We tried this out last year, and it was so much fun we’re bringing it back for 2019.
I went on my first blind date with a book a few years ago. I’d seen pictures of blind date books on the internet—books wrapped in brown paper, bearing intriguing clues of what contents lay inside, but not giving too much away—and when my local bookstore got in on the action, I couldn’t resist.
(Interestingly, the description on the book I chose isn’t appropriate now. Click the link to read that post and you’ll see what I mean.)
Since then this literary trend has spread far and wide—you all have sent me photos of impressive displays at your local libraries, and I’ve visited bookstores who have entire walls devoted to brown paper-wrapped books.
Readers, if you don’t have a bookstore or library near you wrapping books in brown paper, this post is for you. I chose three books from my collection (let’s be honest—duplicate books), wrapped them up, and took a stab at writing intriguing clues that don’t give too much away. (It’s not easy! I tried to err on the side of being cryptic, but maybe I’m wrong and you’ll know immediately which titles I’m talking about.)
I’m giving them all away to three separate readers, one book per reader.
Based on these slim descriptions, how do these books sound to you?
book #1: love and loss, best friends, betrayal, multiple point of view, medical drama
book #2: makeover, decluttering, priorities, home, step-by-step
book #3: a reimagined classic, social commentary, romantic comedy, Pakistan
To enter: leave a comment that says which book you’re most interested in, identifying the book with the number 1, 2, or 3. We’ll choose the winners randomly, and reveal the books in Friday’s links I love post. (Winners will be notified by email.)
Giveaway ends Wednesday, February 6 at 11:59 pm EST.
UPDATE: Click here to see the reveal!
Good luck! I hope YOU win.
Have you gone on a blind date with a book? Have you let someone set you up with a book you were skeptical about? Would you try it? I’d love to hear about your experiences in comments.
2,555 comments
Number 3
Number 1. Intriguing description and also the only one I don’t think I recognize.
Number 1 sounds very interesting.
Number 3 sounds great. I imagine it as Jane Austen set in Pakistan.
Number 1..I pick up books with any or all of these descriptions! I love this idea of a blind book date❤️
I’m interested in #1.
#3
Book 3
I can’t decide between 2 or 3. Both sound appealing! I’m going to have to go with 3 though.
Number 3!
(I read number 1 over the summer hehe)
I had a typo in my email 🙁 trying again
#3!
Number 1 sounds intriguing!
#1
I’d love to know/read #1!
Book #3 sounds perfect for February!
#1!!!!!!!!!!
Number 1. Fun! Thank you!
#1
#2
Book 3
This is so fun!!!! I’d love #2!
Book #1
On my goodness, I’ve never heard of this, and it sounds like so much fun! I’m going with Book #1.
This is so fun! Our bookstore stopped doing this and I miss it!! Number 1 sounds great!
#2 Yay!!
#1
#1
Book number #1!
Number 3 sounds so me!
Ooh, I think Number 1 sounds misty interesting to me…today.
Book 1
#1
#1. Usually it’s tough to choose but this time it was easy. # 1 sounds great!
#1 sounds interesting
Would love a reimagined classic / romcom set in Pakistan – how intriguing!
#2! I have books that came to mind for each as I read the clues so I’m excited to see if I was right!
1 or 3! How fun is this!
Number 1!
#1 for the suspense!
I’m interested in book #2. I’m also pretty sure I know what book #1 is and have read it ?
#1 How fun!
I think #3 sounds interesting.
Number 1
Number 1
They all sound good!! But if my guess is right I have already read #1, so I will go with #3.
I have to say #2!
#1 intrigues me!
Number 1 looks interesting!
Book #3 sounds right up my alley!
Book 3, hands down.
Book # 1! 🙂
Definitely #1!
#3
#1 looks very interesting
#3 or #1
Tough pick but I have to go with book #3.
Thanks for the chance!
Number 3
#1
Number 1 please!! It sounds very intriguing!
#1 all the way!
Number 3 sounds interesting!
Number 1
I think that #3 sounds pretty fun. I love classics and have really enjoyed the makeovers that I’ve read so far.
Ooooooo! #1 sounds great. Thanks for doing this.
Book 3! 🙂
Pretty sure I literally JUST finished #3 (last night!) — and the description is spot-on. It was delightful. Given that, I’m tempted to try #1. Thanks!
#1!
I’m most intrigued by number 3!
Number 1
Book #2!
I’m definitely interested in #1
Number 1
3
#3 for me!
Book #2. What a fun idea!
I’m most interested in #1.
Number 3 for me 🙂
Definitely #1
#1 But I think I know/have read the book by the keywords. I hope not, because it sounds wonderful!
I am most interested in number3! What a fun game. I think I will try to arrange something similar with my writing/reading group!
#1
#1
Book number 3.
I’m interested in book 3.
Book 3 definitely has me intrigued
3
Three!
1! I’ve always wanted to do this.
Ooh – all 3 sound intriguing. I’m most interested in #2.
#1 had me at “medical drama”, sounds right up my alley! I’m torn because I’m also interested in #2 lol
Number 3, pretty please! ❤️
#3
#3
Book 3
#1. Much fun!!
Book no. 3 sounds interesting to me
Number 2!
Number 3!!
Number 1. Thank you for the give-a-way opportunity!
Contestant #3
So fun! I’ve been wanting to host a blind date book party but just haven’t figured out the logistics. I would love number 3!
Would love to try 2
Ohhhhh. #1 sounds intriguing! I love this idea!
Of these, I’d choose #1, I think because “love and loss” and “best friends” next to each other suggests something deeper.
#3
Book 1 sounds intriguing.
#3 please! So fun! Good things happen when you cull books!
I’m interested in book #1
Number 1. This is such a fun idea!!
#1
Number 1, for sure. Sounds like my type right off the bat, and one I know I have a potential future with – it’s has elements that I’ve liked from previous (reading) relationships, as well as some new characteristics which might make this book a better fit for me than previous books.
I’d choose number 3, although I probably should read number 2 because of the state of my house! ?
Book 2 🙂
This is fun! I’m interested in #3.
I wish my library did this! I’m interested in book 3.
#1
#1 looks good to me!
I would say I’m most interested in #1 but I think I know what book it might be and, if so, I’ve read it! But I would love to read #3 🙂
Number 1
Oh book number 3 sounds very intriguing – so it’s 3 for me! Fantastic idea and I love your blog – thanks for sharing your thoughts
I love blind date books! #1 appeals to me.
Number 1! I’m pretty sure I’ve already read #3
#3!! I’ve never tried this, but I love to read so why not?! I do tend to read mostly the same type of book so this could introduce me to something new.
All three sound intriguing, but I’m leaning toward number 3.
Most interested in #3!
No. 1
I have guesses at all three titles! But I think 3 would be the one for me.
#3
I think #1 sounds like my kind of book!
Number 3
2
Book 3! Love reading books from far away lands (and the I love going to those lands!).
#3!
Book 1
What a fun idea! #3 sounds interesting.
#1. This premise reminds me of Grey’s Anatomy.
#3 piques my interest!
#3
3!!
Number 1 sounds the best to me! I have never been on a blind date with a book. I did meet my now husband on a blind date over twenty years ago 🙂
Number One 🙂
Book #1
Would love to read # 1!
Number 1 for sure!
Number 3
I am interested in book 3. I am guessing I have read books 1 and 2. This sounds fun. Thank you
#1
How fun! I’d love to read #3, I have a guess about #1 and if it’s right I read it last year! It was a great book!
#3 with #1 a close second. I think I might have already read #2.
How fun!
I would have to go with Number 1. Pretty sure I own a copy of number 3 already.
I would like to try #2.
#1 sounds fun!
Number 1!
Number 3!
#1 or 3 would be great! I’ve never done this before.
#1
I’d love #2!
#1 for the win!
Number 3! I think I know what this book is, and I’ve been wanting to read it!
I am interested in #1. Betrayal and medical drama caught me.
Number 1!
Number 1
Number 1!
Number 1
1
I’m interested in #1!
Book #1
Book #1
# 1
Always afraid to do this at a bookstore with limited book buying budget!
Pretty sure I already read #1 ? sooo #3 for me!!!
This is hard! I’m going to go with #2.
Number 2, for sure! 🙂
Number 1!
Number 1 This sounds like so much fun
Number #3 as I think I’ve read the other two!
One sounds good!
#1
I’m interested in #1. Thank you for chance.
Number 1!
I find book number 1 intriguing.
I’m interested in #3
Number 1 sounds interesting!
Number 3
Number 1 has me intrigued!
#1!
Number 1 please
Book #3
Number 1!
#1!
#3 sounds like a fun pick!
I am interested in #3.
#1 What an interesting concept. I had not heard of this.
#1 sounds most intriguing to me. My local library is doing this also with the wrapped books. It was fun to stand and try to pick a book based on their descriptions. I just started the book I got, “Sourdough” by Robin Sloan.
Number 1
I’d love to try book #2!
Book 1
Book #1!
Love this idea! #1!
Book 3!
Book number 1 please!
1 really sounds like my kinda book!
#1 !!
I would go with Number 3.
#1!
Book #1 sounds like everything I’m interested in and more!
I’m choosing #1….but all 3 are interesting to me!
Number three for me!
I think #3 sounds fascinating!
Number 1 sounds great!
Three!
#2. This fits with one of my goals for the year!
Nowhere around me has done blind dates with books but I love this idea. Would like to win book #1!
1
Number 2 sound like just what I need right now!
I’m thinking #3 for me n
Number 2. I love reading books about organizing.
# 3
#1
How have I not heard about this before? Such a cool idea.
I don’t normally go towards medical drama (except Grey’s Anatomy) but #1 sounds right up my alley!
Number 3 please!
I am interested in #3.
Definitely number 3. I think I’ve read the other two!
#3!!
#1 interests me the most.
Number 3, please!
Number 1 all the way!
Book 2! My life could use some decluttering.
Book #3 sounds great!
I have never seen a bookstore do this!
Book #1!
So fun! Taking into account books that have gotten love on the blog, podcast, and instagram feeds recently (is the last year “recently”?) I’ve got pretty good guesses for what #1 and #3 are. Both are on my TBR, but today I’m more in the mood for #3!
#3! Though I’m interested in #1 as well…. 🙂
Number 1, without a doubt!
Number 3 for me! 1 sounds like Jodi Picoult?
Thanks for this – very exciting and although I hear you when you say this has been a thing since last year, it definitely hasn’t where I live! Only London, that is! ?
Kathrin x
# 2 sounds interesting
#1
Number 3 sounds good!
number 2
Definitely #3. I think I’ve already read #1 and #2 can’t wait to learn which titles you’ve wrapped up regardless. I want this to come to a bookstore near me.
Definitely number 3. Thanks for the chance.
Number 1 sounds great!
I think I may have read #1 so I’ll go with #3. I love experiencing different cultures through books.
Number 3!
number 3 is first choice but I will take number 1 as a back up.
Definitely #1 🙂
They all sound awful! Sorry. I wonder if I’d have thought the same if I could see the covers
#3!
#1 please!!
Book 3, or maybe book 2, but I think book 3.
#3 Sounds so interesting!
Number 3! As a resident of Pakistan, I am always intrigued by books that mention or utilize this underestimated country in any way. 🙂
Book #1 🙂
1!
Book number 1
Book #2!
Definitely #1
#1
#1 sounds fascinating:)
Let’s try #3!
Number 3, please.
#3 sounds intriguing…interested to see what it is on Friday. I have an inkling… 🙂
I am pretty sure I have read #1 and #2 so I am picking #3. ?
Very intrigued by the description of #3, but I think I’ll have to be on the more practical side and choose #2. ?
#1
but they all sounded good!
#3 sounds super fun!
Oh My, #1 for sure!! I love medical dramas.
#1
1!
Number one sounds perfect for me! Love a good medical drama since I’m in the medical field, and real life is never as intriguing as books and movies portray it!!
I’d like to read #2!
#3
Although number 2 is the one I probably need, number 1 sounds really good.
I would pick #1.
Book #1
Tough call! Let’s go with #1
Number 1!
#3 please. (I might have it on hold at the library if I’m guessing correctly.)
Book #2
Fun ! I would so do this if one of our bookstores or library did this! I’d pick # 3 😉
number 3
Number 1!
Book #2 – What a fun idea!
Definitely 3. I really enjoy modern reimaginings of classics.
I am interested in Number 1! (I think I know which one #3 is, and it is on my hold list at my library. 🙂 )
Intrigued by #1 🙂
Book #1!
#3 i’d love to travel to pakistan and relive a classic..without ever boarding a plane!
#2 please!
Gotta go with #1!
Thank you for the possible date. I’d like to ‘go out with’ number 1 please.
Ha! I believe I have read #1 AND #3 so….#2? 🙂
I just finished #3. I thought this one was probably your jam. I can’t figure out #1. So that’s my choice. Of course, I am probably wrong about the others also! ?
#1 sounds intriguing!
#3 sounds intriguing!
#2!
Book #3 – if it’s what I think it is, it’s on my wish list!!
I am so excited about this idea, and sharing it with friends! I am most interested in #1! Thank you!!
#1 please
Book 3 for sure.
You had me at best friends & betrayal! I’m going with #1!
#3 sounds wonderful!
Definitely #1
Number 3!
I’ve read number 1, plan on listening to number 2 and have been looking forward to number 3.
Number 2
(Also intrigued by #1)
?
I’m interested in #1
Number 3, please!
Book #3!
#1 sounds most intriguing to me, and I have a feeling that I’m reading #2 right now.
Interested in #1!
~Book #3~
How fun!
#1 sounds great
Book #1
Number one. I love it when books have multiple POVs!!
Very fun! I’m interested in #1.
Number 3! Although Number 1 has me intrigued.
#1 sounds like a book I’d enjoy reading!
I hope you reveal the titles in a follow up, so we know what they are! Book #1 sounds like a fun read 🙂
#3 please!!!
I’d love to read #1
Ooo…I am interested in both 2 and 3, but I will pick 3. I have never gone in a blind date with a book. This is super fun!
I’m pretty sure I know what #3 is, and I already know I want to read it, so I am going to change it up and choose #2!
#1’s the one for me.
I have been set on a blind date with a book before. However, I have been persuaded to read a book I was skeptical about, and found I enjoyed it.
Number 2
#1 sounds fun. I definately have guesses for all of them. Thanks Anne. I love blind dates with a book.
I think I know what each of these are, and I’m dying to read #3!
#3 … though they all sound intriguing! I wish there was a local place that did this.
Book #3!!
Number 1
#3
Number 1
Book #1! Thank you!
#3! but #1 also sounds good 🙂
Number 3
#2 for me, please.
#3! I’m always up for a fun romantic comedy, and reimagined classics are intriguing!!
Number 3!!!
Definitely number #1 – I love a good medical drama!
#3! (Though now I’m super curious about #2 also!)
Oh! Number 1, no, number 3, I think I have 2,………Back to Number 1!
Number one or number two.
Afterwards, will you reveal the actual titles? They all sound so good!
#1. sounds intriguing to me!
Gotta go with #1!
#1 sounds interesting
#3 Sounds like a fun read!
Number 2
Number 3! I think I know what #1 is and I have it on my TBR list on my kindle <3
#2!
#3
#1!
Number 1!
Definitely #1 for me.
#3, please! Thank you!
Number 1!
Number 3!
I’ve never been on a blind date with a book!! I’d choose #1.
Book 3!
I think #3 sounds interesting. I had a pen pal when I was in high school from Pakistan. We are still friends through Facebook. I also love reading books with other countries as the setting. I particularly enjoy Khalid Hosseini.
Number 1, no question! It has all the elements I love!
#1 sounds intriguing!
Fun! I would go with #3.
When my daughter was little, I used to let her “shop” for books for me to read at our library. My husband & I discovered one of our favorite authors that way. This was NOT a book I would normally have chosen!
I wish I could say that I learned not to judge books by their covers, but….
#3
Number 1
I would like to go on a blind date with book #3
Number 1 sounds exactly up my alley!
#3
Interested in #3
# 1 please
Thanks, Walter
#1
#1 medical drama will get me every time
3
I am interested in number 3!
book 1 is calling my name.
I have not done this before but it looks fun.
book #3! 🙂
I know I should say #2, because I could use that kind of advice, but one I want to read is #3, since it sounds perfect for alleviating the February doldrums!
number 1!
Number 3! ?
Number 1
2!
Number 2! These clues are getting me guessing what’s behind the paper.
I think I know what #1 & #2 are so I can’t wait for the reveal! #3 sounds really interesting to me!
#3 sounds absolutely delightful, so that is my vote!
I’m curious as to what #2 is, though. =)
“Love” this-such fun. All three sound great but will take door (oops book) number 2!
Number 1 sounds interesting with multiple Points of View!
#3 looks interesting.
Definitely #1! Great idea Anne!
Ohhhh option #1!!
#3!
#3
#1
#1 sounds like something I need to curl up on my couch with!
#1
Number 3!
Book #1 sounds right up my alley!!
Oh this is hard! But I had to choose, I’d say number 3
#2 is my pick and the one I would spend time with at a bookstore
Number 1 intrigues me!
Number 1, please!
I would say #1 but I think I can guess the title of that one and if I’m right I already read that one!! So then I would say #3!! Thanks for the chance to win a blind date with a book!
Book #3!
Ooh, number 3 sounds right up my alley!
#1. How fun! Didn’t see this last year, and I love the idea.
#3!!
Definitely, definitely, definitely #3
#2 sounds like just what I should read next!
#3 sounds intriguing
#2
Number 1!
Number 1
Number 3!
Number 3! Thanks!
#3 all the way! Romantic comedy + set in another country = two of my favorites! : )
#2 Sounds really good!!
#1 — I love multiple POV!
Number 2 at this point!
I think I know which books #2 & #3 are. If I’m right, I’ve already read #2 and I’m most interested in #3. (As for #1, I usually don’t feel up to betrayal…)
Scratch that—I’ve changed my mind on what #2 is and I HAVEN’T read it, but don’t think I’m too inclined to anyway. And I have an idea of what #1 is now (after looking at a previous MMD post.) Can’t wait to see if I’m right!
#1 sounds like my kind of read:-)
Hmmm…torn between one and three but I’ll pick three because of the international intrigue
Book #3
#2 sounds interesting!
Number 1 hit all my buzzwords!
#3 – I love this so much!
#1. I also wanted to say that I listened to the intro to book school over the weekend and something Anne said finally made it click about why to stop reading books i’m not enjoying. At 60 pages an hour, a 300 page book is 5 hours. I’ve been hung up on putting aside books.i paid for, but even if I paid $30, that’s a crazy return.
#3!
#1
# 3
Number 1!
Number 2
Number 1 ?
Option #1! I love books with multiple POV and it sounds so interesting.
Number 1
This has always sounded so fun to me!! Book number 3!
Book #3 for sure!
I choose #1 – how fun!
#3 – I’m intrigued!
I do hope there is a reveal eventually of what they all are. Number 1 for me!
Number 1 sounds intriguing!
#1! #1! How fun!!
#2 sounds great!
Number 1
#3!
Number 1
NO 2, cal always use a little help in the home makeover department 🙂
Number 3! I love a good reimagined classic.
#2
Number 1 sounds most intriguing to me!
Book 1 sounds SO good, closely followed by book 3!
Will you be sharing what titles they are after you send them out? I’m curious now!
Such a fun idea! I choose Number 1.
Number 1
#3!!
#1 sounds good to me!
Number 1
#1
Love this blind date idea.
(If there was a not outside the US disclaimer, I missed it, but it would disqualify me)
Book #1!! What a fun idea.
#1
Book #3 sounds most intriguing to me. I love a re-telling! These book blind dates always seem fun. I wish bookstores or libraries local to me would do them.
#3! I have reimagined fairytale/classic on my to-be-read list this year! That would be perfect!
#1 — This is so interesting…..I’m in!
#3
Book 2
#1
#1
What a fun idea! Number 3 sounds intriguing.
I have been set on a blind date with a book before. However, I have been persuaded to read a book I was skeptical about, and found I enjoyed it.
Oh! And I pick number 3!
I meant I l haven’t been set on a blind date with a book before. ?
I have the feeling I may have read #1 and possibly #2, so I’m interested in #3. 🙂 What a fun idea!
I am intrigued by all the 3, but I will pick #3!
3
#1 I live books with different POV! X
OHHHHH I am betting #3 is “Unmarriageable” and that’s been on my list of want to reads for a while!!! I love a good P&P retelling!!!
Number 1 please 🙂
Book 1 is for me!
Number 1, because I have no clue what book it might be. The other two I think I recognize. I’ve never done this before and am intrigued!
This is fabulous Anne, thanks for doing this.
My choice is book #1. First of all, I love medical drama anything – books in particular, followed by tv shows. Next, I enjoy stories that are told from multiple points of view. It just makes them more interesting.
This has totally peaked my interest as to what these books are!
Number one!
Number 2
Number 3!
I am most interested in book #1. I too have always loved the idea of a blind date with a book but never participated. What a fun concept!
Book #3 sounds like it would be good!
#1
#3!!!!
#3
Thanks!
Number 1
Book 2
#1
Number three sounds interesting to me.
Number 3
Ooh! Number 1 please if I’m lucky enough to win! ?
#1. I went on a blind date that I picked up at Main Street Books in Davidson while I was attending the event with Jane Mount and you. Such a fun concept.
# 1 or #3. Such a fun idea!
#1! Can’t wait to hear what it is.
Number 3 sounds perfect for me!
Book 3 sounds fun!
This is the best idea!! I had a hard time deciding. I will choose #1.
Thank you for the great idea!
Number 2 The step-by-step clue appeals to me. Thank you.
#1 sounds like a good match!
I’d love 3! What fun!
#1!!
#1 sounds interesting! Thanks
Book 3
What a fun concept. Intrigued by #1!
#1 sounds interesting ?
This is fun! Book #1.
#3! Sounds like a P&P retelling?? While #2 sounds good, I’m trying to read more books for fun this year, and #3 sounds fun!
Definitely #3!!
I’m interested in number 3, please!
Number 1!!
Number 3!
#3 for sure!
Number 3
Number 3!!
Number 1.
Number 1
Book #3!
#2 as my word for 2019 is “declutter”!
This is so much fun! Book #1 sounds right for me and I can’t wait to find out what it is!
#1!
Number 3!
#1 for me. I can’t wait to find out what it is!
Number 2, please.
What a fun idea! Number 3!
What a fun idea!! #1 sounds most interesting to me!!
#1 (but also #3????)
I’m the most interested in #1 and I’m pretty sure I just finished reading #3 🙂
My book club did this at our Christmas party book exchange game. So fun! I think #1 sounds like one I have on my TBR. Fingers crossed!
Book #1
#1!
#3 for sure! I almost have a feeling I know what the others are.
Definitely #1. Definitely NOT #2 ???
#2 for me. Thank you!
I’d love to read #3!!
Number 3. I have never been on a blind date with a book before. So this could be exciting! ?
Book #3!
I’ve never done a blind date with a book before. I think the idea is so fun!
Ohh 1 sounds good 🙂
Book #3
I would have to say #3. Love reimagined classics and the Middle Eastern setting sounds super intriguing!
Number 1
Number 1, what fun!
Number 3. My favourite book store hasn’t done blind dates. This will be fun.
#2 or #3
Number 3!
I would probably love #2!
Book 1
Number 3 please. I hope it is UNMARRIAGABLE?
I’d go for #1
I think I know what #2 and #3 are and I’d probably read those too, lol
Book #3 sounds lovely.
Number One 🙂
Pretty sure I’ve read #3 (loved it!) so I pick #1! Honestly they all sound great.
This is so fun! I came across a display like this a few years ago, while visiting a cute, small bookshop on vacation in Franklin, NC. I chose based off the description along the lines of “WWII, historical fiction, female main characters,” and ended up with an ARC of “Lilac Girls” !! What a great deal! It was an amazing book, and so much fun to go on a “blind date with a book!”
I think book #1 sounds the best for me!
I LOVE the title!
Number 1 sounds the most interesting to me. I’ve never been on a blind date with a book before. It sounds fun. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway and the chance to win!
Number 1!!!
Ooooh! So intrigued by #1!
Number 3!
No. 1 – love a good medical drama
Book 1 for me!
#1
Number 3
Book #1 – the only one I don’t have a good guess as to what it is! Sounds interesting!
Number 3. I think I just read #1.
Book 1
Number 3!
Book 1!?
#3 sounds great!
Number 1
No. 1
Number 2 because I desperately need some tips on those areas of my life!
#1. You had me at “medical drama”
I am interested in #3. I love romantic comedies and my book club never picks them. I’m intrigued by the idea of it being set in Pakistan!
I’d be interested in reading number 1–or eventually finding out what number 1 is 🙂
#1! I think I know #2 and #3.
1
Number 1 intrigues me…
#3 sounds great during this bleak and dreary month!
3 sounds the most interesting to me, but I’d love to know what books 1 and 2 are!
#3 – I love a good romantic comedy!
Book 3.
#1 sounds good. I think I have an idea about the other books. Can’t wait for Friday’s post.
I think I know Book #3, and I really want to read it. The author gave a talk on a podcast (I think NPR) months before the release, and I’ve been eager to read it ever since.
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#1 sounds like my kind of book! I cannot wait to see what each of these is. In fact, #1 will be added to my TBR!
Oh wow being a retired registered nurse with a career of 40 plus years I have to beg for number one!!! I never pass on any medical stories and I am a new MMD addicted fan!!
#3 was so good! But I’d like to read #1 and can’t wait to figure out what it is 🙂
This is so fun! I wish my local bookstore did this! Number 3 sounds like I’d enjoy it! Thanks for doing this!
Number 3 please! Pakistan sounds amazing.
Number 3 for me! 🙂
#2 for me. Gotta get that house organized.
Number 1 seems to be catching my interest
Number 1! I never have, but am very intrigued.
I think I’d most be interested in #1. This is a really fun idea! I have never heard of it.
I would not be apposed to any of them though. Even #2, which seems to be the least popular. 🙂
Oooo I think I’m gonna say number 3
Number 1 sounds great!
#1, please–and thanks!
#2 (but #3 sounds fun too!)
I’m interested in Book #3. I enjoy romantic comedies but my book club never picks them. I am also intrigued by the fact it is set in Pakistan!
Number 3, please!
Number 1. This sounds like so much fun!
number 3 sounds soooo intriguing!! 🙂
Number 1
Book 1!
Oh man this is a tough choice. But I think I would rather have book number 3!
Number 1 please! This idea intrigues me!
And my pick goes to
Number 3!
#1
#2 thanks!
Book #1 sounds intriguing
I LOVE THIS IDEA! Thank you, Anne! #1 for me please 🙂 Good luck to all!
#3! I love reimagined classics.
Book 1
# 1 please. 3 was a close second though.
I think #3 is high on my TBR list 🙂
Book #2 is the book that would be best for me right now. We are working on doing major cleaning and decluttering.
#1 please! Fingers crossed!
I have never heard of this wrapping the books up in brown paper. What a unique idea! I choose number 2 the one about decluttering and priorities and makeover. All three of those words caught my attention. Thanks for the chance.
#3 but honestly they all sound good!
Ooh how fun! I leaning towards #3! 🙂
Number 1
Number 1
Number one! ?
I would love to go on a blind date with book 3. It sounds very interesting.
Number 3!
#3 for me!
Love your blog! Book #3 sounds lovely!
Number 3, but the others sound interesting as well!
#3, please!
#1 sounds good. What a fun idea!
#1 yay!
#1 please!
Number 1
How much fun is this?!?! What a great idea, Anne.
Book #3 sounds the most interesting to me…now off to work at my school library where I might try this “date with a book” idea out on them. :))
#2 sounds like exactly what I need.
I have gone on a couple of blind dates with books. However, neither were wrapped in brown paper. The first one, The Hot Zone, was a grab and go to make a train. My friends and I stayed at a bed & breakfast in Rome. There was a shelf of books for the taking, and I grabbed the thickest one for the long ride ahead. I devoured it on the train ride from Rome to Brindisi. This is not at all my typical read, but I will never forget it and have recommended it often. The other was recommended by the Oprah Book Club, The Poisonwood Bible, and it is now one of my top 5 favorites! Again, not a typical book I would choose, but the more and more I think about that, I wonder if I really have a type. I just love good literature.
I am most interested in #1.
Number One. Even if I don’t win I hope to hear what the title is. It sounds really good!
I am interested in number 1. Thanks – what a great idea!
Number 1!!! 🙂
#2! Definitely sounds like something I would love!!?
Book 1 ?
Number 3!
#3 is intriguing!!!
#3…take on a classic, Pakistan…
#3 for sure
#1…so fun!
I haven’t done formal book ‘blind dates’ but my sister in law and I exchange books via mail that we’ve loved without any preamble…we just send them. It’s always a fun surprise and having someone else pick out a book cuts through the decision anxiety. Reading cold, just someone putting it in your hands and saying ‘here, read, enjoy’ is the best! Thanks so much Anne for always cutting through the decision anxiety, helping to curate amazing reading lists. Book #1 sounds awesome!!
Number 3 sounds like my kind of book!
#3 for me!
#1 sounds very interesting!!
#1 sounds perfect! Just the kind of book to dive into during the winter months!
Book 1.
Number 1 sounds like my jam. I think I know what book 3 is though and the book it is based on. But i’m all for number one, friends, loss, betrayal and medical drama.
This is such a fun idea! I’m saying #3.
Oh Number 2 for sure!
Number 3 sounds most like something I’d pick up! 🙂
#3 sounds delightful!
This is so fun!
#3 looks like the one I’d pick.
Number 3 – P&P retelling?
Book 1!!
No. 3 🙂
I’m most interested in book #1!
#2
#1!!
Number 2 🙂
Book #3 has ignited my curiosity!!
#2
Number 3
#1
Hand up “me me me me… #1 please!!!”
#3!
Number 2. 🙂
#1 for me. This is such fun!! I’d love to be to try it with students in the classroom too!!
Book #1 sounds right up my alley 🙂
Such an interesting idea!!!! Im in for #2.
#3! I think I may know what it is, but I love Blind Date w/ a Book!
Number 1, I’m excited to see what they all are tho!! Fantastic idea!
Book #3
I choose #3!
I’m intrigued by number 1! What a fun give-away. This might work in my school library if it’s okay to “borrow” the idea from you!
Number 3 sounds amazing!! I can’t wait till Friday ?
#1!
I am wishing for #1. I’ve never had a blind date with a book. So fun!
#2 sounds like fun to me! ?
2 and 3 sound great, but I think I’d have to go with 3! I have a few guesses as to what it might be, but it would be equally exciting to be proven right or wrong in this case 😉
Number 1 sounds like a book right up my alley!
Number 3, please.
If it is the one I think it is, I already have it on my TBR list!
#1. Relationships and drama are pivotal to our daily discoveries about ourselves! Bring em’ on 🙂
#3. They all sound interesting.
#1 sounds interesting!
Number 1! When I’m in a reading rut, that’s the type of guilty pleasure I turn to. And I’m in a reading rut!
Book #3!!
Book #2 sounds really great!
Book #1!
I would say #3. I love the retelling of classic stories.
#1!
Would love to read book #3!
They all sound interesting; will go for Book #1!
#2
Number 2 sounds intriguing!
Number 2
Book 2 please.
This is a great idea!
number 1
Number 3
No. 1!
#1. I love this concept.
#2! Been in a home reading kick lately.
Number 3.
Number 1!
Book 3
oh what fun!!! #3 for me I think (although it’s a hard choice:))
Number 1 sounds so intriguing!
Number 1 sounds really interesting!
Oh my gosh, they all sound good, but if I had to choose, number 1 stood out the most!!
Number 3 please!
Number 1 sounds fascinating!
What a fun idea! I love the thought of something randomly new.
I think my pick would be #1. Thanks for the cool giveaway!
#3 sounds intriguing!
Number 3
Number One!
Number 3!
Number three!
Number 3 sounds intriguing, so that would be my pick! But I’m also a sucker for everything you wrote about #2!!!
I think #3. Sounds like it would be a good read. Glad your telling us the titles Friday, #1 sounds interesting too so I may need to get that one also.
Thanks, this is a great idea!!
#3 Because it’s February, the month of love and romance, and I could use a little comedy.
Book #1 sounds like it is for me!!!
Book #1!!
Book number 1
Number 1!
Book #1
No.1! Thank you for a chance to win!
#1 please!
I am interested in #1. Sounds so interesting.
Book 3 please!
Number 1. I love a good medical drama!
This is so fun! I would probably choose Number 1. Thank you for this fun post!
This is so fun! I’m going to have to say number 3 ?
I would choose book #2.
Number 3 for me❤️
3
Book number 3.
#3 – Gotta love a good rom com!
Number 3 – I am fascinated by reimagined classics.
I love medical and love and loss so #1
Definitely #3!
Book #2 sounds great!
I think #3 sounds interesting
Book #3
Number 1
Oh, I think I know what all of these are! I’d be interested in 1 (I have already read 3 and I did love it! Pretty sure I’ve read 2 as well).
Book #3!
Number 3!
Number 3! Thanks, Anne! 😀
#1
Number 2! Thanks for the fun game!
#3
#1
I think I know #1 & #2 but #3 is a mystery to me so I pick #3
Tough choices! I’m going to go with … #3
Number 2
Book number 3
#3- I *think I know which book this is. I can’t wait to find out if I am right!
Hard to choose, but I think number 1! Can’t wait to find out what they all are!
Book #1 for sure!
This “blind date with a book” idea sounds fun and inspiring!!
Book #3!
Number 3. How fun!!
Ooooh! So fun! I’m most interested in #1 🙂
I would like either 2 or 3.
I think I might know what #2 is, but I would love to read #3. Will you tell us what they are eventually?
Number 1
I’m into #2!
Number 3
1 please. Thank you for hosting this giveaway!
#3. Reading international books this year.
#3 please
Book #2
Book #2. I don’t know what any of them are.
#3. Intrigued by reference to Pakistan.
Door (book) #3 sounds most intriguing for me. I love reading books in different settings and Pakistan was the clue that drew me in
Number 1 sounds most intriguing and I have never seen this done at a bookstore or library. Hope they start!
Book #3
# 1 sounds great. Thanks!
Number 1!
#1. Intriguing description!
#1 or #3 for me! Thanks so much for doing this, it’s so much fun!
This is fun! I think I know what the first one is 🙂 But the book I want to read is Book #3!
Number 3
Number 2 please! ?
I’ll take #1 please
Number 1
#1- I love reading books with multiple points of view!
Book #1. Sounds intriguing
Number 2!!!
I am interested in Book #2: makeover, decluttering, priorities, home, step-by-step.
#2 for me! Almost done with a home remodel, and ready to get all things organized.
Number 1 please!
Book #3 sounds interesting.
Number 2. Maybe a blind date book will finally be the one to help my chaos!
#1 sounds good. Definitely not #2! ?
#2! I’m thinking about taking a chance on a genre I don’t read as often!
#1 sounds like a book I would love!
#1 is right up my alley…medical drama …im a nurse…let’s see how accurate it is…!?!
#3
#3. This is such a fun idea!
Number 3 please
Our local bookstore does this and I love it. Recently I created some of my own (when our bookstore had only 2 of the 6 I was looking for) for our book club. It was so much fun!
I’m interested in number 1, having never read a medical drama!
Love this idea! I am leaning towards No. 3. I am on a romance kick and with it being February, the more love (and comedy), the better.
#3 for me! My book club did this for our January meeting. We decided December was busy enough without having to read a book on a deadline. We had a lot of fun! I ended up with “Winter Solstice” by Maeve Binchy, one of my favorite authors.
I’m in the groove…..I need # 2
Book 2
#1
Number 1
#1.
Number 2!
Number 1 is for me
Hi, #3 sounds like a good blind book date!
#3 – The international aspect has me most interested!
Number 3
I think I need #2. I’m excited to see all the titles.
#3 sounds interesting!
I love a romantic comedy so book #3!
Number 1!
#3!
#3 – Your cryptic code makes me think of an author I love, but someone else has used the storyline in Pakistan. I’m intrigued!
I think no. 3 would suit me best!
Number 1
This is fun Anne! Thank you for doing this!
Number 3!
So hard! Maybe #1?
Number 3!
#1 sounds right up my alley!
Number 3…maybe number…no, no, no definitely number 3. I’m positive. Aren’t I? Yes. Yes. Excellent.
…
I want to guess the titles of all three. Think I know them.
Perhaps book #2 is what my house and bookshelves need most.
#2- Sounds like something I need!!!
I feel like recognize books #2 & #3, so I choose #1!! The descriptions are amazing!
Hmmmmm. #3 sounds interesting! Reimagined classic caught my attention but Pakistan is not a setting I would normally gravitate towards!
Number 1 I think. Sounds wonderful!
#3 You had me at Romantic Comedy
Book #1!!
Book 3
may I please have book #2.
I would love to go on a blind date with book no 1! Sounds right up my alley and I‘m so stoked to find out what it is, no matter whether I win it or not… ??
Number 1!
#1 intrigues me! Have never heard of the “blind date” idea before …love it and thanks for all the great recommendations!!
Number 2! I’m on a decluttering kick
I’m pretty sure I’ve read #2, and I think maybe #3 too, so I’m gonna say #1. It looks like it would be great for my “What Should I Read Next” 2019 reading challenge: a book out of my genre comfort zone!
#1, doesn’t sound like anything I’ve read before but it sounds like something up my ally!
#1
But I’m anxious to see what #3 is so I can put it on my TBR as well!
Number one, pretty please!
Book #3 looks like a lot of fun. I enjoy learning about different cultures and a a reimagined classic, romantic comedy, set in Pakistan sound like what I’d like.
#2!
Number 3. They all sound so good!
#3 sounds great!
Ooh, #1!
1
#2
Number three sounds great!
Number 3 sounds so interesting and fun!
Number 3 is intriguing!
Book 3!
It’s so fun to try to guess what they are! I think I know what number one is and it’s a book I read and LOVED. I have no idea what number two is. And I think I know what 3 is and that’s the one I’d choose. Not exactly blind date if I think I know it though. 😉
Book #1!
I believe I just finished reading book #3 and I loved it! And I’m wondering if book #2 is a show that I may be watching to get inspired to organize my home.
Number 3 sounds like a fun read! Our independent bookstore does this, and I’ve loved most of the “dates” I’ve been on!
What a fun idea! Number 1 for me.
Number 1 – looks like a popular pick!
I think I desperately need number two before baby number three gets here!
I’m between 1 and 3…..although 1 sounds like my regular “go to” kind of book so I’m picking #3for something different!
Number 3!
#1
I would love #1!! Looks like it has ‘all the feels’!
book 3
Number 3!
#3
Number 1 sounds like a book I’d enjoy.
Ooh. #2!
#3…sucker for anything that sounds like Pride and Prejudice!
3
Book 1 sounds like a book I would love!
Book 1 sounds intriguing! And it sounds like a book that I would enjoy reading?
Number two. (might be good for me). 🙂
Book #3, please!
#2 please! What a fun exercise!
#3!!!!
Fun!
#1
Book number 1 sounds like it’s right up my alley ?
It looks like the odds are best for #2. I hope you post a reveal when the winners are chosen. I have a guess for each, but if you were being cryptic I may be way off.
#3 Book for sure!
Number 2
I am most interested in book # 2!
How fun!
Book 3 sounds interesting!
#1
Lynda says #2
Book #3! I have a sneaky suspicion as to what it is, but I’m also a sucker for a remade classic rom-com?
#1
How fun! #1 please.
Number 3, fun idea
After some hemming and hawing between book #1 & #3 I’d choose 3. I love the classics and a reimagined felling in Pakistan intrigued me.
Book number 2 sounds good to me 🙂
#1 sounds fantastic
Number 1. I probably need number 2 more but I am sticking with number 1!
#3 sounds interesting!
This is so cool! #3 sounds great, and I even have suspicions about what’s hiding behind curtain #3:)
#1 – Sounds right up my alley.
#3!
Book #1
No. 1
Number 1
Number 1. I love any book that relates to medicine. Our public library has wrapped blind date books for February. ?
Love this idea! #3
Oh Book #3 – I love classics and authors experimenting to put them in different settings. The Pakistan note made me even more intrigued to know more about this book!!
I’m interested in #3!
#1
I’d love #2.
I’ll try again – I don’t see my comment-
Book 2 (might be good for me) 🙂
I’m going to go with Number 1 because I’m pretty sure I recognize the other books. Also, I love medical drama.
Book #3 – I like a happy ending
Number 3! I’m intrigued!
#1 how exciting!!!
#3
Thanks Ashley
Definitely #3!
#1! Sounds right up my alley
I already read #1. 🙂 #3 looks like a winner!
#1
Book number one
I do this with my high school students each February. They love it, and ask every year if I’m doing it again! I tried to attach a photo but it won’t let me. It’s super cute!
#1
What a fun contest! I’m intrigued by book #3: a reimagined classic, social commentary, romantic comedy, Pakistan
So fun! #1 or #3. Both sound interesting!
#1 for sure.
Book 1 sounds great!
Book 1 (I think it’s on my wishlist).
#1
I’m digging number three’s description
Number 3! So fun! 🙂
#1
Number 1
#3 Looks very interesting…I would love to be set up with #3! Such fun! Thanks for doing this!
#3 sounds fun!
Number 1 sounds so interesting! My book club did Blind Date with a book last year, and we were all really surprised with how much we enjoyed books that we otherwise wouldn’t have picked out for ourselves!
Interested in No #3. I’ve never read a book about Pakistan 🙂
#3!
Number 3!
#1
I’m pretty sure I’ve read 2 and 3. 😉
Number 3!
#3
I’d love to bring this concept to my book club! Have you posted a how-to in the past?
Number 1!
I’m interested in Number 1!
OOOHHH!! Number one sounds right up my alley!
#3
SO fun! Definitely most interested in Number 1!
I’m intrigued by #1 but I’m going to go with #2!
Book 3!
Number 3—I teach ESL so I am around people from everywhere! This one sounds interesting!
#3!
Definitely #1. Love multiple POVs. Thanks!
Number 1 sounds awesome!
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3! I’m pretty sure I’ve read #1 and it did not disappoint.
#1! ???
I would love to win Book #2!
Book #3
Number 1
Number 3. I think I know what it is – and you and I *may* have discussed this book together when we met (as I’m sure you’re used to hearing).
Number 2
Book ONE for me!! I haven’t read a medical mystery in a while.
I’d be most interested in Number 1.
Number 1
Number 1
#1 My daughter is my best friend and she recently became a Dr so I’m very interested!
#1. I love medical dramas and, of course, best friends! It sounds like a great book.
Number 3. Fun to try to guess the book from your clues!
Number 2 for sure.
Number 3
#3
#3!
#1 is right up my alley.
Number 1 sounds so good to me!! I love multiple POV!!
#1 and #3 are both intriguing. #2 makes me break into a cold-Marie Kondo-sweat!
#1
#1 ?
Book #2 sounds like what I need right now!
#1….super intriguing!!!
Number 3 🙂
It’s a tough choice between books 1 and 3. I think I’ll say 1 because I’m fairly certain what 3 is, and know it’s already on my TBR list.
#1 sounds like it hits all the right spots!
I think Book 3, though Book 2 is a close second. It will be fun to see their titles, when you reveal them (and add them all to my TBR list!).
I think I know what #1 is and is my to read shelf. And I am pretty sure what #3 is and I am on a wait list at the library. I need all the motivation I can get for minimizing so I would love #2.
#2! I’m pretty sure I know what #3 is, and while #1 sounds intriguing, I think #2 would be more useful right now.
#3! ?
#1 sounds good to me!
Number 1
#2 – pretty sure I’ve read 1 and 3 🙂
Book #2 sounds like just what I need in my house!
I like the sound of #2.
Number 1!
I LOVE this idea! #1 for me!!
This is so fun! #1
#3, please, even if my odds are less. That’s popular!
#1!
Number 1 – No idea what book it can be and I’m intrigued.
#3!
Everyone has been into the whole Marie Kondo, so I would try number 2
I’m pretty sure I’ve read #1 and I just got #3 from the library. So #2?
Book 3
BOOK 1! Thanks for the chance!! ?
#1 is for me!
The multiple POV was the first bit of intriguing information. Medical drama clinched it!
#1 sounds right up my reading alley. I love books with different POV’s, and I love stories that alternate between the past and present, especially if they take place in an English manor/ancestral estate. Most recently I’ve enjoyed “The Darkling Bride”, “The Wilding Sisters” and “The Au Pair”. Most recent different POVs: “The Silent Patient”, “Sick Girl”, “The Last Mrs. Parrish” and “All We Ever Wanted”
#2….everything listed on the cover is totally me!!!!!!
#3 Such a fun idea. Number 3 looks intriguing.
Number 3
Number 2
Number 1 – Sounds so exciting!
#1, I’m always a sucker for a medical drama
Ooooh, fun! #1
#1 please!
I love this idea! #2 sounds like the book for me! Thank you!
#3 I love beginning to read a book and knowing absolutely nothing about it. But this process of blind dating a book is new to me. And fun! Book three sounds like one in my wheelhouse. Thanks for the extra fun to begin the week!
I LOVE the “blind date with a book” concept! It’s fun to be surprised! #3 caught my eye most
Number 1 or 3
I would choose #3, because it sounds exactly like my cup of Jane-Austen-like tea!
Intrigued by #1! Think I know 2 and 3, but maybe not?!
I think I’d go with #1
Number 1! I love a medical drama. Thanks, Anne! This is so fun 🙂
Book one
Number One looks so interesting but mysterious at the same time!
I’m leaning towards book #3. It’s the one that called out to me the most.
Number 1!
#1
Number 3
Book 3 sounds good to me!!
Medical drama – No. 1 – sounds intriguing.
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