After ignoring Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for weeks on the bestseller list, I found it at my local library and immediately turned to the chapter on books. I never got past Kondo’s horror about having a client with “three large ceiling-height bookshelves full of books…”  Having a personal library sounded luxurious to me – not cluttered.

But when my iPhone warned I had to eliminate some data to be able to download more, I examined my store of iBooks.  Some had been preordered, and glistened with an orange tag.  Others I could move to a cloudy “books read.”  But many were samples of books I thought I might read someday, and a few I had actually purchased but never read.  Perhaps I could apply Kondo’s technique here and unclutter my virtual bookshelf.

Of course, I could not follow her suggestion to place all the books on the floor, but I could use her categories to sort and possible delete a few.  Sadly, all fell into the same category – “General.”   Here are the books I always thought I’d read, but never did – now deleted.

• The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
• Still Here by Lara Vapnyar
• Paradise Lodge by Nina Stubble
• The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
• Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey

Have you read any?  Did I miss anything by delegating them to the “cemetery of unread books”?