Surprise reads
Every book in a Pastime Enclosed kit arrives wrapped. Suggest a genre, then let the recipient discover the title when they open it.
Adult
Contemporary Fiction
What you can request
Children’s book kits come with children’s books. We plan to offer a choice of adult or young adult books in each adult book kit, with genre requests on Square. We’ll do our best to honor your request.
What arrives
Each book arrives in kraft paper with a card naming the reading category and giving a one-sentence synopsis. Kits with two books include two different titles.
Try to peek
The paper stays on. The card gives you the reading category and a one-sentence synopsis. The title stays a surprise until you unwrap the book.
Mystery is one category
You might request a mystery, but a surprise read can be just as easily a romance or a work of nonfiction. The title stays wrapped either way.
Reading age groups
Adult
Adult paperbacks are one of the planned options for the adult book kits.
Young Adult
You’ll be able to request young adult books in any adult book kit once that option is set up on Square.
Kids
For a children’s book kit, tell us what kind of book the child would enjoy.
Genres you can request
For adult and young adult books, you can request classics, romance, mystery, thriller, horror, adventure, nonfiction, science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction or literary fiction. For children’s books, tell us the kind of book you’d like.
What this website keeps hidden
No page, image, file name, description or page code on this site includes a book’s title, author, cover or ISBN. Those details stay in the shop’s private stock records.
If they might have read it already
List any titles the recipient already owns or would like to avoid. For a two-book kit, you can leave separate genre preferences for Book 1 and Book 2. We’ll do our best to honor your requests.