapsed.
More generally, there is a giant gap in my understanding of East Asia, South Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the historical systems connecting them.