08/25/2025
After the death in July of their father, Dan Pelzer, at the age of 92, John and Marci Pelzer discovered something extraordinary in his things โ a very long list of every book he had ever read. In total, from 1962 to 2023, he read a staggering 3,599 books. The list of all the titles is a book in itself: 109 pages long, single-spaced.
Dan borrowed almost all his books from the Columbus Metropolitan Library. When the library staff heard about Danโs list, they decided to share it on social media and made Danโs title collection available as its own list that the library says people have been checking out.
โPeople are intentionally going up to the displays,โ Columbus Metropolitan Library CEO Lauren Hagan told CBS News. โThe traffic to the social media post is in the millions.โ https://cbsn.ws/45PP531
