Blind Date With a Book: Contemporary Fiction | Modern Novel Gift Box With Bookish Accessories

Some of the best stories are the ones that feel like real life. Our Contemporary Fiction Blind Date With a Book pairs a brand-new modern novel, hand-picked for your taste, with handmade MIL bookmarks and reading accessories. The title stays hidden until you unwrap it, so you meet the characters with no expectations, just the way you’d meet someone new.

What to Expect From Your Contemporary Fiction Date

We choose from present-day novels about the moments that shape people: family drama, complicated friendships, coming-of-age stories, second acts, personal reinventions, and book club favourites that spark conversation. Some are heartwarming, some are heartbreaking, and the best ones are both. Every pick is a book we believe will stay with you after the last page.

Tell us whether you prefer uplifting or emotional reads, literary or lighter fiction, whether you prefer standalones, and any topics you’d rather avoid. We’ll use that to choose your match.

Perfect For

• Readers who love character-driven stories about real life
• A gift for the friend who always has a book club pick to recommend
• Book club swaps, birthdays, and holiday gifts

What’s Included

Basic Bundle

• 1 brand-new wrapped book
• 5 bookish stickers
• 1 highlighter
• 1 high-quality pen
• 1 individually packaged tea bag
• 5 annotation tabs
• 1 paper clip bookmark
• 2 handmade, hand-cut MIL bookmarks, designed in-house
• 1 book tracker bookmark

Deluxe Bundle

Everything in the Basic Bundle, with 7 stickers and 2 tea bags instead of 5 and 1, plus:

• 1 leather heart bookmark
• 1 magnetic bookmark
• 1 scrunchie
• 1 colour-matched handmade keychain

There’s also a chance your book will be a special edition, a hardcover, or have sprayed edges.

How We Choose Your Book

Share a link to your Goodreads or StoryGraph profile, or type a list of books you’ve read. We only accept web links, not downloads or files. Ordering as a gift? List a few books they’ve loved and a few they didn’t.

We use what you share to choose a book we think you’ll love. The exact title stays a surprise. If we don’t have a reading history, or the profile is private or out of date, we can’t guarantee it’s a book you haven’t read.

Please Read Before Ordering

All books are brand new. Some new books carry a small publisher’s mark, a dot or line on the top or bottom page edges, which doesn’t affect the book.

Photos show the overall style of the bundle. Because each order is curated and assembled by hand, the book, wrapping, stickers, bookmarks, pen, highlighter, tabs, tea flavour, colours, and arrangement may vary from the images. Any substitutions will be items of a similar purpose, quality, and style.