As far as recent literary trends go, the literary blind date is one of my favorites. A few years ago, in an effort to help customers not judge their books by their covers, Elizabeth’s Bookshop in Australia began wrapping books in brown paper, hinting at the contents with intriguing clues that don’t give too much away.
I was delighted to see the trend make its way to my local bookstore shortly thereafter, and went on my first blind date with a book a few years ago. (Interestingly, the description on that book isn’t really appropriate three years later. Click the link to read that post and you’ll see what I mean.)
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: historical fiction, pandemic, adoption, war, mothers and daughters
book #2: dark, small town, adventure, love, survival, cold, family saga
book #3: unlikely friends, terrible childhood, social awkwardness, unfiltered, baby steps
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 Thursday, February 8 at 11:59 pm EST.
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 novel you were skeptical of? Would you try it? I’d love to hear about your experiences in comments.
1,292 comments
#1 looks amazing!
No. 1 looks really interesting to me. You have st me up on so many “dates” with books recently Anne. They normally gobble up my Sundays and this one looks like another goody. Thanks for thinking of us and doing this.
All of the above?! I really do love historical fiction though….so #1.
Book #1, although I am so addicted to books I would read any book!
#3. Perfect for this Kentucky weather currently! I saw this at my local libray the other day.
#1 looks great- but any are intriguing. Love Book Blind Dating! Such a fun adventure!
Number 3
#3 for me please.
#2 looks like it might be different from what I’ve been reading lately and *hopefully* a wonderful surprise.
i choose #2
I’d like to go on a blind date with book #2
#1 for sure!! You had me at ‘historical fiction’.
I think #1 sounds like something I would love to read!
#2 sounds fun
Such a fun post and giveaway!#1 sounds like one I would typically like but #2 sounds like a good one to get me out of my book comfort zone (which isn’t that what blind dates do?!). Thanks!
#2! Dark, small-town, cold, family saga! All words or phrases that draw me in!
3 sounds interesting
Book #2!
(Based on your clues, I’m 99.99% sure book #1 was the last book I read. 🙂 )
I’m so curious what it is!
Book #1!
#1- I love a good pandemic. 🙂 I have not tried this, but would enjoy it!
#3!
I think I’ve guessed #2 which does sound right up my alley but I think I have it so it’s going to have to be #3 especially as I was socially awkward in high school and my best friend was really someone a lot of people would have thought was unlikely to be my bestie. Sounds like a fun read!
#3!!
#3! What a fun idea!!!!
This is a fun idea. I would love number 3, but you might not want to pay postage to England. x
oh my goodness, it has to be #2!!!
I think I may already own book #1, based on the clues you gave. They all sound so intriguing but I think #2 would be for me. This is such a fun idea, I need to try it with friends!
You know, I’m drawn to #3, but I love a story set in a small town so I have to go with #3. By the way, the last meeting of our local Sisters in Crime did this and it was great fun. Everyone got ended up with a book.
#1 please! This is a great idea! Thank you!
#3 looks great!
#2 please! love this idea! Thanks!
This is so fun! They are all intriguing but I think I would pick #3!
What a fun giveaway! I would pick book 1, I’m always a sucker for a good historical book.
#1 looks great.
I’d love to read #1!
#1 for the win! Great idea!
Book #2 sounds interesting to me!
#3.
No, #1… wait, no #2. Yeah, #2.
No…#3. Yep, #3.
I think.
#1 looks interesting.
#2! I went on a blind date at my library and loved reading something new.
Book1!
What a great idea! Visited a bookstore in Greenville,S.C. that does this. Book #1, please!
My friend went for a book blind date from a bookstore in NYC but I chickened out, so another opportunity to try sounds great. #1 would be right up my alley!
Book #1 sounds like the “one” for me! Thanks for doing this, it’s so fun!
Book number 1 sounds very interesting.
Such a fun idea! Number 1 sounds very interesting!
#2 sounds very interesting!
#3
I am a librarian and want to do this at our library.
#1 sounds like it’s right in my wheelhouse! (I hope international entries are okay. Canada, here.)
What fun! I can hardly wait to see the reveal.
I would love #2!! I live in the boonies where we don’t have blind dates 🙁 or cute bookstores.
…to be clear, blind dates with books.
Oh I’m very intrigued by #3!
#1
#1. I love historical fiction.
#1 sounds like something I’d love to read!!
Although I would enjoy all three categories, today I’m choosing number three!! It’s a dark stormy day here, perfect for curling up with a book
I would love to unwrap book # 1 or 2 because I think I know what book 3 is and I have already read and loved it! LOL Thanks for the chance…..a very fun idea!!!
I love this idea! #2 sounds right up my alley. Small town stories and family sagas are my favorites – and I love reading seasonally so cold is perfect right now!
Book #1!
Book #1 please, you had me at mothers and daughters!
Totally would have to go with #3
I love this idea! I have always been so intrigued by the blind date book idea but have yet to find a bookstore near me that does it! I cannot wait until you announce (hopefully?) all these titles because I want to read all of them but I think I am most excited for #3!
#3!!!
I love this concept. I was shocked when my local library started doing this and my local librarians were so excited and proud at seeing my excitement over it! We all smiled a little brighter that day. 🙂
Oh my gosh!! This is so cool, Anne! What an intriguing idea! It’s a hard decision, but I would go with either #1 or #3. But like I said, they all sound awesome!
Book #3! It sounds so relatable to my life and, as someone who aspires to write a book one day, I love reading relatable books!
Love this!! I like #2!
I love this! What a fun way to change the manner we select books! #1 for my choice!
Yay! #1 ?
Books 1 & 2 would be what id lean toward. So much fun!
#1 sounds like what Im most likely to pick myself (historical fiction junkie) but the other two are interesting as well – no wrong choice here!
Book number 2 sounds interesting!
What a cool idea and giveaway!
#2 sounds intriguing!!
#3 for me!
How fun! I’d love a chance at #3! Great idea!!
Book 1 intrigues me!
Book 1, please but they all sound intriguing. What a great idea
I pick book #2
I’m interested in them all, do you think you will reveal the titles for us that don’t win or even for the winners so they can know the other books offered?
All sound great! I’ll start with #1……and pray you’ll reveal the names of the others eventually so I can read them all!
Number 3 sucked me right in with “unlikely friends” and social awkwardness”. My kind of story. Can’t wait for the reveal! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
#1 is up my alley!
#1, love a good historical fiction, the pandemic plot got my attention.
I’d read them all! How fun! Number 1 really caught my eye though 🙂
#3 or #2 sound good! What a great idea!!
I would love this if a local bookstore did it!
Of yours I’d choose #3!
I am really interested in book #1!! Historical Fiction is my favorite, and “pandemic, adoption, and mother and daughter relationship “ all sounds super intriguing to me!
This is fantastic. I’m 3, 2, 1! Thank you.
#3 sounds fun!
#1! War! Historical Fiction! Pandemic! Adoption! (sorry, some faves there)
My local library does an Express Book Bag where you give them your favorite / least favorite authors and they check out 3 books for you that they send home with you in a brown paper bag. I have tried this once and they were spot on with all three choices for me. I love ideas like this one!
Number 2 sounds most intriguing to me because it is outside my comfort zone.
I love this idea! I think I’d read any of them and am super curious about the title! But I think I’ll go with #2. Thanks!
Ohhh I can’t wait to see what these are on Friday! 🙂
For now I would pick #2 but I have a feeling all three may end up in my TBR!!
So fun! I am most interested in book #1. Thanks!
#3 sounds like an exciting date!
I have never been on a blind date with a book and have been really wanting to give it a try. You are my most trusted person for my “set -up”, and believe it will be a match made in heaven.
This is awesome. Both 2&3 sound good to me.
Oh gosh, it is hard to pick just one! I’m torn between #2 and #3… Ok, gonna go with 2 since it is *slightly* outside of my usual.
They all sound intriguing! But I have to go with #3.
Fun idea! The “unfiltered” adjective on the last book makes me a little nervous. I think I can guess what book #2 is and I’ve already been on a date with it. So I’ll go with book #1. I love a good pandemic.
#2 is the date for me
Number 1 has me intrigued!!
#1 jumped out at me first, but then I thought, maybe I’ve read that one! So #2 is my pick!
#1 looks intriguing. I love historical fiction!
#3! I wanted to say #1, but that sounds like my usual go to and it would be amazing to switch it up!
Book #2 sounds amazing to me!
Book #1 is intriguing to me. Such a great idea.
What a fun idea! Book 1 definitely caught my eye.☺️
They all 3 are tempting but i am most intrigued by #1
#2 or #3 sound appealing to me!
What fun! I’d choose #3.
I’m interested in book 3. The description sounds positively intriguing!
I think this would be so much fun; love the idea. #1 sounds like a great read!
#1, I love historical fiction! How fun is this??
I’ve never heard of this, but what a cool idea! Book 1 sounds amazing!
Definitely book no. 3!!! It’s has the kind of description that gets me rating to read and I’m sure that, given your clues, it’s the one I’m reading right now.
Book 2 appeals the most to me!
Omg I’ve always wanted to go on a blind date with a book because I love the idea but no bookstore near me has had the epiphany to do it yet, so this got me REALLY excited! #1 sounds like my cup of tea! And I have no idea what it could be
I would love love love to read # 3!!! I love social awkwardness and relating to strange dynamics in literature. The hint of “Baby steps” makes me feel warm and fuzzy. 😀
#1 is the book for me. I love historical fiction!
Number 1 for me please! ?
Such a hard choice! I would be happy with any of these (if I’m allowed to choose all 3), but I guess a blind date with 3 dates wouldn’t work out well. I choose number 3. ?
I apparently missed your first blog post about blind dates with books because I’ve never heard of this before! Book #3 sounds very interesting to me. Thanks for the chance to win!
Book #2!
I am going to have to go with #1. I’ve been on a historical fiction kick lately! Thanks
#1 please!!!!!
#2 sounds interesting! My library is doing this also and I picked one up yesterday but haven’t unwrapped it yet!
#2!!
#1 piqued my curiosity!
I think I’ve read # 2…. ?
#1 sounds interesting to me!
I would love to read #2!
They all sound so intriguing! Well done! I think #3 would be my pick.
My library occasionally does this! I love it! I’m interested in book 3.
Book #1!! I love historical fiction, my daughter is adopted…what more could I want for a blind date.
Pretty sure I know what #1 is and it’s on my TBR! No clue on the other two, though. Hard choice but I’d pick #1!
#1
It sounds very interesting and I am on a historical fiction kick right now.
#1!
#2 sounds greats!
I would like to read #1. Since I am a mother to two daughters and no sons, stories of mothers and daughters are close to my heart.
I’m all in for the social awkwardness of Book #3!
I would choose number 1, but they all look like something I would enjoy! (Number 2 looks like something I’ve read and LOVED.) I’m tucking this delightful idea away as a possible reading adventure for my kids this summer! Maybe choose some books for them at the library and wrap them up like this. Fun!
#1 sounds good to me.
This is a wonderful idea! Thanks for such a fun giveaway. I think … um…
# 1 is my choice.
#3!
I love this! #1 sounds good to me!
I’ve gone on a blind date with a book once. It wasn’t a book I would have chosen, but I quite enjoyed it! I’m totally overthinking which book I’d choose…okay…#3 it is!
They all sound good!I think I’m most interested in #1
#1! Fun idea!
How mysterious! I’ll go with door (book) #1!
Book #1 please! Thank you!
I love this idea! A great way to read books you might not otherwise pick up. I always love a good historical fiction, so #1 is my choice!
Number 3 for sure!! It sounds like one of my favorites from 2017!!!
Number 2 for me!
#1 sounds interesting.
I love the idea of a book blind date. After a few decades of marriage, and children, etc. funny what can get you excited!
My local library did this and it was awesome. I found several new authors just by picking a book that I had no idea what it was….so much fun!
I love this idea – I’m in with #2!
All of them sounds good! I’d have to go with #2 but I can’t wait to hear what they all are!
#2
Torn between #1 and #3, but I think I’ll go with #3.
#1 sounds fun! Can’t wait to find out what they are!
I love this idea! We used to do this with YA books at the library I worked for (before babies)! It was always a well received program! I love the description of all of these books! I always lean toward historical fiction, so #1 sounds great!
Ohh definitely #1, no question!! Sooo intriguing!!
This is fun! #3
#1 Historical Fiction sounds awesome! I am curious that I may have already read it, but if not, I want it on my list to read.
I’m pretty sure #1 is the book I’m currently reading! 🙂
My vote is for #2!
I’d love to win book number one. I really enjoy reading historical fiction! And I’ve never won a contest for a book.
They all sound intriguing – wish my library or bookstore would do this! #2 sounds the most interesting to me.
They all look intriguing. #1 sounds like one I’d pick to read. But #3 is a close second.
#1 would be my top choice – oddly enough, they’re numbered in order of my preference. ?
I’ve have only seen this trend once this week on Instagram, and I think it is so much fun. I would LOVE to go on a blind date with a book!!! You did a great job with your descriptions, and I’d be interested in any of the three, but I think that since I’m so socially awkward, I’d choose number 3!
BTW I don’t have a clue about the books’ titles….
#1 sounds great!
Historical fiction always wins my ❤️, so #1 it is!
Definitely #1!!!
I have done the literary blind date before and have never been disappointed. Would love to do it again with #1, historical fiction
#3 looks great (though I had a hard time choosing!). Thanks for the chance. 🙂
#1 looks intriguing. I’ve always loved seeing the past through the lens of a good fictional narrative. As a kid, I read a group of gilded books on my grandmother’s shelf — historical novels by Thomas B. Costain. I was so enamored with the Scottish tales, that I decided someday I would name my dogs, or my sons, Willie Wallace and Bonnie Prince Charlie. My son, you’ll be glad to know, escaped this fate. My dog is Caspian!
Oh, book number three sounds right up my alley!
So fun! Book #2 for sure. Although cold and survival aren’t my typical criteria for a great date, they make for a delicious winter read! 😉
OOoh how fun! I feel like you’ve set me up with so many good books! I think #1 sounds most intriguing to me. And I can’t wait to see if my guesses are correct!
#1 looks great!
All look great but I’m most intrigued by #2! How fun, great idea!!
They all sound intriguing! Are you going to reveal what they were in a future post? I think #1 sounds the most up my alley, but they all sound good!
I love the idea and no library near me does this yet. No. 3 looks most interesting to me…
#2! Only because I think I know what it is, and I’ve been dying to read it.
I am intrigued by #1!
#3 is definitely for me. I love this idea. It’s the tiniest things that make life fun!
Book #1 sounds great! I hope I win that one!!
#2 sounds right up my alley!
This is such a great idea! Number one sounds like the perfect read for all this freezing, icy, yucky weather we’ve been having. Hygge anyone?! 🙂
Book #1 sounds interesting to me because it’s historical fiction. I’ve never seen the blind date with a book concept in an actual bookstore. But we don’t have many independent bookstores here, sadly.
They all sound great. I’d like to enter for #3
#2 sounds like a great book! I can’t wait to see what books are under the brown wrapping paper!
I’d like to date Bachelor #3!
#2
I chose #3. Sounds good. I am pretty sure I know book #2 and loved it and I am someone who ALWAYS chooses historical fiction so I have likely read #1 already. Awesome idea!
I’ve never done this and it always makes me nervous to do so. So I think I’ll pick #3, because it’s really outside my comfort zone.
I love the description for book #3. Some of my unlikely friendships have been my best. I told one woman friend that she was “too cheerleadery” for me to seriously consider as a friend, but my autistic son gravitated toward her so I thought I should get to know her. We’ve been close friends for over 10 years now.
I love the idea of a literary blind date 🙂 I would love to “date” book bachelor number 3 because I love all those elements in your cryptic clues.
This was such a great idea Ann!!! I just saw that they are doing this at my local barnes and noble too!!! I would love to win one of the books and I think im going to go for #2!!!!! Good luck everybody!!! ❤️?
#2 looks interesting because I love a good dark family saga!
Number 2
#3 looks intriguing to me- I have no idea what any of them are! You did very well staying cryptic!
#3
#2 looks the most appealing to me right now!
How fun! I’d love to try #1!
Number 2 looks amazing!! Perfect for a rainy day like this one 🙂
Being an escapist reader I’ll choose #1. ❤️ What a super fun idea!
They all sound interesting to me. But I will go with #1.
#2 sounds good!
Number 2 sounds right up my alley!! I can’t wait to see what they all are. My school librarian is doing something like this but calling it “Don’t judge a book by its cover!”
This is so fun, what a great idea! I think #2 sounds intriguing, especially in winter!
#3 sounds intriguing! And I’m going to suggest this idea to my local library!
How fun!!! I pick number 2!
Book #3 please. Will you reveal the titles even if we don’t win? I’d love to know which books you were describing.
What a fun giveaway! I’d love to read #2 please!
They all sound intriguing, but I pick #3.
#3. I love this idea!!
Based on the description provided, I would have to go with Book 2.
#3 please!
This sounds like a fun book club idea.
I’d probably buy this book and then finding out more would be a fun reveal.
#2
Book 2 sounds right up my alley! I’m pretty sure I know #3…if it is what I think it is it is a great read!
I think #1 sounds awesome
How fun! I’m going to go with #3! 🙂 Happy Valentine’s Day!
What a cool way to find a book. They all look interesting but #2 would be my first pick.
I would choose #1 hands down! Mainly because I think I’ve figured out #2 and #3, Ha!
This sounds like so much fun!!! I’d love #1! And either way, I’m excited to see the titles revealed!
I’ve never gone on a blind date with a book, but I’d love to meet book number two! I’m intrigued….
I’d take any of the titles, but I’m especially curious about #1.
#1. How fun!
I pick #2!
#3 had me at “social awkwardness”! Currently saving all of my Amazon points to spend on your summer reading list recommendations. As a teacher, the release of that list is a signal that the finish line is near! 🙂
#2 looks intriguing to me. My local library does this with middle grade books and it’s so fun!
#2 sounds like a book that I would enjoy!
They all sound so good! I do hope that you will eventually share the actual titles.
If I’m only choosing one, I think I’d select #3.
#3 sounds great!
What a great idea! # 1 would be my first pick!
#2 sounds awesome! #1 is a runner-up for me. 🙂
Book 1 sounds intriguing. What a lovely idea to have a blind date with a book; I’ll look for it at my bookstore.
What fun! #1 looks intriguing!
Book #1 really intrigues me. I love historical fiction and reading about wars. Throw on Pandemic and mothers and daughters and I’m hooked.)
This is so fun! #1 sounds great.
This is so fun!! I think I’d pick #3!
#1 all the way. You had me at pandemic.
#1 sounds like the one I’d like to try most.
Book #1 sounds so good!! Ha, who am I kidding. They all sound good.
Can’t wait to see what they are. Pick me!
Book #2!
#1, please!
My school library has done blind date with books, and I’m definitely planning a blind date section of my class library for Valentine’s Day next week. I’m curious to see how my students respond.
As for your blind date with books, 2 would be my pick!
I would love to be entered for #1! These are great descriptions, and what a fantastic idea. Have you done this for nonfiction books?
Honestly, they all sound great! But I think I’d have to go with No. 1…
Book # 1 intrigues me.
Oooh both 1 and 2 sound good to me!
Book number 2 please.
#1 seems right up my alley!
I think I know what #2 is – and if so, it was gut-wrenching and so so amazing!! I can’t stop thinking about it and recommending it to people!
Book #3
Ooh, this is exciting! And suspenseful 🙂 #1 looks appealing!
AH! #1 and #2 sound great, but I think I am going to go with #2! What a fun idea!!
What fun! Thanks for offering these blind dates!! Our local library has did this last year & it just made me smile. # 1 sounds intriguing to me!
Book 1 sounds interesting!!!
I’d like #2 but would be happy with any of them 🙂
Helene
#3 sounds interesting.
If I get lucky, this is gonna be my first book blind date. I’m just quite familiar to the concept but I haven’t really seen a bookstore near my area who does this. Well, all the books you’ve presented are interesting but I’d really love to have a ‘date’ with book #3.
#1 sounds amazing!
#1 sounds like my type! 🙂
I would love to see what #3 is all about. I showed this post to a co-worker and we had polar opposite interpretations about what sort of book this is.
I love this idea. I’d be all for #1!
Such a fun idea! #1 looks most interesting to me. What better way to spend a February weekend than reading about a pandemic, right? 😉
#1 sounds really interesting – you had me at historical fiction!
Book 2 sounds very intriguing! Let’s meet for coffee on a rainy Monday.
#1 please!
I would choose #1! Great clues!
Number 3 sounds the most interesting to me. Thanks for the opportunity.
Pretty sure I already bought #1 and #3. So I choose bachelor #2!!! This is so much fun! Thank you!
Book #2
#2 sounds amazing! I love this idea!
Wow, this is a such a fun idea. I can’t wait for the big reveal! And I would pick no. 2 to read first for sure 🙂
#1 sounds so interesting! Thanks for the chance!!
#1. I love historical fiction!
#1 for me! Sounds like a winner!
Book #1 is my kind of book! {And the flourless chocolate recipe you recently mentioned is amazing!}
Book 3 sounds great!
I would love to try # 1. It sounds great.
Book 1!
1! Love historical fiction
I think I’m most intrigued by #2!
How fun! #1, please! 🙂
Number 1!
I’ve never been on a blind date with a book, but it’s a genius idea!
My pick would be #1.
I’m really interested in #1!
My library does this every year, wrapped in red paper. I’m heading there tomorrow to pick one up 🙂
Oh number two for sure!! All those words are a big yes for me! Except family saga… I’ve always wanted to read a family saga but been afraid to invest the time in case it’s not any good. They seem like you really need to commit 100%. Who knows, maybe number 2 can be my first try!
Number 1 for me, please, and thanks for the giveaway. What fun!
Ohhhh! I think I’d love to read book #3!
1 sounds so good!
#2 so curious to find out what that one is. After the giveaway will you reveal the titles?
#1 I love historical fiction, and I’m also an adoptive mom!
#2, but if you recommend them, I would be willing to give all of them a shot!!
So fun- can’t wait for the reveal! Book #2 for me!
Definitely book #2!! All of those words totally draw me in and sound like they would make an intriguing read!
It’s hard to choose. I look forward to the reveal of all three titles. If I could win one, I’d like to read #1. My favorite genre and subjects. Thank you.
#1
Historical fiction is my genre & this sounds like a great book to spend some evenings.
Oooh! What a fun giveaway, thanks Anne! They ALL sound great— but number 1 for me please!
#1 – historical fiction, pandemic, mothers and daughters – sounds interesting!
#2, I love family/generational stories!
What a fantastic idea! If I saw this in a bookstore, I would want to take a peek behind every jacket. Given the choice, I would love to read #2. “Cold” has me extra curious. After the giveaway will you reveal each “identity?”
#1 meets all my criteria! Thank you!
So fun! I’m going to say #2 but I am of course intrigued by all three – can’t wait to find out if my guesses for what they might be are even a little close to the mark…
I would love to win Book #1! I just finished reading Peace Like a River, and I really need another book to fill the hole that it left in my heart ?❤️
Book 2 sounds intriguing!
Hard choice but I think I would pick #2. I’m still enjoying winter (even though I live in the south…maybe that’s why I am enjoying it?) and I love the charm, but yet intriguing life, that goes on in small towns.
I would love to read #2! I’m from North Dakota, so a small town, cold, family saga of survival sounds right up my alley! Toss in some love and I’m hooked!
#2 sounds just my speed. What fun!
Number 3! I’ve always wanted to try this!
Number 1 sounds like it has everything I would like in a book!
So fun. I like the thought of #1. (I think I’ve read #3) :).
They all look interesting but book 3 sounds most intriguing to me!
#3! (I know #2, pretty sure on #1)
I’m torn between #1 and 2, but think I have a couple of guesses on what 2 is, so I am going to pick #1!
3
I think it has to be #1. I’m thinking the Black Plague?
Book One grabbed me with historical fiction!
I think I would love 2! I’m really into Dark books right now! Fun idea!
I’d love to read book #1. I love a good historical fiction book! My local indie bookstore does blind date with a book for their galley copies. I’ve received some fantastic books from this stack.
OMG…several sound good, but I’ll go with #2!!
I like number 1.
#2 sounds intriguing! I’ve read so much historical fiction lately that #2 might be a greatness change in pace. This is so fun!
#1 sounds like a great adventure that I would love to read?
#1 looks interesting!
#1 sounds gripping. Thank you for the fun post! I love this idea. ♥️ ?
Book 3 sounds right up my alley!
3… intriguing!
#2 sounds great! For Christmas, my book club did a book exchange and we covered our books and labeled it with hints like this. It was so much fun!
I would choose #3. Our local library did something like this last year I think, although I never got around to checking out one of the books. Neat idea!
#One Please????historical fiction?
Please pick me! #1
I’d love to go on a blind date with book #2!
Book 1. You had me at “Pandemic.”
Book # 2 sounds very interesting. What a great idea. Thanks.
3 1 2!!!
Can’t pick just one!!! They all sound wonderful!
Book #1 seems like the perfect book for me!! I’ve always wanted to participate in blind date with a book but my local indie doesn’t provide it! Thanks, Anne!
This is so cool! I think I’m most intrigued by #2 but I can’t wait to hear what they all are!
I love this idea! And as a single lady, I would double love if the blind date book was combined with a blind date guy that had also read the book! Great automatic convo starter! ??
Oh my gosh Anne – I’ve not seen this before… what a great idea!!
All 3 sound wonderful but since we can only choose one… I would like to be put in the drawing for #2.
Thanks so much!
Number 1 sounds good, I love historical fiction and a good romance.
I would love to receive book #2. What fun!
#1 for me! I have yet to find Blind Date with a Book at a local bookstore, but I love the idea.
#1 sounds right up my alley!
I love this idea! #1 sounds amazing!
#3 piqued my interest the most. I’d like to learn more about the unlikely friends and social awkwardness.
Thanks for doing this, Anne. Very fun!
I think #2 sounds like something I would read. Love a good family saga!
#1 is definitely As Bright as Heaven by Susan Mesner and I’m thinking #2 might be The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah. If that’s the case I would love #2 and maybe #3 just for the mystery of it!
How fun is this?! Frankly, each of the short synopses sound great… I’m inclined to either #1 because of the historical fiction & adoption, or else #3 (you had me at social awkwardness). Can’t wait for the big reveal!
I’d pick book #2, sounds so good!
Sounds fun! I think book #2 looks intriguing
My daughter gave us all blind dates for Christmas! It was great fun and I can’t resist a puzzle. Number 1 looks most interesting to me, but all three sound great!
#1 sounds right down my alley. But #2 sounds like a close 2nd. Sounds fun! Never done this.
#3 ?
Number 1!
But #2 sounds super intriguing too!
Both #1 and #3 sound good, but I think I’d choose #1.
3!
Oooo blind dates… #3, I think. 🙂
Number one. No idea what it is.
#1 looks very intriguing. ?
This is so fun! I’d going with #3… I love an unlikely friendship!
#2!
I would LOVE a blind date with any of these three books. This sounds intriguing. I am game!
This is so fun! Our local library used to do this in February – but, alas, we moved and our current local library doesn’t do this. Anway – book #3 is my pick.
Book 3. I can’t wait to find out if I guessed book 1 and 3 right!
#3 though I can’t wait to see what they all are. I have an idea for #2 and I think I am reading it at the moment, if I am right, that is! Very cool concept. I have not heard of this before!
This is so much fun! I’d choose #1.
My husband was in Oregon taking care of his mom a couple of years ago and she had him take her to the local library inside of which is a book store. They sell unpublished books in brown paper wrapping with cryptic info about the book on it. He’s gotten my daughters and I about 9 of those books. I’ve read my three and they were all great reads. It is fun to play blind date with books.
Book #2!!
I’d love to read #1! Whatever it is, it sounds right up my alley!
I would be most interested in a date with Book #2. I like the idea of providing clues — the blind date with a book events I have seen in the past don’t do that, you just randomly choose a wrapped book. This feels more like a blind date — with your friend telling you the parts they think you would find appealing. 🙂
Number one looks interesting!!!
They all look intriguing, but I have to say, #1 looks the most interesting to me.
Wow this is such an exciting giveaway!! #3 resonates with me the most
#1 sounds right up my alley!
#1 sounds like a fun read.
I’m going with #3. I love the idea of it being unfiltered and with social awkwardness! It sounds like real and raw life, which is intriguing to me.
Book #2 sounds great!
#1!
Hard to choose just one, but I’m going with #2, please.
#1. I love a good historical fiction novel!
I’m going to go with #2, but truthfully if I were to win, I’d love to be surprised completely! I absolutely love this idea
I’m really intrigued by #3!
They all sound good, and I really can’t guess what they are! I will have to go with #2
Are you sure we have to pick just one? 🙂 #……….3
I love this idea! Book 1
#1 intrigues me the most. Fun post!
#3 looks most interesting to me
Book #1 looks good! We just adopted so this book definetly stood out for me!
I always go with historical fiction #1 first; but, I would be game for any of these. Fun!
I’d love to read #2! This is such a great idea!!
#2 for sure – family saga has me pulled in all the way
Book #1
This is so fun, and #1 sounds amazing.
Is it bad that I’m the type of person who reads your clues and tries to figure out the book titles? Haha… I choose #1.
Never tried a blind date with a book but honestly I guess it’s just the same as picking a book of the month. I’d pick #3 as I identify with the social awkwardness and tragic childhood. I’d definitely love a coming of age novel.
I hated history in school, but I love reading historical fiction! So, #1 would be my choice!
#1. Thanks for rekindling my love of reading!
I’ve always wanted a blind date with a book! I’m sure it will far surpass the blind dates I’ve been on in real life. I’d choose number 1.
#2 sounds exactly like what I need to pass these winter days with!
I’ll sign up for #3. (I think I’ve read #1 & #2.)
Fun idea!
Book #1
Hmmmm…#3 sounds interesting…
They all sound so good! I choose 2
I would go for #1. Historical Fiction is usually a good choice for me!
What a fun thing to do…go on a date with a book. Love #1 historical fiction is my favorite genre right now.
#2
It’s a cold, dark day in the small town where I live, so of course #2 is what caught my eye … but these clues make me want to read all three books! I’m looking forward to hearing the titles.
Book number two sounds incredible! What a fun idea.
So fun! Book #2 sounds just like something I want to read right now. Thanks for the giveaway!
#3 looks like it is directly in my wheelhouse. I love this idea!
Number 1 sounds fantastic and I can’t guess what it is so I am sure I haven’t read it. ??
I love this. Torn between 1 and 2, but I think I’ll go with 2. Sounds like a good winter read! 🙂
#3!!!
#1
Although I’d trust your judgement on any 3. Surprise me!
Book #1. I always lean toward historical fiction!
I have never done a blind date with a book but #3 has intrigued me.
#2 – I love dark family sagas.
They all sound interesting but I’d probably pick #3 first.
#1 for sure! I love historical fiction even though I’m not sure I like the word ‘pandemic’ being included in the clues. Can’t wait to find out what book it really is!
I’ve never been in a blind date with book and would love too. All 3 sound interesting in different ways but #2 is the most intriguing to me.
#1 sounds so interesting! Historical fiction is my favorite genre!
So fun! Number 2 for sure although 1 sounds also intriguing. Can’t wait to know the titles!
What a tough choice. They all sound great to me!! If I had to choose one, it would be #3.
I am most intrigued by #2! Such a fun idea!
I love blind date with a book! My library does this every year and I’ve discovered some great books this way that I never would have normally picked up! Book #2 is my pick ?
I love historical fiction! #1 sounds like the book for me!
Love this idea!!! #2 sounds like a perfect book date.
Book 2
Number 2 Is calling to me! Love small town, family saga pull me in story. This is a great idea; will be passing it on to my very small town library! Thanks, Ann.
#3- so fun, thanks Anne!
I love blind date with a book! My library does this every year and I have read some great books that I never would have picked up on my own! Book #2 is my pick ?
Fun! #3
#1
I have no idea what any of these are!
I would love to read #1. Thank you!
Book #1 intrigues me, I usually don’t gravitate toward Historical fiction but those clues are really drawing me in and making me think I would love that book!
Love these blind dates! I’m most interested in #2.
Intrigued…interested in #1
My new local indie bookstore (Malaprops in Asheville, NC) does the
brown paper wrapped books — but haven’t tried it….would ease into the “blind-date” thing with this give-away!
This is so fun! Number 1
They sound fascinating. #1 looks right up my alley. #2 sounds interesting. I suspect I’ve already read #3.
#1 would be my first pick, although they all look great. What an awesome idea!
Book #2. Always wanted to try this. Thanks!
#2 (or #1). I think I have read the last one already…will you reveal the book titles after the drawing?
What a great idea! Feelin’lucky on my birthday…#1 for me!
I’m in interested in #1/thanks
It’s so hard to choose—they all sound fantastic to me. But I’ll pick #2, as I love a good family saga. This is a fun idea!
Ooo I think #2 sounds interesting!
#1! Such a fun idea!!
I want to read #3!!
(And I think I’ve read 1…I’m dying to know if I’m correct or not!)
I think I can guess what #1 and #2 are and wait to see if I’m right!! I would pick #2 (even if it isn’t what I’m thinking it is 😉
I’m curious about #3!!
Book #2 sounds up my alley
I’m torn between #1 and #2, but am ultimately going to say #2 because nothing appeals to me like small town and family saga!
Wow! I love this idea! #1!!
#1 Love historical novels. I like to reap knowledge and be entertained at the same time! Thanks for the giveaway!
#1 sounds soooo good!!
What a fun contest! I would love to read Book #1.
Oh boy, I can’t guess any of them but can’t wait to see! I pick #3!
Historical Fiction… any time! And who wouldn’t love to read about the Pandemic?
#3 for sure!!
They all sound amazing, but I would have to go with #2
#3 is intriguing…..My local library is doing this for Valentine’s Day with the books wrapped in red.
#2 Looks Intriguing. Thanks for the fun idea!
I think #1 sounds amazing!
#3 sounds like an interesting first date…social awkwardness says it all!
Number 3 sounds like my kind of book! ?
I’d love to try my luck with #1!
#1 sounds amazing!!
#1 Looks intriguing for sure! What a fun giveaway.
#1 sounds awesome!! I love historical fiction.
I would choose #1 for sure. Sounds like a lot of great themes…
#2 — can’t wait for the reveal!
I think I’d pick #2, I love this idea! I have never seen it in any book store I’ve been in, but there aren’t very many independent book stores in my area, so I usually only get a chance to visit those smaller stores on summer holidays!
I belong to a book club with a wonderful group of ladies with quite varied tastes, we all recommend books and try to sample different genres…so I quite often pick up a book I would have never chosen for myself (mostly positive outcomes, but I must admit more than once I have abandoned the selection before finishing!)
I hope you’ll reveal all 3 titles after you’ve sent out the “blind dates”, I’m really curious to see what books you chose 🙂
#1! This is such a great idea. And perfect for Valentines Day.
#2! Am a big fan of small town settings. Plus “cold” perfect for winter reading!
#3 sounds perfect. Thank you!
I am most interested in number 1. That sounds very interesting. This is a very charming idea!
#3 sounds like it’s right up my alley. I’m trying to guess what these are but honestly have no idea!!!
I am so torn between 1 and 2 – I can’t decide! ?
I love this idea so much and hope my local bookstore starts this soon!
#1 looks good to me. This blind date concept is so fun!! Thanks!!!
Book #1 sounds great…I really enjoy historical fiction!
How fun! Love this idea! I’m choosing #2.
#1 is intriguing!
#1
Book #1 sounds wonderful! Love this idea!
#1! I am very intrigued. 🙂
I recently tried Blind Date with a Book and it was so much fun. I think #1 would the one for me.
#2 sounds right up my alley!!
Not sure you’d post to Scotland but I’d go for #1, sounds so intriguing. I think I know what #2 is!
#2 sounds good. You’re going to give away the titles after the giveaway right? I kind of want to read all of them 😉
#2 – it keeps speaking to me every time I look at the choices.
And I just know I should KNOW what #1 is! This is fun!
1
1 or 2 sound great. I can’t even decide! I guess #2, if it’s mandatory to choose 🙂
Now I want to have a party at my house, where everyone comes with a book like this, and we exchange. Hmm…
Awesome! I’m most interested in book #1. 🙂
I choose #1 as well! Fun idea.
They all sound great but #1 intrigues me the most!
#3 – it sounds like Eleanor Oliphant which I read and loved. If it is, then I’ll take #1 or #2.
I’d love to read #1, thank you!
Book #3!!
I’m curious about #3!
#1 sounds like a great read!!!
#1 sounds great! I think I know what #2 is, and if I’m right, it’s my next read waiting for me on my nightstand!
#1 sounds intriguing! Love this!
#1 sounds wonderful! Love this idea!
#1 Please!
So fun! #2 looks great to me. Can I ask that you do this again in the future, even if you aren’t giving away the books? Once we know the book we could go pick it out at the library. Seems like a fun way to try the “blind date with a book” if we haven’t found it in person.
Oh this is so fun! I haven’t seen this done in a local book store but would love to try it out if I came upon a store that did this! All 3 sound interesting to me, but I think that #1 stands out!
I would choose #2. I love a family saga.
#1 for sure — mothers & daughters and a pandemic! cold and unfiltered awkwardness not so much for me.
#3 looks like it could be written about me and my neighbor who has become family to me. Definitely “unlikely friends” is a way to describe us! I’d love to read it!
I would read all of them, but to pick just one, #3! Fun idea!
Oh how fun! I love this idea! I am most intrigued by book #1!
#1 sounds like a good one!
#1 for me, please!
Book #1 sounds awesome! I’m always a sucker for mother + daughter relationships.
This is so fun! Book #1
Book 2! I think I know what it is, and have already read it, but if I’m wrong, I definitely would want to go on a blind date with this book! I haven’t done this before, but what a fun idea!!! Thank you!
I’m very interested in book #2!
Book 2 sounds the most interesting to me!
Number 1 for sure
Love this idea! Decisions, decisions…
#1
#3. I love unlikely friendships!!
#1
Ahh! I just love this idea! You could find some real treasures reading this way. Fingers crossed ?? and I pick number 1!
I’m SO drawn to #2 with “dark” and “cold” ?, but I think I have it. #3 intrigues me because I’m curious how all those elements would work together. #3 it is! Fun!
What a cute idea! #2 sounds like a book I’d love to read.
Book 2 sounds great!
Book # 1!
Book #1 would be my choice for a blind date. I enjoy historical fiction,am an adoptive mom, have had a difficult relationship with my mother and I am intrigued by your clues. I need to read this book!
#2! So fun…I JUST picked up a “blind date” from my local library a couple of days ago. It’s one I never would have picked out on my own, and I’m really enjoying it so far.
Number 1! But they all sound good. What fun!
#1 – I have never done this…a book blind date but I definitely would. Especially put together by you or my BBF (Best Book Friend).
Book #3
#3 for me — how fun!
Such a clever idea! I love all the hearts on the paper too 🙂 #3 sounds most intriguing to me!
I’m intrigued by #2!
#3!
Book 1. You won me at Historical Fiction and Pandemic.
#2 please!
I am intrigued most by #1. I think I can guess #2. Actually, #3 sounds good too. Worried tho about unfiltered.
Can I pick two? #2 and #3 both sound good to me!
Book number 1 definitely! This is a great giveaway!
#2 here! Love this idea!
#2! I love family sagas and can’t resist stories that are just a little bit dark :-). What a fun idea!
#1 sounds right up my alley 🙂
I choose #3 please. Friendship and social awkwardness always get my attention. Also, I think I have read #2 already!
What a fun giveaway! I’d go for #1 ALL THE WAY! I also hope you’ll let us know how the numbers work out. Interested to know which category draws the most interest!
#2 please!
So what were those titles in the bookshop back in 2015. Lonely man … Mysterious woman … Cold. A rebel band … A comic quest. The jungle … Ex president.
Hard to choose, but #1 sounds exciting! I’m a sucker for a good pandemic.
They all sound great, but I’d love #1.
Book #2 – just what I love in a book ??
I’d love to try book #2! For some reason, family saga, love, and cold just sound right to me at the moment here in chilly MN 🙂
Love this! I have never been on a blind date with a book! I choose #2. You had me at small town.
Super fun and super hard to choose! I think I’ll pick #2!
#1
All of them, but #1 pretty please. 🙂
#2 seems like it is something right up my alley! Love this idea!
They all sound intriguing but I would go with #3.
#3 looks intriguing!
#1 leans into all the elements I want in a book: a specific historical context, a struggle for the characters (pandemic), and a relational glimpse into character relationships. As a mom to three little girls myself, I am pretty biased toward these mother-daughter perspectives! 🙂
Book #3 sounds really interesting.
#2 I love Family sagas and reading about cold settings during the winter months!
#1 sounds very intriguing!
This is so fun! I’m intrigued by book 1.
I love this idea! #3 would be my pick.
They all sound so intriguing. I am going to go with #3.
I love this idea! I haven’t encountered this in my local library or bookstore yet! I am gravitating towards #3 based on these clues.
They all have intriguing elements, but #2 is the winner for me since I adore family sagas! And what a cool idea. I haven’t seen this yet in my library or local book shops, but hope to some day.
# 2 and # 3 I think I know what they are – so I guess #1 because it would be a true blind date.
I love this idea! I think number 1 looks interesting! 🙂
#2 sounds amazing! You had me at small town adventure and family saga!
Book #1. Historical fiction is my favorite genre.
#1!
Book #1 sounds good to me!
Love the sound of #2!! A cold, dark adventure sounds like a great curl up with a cup of tea in front of the fire winter read!
#2 for sure. (Based on the clues, though, I feel like I’ve heard you talk about book 1 on a show.)
#1!
#1!
Book #2 sounds interesting to me. I *love* to read a good family saga!
I would love to take a blind date with a book. #2 sounds like a great story!
Book #2 sounds great!
#3! You had me at social awkwardness.
I am intrigued by # 3! I long for a small local book store to be near me! All we have is Barnes & Noble and that is a 30 minute drive from my house. Thankfully we have an awesome library in our town though! Kristin Hannah is coming to speak there on Friday night!
Thank you for doing this! I am interested in #1 as I love historical fiction. I hope I win.
Billie
#3 most interested me. But I’m sure anything Anne has would be interesting.
Hard choice but I would probably pick #1!
Book number 1 looks like just my cup of tea!
#2 definitely peaked my interest. I must know!!
Book #2! I think I am going to try this with my book club!
Book #3!
They all sound good! I’d probably choose 1 or 2. Fine, I know I’d axthallt choose historical fiction. So 1. 🙂
*Actually. Eye roll.
#1 All I had to read was “historical fiction”, and I was hooked!
#3 looks interesting to me! My library started doing this last year. I was just there last night and didn’t see “blind date books” available, though, so maybe they decided not to do it this year? I’ll have to ask next time I’m in.
Book #1 looks really good!
#1 sounds intriguing!
#1 sounds intriguing. This is fun.
#1… I did this for our school’s auction. I paired a book with a complementry bottle of spirits and called it Liquid Lit. It was so difficult and yet a fun challenge.
Number 2 instantly has me curious! Dark adventurous family saga in a small town? Sign me up!
Number 2! Intrigued about all though, excited to see what they are.
How fun! Book 3 sounds most up my alley!
So FUN!! I love this trend. I would be interested in either book 2 or 3. THANK YOU Anne for the opportunity to win!
#1 although they all sound interesting.
Book #2 sounds like something I would want to read!!
#1 for sure!
Ooh..they all sound great, but #1 sounds like something I’d really enjoy! ?
#3!
Ooh, hard to decide, but #3 sounds interesting.
#2 sounds interesting
Such a cool concept! I’m totally guilty of judging books by their cover. #3 sounds up my alley!
You make all of them sound interesting – but I’d pick book #2!
#2-sounds suspenseful and mysterious!
Book 1, I am always down for a historical fiction. 🙂
Book #1, definitely! Pandemics make for great stories… and board games!
I am new to this blog and am loving it!!! I like book 1 and I love this idea!!! I have read almost all of your books that you have read in 24 hours or less? Blessings to you!!
I would like to try book 2. Thanks!
Book 3 intrigues me. Can’t wait to find out the titles of all three.
I am most interested in book #3!
Ooh, #1 sounds great!
I’d love a blind date with #1!
They all sound so good but number 1 catches my eye!
I’d probably go with #3! I absolutely love this idea and wish I could find a place close to me that did it. I would be more than willing to take care in an activity like this at a local bookstore.
I’ve seen Blind Date with a Book at a number of bookstores but I’ve never actually participated. I think #1 sounds most interesting.
#1 – you had me at historical fiction!!!
#1 sounds good to me.
I’m hoping you’ll reveal the titles on Monday as well, please?
Oh my gosh, oh how I love this idea. I may have to do this myself. While all of your descriptions sound captivating, #3 sounds up my alley!
#1 histfic for the win!
I’d love to go on a blind date with book number one. I love historical fiction and your description is very intriguing. Thanks for the chance!
#1!
Ooooh #2 is particularly intriguing to me!
#2, please!
#2! If i had to guess, Bear Town??? Haven’t read it but have heard lost of descriptions.
#3 🙂 (though #1 also sounds my style, but I will go with #3)
Book 1 ?
All of them sound like great reads. I keep scrolling between #1 & #2. It came down to “Eeny, Meany” to choose: #1.
I’ll try book #3. Outside of my normal historical romance, but hey, I’m blind-dating a new book. So shimmy!
#2! Love this!
Definitely #1
They all sound intriguing, but I love the description of book #2!
This is so intriguing!! I’d be interested in 3!
I think book #1 is for me! But would love to read any of them!
Book #1 looks like the one for me.
#3 sounds interesting!
#3 had me at “social awkwardness”!
#2, You had me at dark. And then small town. You did me in with cold. Can’t wait to find out what you are!
Very much interested in #1!
If I have to choose only one, then #1 – but I’ll probably try to read all three when they’re revealed!
1 sounds really interesting! My local library does this at Christmas time. So fun to take home a book to unwrap!Thanks!
1
Definitely Number 1!
#2 looks most interesting to me!!
All sound good, but #2 sounds fascinating!
I love book blind dates! My book club does them for our holiday gift exchange. All three of the ones you’ve chosen sound great, but I’m going to go with #2. So much fun!
I love a good historical fiction. #1 sounds like a winner to me!
3 sounds interesting!
I love book blind dates! My book club does one for our holiday book exchange. So much fun! All three of the books you’ve selected sound like great reads, but I’m going to go with #2.
Number 3. You had me at “unlikely friends”!!
I love historical fiction, but I would choose #2.
2 or 3 sound so interesting!!
I love this idea. #1 looks good to me!
I would love to “date” #1. Really want to know what it is! 🙂
I’m most intrigued by #2!
#2 sounds just like the type of book I need right now!
#3 sounds intriguing.
They all sound great! I think I will go for #2!
OMGosh! How fun! Historical fiction is my favorite genre, so I’d choose #1.
Ohh… either #1 or #2 sound really interesting.
Love this idea! So excited for a chance to try this! I was initially intrigued by #2, but it sounds a little like Beartown (which I love, but also own multiple copies of). So my pick is #3…that book sounds exactly my cup of tea!
#1 sounds interesting!
Ooooh that’s a hard choice, but the word “adventure” is making me choose #2!
Number 1!
I think I’m dating book #1 currently so I will say that I am most intrigued by book#2. I hope you will eventually share the names of these books! Thanks for the chance!
So fun! Book 1 sounds right up my alley with historical fiction and war. ?
#3. This is such a fun idea!!
3! Love your blog!!
Definitely #1. My favorite genre is Historical Fiction. However they all sound intriguing!
Number 2!
#1. Historical fiction wins everytime!! Thanks Anne ?
Book #1. Working at a local health department, the only way I want to experience an epidemic is in literary form. But I find the transmission and the human impacts fascinating!
For sure #1! This is such a great concept!
I think I just bought number 1, so I’m going to go with number 2! I think your wording is perfect!
#1 Sounds good to me!
I’m game! #3, please!
#2 🙂
#2 looks intriguing!
Number Three! I like the idea of baby steps and awkwardness 🙂
#3 hmmm, unlikely friends…
They all sound great but I’ll go with number 2!
Number 1…come to me….
#3 looks right up my alley!! Love this!
All sound great to me!! I’m flexible!
They all sound great but I will go with #1. I’m a sucker for historical fiction.
#2 sounds great!
I’m a sucker for historical fiction so I am going to go with #1! Love this idea!
Oh they all sound good but I’m thinking that I just finished #1. So I’m thinking I’d like #2.
Oh, how fun! I’d choose #2. Thanks, Anne!
Book #3. I can relate to most of those topics with the exception of a terrible childhood. I love this idea of blind date books!
I think #1 sounds like it’s right up my alley – I love historical fiction!
#2
Oh, so hard to choose! #1 or #3, both intrigue me!
# 2 sounds like something great to crawl up with , along with a ice hot cup of tea 🙂
Book 2 for me! I think I might have an idea of what book 3 is!! Excited to find out!
#1 sounds so interesting!
#2, although they all sound great!
#3…love misfits because I am one ….
#1!
What a fun idea! It’s so hard to choose, but my first pick is #2. 🙂
#2 sounds fun!
#2. The words “dark” and “adventure” call to me.
Never done this befor and haven’t seen anyone around here doing it. It’s an internet phenomenon to me! It also gives me a bit of anxiety for some reason. LOL!
How to choose???? But if I had to, #2.
#2 sounds intriguing!
No 2. sounds interesting to me. Cold and family saga are the descriptive words I like.
How fun! My vote would be #1 or #2… and I’m so curious to see if my guesses at the titles are correct!
#1 – adoption almost always draws me in!
I *think* I might have read #1, but am not sure. Oh I love historical fiction! I am going to go with #3 though 🙂 Thank you!
#1 sounds great! I always love historical fiction!
#1 sounds so good!
Book 1 or 3! Neat idea! Haven’t heard of it before. Want to thank you for changing my reading life! You convinced me via your podcast to give the book “This is how it Always Is” another try! I had abandoned it awhile back and then heard you talking about it on the show recently and gave it another shot! Loved it! Thank you!
Any of these sound fun to me, but I’m going to vote cast my lot for number 2.
#2 sounds fun to me!
I think I have read #1 so I would pick #2.
Number 3
Book one sounds amazing
#1 sounds intriguing to me! I love historical fiction and have read so many good WWII books the last couple years (not that we know what ware this is!) Also, I had a “lightning bolt moment” listening to Laura Vanderkam’s episode when she said she doesn’t like books with “social awkwardness” situations. I don’t either and I never thought about it as something I could not like and therefore avoid! So in my newfound knowledge and realization, I’m going to steer clear of #3! So fun! I’m going to think how I can do something like this for my bookclub!
Even though I don’t usually read dark books that often, 2 grabbed my attention. Will you share all the titles in the future please?
#1–Though all have piqued my interest. 🙂
Book #1! Historical fiction as always my first choice. Plus since I read Station Eleven I’ve been looking for a book with a good pandemic.
Book #2! So intrigued by the descriptors.
I think I would go with book #1. Mothers and Daughters and a pandemic, fun!
#1! I’m so curious to find out these titles!
All three sound interesting, but I would choose #1 because I love historical fiction. Interestingly enough, I was at my local public library this morning with two of my children (we are a family with 4 kids as well! :)), and there was a display with three wrapped books on it and a sign that said something along the lines…”suggestion from a librarian. Check me out.” 🙂
Book 1! Book 1! Book 1!
The description for #1 is most enticing to me. Curious to know what it is!
#2
Oh man, they all look great! I wouldn’t mind reading any of them, but maybe I’d pick up #2 first just based on these clues. 🙂
They all sound intriguing, but I would have to go with #2. I’ve never gone in a blind date with a book, but I’ve seen the idea before and thought it was so clever!
So much fun! I’d choose #1
I love this idea!! I live in smalltown Indiana, where the closest bookstore is almost an hour away (yikes!). I’ve been dying to give this a try – I choose book #2!
Definitely #1, I love historical fiction. I love this idea, but am sooo curious to know these books!
Book 2 sounds intriguing! 🙂
The library where I work did this last year! I have to admit the patrons were somewhat unsure and didn’t participate as much as we would have liked. The staff, however, had great fun picking out favorite books and writing the clues!
I’ll have to pick #2!
#1 would be my choice!
They all sound good… but I’d pick #1!
I like #1 the best but also like the others also.
They all look great, but number one would be my first choice.
I’m going to have to say #2, although #3 sounds good too! Excited to hear what the titles are!
I would definitely meet #1 at a coffeeshop. I mean, I’m a happily married woman, but sign me up for a blind (book) date!
I’m going with #3. Unlikely friends got my attention. Sounds like some tension lurking about.
They all sound intriguing, but I’m going with book 2!
Number one! I love this idea!
I am going to go with something different From what I usually read and say number 3!
Such a fun idea! Tough decision… I think I’ll go with #3.
I think I’d like to read #1, though #3 sounds interesting too. I hope you’ll post what they actually are after the winners have been announced! I love this idea 🙂
#2! What a fun giveaway!
Tough choice, but I think I choose book 1.
I’m going with #1. Thanks!
Book #2! Love this idea!
#1 sounds like my jam! I love the idea of a book blind date and haven’t seen it in my area.
They all sound interesting but I’m leaning toward #3
I would choose number one!
#1
This is so fun! I would pick #2. It sounds very intriguing!
I can’t wait for the reveal! #1 or #2 sound intriguing the most to me!
#3 sounds intriguing to me!
Oh, I vote book #2! You had me at “family saga” …. g
#3 sounds great! You had me unlikely friends and social awkwardness.
Although #2 sounds good, I am not too sure about the dark part. My pick is #1
Number 2 sounds intriguing!
Book #1!! I have some guesses on a couple of these! Now eagerly awaiting the reveal on Friday!
Pick me~! Pick me~!#3. Sold me with “social awkwardness”?
#1 seems fascinating! 🙂
#1 sounds like right up my alley! Are these new releases? Because it sounds like “As Bright As Heaven” by Susan Meissner and I really want to read it! 🙂
I’d love to try book #3. I think I am going to arrange some blind dates for my next book club meeting! Thanks for the fun idea!
#2 for me!
I have a feeling I know what book #3 is, so I’m excited to find out if I’m right!
#2 sounds awesome!
What a great idea! #2 appeals to me the most, but #3 sounds interesting too.
#2 sounds awesome! I’m intrigued by #3 because I think I’ve read it! I want to see if I’m right 🙂
I have so many guesses!!! Can’t wait until friday to find out. I’d pick #1 for sure. I’m a sucker for historical fiction.
Number 1
I think I would have to go with #1. Though, it’s a very difficult decision as all three sound intriguing (and I’m at a complete loss as to what any of them could be).
this is so fun! #1 would be my choice!
Number 1!
#3 – Intrigued by your descriptors and guessing it’s something I wouldn’t normally pick.
#1 intrigues me!
You had me at #1! I can’t wait for the reveal of each book!
They all sound so intriguing! I think I’d go for 3 though, if I can only pick one. 🙂
Maybe#2… I’m always up for an adventure, in a small, cold dark town. 🙂
Number 1 looks right up my alley!
#1 sounds great! Our school library (high school) does this each February!
#2!
#1- you got me with pandemic.
#2 sounds interesting, love this idea!
I am most interested in #3.
Thanks!
#3
So fun! I’d go with book 2. Thanks!
Book #2 looks wonderful!
#3 totally sounds like something I would pick!
My library is doing their annual february blind book dates!
I would like to read book #2. Thanks!
#1 I love Historical fiction! Being adopted myself I love the aspect of the adoption clue and mother and daughter clue.
Number 1! Historical fiction is my favorite!
I recently tried a blind date with a book at a used bookstore in Asheville. I was a little (ok, a lot) disappointed to unwrap the book later to discover…a history textbook about domestic life in ancient Rome. 😀
Yours all sound much better than that and #2 sounds the most intriguing!!
My local bookstore doesn’t do this but one of my favorites, Malaprops in Asheville does! After a lot of waffling, it’s got to be #2 for me!
Book #1 sounds like my style.
Number 2 sounds intriguing and outside my normal read!
My library did this a few years back, and I loved it!
#2 looks great! Can’t wait to see what these are!
Book #1?❤️
Number sounds like my kind of book. This sounds fun! Thank you!
Haha! I didn’t say what number! I meant Number ONE!! 🙂
Book #1 looks interesting!
So hard to choose but I think #3!
#3 sounds good to me! I love the blind date idea!
#1 looks lovely.
This is so fun! I think I’ll pick #1
#1 sounds great! …blind book date —What a fun idea!
Book 2! Thanks!!
Tough call! I’d say #3 as it sounds the most light-hearted which I could use right now.
Book #3 is the one that appeals most to me!
#2 sounds interesting to me!
What a great idea, Anne! I’m interested in #2. Even if I don’t win, you’ll have to tell us what the titles were!
Thanks for bringing the idea to us!
I have a guess on #2, I think I am reading it right now…. So My choice is #3! And thank you for the inspiration for my library display this weekend!
#2 looks intriguing to me. I went on a blind date with a book once – the book was Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up on my own, but I enjoyed it.
I had no idea that it originated in Australia. I love the concept though now all I want to know is what the books are.
Book 1 would be my pick but they all sound really good.
Book 3❣️???
I’ve always thought the blind date with a book was a terrific idea! I think #2 sounds intriguing!
This is so fun! Book 2 sounds interesting.
Ooh, I am torn between 1 and 2. . . . .Ok, 2 it is!
#1!
I am intrigued by #1. If #2 is what I think it is then I have already read it and it is wonderful.
I think #1 grabbed me right away. I think even if I don’t win I will need to read this.
#1 sounds great!!
I love this! #1 sounds great… but so do the other two! They all seem like books I’d read.
I find number 3 very intriguing. U have never read a hidden book before. This is exciting!
What a fun idea! I would love Book #1. Adoption + the mom/dot dance are always intriguing themes!
Number 1 looks interesting!
How fun!! I had not heard of Blind Date Books until today. I’m interested in book 2!
Book #1 sounds intriguing!
#1
#1 as you had me at “historical fiction”. Such a fun idea!
2 sounds great!
#1 sounds like my kind of book!
No. 2 sounds intriguing!
#3 please
#1 !!!! Pandemic, historical fiction, mothers and daughters ….some of my very favorite themes for books!
Number 1, maybe number 3…
Number 2! Family saga is my kind of story!
So fun! They all sound great, but I’d go with #2.
#1 please!!! What a great (mystery giveaway idea Anne!)
Ooh that’s a hard one, but I’ll go with #3!
#1 for sure! I would be so so excited. I recently started to fall in love with physical books again, mostly thanks to your podcast. I’d love to add another to my collection!
So fun! #1 for me!
OK, all look amazing as I love to read any genre- but 2 has me more intrigued than others. Love small town adventures and family sagas…..by cold, I’m assuming you mean northern climes as opposed to the family? But, either way, sounds good!
Book #2 sounds so intriguing!
I would like to read book #2, sounds like the right ingredients!
I’m interested in #1. Historical fiction is starting to be one of my favorite new types of books!
As a historical fiction buff I’ll take book one please!!! Such a great concept
Number 2 intrigues me! Yay books!
I think they all sound kind of intriguing! Each one has at least one word that’s drawing me in, but I’ll pick #2!
#1 definitely. Has all of the ingredients I like in a book. What an intriguing idea to go on a blind date with a book! It would certainly be better than 90% of the “real” blind dates I went on when I was younger!
#2!!
I saw this recently at a local thrift store and thought it was SUCH a fun idea! Unfortunately, none of their descriptions really appealed to me, so I didn’t purchase. Haha! But of these, I’d have to say number 1 sounds most intriguing!
Book #2 sounds interesting!
I’d like to try book #2,please! ?
#3 looks like a great read to me.
I am a historical fiction fan, so I would go with #1.
#2 please. What a fun post!
#3 – you had me at social awkwardness…
Books 1&2 are equally appealing but I feel like I might have read book number 2…so I’d pick book #1. I hope I win, but if not I still look forward to finding out why the titles are because I totally want to read them!!!
I’d choose Book #2! I think I’ve read Book #3 and #1 sounds like something I have read, but I cannot figure it out. They all sound great!
I love this idea! I once got a free book with purchase and had to pick from a bunch of wrapped books, no descriptions. I choose door number 1!
I’d probably give any of them a shot, but if I have to pick one, it would be #3.
#3 – I love books descibed as awkward!
Please put me down for Book #2. It’s a cold day here and I love a family saga.
BOOK #2!! What a super fun idea, I’ve never heard of this…my book club does a white elephant book exchange and I’m going to suggest this!
Book #1 sounds so intriguing! I’m a teacher (and nurse) and I’ll be teaching about pandemics next month so I’d love to know what book it is.
They all sound interesting, but I would go with #3!
#3 – although I would be happy with any of them.
Oh- so hard to choose! But historical fiction + pandemic is too interesting to pass up the chance! #1. What a fascinating idea; can’t wait for the reveal.
My order of preference would be 2, 1, 3 – all of the descriptions have an element of interest. Thanks!
#3 ?
#1 for me! I can never resist a good pandemic and with a mother daughter dynamic thrown in? I have gone on one blind date with a book from our local library and my teenage daughter picked it out for me. See why I love a mother daughter connection?
#1!
Book #2!
#2!
Book #1! I’d love to do this blind date idea at book club one month. I think the ladies would all LOVE it.
Without a doubt…book #1!
I love this idea & wish we had An indie bookstore around town to do this. #2 would be my pick but they all look intriguing.
I haven’t yet found a nearby bookstore that does blind dates with books, but I have loved the idea ever since I first heard of it! While all your options look good, I’m most intrigued by the first one. Thanks for the chance, Anne.
#3 sounds intriguing. It had me at socially awkward, ha!
No clue what 1 or 3 is. Is 2 Beartown?
Woo woo!! What a fun contest!!#1
This brown book makes me ‘wonder’ the most. Historical fiction turns my crank. Add the word PANDEMIC and I get a little creeped out—which I also like!!
Pick me! Pick me!?
#1 sounds amazing! I love historical fiction books:)
#3 sounds like my kind of book!
I have no clue what these could be! Book #1 sounds intriguing though!
I’m intrigued by #1. What a fun idea!
#1. Who doesn’t love a good pandemic!!!! I have not done a blind date with a book and excited to try it. It has to be better than my last blind date in college (a million years ago).
Number 3 sounds great to me!
I’m interested in book #2 (though 3 sounds good too)!
#1 sounds interesting!
I’m interested in book #1. Love historical fiction, but with a pandemic sounds very intriguing.
Book #2
What fun! Hard to decide, but I think I’m most interested in book #2.
Number 3! I’m a sucker for a family saga 🙂 I’ve never seen this in our area, and I I love the idea.
I’ll go with #1 too, as #2 and #3 sound somewhat familiar… hard to tell, though! So intriguing!!!
Oh boy, what fun! Knowing you I bet that I would be pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoy all of them. Today, number 3 is really piquing my interest.
#3 sounds great! This is such a wonderful idea, Anne! Thank you! 🙂
It’s possible I already own #2 if I’m guessing right, so I’m going to go with #3. It was hard to choose between the two (#1 and #3), though.
They all sound great. Leaning toward #1!
Based on your clues, I think I know #1 (and I loved it). Who doesn’t want to go with love (and with all the little hearts, no less), so I’d pick #2! My favorite kids bookstore where I used to live did this and I thought it was such a fun idea! xo
#1, please! This is such a fun giveaway!
#1 sounds intriguing!
Number two sounds intriguing!
Your quick descriptions make them all sound appealing! I think I’ll choose #1.
I love family sagas so that I would go for number 2!
#1 I’m always ready for historical fiction.
#1!!!!
I think #2 sounds intriguing (actually they all do…but I’ll stick with 2).
#1! Love Historical Fiction 🙂
Our local library has done this and it looked fun but for whatever reason I didn’t grab one. #2 sounds right up my alley! Looking forward to the big reveal…
I’m so torn between 1 and 2, both sound amazing!
I’ll go with #2!
#3! Social awkwardness? Sounds like me, I’m in. 🙂
Ooh, I’d choose Book #1.
I have gone on a blind date with a book through our local library and… it was terrible! (Bleak Norwegian story about an arsonist.) I think the librarians picked books that had been neglected on their shelves (for good reason)! 🙂
You got me with adoption in book #1!
What a fun idea. Book 2 definitely! I’m looking forward to the reveal on Friday.
I’m in 2 book groups so that’s sort of like having other people set you up on blind book dates? I love it because it has me reading things other than what I would pick for myself. I’m always excited to find out the new pick! In an effort to pick the book I would least pick myself, I choose #2.
#1 is my cup of tea!! I can’t wait to find out what these are!
They all sound intriguing, but #2 sounds the best to me. I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover!
#3 sounds great to me! Well they all do, but if I am right I have two of them! lol
Ohh…number 2!
This is great! Number 2 for me, please!
#1 sounds right up my alley!
#3
I think I’ve guessed #1 and have just read it. Also think I know #2 and have read it. If I’m right I loved both.
#1 – I’m going through a historical fiction phase! My local used bookstore is doing “blind date with a book” on Valentines Day and I’m planning to go, but it would be fun to date two books at once! ?
Oops, I mean I would pick #2. I think I’ve read #3 and if I’m right I loved it. Last week I picked up a blind date book at the library. The description was male, occupation author, hates war, loves to spend an evening at a cafe. It was Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.
#1 historical fiction and war… can’t go wrong… so curious
#2 sounds perfect for this time of year!
#2 sounds perfect for me… I have seen similar at the book store, but afraid of commiting to an actual purchase! I would definitely try at the library though. Look forward to Friday’s reveal even if I don’t “win”.
They all sound great, but I have to say #3 sounds the most compelling to me. I am a sucker for social awkwardness (I can so relate!).
Book #1 because I love historical fiction! (Although they all sound good)
I’d go for number 2. The small town sells it.
Book #3!
#1 sounds interesting! Thanks for doing this Anne!
As a librarian, I have done the book blind date before. It is surprisingly hard to write decent descriptions for a book without giving too much away. You have inspired me to make another round of them for next week. I think I am most interested in #1,because I love the sort of historical fiction that might feature a pandemic. Number #3 was sort of appealing to my unfiltered self, too, but I am choosing #1.
What a fun idea! If picking just one is a must, then #1–historical fiction gets me every time!
#1 ALL THE WAY! Adoption – mothers & daughters always gets me to pick up a book – super excited about this one because I’m not sure at all what it is!
They all intrigue me, but I’ll go with #1!
Number 2! This is fun! I’ve done this at a bookstore before, but I’d never though of a library doing it! I’m going to suggest that a my library!
They all look good, but number 2 intruquies me most!!
Book 1 sounds great! Historical and pandemic!
Sign me up for awkward — 3 sounds right up my alley! Can’t wait to see these revealed and add to my TBR :’D
This is such a fun idea that I have not seen in my bookstore. #2 sounds intriguing to me.
Historical & pandemic – I’ll take book #1 please!
Number 2!!
I love this idea! My neighborhood library just started doing this, too.
#1 and #2 look incredibly interesting. But I think #2 has got my attention more!!!! I would love to win number 2!!!!
#1 looks intriguing! I just picked up my first blind date with a book from my local library and I’d love to do another date with this book!
#1
Love this idea!
I’m really intrigued by Book #2. Maybe it’s because I’m relating to the COLD in all capital letters!!
#3 seems like it’d make for a really good read.
I’m a sucker for mother-daughter stories and I love historical fiction, so I pick book #1! 🙂
Book #2 -you had me at family saga!
I love this idea! Number 1
You had me at historical fiction! #1 please!
#1 sounds like my kind of book. Thanks.
#1 Please! 🙂
Number 1 please! Although #2 sounds interesting as well. Will you tell us the titles after the giveaway?
#1 for me for sure!!
Book #1 sounds very interesting; they ALL sound very interesting, but I would really be looking at the price tag of Number 1 if I were in a bookstore. Thank you for an inspiring contest!
#2 sounds intriguing!
How fun! They all sound good, if I’m being honest! I pick #1!
I love historical fiction so definitely #1!
I can’t decided between 1 or 2. I have an idea of what 2 is, so if I had to pick, I think I would go with 1 because I have no idea what that one could be.
#3 Sounds the most intriguing to me. I’ve recently found your podcast WSIRN and I’ve fallen in love with it! I work at a bookstore so I’m always looking for new picks and interesting finds. We’re also setting up a Blind Date with a Book display, and it’s difficult finding books and what to say! Thanks for all you’re doing for us book-lovers!
#2 sounds fascinating!
Book #1 would be my choice! Historical Fiction is one of my favorite genres! I look forward to seeing your post on Friday and discovering what books these are!
#3!
#2 sounds good! I prefer not to know too much about books before I read them, so I’m not tainted and the story just evolves, so a blind date book sounds fantastic!
Book #2
#3 looks right up my alley!!
Book #!
The first and only time I’ve seen this in person was at the Red Lodge, Montana library while my husband and I took a rest in between days of mountain climbing.
Thanks for the giveaway Anne 🙂
So fun! #1 sounds the most intriguing to me.
#2
I can’t choose, 1 or 2!!!! OK, #1.?
Book #2…family saga!
No. 1 (cannot resist a good pandemic!)
I’ve seen blind dates with books at my library and also at bookstores but I haven’t yet taken the plunge!
Number 2!
All the choices look great, but I am most drawn to #1.
This is so fun! I like Number 3 best!
It sounds like a great idea!
Book number 2 sounds the best to me!
Definitely Book #1! What a FUN idea! I love this.
#2 seems pretty amazing. But, I’m sure they all impress.
Ooooh…so fun. #1, please!
I am intrigued by all three, but I would have to pick number 2! I can’t wait to find out what they are!!
#1 sounds intriguing!
#2 For me! You had me at “Dark” and sealed my interest with “small town” then curiosity kicked in with “cold”! Can’t wait to see what this book is. So exciting…this is fun! Thank you
#1 piqued my interest!
#1 Sounds like one that will make me think and cry! Fantastic idea.
I love this! I’m a sucker for family sagas, so I’d choose #2.
They all sound intriguing. I think I might know what #2 is so I will choose #3.
#3 please! It looks awesome!
#1 ?
Ooh, definitely #2!
All 3 sound interesting, but I love adventure so I choose #2
Number 3 sounds good to me!
Ohhh what fun! #2 for me please! You had me at FAMILY SAGA!!
Historical fiction and a pandemic? #1 for me!
No.3! Although I may have just read it.
#3 for me!
#2, closely followed by #1 (and #3, ha!). So fun!
I am slightly suspect that number 2 is Twilight!! I’d love to try it though.
That’s the one I chose, so I hope not!
Tough choice! Number two sounds so intriguing though. Thanks for this!!!
I’d pick book #1.
I know I’ve already read #3, and based on your clues, I think I just finished reading #2. How fun – can’t wait for Friday’s reveals.
I think you should make this a regular thing. Even without a giveaway, this would be a fun way to get introduced to books we might not otherwise pick!
#1!! Historical fiction is my favorite!!
Oooooh, so fun! Thank you for the chance to win! They all sound fantastic, and I’m not confident in any of them, so well done. 🙂 I’m a sucker for historical fiction, so I think #1 is my first choice, but I’m intrigued by all three.
Such an interesting way to choose a book. As a retired school librarian this would have been a great way to get students to read books. Wish I had thought of this! I am intrigued by book #2. Fingers crossed
#1 sounds good to me!
They all sound interesting, but I think #3 would be my first choice.
All three sound like something I’d want to read! But if I had to pick , I’d say #1. I love historical fiction!
Book number two please
They all sound great, but it’s been a while since I read a really good historical fiction…. so #1 🙂
#3 sounds very interesting!
#2
#2 Definitely! Sounds so interesting!!
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I’m number 1.
Such a great idea! Number 1 for me!
Book #3 for sure!
Book #1! Thanks for a fun giveaway.
Book 1 looks good to me! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
I would go for book #1! But #3 sounds completely fine!
Definitely book #2. You got me with the words “adventure” and “survival.” 🙂
Oooh, number one please! I might have to do this with some books in my classroom! So fun!
#1. Thank you for doing this. Can’t wait to hear the titles. Happy Valentine’s (and galentine’s) Day to you!
#2!! Love a dark story
#2
#1 please. Can think of pandemic and adoption in the same book…..
#2 is my wish on my 49th bday!
#2!
I’m thinkkng I’ve likely read Book #1 so since I live in a small town I’ll choose Book #2. They all sound great. Our library does Blind Date with a Book. I love it!
#1 is the one for me. You had me at historical fiction!
Book #2!
I would have to choose #2! I need some adventure in my life!
I am interested in Number 1. The Mother’s and daughter storyline and historical fiction have me intrigued.
3 sounds more my type. I hate to say historical fiction is not my thing typically but unlikely friends with social awkwardness sounds great! I loved Eleanor and Park so this might be great.
What a fun idea. Book #2 sounds interesting!
Book 1! I wish my library did this, it looks like such fun!
Love this!! #3!
#1 sounds intriguing! I haven’t read much historical fiction and I am itching to get more into it!
What fun! I’m going to choose #3. I have ideas for 1 and 2 so I can’t wait to see what they are. Thanks Ann – your very creative!
Gosh, they all sound so interesting. But I’m going to say #1!
#1 sounds great!
Hmm. #2 for me, please. Though all three are intriguing. Now I want to know what they all are!
I love historical fiction, but something about small-town grabs me. #2 please! Though I’d be happy to go on this adventure with any. Thanks Anne!
I really want to read book #2!
#1 for me!
#2 handsdown! 🙂 I think I have an inkling on book #1… My guess is that it was a recent pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club…
#3 sounds most intriguing!
I’d read them all, but I’m a sucker for hard times and survival. I think #2 would be my pick.
#1 is my first choice! I love historical fiction!
#2 would be my second choice. I’m drawn in by the small town setting.
#2 but really I’m intrigued by all three!
#2 looks intriguing!
#1 sounds fascinating! That would be my pick. What a fantastic idea this is!
#2 looks interesting to me!
What fun! Book one would be my choice!
# 1 I’ve been wanting to try one of these for a while!
excited to find out about #1!
Intrigued by #3!
I think I’d like no. 3 (mainly because I *think* I know what nos. 1 and 2 are, and I already have them!)
Book #1 sounds perfect for me!
Wow! Such fun! I “think” that I finished book #3 on July 4, 2016; and then I finished #2 on September 16, 2017, so I would love a chance at #1. (Having two daughters helps with that choice, too.). Thank you for creating such a fun puzzle. This sounds like a future project for my book club!
I love this idea! Book #2 is intriguing me the most.
#1 sounds great!
#3. You had me at unlikely friends.
Book 1
Adventure, love, survival?!? Obviously #2 is a winner ??
Gonna go for book #1
Book #2 for me!
Book #2 sounds interesting to me.
#1 sounds intriguing. 🙂
#1 sounds fascinating! Would love to give it a chance!
Book number 2 sounds the most interesting to me. Never done a book blind date before.
I think #1 sounds interesting. I’m fairly certain I know what 2 & 3 are. 🙂
Book #1 please!!
I’d love to read book 2, it sounds right up my alley, specially cuddled up in my sofa with my dog and a hot cup of tea. x) Thank you for doing this!
#2 looks right up my alley!
Book #2 sounds great!! It reminds me of The Snow Child which I absolutely loved!
I’m really torn – I’m not a picky reader at all but I guess I’d pick #3 but only because two had the word dark in the description. But if I were in a bookstore I’d probably buy all three. Thank you for your generosity.
Book 3!
#1 or #3! I’m a sucker for a good historical fiction or feel-good novel.
I love this! Wish somewhere near me was doing it.
#1 looks really good to me!
I think I might be currently reading #3…. sounds familiar 🙂
#3 looks very intriguing! Love this idea!?
I would
select book #3. Have not seen this done at any book stores in St. Louis yet. Fun to select a new read this way! Thanks for the opportunity, Anne.
No 1 spoke to me first. Such a cute idea!
Book #2! I love a dark story.
I choose #2 but all 3 are tempting!
Number 3 please. I love historical fiction but my last 3 books were in that genre so number 3 sounds intriguing. Fun giveaway!
#1–War, historical fiction AND pandemic?? 🙂
Book #2 for sure – dark and small-town is right up my alley!!
Also – I think I know what Book #3 is 🙂
#1 for this Priscilla! I love historical fiction…..it’s my happy place!
#1 sounds like a date I want! As an adoptive mom, the “adoption” theme mention gets me every time.
#1 but #3 sounds good too. Heck I would read any of them!
Number 1!
I would love to try #3!
#2 but I’m sure all 3 will go on my TBR list once you reveal them!
In a house full of social awkwardness…. not really … we homeschool… #3 would interest us!
I say no 3….
Books #1 and #3 sounds interesting.
That is tough! I love historical fiction but #2 sounds the most intriguing. I did a blind date through my library. It was interesting.
This is so hard! I think I’ll go with number 2.
#1
Number 1
I would choose #1 – I’m trying to read more historical fiction and I can never resist a book with that is described as having a “pandemic” in it!
Number 2 but they all sound interesting! I’m going to see if my library to do this!
If it wasn’t a blind date, I’d say #1 because I love historical fiction. Since it’s a blind date and I should try something out of my comfort zone, I choose #3.
#2 please!!
Number 3 looks good. Thank you!
Hmm so hard! I think I’d pick 1.
They all sound good, but I think I’d pick Book #1. 🙂
#3! Thanks for an interesting Giveaway!
I have always wanted to try this, but have not yet visited a bookstore where it is offered! I would pick book #2. It sounds intriguing!
Oh goodness! I could pick any of them, but number 3 jumped out at me!
Number one sounds like the perfect pick for me.
#1 has me the most intrigued but #2 is also very tempting!
I recently saw this at my local bookstore. I purchased 2. When I opened them I realize they were probably books that they couldn’t sell which kinda discouraged me.
I think #3 from your lineup looks pretty interesting.
Book 3 please! Sounds different from my “normal” books!
#1 would totally be my cup of tea! I love historical fiction and have fallen into a bit of a historical fiction war theme recently.
Book #3
I’d love to go on a blind date with Book #2. I’ve gotten so many book ideas from your blogs.
I would love to read a book from any of the categories. But since I have just finished several historical fictions, I would like to read something from #2
All of them, but #3 is really intriguing me!
Oh my gosh this is such a cool idea! I’m going to try and get my local bookstore to do it! All three books sound intriguing but I confess that the word “pandemic” in Book 1 grabbed me. What does that say about me…
Book #1!
what a great idea! I LOVE historical fiction. I’d pick #1
I would choose #1
Ooh…they all sound good, but my pick is #3. What a fun trend! Thanks for offering it!
Books 1 and 3 sound like me! I would not be against number 2, to try something new.
#3 – sounds like maybe a memoir!
I want #1!!
I’m intrigued by #2. I’m holding my guess as to what it is until the reveal on Friday
They all sound perfect! I’ve been reading a lot of historical fiction lately so let me go out on a limb and say number three. Doesn’t sound like something I would normally read but trying to broaden my horizons.
A fun idea 🙂 I’ve never bought a ‘blind book date’, but if I ever see one again, I’ll give it a go! I’m interested in #1, or #3. No ‘dark’ for me 🙂 Thank you Anne, for the intriguing post!
#1 for me!!
Gosh, each has super clues! Number 1 for me!
3 is right in my wheelhouse!
Book # 2 sounds very appealing!
I am interested in #1. I like getting into another time and place with historical fiction.
#1 fo sure!! 😉
I’m a bit torn between #1 and #2 but I will go with my gut and say #2!
Love the idea of going on a blind date with a book. All sound great but most interested in book 3
All of them sound good to me! But I would probably pick #1 as my first choice. I love blind book dates!
#1 aligns with my taste the most. I love historical fiction!
#3 intrigues me…would love to read it!
#1 sounds awesome to me!
I think #2 sounds like the one I would pick.
This sounds SO fun! I think book #2 seems like it is right up my alley!
#2 looks intriguing!
I pick 1. I’ve never been on a blind date but this one looks like one my husband wouldn’t mind me going on 🙂
What a wonderful idea! Entry for #1 for me please.
Number one looks so good!
#1 looks interesting. I’m adopted, so always interested in those stories!
I love this idea! #2 appeals to me.
#2- you had me at “love!”
3 looks good!
Hard to choose between 2 or 3, but I am thinking I’ll go with 3. Books wrapped in brown paper with secret messages is the cutest idea!
#1 seems quite interesting. I think the idea of a blind date with a book is super interesting!
Number two looks fantastic!
Number 2 sounds like a great read.
Btw I can’t figure out what the books are by your descriptions, but they make me want to read all of them.
I would spring for #3!
#2 would be a great change of pace for me!
I think I’d like book #1!
Number two sounds interesting and this would let me try something new without knowing anything about it.
#1 !!
#1 please
Number 3: I love to read about unlikely characters that meet up and found they have more in common then they think.
I think #2 sounds intriguing.
#2, I’m up for an adventure!
Wow they all sound so interesting #2 sounds like something I have not read in a while. This is a great idea! Thank you.
Number 1, yum!
Hi! My vote is #2 please.
Hmm, I can’t decide on #2 or #3. Both sound very intriguing. I have been definitely interested in getting out of my comfort zone and trying something new and both fit the bill!
#2 and #3 look like something I would like. I will choose #2 because of the word “dark.” I am always drawn to a little darkness in a book!
#3 looks great!!
#2 sounds like a book out of my comfort zone, so I have to go for that one. You never know, I might just love it!
#2
#1 sounds awesome. Nothing like a historical fiction to transport you away!
#3, but honestly, they all sound great!
#2 sounds like a perfect winter read!
All of your clues intrigue me! Always love a good family saga, so I’ll say #2. I’ve never tried a book blind date!
#1 for me, although #2 is intriguing too! What a wonderful idea for Valentine’s Day!
2-sounds great for a winter read!
Definitely #2!!
It’s a hard choice but I have to say #1! I was adopted to the adoption in there caught my eye:)
I would be interested in #1. I have guesses as to what #2 and #3 are and if I am correct I have already read the books. Whatever happens I can’t wait to find out about more about the blind date books.
Book #2 sounds great!
I’d choose #2.
Book #1 sounds like one I would love!
What fun! They all sound good, but #3 would be my top pick!
#2 sounds right up my alley!
They all sound intriguing, but I’m going with #1. We did this in our school library when I was teaching. Fun!
#3 sounds terrific – but really, they all do!
I can’t decide between #1 and #3! #3 sounds like more of a typical read for me, while the themes in #1 are intriguing but I generally don’t go for historical fiction. I guess that’s what the blind date part is all about, right? Sooo. #1. Let’s go out and see what happens. 😉
#2 – I have been suffering from book hangover all week and I think I need something dark and moody to get me over it already!
#3…I love this idea of mystery books!
What a fun idea! Book #2 sounds the most interesting to me.
#2! What a fun idea. I can’t wait to see what books they are!
Book 1!!
#3, thank you!
#3 looks interesting. It was so exciting to see this, as I work part-time in a small library and we did a similar promotion around April Fool’s Day last year. Until the patron had chosen their mystery
book and checked it out, they didn’t know what they would be reading. All we asked is that they give the book a try, regardless of what they usually read. We had a lot of positive feedback and everyone enjoyed the mystery of it all. Thank you for this promotion.
I think I am interested in #3!
#1 sounds intriguing, chosen from the word “Pandemic”. Being a nurse I am always interested in such things and considering the word “historical” think it would be especially interesting! I happened across your site for the first time this morning and love the notion of a blind date with a book! What a great idea!
Number One! As an adoptee, I’m always interested in books with adoption themes…
#3 sounds fantastic!
They all sound great, but I’ll try for #3! So fun – thank you!
How fun! #2 excites me!
#1, I feel like I may have already read the other two. I guess I’ll find out on Friday:))
Would love to read book #2, as I’m a big Historical Fiction fan.
#3 sounds awesome! I hope you reveal what each is after you send these out, because I am super interested in knowing what they are now!! 🙂
Yes, please do!!
#1 for me
Number 2 for me (though really it doesn’t seem like I could go wrong with any of them!).
I would honestly read any of these, but #2 sounds the most intriguing. 🙂
#1 looks like it’s up my alley. I love historical fiction and have read many books on the Spanish flu pandemic.
Love the podcast!
#2 every word on that cover pulls me towards that book.
#2!
#1 for me also. Blind Date with a Book is such a great idea!
#1 for me!!
So many bookish choices!! #2 please!!!
Book #1
Will you let us know what the books are once the contest is over?
This is such a great idea! I wish my local book store or library did something like this. Maybe I will suggest it! i’ve never even heard of it until I read your post.
I think book number 2 sounds most interesting. I have no idea what it could be, but it combines a lot of interesting themes that tend to be in many fiction books that I read. Plus, being from a small town that is cold, I was immediately intrigued!
While none of these fit into what I would consider my go-to genres (as far as I can tell) I’m really intrigued by #2! Regardless of who wins I would love to find out what this one is at a later date.
Never done a blind book-date before! I pick #3 since it doesn’t really sound like a book I would normally select for myself
They all sound wonderful but I’m a sucker for historical fiction-#1 it is!
#1 – For sure!
How fun! 2 looks the most interesting to me.
#1 🙂
Wow! How exciting.
Have looked at the descriptions very carefully, tried to read between the lines (or get inside your head ?) and although I’ll try anything you’d chuck at me my blind date is number three – please!
Judi
Book #1
Hmmm… they all sound intriguing, but I’ll go with #3! How fun!
Historical fiction, most definitely. Love this idea!
Love this! Book #3!
Number 1, because I enjoy historical fiction, but don’t stray from a few authors. The surprise is intriguing!
#1! I think I know what it is and it’s my book club’s March read. : )
#1 sounds good to me!
Hmmm, hard toss up between #1 and #2. I love historical fiction and small town survival family drama sounds cool too. I guess I’d choose #2.
I *think* I have the first one. I can’t wait for the reveal. The blind date I choose is #2.
I like #1 as I like historical fiction. The rest of the description fits within most of my guidelines for a good read too. Thanks for the intrigue!
I’m a sucker for historical fiction. #1 sounds like a wonderful date. Thank you!
They all sound good; however #2 really intrigues me. So I’d love a blind date with Book #2.
This feels a little bit like that old game show The Dating Game…Bachelor #1, Bachelor #2, or Bachelor #3. LOL!
You had me at historical fiction, but PANDEMIC put the cherry on top! #1 please!
#1 – I met my husband on a blind date. 🙂
#1 – the “mothers and daughters” plus “historical fiction” sounds like a story made for me. Thanks for the fun contest
Book #1. Love history.
#3 looks good.
I’d like a blind date with #1
I love small towns and family sagas so looks like it would be #2 for me. Can’t wait to see the big reveal.
I’m most interested in #1 – I love historical fiction!
#1!
#2
I’d pick #2! I think I own #1 and that I’ve read #3. We’ll see when you reveal them if I’m as clever as I think I am!
They all look intriguing, but if I had to choose then I would go with 1!
Number 1 sounds interesting!
#3 for me
Book number one looks interesting!
#3 for me! Though they all sound intriguing…
I’d like #1. BTW love your site, your book club and your podcast!
I would take any of the three…..I love suspense and a good surprise. If you’re going to make me choose…..let’s go #3!
#1 all the way… I love stories about pandemics, especially if it is about the plague. If this is about the plague, I will be buying it right away! I guess you could say this is one of my niche fascinations 🙂
#1 – I ❤️ Historical fiction!
I’m new here and loving it! Book #3 sounds great!
I love this idea! So mysterious! The phrase “historical fiction” hooked me for book #1. Thank you for introducing us to this concept!
I’d like to try #2, please
#1! I’m so intrigued by all of them though. Can’t wait to see the titles revealed tomorrow!
#3 for this single girl on V-Day!! So fun!
None of my local bookstores or library do “blind date” with a book. I do subscribe to two services that act in the same way- A Novel Subscription and Page 1 books. Both are wonderful ways to have a book surprise each month.
All of them sound interesting. I think I would prefer#1, but who am I kidding?!? I’ll prpvably read them all once they’re revealed.
Good luck everyone!
How fun is this? Totally unexpected. # 2 – dark and family saga and survival. I’ll ignore the cold for now… I live in Minnesota! LOL!
#3 sounds most interesting to me 🙂
#2 looks intriguing!!
I love this idea! #2 sounds right up my alley. My kids have been sick for the last few weeks with various illnesses (darn flu season!) so I’ve been trying to read more since I’m stuck in the house, but I’m dying to go to the bookstore are search the stacks.
#1 definitely
How Fun! #3 for me.
#1 for sure!
#1… How fun is this give away??? Would love to win, but it’ll be fun no matter what!
I would pick number one in a heartbeat!
#1 sounds right up my alley!
#2 looks interesting…
Based on your descriptions, I’d choose #1!
I think I’ve read number 3! And I can’t decide, but I guess number 1 is the one I’d pick first to read since I only have daughters! What a fun idea!
#1 sounds intriguing and fascinating!I’ve never had a blind date with a book, but have always wanted to try… I’m rather a fan of blind dates ever since meeting my husband on my last blind date two and a half years ago.
As a fellow HSP, “dark” always means nervous, so I think I’d lean toward #1! (With #3 as a second choice!) What a fun thing to do!!
#2 sounds most intriguing to me. I’d love to see a breakdown of how many people said each number along with the reveal.
Love this – such fun! Hard to choose, but #3 sounds like the one for me! Hope you reveal these to us all!
#1 would be my first choice but they are all intriguing to me! [email protected]
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