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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