A deceased man’s goliath list of every book he ever read is inspiring readers young and old alike after it was turned into a popular website.

Passing away at the age of 92 on July 1st of this year, former Marine and social worker Dan Pelzer had for years committed himself to reading 100 pages every day.

When his own story had finally gone cover to cover, he had read 3,599 books of every imaginable genre, every one of which was written down in a list he kept since 1962.

That year, he began his list with Alan Moorehead’s The Blue Nile in 1962, and ending it over 40 years later with Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, in 2023. At over 100 pages, the idea to give out a copy of his reading list to observers at his funeral “wasn’t feasible,” his descendants say.

Instead, they created wh

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