Our book club's 'blind date with a book' pick was a disaster (in the best way)

We wrapped our copies of 'The Midnight Library' in brown paper with three vague clues, and my group in Portland ended up with a 700-page history of concrete. The debate got heated when someone argued it counted as a 'novel about choices' because of aggregate selection. Honestly, what's the weirdest book your club has ever been tricked into reading?

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michael_williams12d ago

A buddy in a Denver club got a manual on industrial fridge repair after the clue "a chilling mystery." They spent the whole meeting trying to connect the troubleshooting steps to classic noir plots. It was like @rivera.hannah's duck thing, where the weird book just makes people get creative. They even ranked different fridge brands by how "villainous" they sounded.

wadejenkins13d ago

Oh man, that concrete book is hilarious. My friend's club once got stuck with a super dense field guide to mosses. The clues were all about "green" and "growth" and they were so mad.

rivera.hannah13d ago

Remember when our club got a book on competitive duck herding because the clue was "follow the leader." We leaned into it hard. Someone brought duck shaped cookies, we argued if the ducks were making choices or just following instinct, and we all agreed it was the most fun we'd had in months. Sometimes the weird picks force the best talks.