Dame Hämärä's 2021 Challenge

In 2020, I read a total of 33 books, but only spent about half of the year reading, and had just got back into reading often after a long period of rarely doing it. This year, my initial goal was to hit 50, though I have compiled a list of 75 books to read, if I reach the 50 mark. I have them separated into various 'themes'.
The list now has well over 75 books, any unfinished will carry over to next year.

Progress: 22/75

*Marks currently reading
#Marks finished reading

Military Strategy & History:
#Airpower Applied
#Anti-Access Warfare
Cyberspace in Peace and War
Fighter Combat
General Naval Tactics
Mahan on Naval Strategy
#Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
#Toward a New Maritime Strategy
The Great War at Sea
The War at Sea

Allegorical Works and Christianity:
*New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
Rose Guides to the Bible {10 books}
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy {3 books}
Goethe's Faust
Dr. Faustus
The Faerie Queene
The Complete English Poems of John Milton
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Sagas and other medieval works:
#The Saga of the Volsungs, with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok
Erik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas
The Prose Edda
The Poetic Edda
Nibelungenlied
Piers Plowman
The Song of Roland
Troilus and Criseyde
The Poem of the Cid
The Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo, The Cid
Orlando Furioso

Arthurian Legends:
Cligès
The Complete Story of the Grail
Eric and Enide
A History of the Kings of Britain
Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate & Post-Vulgate Cycles) {10 books}
Le Morte d'Arthur
Merlin and the Grail
Middle English Romances
Parzival and Titurel
Perceval: The Story of the Grail
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
The Once and Future King
The Book of Merlyn

Fantasy:
The Hobbit
The Simarillion
The Lord of the Rings {3 books}
Beren and Lúthien
The Children of Húrin
The Fall of Gondolin
Tales from the Perilous Realm
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle Earth
#The Chronicles of Narnia {7/7 books}
#The Bridge to Terabithia
#Myst {3/3 books}
Dune Saga {6 books}

Fables and Tales:
The Adventures of Pinnochio
#Aesop's Fables
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
#Brother's Grimm Complete Folk & Fairy Tales, First Edition
Hans Christrian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales
#The Jungle Books
Just So Stories
Peter Pan and Other Plays
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; and Peter and Wendy
The Wind in the Willows
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Adventure:
Around the World in Eighty Days
#The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
#Don Quixote
Ivanhoe
Gulliver's Travels
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Lost World
The Lusíads
#Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas

Greek Mythology:
Astronomica
Constellation Myths
Dionysiaca {3 books}
The Library of Apollodorus {2 books}
On the Nature of Things
Satyricon

Big Novels (War/Socio-Political):
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misérables
War and Peace

Welcome! You’ve got some good reading planned for the year. I hope it goes well.

Hope you have a great reading year!

Happy reading in 2021!

And keep up with my friends here. Have a great 2021.

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

Read 01/01–01/03

Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World's Classics)

Read 01/04–01/07

Airpower Applied

Read 01/01–01/07

The Jungle Books (Oxford World's Classics)

Read 01/10–01/12

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition

Read 01/02–01/14

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

Read 01/08–01/14

Looks to me like you are well on target to pass 75 books comfortably!

Have a lovely weekend.

>11 PaulCranswick: Yeah, I really just need to do an average of 6 per month to hit the goal, and at the current pace of 2 per week, I'll be quite a bit past it by the end of the year. I've just added a few more titles to my reading list.

Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)

Read 01/15–01/18

Anti-Access Warfare: Countering A2/AD Strategies

Read 01/18–01/24

Don Quixote (Oxford World's Classics)

Read 01/13–01/29

Toward a New Maritime Strategy

Read 01/26–01/30

January Progress: 10/75

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1: The Magician's Nephew

Read 02/01

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Read 02/02

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3: The Horse and His Boy

Read 02/03

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4: Prince Caspian

Read 02/04

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5: The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'

Read 02/05

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6: The Silver Chair

Read 02/06

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7: The Last Battle

Read 02/07

Myst – #1 Book of Atrus

Read 02/08–02/11

Myst – #2 Book of Ti'ana

Read 02/15–02/20

Myst – #3 Book of D'ni

Read 02/21–02/25

What did you think of the Narnia books? I re-read them a couple of years ago and thought they hadn’t aged well, as a child I loved (some of) them, but not as an adult

>28 DMulvee: This was my first read of the series and I felt that each book on its own, they have some merits, I enjoyed the stories and the allegories; but there is a lot of inconsistencies across the series, and a bit of sexism and racism with certain portrayals that I didn't care for (all of which seem to be common criticisms about the books).

I don't have a problem with prejudice within a book, it just depends on how it is used. For instance, I just finished The Bridge to Terabithia, which also has some sexism in the form of strict gender roles, but in that it is used to portray the environment that the two protagonists are growing up in, and a big part of the story is about how Leslie, and less so Jess, try to break out of those strict gender roles to find their own identity.

The Bridge to Terabithia

Read 03/01–03/02

>30 DameHamara: Ooof, that one ripped my heart right out. So good, but so sad.

>31 scaifea: Yeah, it did the same to me, I teared up quite a bit and struggled getting through those last two chapters.

The Saga of the Volsungs, with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

Read 03/03–03/06

I've been having to take a break from reading due to some health issues, hope to be getting back to reading by the time June comes around. I'm now a little behind where I want to be as a result.

>34 DameHamara: Sorry to hear that. Sending you all the healing vibes I can from here and I hope to see you back with us safe and sound as soon as possible. x

Me too!