Is there a word for the selective removal of items from a list (other than cull)?

Let's say I have a list of books, and I want to remove some of them from the list. Is there a word that describes this process? Ideally a verb that can be applied to the list.

For example:

I want to ____ this list of books.

The best I could come up with is "cull", but cull usually refers to the selective slaughter of animals and I'm not sure it would be appropriate in this case.

Trim (MWD):

 1. c. to free of excess or extraneous matter by or as if by cutting

• trim a budget

• trim down the inventory

Rather gentler than cull is prune as used with plants. It's used metaphorically (including in programming) - think of cutting out the deadwood and other unwanted material.

Pare down would be a good choice.

Lexico:

pare

verb

[with object]

1.2 Reduce (something) in size, extent, or quantity in a number of small successive stages.

‘union leaders publicly pared down their demands’

‘When he wrote the play, his intention was that there should be no excess and so each scene is pared down to exactly what he wants to say.’

used with list:

Advisers first help a student select 20 to 25 colleges, prodding the student along until he or she pares down the list to the eight or so to be considered seriously. (Guidance For Sale, TAMALA M. EDWARDS, Time Magazine: 1999/11/01)

Oregon plans to expand its Medicaid program to cover all families under the poverty line, but also to ration their care by paring down the list of medical procedures Medicaid would pay for. (new game-plans take shape in Washington, Christian Science Monitor , 1991/11/26)