Spring Cleaning for Adults

Go beyond Marie Kondo with librarian-recommended reads that offer realistic advice for decluttering, deep cleaning, organizing your home, and building habits that can last. Whether you want practical routines or gentle strategies, these reads can help you focus on what matters most.

Updated March 30, 2026
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Organizing for the rest of us : 100 realistic strategies to keep any house under control
White, Dana
Ebook
Eliminate the clutter and discover the joy of having your house organized with simple, realistic strategies that work for normal people. So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster? You want to be able to find your kids' socks but aren't looking...
Home detox : make your home a healthier place for everyone who lives there
Chace, Daniella
Paper Book
A professional toxicologist and health writer offers an enlightening and accessible room-by-room guide to identifying and removing potentially toxic items, along with suggestions for safe, affordable alternatives. From the bedroom mattress and pillows to daily...
Tidy up your life : rethinking how to organize, declutter, and make space for what matters most
Moore, Tyler
Paper Book
Bring order to your home and focus to your busy life with the guiding principles and practical routines for organizing, cleaning, and determining what's "just enough"-both physically and emotionally-by the social media sensation known as Tidy Dad. A father of three with a...
The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
Kondo, Marie.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all. ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE--CNN<...
The home edit: stay organized : the ultimate guide to making systems stick
Shearer, Clea
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the authors of The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, comes a guide to the most important phase of getting organized: staying that way. It's one thing to...
Tidying the abyss : a practical guide to cleaning and organizing while exhausted and overwhelmed
Dodson, Amanda Stuckey
Paper Book
A gentle, hands-on resource offering mental health-sensitive, disability-informed advice for those who do not have the privilege, bandwidth, or access to keep their home-and life-in a perfectly-ordered state. When we see people in desperate situations, we are quick to...
Decluttering at the speed of life : winning your never-ending battle with stuff
White, Dana
Ebook
You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff--you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress. While the world seems to be in love...
How to keep house while drowning : a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing
Davis, KC
Audiobook
Decluttering
Stoller, Jane
Paper Book
The book that cuts through the clutter of decluttering  Modern life has produced so much clutter that the thought of packed closets, attics filled with storage bins, and rental units specifically used to store odds and ends produces its own stress. The decluttering movement...

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