What's on the book wheel
The wheel comes loaded with a mix of fiction and nonfiction that spans a wide reading range. On the fiction side: The Great Gatsby, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, The Catcher in the Rye, The Alchemist, Where the Crawdads Sing, A Little Life, and Project Hail Mary. On the nonfiction side: Sapiens, Atomic Habits, and Educated. That spread means the wheel can land anywhere from a 19th-century novel to a 2021 sci-fi page-turner — which is most of the point.
Swap in your own reading list
The default 12 titles are a starting point, not a constraint. The entry panel next to the wheel lets you delete any title with the X button and add your own by typing into the text field and pressing Enter. If you have a longer list — say, everything sitting on your TBR shelf — paste it as a newline-separated list into the bulk import area and the wheel rebuilds itself instantly. You can also upload a .csv file whose first column holds the titles, which is handy if you track your reading in a spreadsheet.
Not sure what else to add? Hit the Ideas button and the wheel will suggest additional books based on what's already in your list. It won't always be perfect, but it's a useful nudge when you're drawing a blank.
If there are titles you want to keep available but skip for now — say, a book you're already mid-way through — use the eye toggle on that entry to hide it from spins without deleting it.
Running a book club draw
The wheel works well for book clubs that need a neutral way to pick the next read. Load every suggested title into the wheel, spin it in front of the group (or share your screen during a video call), and the result is visible to everyone at the same time. Turn on Remove Winner below the wheel and each spin eliminates one title, so you can shortlist a bracket of three or four before taking a final spin — or just let the first result stand.
The winner dialog shows the chosen title and gives you share buttons for X, WhatsApp, and Facebook, so you can post the pick to your group chat immediately. The entertainment hub has other wheels that work well alongside this one if your group also debates what to watch next.
Weighted spins for genre preferences
Every entry has a numeric weight, defaulting to 1. If your reading group strongly prefers fiction over nonfiction, you can raise the weight on your fiction titles so they win proportionally more often — without removing the nonfiction titles entirely. Edit the weight directly in the entry row. Higher weight, larger slice, more frequent wins. It's a simple way to skew the odds without cutting anyone's suggestions from the pool.
Want something completely different to spin on? The wheel generator lets you build a wheel from scratch with any entries you like, or browse the full wheels directory for other ready-made pickers.