Columbus, Ohio — 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 — a very long list of every book he had ...

Jeff Hagan lives in Cleveland and is the communications director for the national nonprofit organization In the Public Interest, which defends against the privatization of public goods and services. A ...

Dan Pelzer left behind a handwritten reading list of 3,599 books when he died in July. His family originally wanted to hand out printed copies of the list at his funeral, but each copy would have been ...

When Dan Pelzer died on July 1, he had logged 3,599 books that he’d completed between 1962 and 2023. Columbus Metropolitan Library There was no Goodreads in 1962, the year Dan Pelzer spent making his ...

“He would always be reading in our basement, typically the Bible, and he would be drinking a 40-ounce malt liquor — typically, Olde English.” JOHN PELZER, on what his father, Dan Pelzer, would be ...