Revenge Stories: A Reading List

bookriot:

We asked you to share your favorite stories with characters seeking vengeance against those who have done wrong. They take things into their own hands, and they make the wrongs right again. Here are the titles you shared:

Medea by Euripides

Titus Andronicus and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Countess Orczy

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

Acts of Revision by Martyn Bedford

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Revenge by Stephen Fry

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

The Taker by Alma Katsu

“Reeling for the Empire” in Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

The Mistress’s Revenge by Tamar Cohen

The Sun Sword Series by Michelle West

The Kate Daniels Series by Ilona Andrews

What’d we miss?