You can do that in two ways that I can think of right now:
- You can add a "Favourite" tag to your few books, and create a virtual library (or saved search) based on that tag and/or other tags or fields,
- There's the Reading List plugin, which has awesome sync powers in addition to 'just' reading lists
I'm sure the masters here can think of more. I can't really help with the 'history' part though.