So I got hung up on this 100 book list.

In The Equalizer movies Denzel Washington (Robert McCall) is reading his way through the 100 books you must read before you die list in honor of his wife. I thought, “Well, it should be easy enough to find and write about for the movies. Could be interesting.”  WRONG!

Well interesting enough for me to chase it for way longer than I should have. But easy?  No, no and no.

There are hundreds of 100 book lists. A lot of them feature newer novels that I didn’t think seemed right. Robert’s list seemed to be more Classic novels than newer. So this is what I have come up with.

I count 30 books listed in the order you see them in the movies:

I)      The three he was reading in Equalizer I which he said was 91, 92, and 93

II)    The two he is reading in the beginning of Equalizer II, and the one he bought in the bookstore and said it was the last one (#100). He told Miles he should read the two Alexandre Dumas books and the rest of the list I pulled from stopping the screen in the movie when the bad guy is looking at the bookcase, in order from top to bottom and left to right. Obviously it is not all the books in the case, only the ones they showed and the ones I could read.

III)  In Equalizer III the only book shown in the film is THE HOLY BIBLE.

And lastly there is a list of 100 books from the Library 100. A list of the most popular novels from all the libraries around the world that seemed to include the most books from the movie than any other list I came across.

That’s it, that’s all I’ve got, and I’m done chasing the 100 books.

Bobby

THE EQUALIZER BOOKS LIST:

The Equalizer:

          91)   The Old Man And The Sea – Ernest Hemingway

         92)   Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes

         93)   The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

The Equalizer 2:

                  Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

                  Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

       100)  In Search Of Lost Time – Marcel Proust

                 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

                 The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

                 The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck

                 The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger

                 The Complete Works Of O. Henry – Doubleday/Volume I

                 Native Son – Richard Wright

                 The Double Helix – James D. Watson

                 Black Power – Richard Wright

                 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

                 The Portrait Of A Lady – Henry James

                 Saphira And The Slave Girl – Willa Cather

                 Brave New World Revisited – Aldous Huxley

                 A Bend In The River – V. S. Naipaul

                 The Trial – Frank Kafka

                 A Second Treasury Of Kahil Gabran

                 The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham I

                 The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham II

                 The Divine Comedy I Inferno With Translation

                              And Commentary By John D. Sinclair – Dante

                 A  Canticle For Liebowitz – Walter M. Miller Jr.

                 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

                A Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

                The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni

                The Pit – Frank Norris

                HOLY BIBLE

The Equalizer 3:

                HOLY BIBLE

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