Mawarni Adam, the founder of this website, is an introvert. In 2024, she embraced her introversion fully and wrote her first book, "The Introvert's Guide to Personal Branding."
Championing Introverts
Continuing her quest to champion introverts, this "Blind Date with a Book Bundle" celebrates 50 introverted authors: 25 Classic/ Past Introverted Authors (Before ~1950s) and 25 Modern/ Contemporary Introverted Authors (1950s—Present). When you buy a bundle, you'll never know which author or their book title you'll be getting, and that's the excitement and beauty of it.
What's inside (10 items):
- 1 x surprise book in your chosen genre
- 5 x bookish accessories
- 1 x instant coffee sachet
- 1 x small cookie
- 1 x slim flask
- 1 x coaster
Perfect for:
- Book lovers
- Surprise gifts for bookworms
- Cozy reading nights/weekends
- A thoughtful gift for anyone
To avoid a book you may have already read, please indicate in the notes/remarks of your order, or list the books/authors you prefer not to receive.
By purchasing, you agree to the items being chosen for you. All purchases are final. No exchanges or returns are allowed, even if you don't like your items. Your purchase is your written agreement to our terms and conditions.
Blind Date with a Book Bundle
- Emily Dickinson – Reclusive poet who rarely left home; her solitude produced profound introspection.
- J.D. Salinger – Withdrew from public life after The Catcher in the Rye; prized privacy above fame.
- Jane Austen – Observant, witty, and socially reserved; preferred small gatherings and quiet writing.
- Virginia Woolf – An Introspective modernist who explored consciousness and inner life.
- Franz Kafka – Shy and self-critical; his work mirrors isolation and existential anxiety.
- Charlotte Brontë – Reserved and imaginative; Jane Eyre reflects her inner emotional life.
- Emily Brontë – Lived quietly on the moors; deeply introspective and emotionally intense.
- Marcel Proust – Lived in near isolation, obsessively revising In Search of Lost Time.
- Henry David Thoreau – Found peace in solitude at Walden Pond; philosopher of introspection.
- Leo Tolstoy – Spiritual, reflective, and withdrawn from worldly fame in later life.
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) – Serious and thoughtful; avoided publicity for her literary work.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne – A solitary observer of human guilt and inner darkness.
- Herman Melville – Reclusive, introspective, and underappreciated in his lifetime.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – Explored inner conflict and morality through profound psychological depth.
- Thomas Hardy – Lived quietly in Dorset; wrote with compassion for human struggle and solitude.
- William Wordsworth – Solitary poet of nature and personal reflection.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Reclusive due to illness; wrote with emotional intensity and empathy.
- Edgar Allan Poe – Sensitive, brooding, and psychologically complex; valued solitude.
- Anton Chekhov – Reserved observer of everyday life’s quiet tragedies.
- Robert Louis Stevenson – Introspective, imaginative, often withdrawn due to health.
- John Keats – Reflective Romantic poet; deeply contemplative about beauty and mortality.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Introspective and melancholy; often retreated into thought and solitude.
- H.P. Lovecraft – Reclusive horror writer; preferred correspondence to direct social contact.
- C.S. Lewis – Quiet, thoughtful Oxford scholar who loved solitude and small intellectual circles.
- William Shakespeare – Private about his personal life; an introspective observer of human behavior.