Blind Date With A Book
Stumped on what to read next? Looking for a book that totally fits your vibe? Let us be your literary match makers!
Stop by any Book Culture location to check out our 'Blind Date with a Book' displays. You just might meet your perfect match. Not sure what we're talking about? Read on for an FAQ.
What is 'Blind Date with a Book'?
We wrap a book in brown paper, and paste on a bullet-pointed "dating profile" indicating some key features you can match to your taste.
Can I buy a 'Blind Date' book online?
Yes! Browse our list below!!!!!
How do I know which book is inside?
You don't! That's the fun. You'll just have to read it and find out. ;-)
What if it turns out I already own the book... or just plain hate it?
Not a match?--No problem! So long as the book is in new condition and you have your receipt, we'll be happy to exchange the book for something else or issue a refund for store credit.
Ok, but seriously, what books are they?
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- Cyborgs
- Black Mirror
- The slow deterioration of all your faith in humanity
- Whodunits
- Familial melodrama
- Navigations of gender and racial stereotyping
- Joan Didion,
- Valley of the Dolls
- Hazy evocations of something between high glamour and deep ennui
- A Separate Peace
- Never Let Me Go
- That one really good notebook you can't get rid of
- The time at which rocks move
- Writers who do the legwork
- Describing the indescribable
- Hard-boiled fiction
- Nebulous encounters with dead birds
- Eastern European family-run pensions
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- The original Grimm's Faitytales,
- Reading by flashlight under your blankets
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
- A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Novellas that could be painted
- The tensions of a gilded cage
- Clairce Lispector's novels
- Manifestos but hate politics
- Braiding Sweetgrass and Walden
- Gardening as a way of life
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- New York lit
- Diaspora lit
- Meditations on art and philosophy
- The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- Clubbing until the sun comes up
- Indigenous writers and themes
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Motherhood, murder, and mayhem!
- Books about relationships that are also about ART and LIFE
- David Lynch movies
- Admitting that Sally Rooney is a little dull
- Think you've read every campus novel already
- Vibe to Paul Simon's music
- Wish you were sailing right now
- Performing arts high schools
- Complex studies of consent
- Being blindsided
- Coming of age stories
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Crying on the subway
- Adrenaline rushes
- Mother-daughter bonds
- The weird nightmares you have when you're sick
- Mostly enjoyed Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs
- Enjoy staring into the void
- Love your grandfather
- Being afraid of climate change
- Tales of the American South
- Wartime narratives
- Agatha Christie
- The Wind in the Willows
- Plucky reporters with a nose for a good scoop
- "Opposites attract" friendships riddled with unspoken secrets
- Road trips guided by only an old map and a handful of psychedelics
- Never-say-no policies
- Magical barbers and clandestine barber shops
- Lyrical prose
- Mysticism, melancholy, and magical realism
- Glitz and grit
- Sultry nihilism and violent emotion
- Intergenerational female friendships
- Rags to riches tales
- Allegories about chickens
- The use of dark humor to expose injustices
- Debuts from established phenoms
- Globe-trotting narrative divergences
- Authors who definitely chuckled to themselves as they twisted the puppet strings of their regular characters' regular lives
- Call Me By Your Name (minus the icky Armie Hammer stuff)
- Romanticizing Europe
- Star-crossed lovers stories
