9 Books About Revenge to Satisfy Your Craving to Get Them Back

Dr. Alejandro Esperon came to Latin America to research the curative powers of tropical plants in the hopes of helping find cures for humanity's cruellest diseases.

There, he met Eufemia, a beautiful and pious woman who came seeking sainthood. They soon married and their daughter Josefina was brought into the world. She enjoyed a privileged childhood amid the rooms of a former convent, surrounded by love from her father's many mistresses, like the great actress Carlota Montejo.

But her idyllic peace was undone when the vicious Serrano family seized power and destroyed everything and everyone she loved. Now, at the age of 82, she is rich, famous, and ready to finally get her revenge.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, two men find themselves crossing paths with a stranger in the village of Sambuco, Italy.

Virginia attorney Peter Leverett and South Carolina artist Cass Kinsolving meet Mason Flagg, an enigmatic and charming gadabout who lives off his movie mogul father's money.

After the rape and murder of a local girl, Mason's body was found at the base of a cliff. The authorities said it was a suicide. Many years later, Peter and Cass reunite and must confront the truth of what happened.

Back in that beautiful Italian coastal village, they confront the ghosts of the past and exorcise them before they're forever consumed by them.

Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print you see on all of your medicine. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects, and his job is to find a way to present them in ways that are technically honest but minimize the potential problems.

Lloyd is also an addict who does heroin in his coffee breaks. When Nora, a mysterious woman covered in tattoos, walks into his life and asks for his help, he is immediately smitten.

But falling for Nora means becoming embroiled in her strange schemes to exact revenge on those who poison the world in the name of profit.

Pierre Hunter works as a bartender in a Midwest town where life is hard. Despite it all, he's a cockeyed optimist. When he falls in love, with the mysterious and isolated Stella Rosmarin, things take a very dark turn.

Now, he's the central player in a revenge drama and stuck in the middle of a bank robbery reenactment involving a $77,000 heist from a murderous thief. For nothing is as it seems in The Driftless Area.

Ugo, Manu, and Fabio grew up together on the streets of Marseilles, a scenic French port city with a grimy criminal underworld. They're loyal to one another and not much else, but their unbreakable friendship faces attacks from all sides.

When Manu is murdered and Ugo returns from abroad to avenge his friend's death, only to be killed himself, it is left to the third in this trio to ensure justice is done.

But where Manu and Ugo were drawn to a life of crime, Fabio Montale has become a detective. Still, he made a promise and he'll do it to look out for his best friends. Finding a killer will take a deep cover operation that will force him to cross moral boundaries he's avoided for his entire life.

Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder. Following close behind are the police and Lena, his late brother's wife, who is desperate to get revenge for his death.

But vengeance on the plains of the old West is no easy feat, especially for a lone woman. She reluctantly agrees to let her trusted stable assistant join her on the journey.

As they trail Silas and draw ever closer on their mission, the story of the Van Loy brothers unfolds and their tense rivalry is revealed.

Why did Silas commit the ultimate crime against his own brother?

Lucy and Jake live in a house with their children and have a peaceful life away from the bustle of the city. Lucy gave up her career to devote her life to her kids while Jake provides for them.

But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Jake. The couple decide that they will stay together, but under one condition: Lucy has the right to hurt Jake three times.

She won't tell him how or when it will happen, and after these three punishments, they will move on with their lives. Neither of them are prepared for how much revenge and this dark game will change them.

You can’t talk about revenge without getting into The Count of Monte Cristo, perhaps the most famous book ever written on the subject.

Alexandre Dumas’ legendary doorstop of a novel is a propulsive blast of a read that paints a rich and expansive portrait of a man driven to obsession in the name of vengeance.

Edmond Dantes is a brilliant sailor with a bright future, but a jealous rival sees him thrown in prison for a crime he did not commit. Confined to a nightmare fortress, he thinks of nothing but getting his life back from the man who stole it.

When a fellow prisoner tells him of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo, he becomes determined to escape, locate it, and reinvent himself in the hopes of destroying those who did him wrong.

Everyone knows the twist now, but there’s a reason that this is one of Agatha Christie’s most beloved books and one of the most well-known crime novels ever written.

The iconic detective Hercule Poirot finds yet another of his vacations brought to a halt when he boards the legendary trans-continental train the Orient Express and becomes embroiled in a murder.

Upon this vehicle is a motley crew of seemingly disparate people from all walks of life. There doesn’t seem to be a motive for the death, nor are there any obvious suspects.

But Poirot is the world’s greatest detective and what he’ll uncover is a tale of revenge so shocking that it will rewrite the future of crime fiction for generations of readers and writers alike.