“He loved the poetry section,” Dave Dutton of Dutton’s Books in Brentwood told the L.A.
The King of Pop was also the King of Books. During Michael Jackson’s life, he was a regular customer at his local bookstores in Los Angeles, including Book Soup and Skylight. It has three levels, a glass bridge, floating platforms, and yes, lots and lots of books. He’s an entrepreneur who founded, but to me at least, he’s actually famous because of his personal library: a wing in his Ridgefield, Connecticut home that he calls “the Library of the History of Human Imagination”-which is deeply pretentious, I know, but just look at it. So, Jay Walker is only a famous person if you’re a nerd, I guess. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, Steve Martin, Edith Head, and Charlton Heston-are allowed to check things out. Lucas’s library is not open to the public, but his employees-as well as special guests like Cecil B. In addition to the more than 27,000 books, the collection includes over 17,000 films, as well as photographs, periodicals, press clippings, and more. In 1978, George Lucas established the Lucasfilm Research Library-first collecting volumes at his Los Angeles office, and eventually moving the library to the main house at Skywalker Ranch. If you have any further intel on this score, please add on to the list in the comments as you see fit. Notables with high figures who didn’t make the top ten include Marilyn Monroe ( 400 books), George Washington ( 1,200 books), Charles Darwin ( 1,480 books), Oprah ( 1,500 books), Frederick Douglass ( 2,000-odd books), and David Markson ( 2,500 books). that of course this list is in no way scientific or exhaustive-no doubt there are scores of famous people out there with large libraries (disposable income and lots of space tend to make that possible), but either the actual numbers have never been documented, or I simply couldn’t (or didn’t) dig them up. Some of the results surprised me-though I admit I already knew about Karl Lagerfeld. How many books, which ones, how are they kept, where are they kept? So, one rainy afternoon, I started poking around the book collections of famous people, to see which ones happened to be (technical or actual) book hoarders.
In general, I’m interested in other people’s book collections. Which seems a bit low, to be honest-unless we’re talking about one thousand books in a New York City one-bedroom, in which case, sure. But apparently, you only have to own one thousand books to qualify as a book hoarder. As Summer Brennan put it, “what kind of degenerate only wants to own 30 books (or fewer) at a time on purpose?” Not anyone I know. I have a hard time getting rid of books, and if you’re reading this space, you probably do too.
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