Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1818
Books with the “Revenge” trope
A wronged character spends the story hunting down the people who hurt them.
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Plot twists · Revenge
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
1847
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
1844
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
2015
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
2007
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
2006
Dune
Frank Herbert
1965
Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco
2020
Best Served Cold
Joe Abercrombie
2009
Nevernight
Jay Kristoff
2016
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
2002
The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne
2021
Corrupt
Penelope Douglas
2015
The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
2015
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
1934
The Beetle
Richard Marsh
1897
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
1979
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
2007
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
1851
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
1861
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
1989
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell
2004
Azincourt
Bernard Cornwell
2008
The Revenant
Michael Punke
2002
Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence
2011
Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff
2021
The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter
2017
Vicious
V. E. Schwab
2013
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews
2007
The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne
2015
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
2020
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
2013
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
2022
The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud
2003
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
2016
Twisted Love
Ana Huang
2021
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
1956
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