“Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville, John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll may not seem to have much in common, but they can all be found on the reading list belonging to one Columbus, Ohio man. 

His name is Dan Pelzer — and he read 3,599 books in his lifetime, meticulously keeping track of each one from 1962 up until his death in July of this year at age 92.

“I think he’s one of those people who traveled through books,” said his daughter, Marci Pelzer, who found out about her dad’s list 20 years ago. “It was an escape. It kept his mind going.”

According to his daughter, Dan Pelzer lived an incredible life with a book in tow every step of the way. He read while in the Peace Corps in Nepal, on his bus commute to work in Columbus, during his la

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