Revenge Stories: A Reading List

This installment of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers. Sybella’s duty as Death’s assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this thrilling sequel to Grave Mercy. Sybella arrives at the convent’s doorstep half mad with grief and despair. Those that serve Death are only too happy to offer her refuge-but at a price. The convent views Sybella, naturally skilled in the arts of both death and seduction, as one of their most dangerous weapons. But those assassin’s skills are little comfort when the convent returns her to a life that nearly drove her mad. And while Sybella is a weapon of justice wrought by the god of Death himself, He must give her a reason to live. When she discovers an unexpected ally imprisoned in the dungeons, will a daughter of Death find something other than vengeance to live for? 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 _________________________ Sign up for our newsletter to have the best of Book Riot delivered straight to your inbox every two weeks. No spam. We promise. To keep up with Book Riot on a daily basis, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook. So much bookish goodness–all day, every day.