The Equalizer Movies 100 Books List

So I got hung up on this 100 books list from The Equalizer Movies.

In The Equalizer Movies, Denzel Washington, as 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…” Boy was I WRONG!

Well interesting enough for me to chase it for way longer than I should have. But easy? No, no and no. There is no definitive list of the 100 books Denzel was reading in The Equalizer Movies. I spent weeks researching, I looked everywhere I could think to look, and some places I didn’t. I left no stone, URL, tidbit and news article unturned.

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 after all that, this is what I have come up with.

It is not a complete or definitive list, just my best attempt at compiling a definitive 100 Books List from The Equalizer Movies based on the information I was able to get:

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

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

2) The two he is reading in the beginning of The Equalizer 2, 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.

3) In The Equalizer 3 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

Bobby

The Equalizer Movies 100 BOOKS LIST:

Books seen in The Equalizer:

91) The Old Man And The Sea – Ernest Hemingway

92) Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes

93) The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

Books seen in The Equalizer 2:

Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

100) In Search Of Lost Time – Marcel Proust

The two books Denzel tells Miles about in The Equalizer 2:

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Books seen in the bookcase in The Equalizer 2:

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 only book seen in The Equalizer 3:

HOLY BIBLE

THE LIBRARY 100:

The Top 100 Novels of All Time

Found in Libraries All Around The World.