A Pile of Unfinished Books

I have been exclusively reading ebooks since 2015 which is when I had to relocate for my job. It's impossible for me to bring all of the books that I have accumulated, that's seven years worth of books which I started to acquire since 2007 so I left all of my books to my dad to fill up his library and now also, my granddad is getting the most use out of them because he loves to read and he reads everything. My choice was largely influenced by economy but as I grew older I realized that owning less things and living in a space that is just enough for me (and my husband) is better, it just makes our lives simpler and happier.

When I got back into blogging my meta book shelf started growing again and I fear that it will become uncontrollable as what happened in the past so I will be re evaluating my choices in books and will start purging my shelf. I want to start today with unhauling a lot of the books that I did not finish. I will just have to admit to myself that I will never finish a Shakespeare play or a Charles Dickens masterpiece and no thank you I don't want to read another book about WW2.

So here are the books that I am removing from my shelves and will never think and speak of again. Good riddance.

• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
• Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
• Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
• St. Ursula's Girls Against the Atomic Bomb by Valerie Hurley
• Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
• This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
• Bitter Is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

• The Declaration (The Declaration, #1) by Gemma Malley
• One Day by David Nicholls
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1) by Gennifer Choldenko
• Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
• Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1) by Lemony Snicket
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
• The Wednesdays by Julie Bourbeau
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
• I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
• A Christmas by Carol Charles Dickens
• The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1) Pseudonymous Bosch
• The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

• I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
• Sisters by Danielle Steel
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
• The Lost Days (Emily the Strange, #1) by Rob Reger
• The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• Say Yes by Audrey Couloumbis
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
• Out by Natsuo Kirino
• Cockroaches (Harry Hole, #2) by Jo Nesbo
• By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer by Victor Ostrovsky
• The World to Come by Dara Horn
• This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Di­az
• Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
• A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

• A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
• The Mangle Street Murders (The Gower Street Detective, #1) by M.R.C. Kasasian
• The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
• The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation #1) by Vaseem Khan
• Strangled Prose (Claire Malloy, #1) by Joan Hess
• Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
• Whiskey Sour (Jack Daniels Mystery, #1) by J.A. Konrath
• Another Time, Another Life (Fall of the Welfare State, #2) by Leif G.W. Persson
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Geekerella by Ashley Poston
• Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
• The Secret Tree by Natalie Standiford
• Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
• The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen
• Secrets of Shakespearear's Grave (The Shakespeare Mysteries, #1) by Deron R. Hicks
• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy #1) by Caimh McDonnell
• Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) by Dan Brown
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

• Deadly Summer by Denise Grover Swank
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
• The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
• The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
• Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
• To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
• Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Fearscape (The Devouring, #3)by  Simon Holt
• Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (Fall of the Welfare State, #1) by Leif G.W. Persson
• You by Caroline Kepnes