Blind Date With a Book: An Unproductive Joy Pick

Pick a genre. Or don’t. Pick a color. Or don’t.

You could spend an hour reading reviews, comparing ratings, studying recommendations, and trying to determine which book is most worthy of your limited reading time.

Or you could not.

Blind Date With a Book is an invitation to let somebody else choose for once. Your book arrives wrapped, so you won’t know exactly what you’re getting until you open it. No judging the cover. No researching the title. No optimizing your choice.

Just a book and the possibility that you might really, really like it.

And because opening a mystery book should feel like a tiny event, yours comes with a handful of reading goodies, too.

What’s inside

Each Blind Date With a Book includes:

• One surprise gently used or brand-new book, rated at least 3 stars on Goodreads
• Assorted bookmark(s)
• Bag charm
• Highlighter
• Sticky notes
• Sticky tabs
• A little bit of uncertainty, which is sort of the point

Gently used books may have minor cosmetic imperfections that don’t affect readability.

Choose your genre… or let us choose

Pick the kind of story you’re in the mood for:

Romantasy · Dark Romance · Spicy Romance · Romance · YA Romance · Historical Fiction · Science Fiction · Mystery/Thriller · Horror · Biography · Dystopian

Or select Choose for Me and surrender one more decision to the universe.*

*The universe, in this case, is us.

Choose your wrapping… or don’t do that either

Choose Red, Pink, Blue, Green, Purple, Summer, Fall, Winter, Christmas, or Halloween.

Can’t decide? Excellent.

Select Choose for Me and we’ll surprise you.

And yes, you can choose your genre but surprise yourself on the wrapping. Or choose your wrapping and let us pick the genre. Or choose absolutely nothing.

There are no prizes for maximizing your decision-making here.

The Unproductive Joy Experiment

Here’s your experiment:

Don’t look it up.

When your package arrives, resist the urge to search for the title before you start reading. Open it. Read a little. See what happens.

You don’t have to learn anything.

You don’t have to finish it.

You don’t have to turn reading into a goal, streak, challenge, or number for your yearly reading tracker.

You’re allowed to read because reading is fun.

That’s enough.

A note about who made this

This is a Found at the Factory item, meaning we didn’t make it. We found something that belongs here.

Blind Date With a Book is created by Book Crate Co., a woman-owned small business based in Plano, Texas, and curated by Unproductive Joy Factory because we think relinquishing control over something delightfully low-stakes is a pretty excellent way to practice unproductive joy.

Book Crate Co. also donates a portion of its proceeds to Texas Children’s Hospital.

Created by Book Crate Co. · Curated for Unproductive Joy Factory

Product details

Price: $32
Book condition: Gently used or brand new
Recommended for: Adults and older teens, depending on genre selection
Please note: Some genre selections, particularly Spicy Romance and Dark Romance, may contain mature themes or content. Individual titles are a surprise, so we can’t guarantee specific authors, tropes, content, or subject matter.

The important part: You aren’t choosing the perfect book.

You’re choosing to be surprised.