Dan Pelzer's nose was always in a book. The Marine Corps veteran and retired social worker made it his personal goal to read at least 100 pages every day, and he kept a list of every book he'd ever read since 1962, spanning almost any genre you can think of and totaling 3,599. His daughter Marci said that’s how her father passed the time. "We know he was sometimes reading at work, but he also read on the bus and everywhere he went. He always had a book open, a book in his hand, and it stimulated great conversations with all kinds of people,” she said. Dan Pelzer died on July 1, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 92, and his reading list is still sparking conversations. To honor his legacy, his family posted his entire list online at what-dan-read.com. Marci says the list's reach has extended beyond her father's friends and family, and is inspiring others to read, think and talk about books. Dan's family initially planned to hand out printed copies of the book list at his funeral, but at more than 100 pages, it just wasn't feasible. So instead, they built a website, where people can flip through scanned copies of the yellowed pages, organized in chronological order by year, some hand-written, others typed. Beginning with Alan Moorehead's The Blue Nile in 1962 and ending with Charles Dickens' David Copperfield in 2023, the list spans almost any era of literature you can think of, from the literary cannon to pulpy page-turners. There's fiction and non-fiction, politics, biographies, and volumes of history and religion. Marci said almost all of them were library books. To honor Dan's reading prowess, the Columbus Metropolitan Library has posted a 98-page PDF of the list in alphabetical order.