The Domestic Blonde

As a writer and lover of words, I naturally love reading. This stems from very early in my childhood when I poured over Nancy Drew, The Chronicles of Narnia and The War Trilogy by Kit Pearson.

Upon graduating from journalism school, I found myself reading more and more, but unlike in university, I had no classmates to discuss my books with. Then it dawned on me – start a book club! Thus, Julia’s “Unputdownable” Book Club was born! It’s the highlight of my month and we recently started a collaborative blog.

This page will list the books I’m reading, my reading goals, and the monthly picks from my book club. You can also add me as a friend on Goodreads and see practically everything I’ve ever read!

My 2013 Reading Challenge:

1. The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
2. Everybody Has Everything – Katrina Onstad
3. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
4. Fall On Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
5. Room – Emma Donoghue
6. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
7. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
8. The Whole Truth – Kit Pearson
9. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
10. The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
11. The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
12. Me Before You – JoJo Moyes

My 2012 Reading Challenge (complete):

1. The Birth House – Ami McKay
2. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
3. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
4. A Spot of Bother – Mark Haddon
5. The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
6. The Shack – Paul Young
7. The Postmistress – Sarah Blake
8. For One More Day – Mitch Albom
9. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
10. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
11. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
12. One Day – David Nicholls

Julia’s “Unputdownable” Book Club picks:

1. Oct 2010 – Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
2. Nov 2010 – Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
3. Dec 2010 – Freedom –  Jonathan Franzen
4. Jan 2011 – The Bishop’s Man – Linden MacIntyre
5. Feb 2011 – Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Mar/Apr 2011 – Three Men In a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
7. May 2011 – The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. – Sandra Gulland
8. June 2011 – The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
9. July 2011 – Little Bee – Chris Cleave
10. August 2011 – Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
11. September 2011 – The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
12. October 2011 – The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
13. Nov/Dec 2011 – Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
14. Jan 2012 – The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
15. Feb 2012 – The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
16. Mar 2012 – The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
17. Apr 2012 – The Birth House – Ami McKay
18. May 2012 – Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James
19. June 2012 – Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
20. July 2012 – Are You My Mother? – Alison Bechdel
21. August 2012 – The History of Love- Nicole Krauss
22. September 2012 – Something Fierce – Carmen Aguirre
23. October 2012 – 419 – Will Ferguson
24. November 2012 – Let’s Pretend This Never Happened – Jenny Lawson
25. December 2012 – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
26. January 2013 – Our Daily Bread – Lauren Davis
27. February 2013 – The Imposter Bride – Nancy Richler
28. March 2013 – Prisoner of Tehran – Marina Nemat
29. April 2013 – The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
30. May 2013 – Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn