I've started using a semi-random method. I pick a category, take a random page, and then pick whatever book I want from the twenty books on that page. I've enjoyed it so far. It gets me to read books that I may have put off for a while, but because I'm picking the top one out of twenty they're books that I really want to read.

I did this during that time, with iOS games. Since I work as editor for a large-ish app review portal, I have tons of games. Some I like, some I want to try... But too little time. So, I rolled a dice (well, a virtual one) to know which page and which game to try when I was in a playing mood. Doing this I "discovered" several lovely games I had hidden in my folders, I also did some huge cleanup of games I didn't like or no longer enjoyed and discovered I like backgammon enough to pick it up as one of my favourite board games (long behind go, but backgammon is faster to pick up and play on mobile.)