Blind Date with a Book

Last year I put together a book display called Blind Date with a Book. I found the idea through another librarian's post and thought it was great. Last year I wrapped 19 books and 15 books were checked out. We asked that people reviewed the book but unfortunately only two people returned reviews.
Last year's books included:

In the Hot Zone by Kevin Sites
Night by Elie Wiesel
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon by Daivd Michaels
Macbeth by Shakespear
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Lawless by Nora Roberts
The Sinatra Files by Tom Kuntz
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Ford County by John Grisham
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Hide & Seek by James Patterson
A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolf
Gorgeous East by Robert Girardi

Most of these books were ones that I either had read or wanted to read. But I noticed people picked books based on sizes, Under the Dome sat on the shelf all month, it was just too big I guess.

I'm trying again this year!

The "rules" are the same. You won't know what book you get until you check it out and we're asking you to review your date and let us know how it went.

These are the books I have wrapped right now, and if you can tell by the display, one book has already been checked out. This year I tried to find books that all looked about average size.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Lover’s Knot by Clare O’Donohue
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Martin Luther King Jr. by Marshall Frady
Sleep with the Fishes by Brian M. Wiprud
Blockade Billy by Stephen King

I'll be wrapping more books as these get checked out.

Edit 2/6/13:
Since this post is still getting a lot of traffic click here for a list of newer displays

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Miss JJSeptember 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM
I love this idea!
AmeliaSeptember 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM
I really like it too, it's hard to get our adult patrons to participate in programs, so I'll try just about anything to get even a little bit of participation.
AnonymousMarch 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM
I am trying to track down where "Blind Date with a Book" might have started (if possible, I'd like to give credit to the originator of the idea), and this is one of the earliest references I've found so far. Can you give me more information about the origins of this wonderful idea or where you first heard about it?

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