A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online. That’s roughly a book a week. The list runs over 100 pages and he checked most of the books out of the local library.
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I made a Google Spreadsheet from the Excel spreadsheet transcribed and shared by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, which may be more accessible/useful for data nerds.
His most-read authors were Paul Strathern (26 books), William X. Kienzle (24), Sue Grafton (24), John Grisham (21), and Robert Ludlum 18).
The last two books in his list were Gabrielle Zevin's "Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow" and Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield."
So close! If only his last book had been A Tale of Two Cities: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
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