The most popular French revenge books

Revenge stories are driven by a wrong that demands an answer. Someone is betrayed, robbed or left for dead, and returns with a plan. The satisfaction is in watching it unfold, and the best of these books also count the cost to the one who takes it. Only books in French are listed.

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Gatsby le magnifique
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Gatsby le magnifique

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

1970 · 2022 edition

190 pages

La révolte
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La révolte

Suzanne Collins

2010 · 2015 edition

458 pages

Roméo et Juliette
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Roméo et Juliette

William Shakespeare, Philip M. Parker, Erica Abbett, David Wardle, Ancient Ink Press

1871 · 2022 edition

160 pages

Le Trône de fer
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Le Trône de fer

George R. R. Martin

1985 · 2012 edition

839 pages

Frankenstein
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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Elena Korn

1973 · 2001 edition

194 pages

Matilda
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Matilda

Roald Dahl, Puffin, Quentin Blake

1986 · 2016 edition

253 pages

Le Nom du vent
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Le Nom du vent

Patrick Rothfuss

2007 · 2019 edition

832 pages

Hamlet
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

1877 · 2012 edition

185 pages

Macbeth
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare

1873 · 2017 edition

98 pages

La lettre écarlate
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La lettre écarlate

Nathaniel Hawthorne, KATHIA VALLADARES

1883 · 1993 edition

306 pages

Carrie
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Carrie

Stephen King

1975 · 2025 edition

288 pages

À l'est d'Eden
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À l'est d'Eden

John Steinbeck

1970 · 1992 edition

631 pages

Artemis Fowl
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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

1999 · 2019 edition

368 pages