The Greatest Books of All Time on Revenge

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
71 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
124 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexican Spanish
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
175 Metamorphoses Ovid 8 Roman Latin
186 Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan 1954 French French
191 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
210 Dangerous Liaison Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782 French French
211 The Tempest William Shakespeare 1623 British English
219 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938 British English
242 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 American English
272 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1956 Brazilian Portuguese
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
307 Medea Euripides -431 Greek Ancient greek
323 Mahabharata Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
337 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 1597 British English
423 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
474 Embers Sandor Marai 1942 Hungarian Hungarian
495 Casino Royale Ian Fleming 1953 British English
516 Season of Migration to the North Al-Tayyib Salih 1966 Sudanese Arabic
529 Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1635 Spanish Spanish
533 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac 1846 French French
536 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1929 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
613 The Persians Aeschylus -471 Greek Ancient greek
615 Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary M. R. James 1904 British English
669 Beowulf Unknown 1000 Unknown Old english
676 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
699 The Nibelungenlied Unknown 1200 German Middle high german
701 The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 Peruvian Spanish
724 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
757 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin 1794 British English
759 Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola 1867 French French
839 Winnetou Karl May 1893 German German
861 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 1962 American English
916 Malice Aforethought Francis Iles 1931 British English
943 The Bacchae Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
950 Richard III William Shakespeare 1592 British English
983 A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
986 Electra Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
997 The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1950 Swiss German
1057 The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson 1889 British English
1065 La Bête humaine Émile Zola 1890 French French
1109 Othello William Shakespeare 1603 British English
1124 Ajax Sophocles -440 Greek Ancient greek
1125 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
1126 Women of Trachis Sophocles -450 Greek Ancient greek
1146 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1839 British English
1198 Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 1869 British English
1226 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Tobias Smollett 1751 British English
1240 Strangers On A Train Patricia Highsmith 1950 American English
1249 The White Devil John Webster 1612 British English
1254 Death and the Dervish Meša Selimović 1966 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
1289 A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 1996 American English
1346 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English
1404 The Last Bouquet Marjorie Bowen 1933 British English
1405 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 British English
1410 Poem of the Cid Unknown 1207 Spanish Old spanish
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1439 Édes Anna Dezső Kosztolányi 1926 Hungarian Hungarian
1512 The Beast Must Die Nicholas Blake 1938 British English
1521 The Robbers Friedrich Schiller 1781 German German
1544 The Poetic Edda Unknown 1270 Multiple Old norse
1550 Njal's Saga Iceland 1280 Icelandic Old norse
1553 Beauty and Sadness Yasunari Kawabata 1964 Japanese Japanese
1639 No Orchids for Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 1939 British English
1688 Carrie Stephen King 1974 American English
1689 Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk Nikolai Leskov 1865 Russian Russian
1722 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech Czech
1725 A Harlot High And Low Honoré de Balzac 1839 French French
1753 The Long Ships Frans G. Bengtsson 1941 Swedish Swedish
1757 Books of Blood Clive Barker 1984 British English
1795 Victory Joseph Conrad 1915 British English
1801 A Time To Kill John Grisham 1989 American English
1805 A Hero Born Jin Yong 1957 Chinese Chinese
1809 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2001 Spanish Spanish
1815 The Ring And The Book Robert Browning 1868 British English
1926 Stories of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
1940 The Four Just Men Edgar Wallace 1905 British English
1947 Shame Salman Rushdie 1983 British English
1948 The Second Century Of Creepy Stories Hugh Walpole 1937 British English
1964 The Löwensköld Ring Selma Lagerlöf 1925 Swedish Swedish
1990 Le Mariage De Figaro Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1784 French French
1994 Fancies And Goodnights John Collier 1951 British English
1998 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
2060 Ghost Story Peter Straub 1979 American English
2069 The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012 American English
2092 Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O'Neill 1931 American English
2099 From Russia with Love Ian Fleming 1957 British English
2102 Collected Short Stories of Saki Saki 1930 British English
2105 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Colombian Spanish
2104 Someone Like You Roald Dahl 1953 British English
2121 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2124 True Grit Charles Portis 1968 American English
2154 Don Juan Molière 1665 French French
2189 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
2190 Les Tragiques Agrippa d'Aubigné 1616 French French
2191 The Witches Of Eastwick John Updike 1984 American English
2199 Trojan Women Euripides -415 Greek Ancient greek
2211 Swordspoint Ellen Kushner 1987 American English
2228 The Anubis Gates Tim Powers 1983 American English
2254 Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 Polish Polish
2284 Smiley's People John le Carré 1979 British English
2328 Romola George Eliot 1863 British English
2332 The Devil In Velvet John Dickson Carr 1951 American English
2346 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor 1986 American English
2413 The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956 American English
2453 The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 British English
2460 The League Of Frightened Men Rex Stout 1935 American English
2516 Hippolytus Euripides -428 Greek Ancient greek
2547 Stories Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German