Agatha Christie








Join us in the Agatha Christie Perpetual reading challenge  and read at least three of her books per year.  Read the books in chronological order as listed, group by detective or collection, or randomly if you choose. 

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 1920 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Secret Adversary  - 1922 (Tommy and Tuppence)
  • Murder on the Links  - 1923 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Man in the Brown Suit - 1924
  • Poirot Investigates - 1924 (Poirot short story collection)
  • The Secret of Chimneys - 1925
  • The Murder of Roger Akroyd  - 1926 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Big Four - 1927  (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Mystery of the Blue Train - 1928  (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Seven Dials Mystery - 1929
  • Partners in Crime  - 1929 (Tommy and Tuppence short story collection)
  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin  - 1930 (Harley Quin short story collection)
  • Giant's Bread (Published under pseudonym  -  Mary Westmacott)
  • The Murder at the Vicarage  - 1930 (Miss Marple)
  • The Sittaford Mystery - 1931
  • Peril at End House  - 1932  (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Thirteen Problems - 1932 (Miss Marple short story collection)
  • The Floating Admiral   (Detection Club collaboration) 
  • Lord Edgware Dies - 1933 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Hound of Death  - 1933 (Macabre short story collection)
  • Ask a Policeman (Detection Club collaboration) 
  • Murder on the Orient Express - 1934  (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Listerdale Mysteries - 1934 (Short story collection)
  • Why didn't they ask Evans? - 1934 
  • Parker Pyne Investigates - 1934 (Parker Pyne short story collection)
  • Three Act Tragedy - 1934  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Unfinished Portrait  (Published under pseudonym  -  Mary Westmacott)
  • Death in the Clouds  - 1935 (Hercule Poirot)
  • Murder in Mesopotamia - 1936 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The ABC Murders  - 1936 (Hercule Poirot)
  • Cards on the Table  - 1936  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Six Against the Yard (Detection Club collaboration)
  • Dumb Witness - 1937  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Death on the Nile - 1937  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Murder in the Mews - 1937 (Poirot short story collection)
  • Appointment with Death  - 1938 (Hercule Poirot)
  • Incredible Theft (Hercule Poirot)
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas - 1938  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Murder is Easy - 1938 
  • And Then There Were None - 1939
  • The Witness for the Prosecution - 1939 (Short story collection)
  • Sad Cypress - 1940   (Hercule Poirot)
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - 1940  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Evil Under the Sun  - 1941 (Hercule Poirot)  
  • N or M?  - 1941 (Tommy and Tuppence)
  • The Body in the Library - 1942  (Miss Marple)
  • Five Little Pigs - 1942  (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Moving Finger - 1942  (Miss Marple)
  • Towards Zero - 1944 
  • Absent in the Spring  (Published under pseudonym  -  Mary Westmacott)
  • Death Comes as the End - 1944 
  • Sparkling Cyanide - 1945 
  • The Hollow - 1946  (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Labours of Hercules - 1947 (Short Story collection)
  • The Rose and the Yew Tree  (Published under pseudonym  -  Mary Westmacott)
  • Taken at the Flood  - 1948 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Witness for the Prosecution - 1948 (Short Story collection)
  • Crooked House - 1949 
  • A Murder is Announced  - 1950 (Miss Marple)
  • Three Blind Mice - 1950 (Short story collection)
  • They Came to Baghdad - 1951 
  • The Underdog  - 1951 (Hercule Poirot)(Short story collection)
  • They Do It With Mirrors  - 1952 (Miss Marple)
  • A Daughter's A Daughter (Published under pseudonym  -  Mary Westmacott)
  • Mrs McGinty's Dead   - 1952 (Hercule Poirot)
  • After the Funeral - 1953 (Hercule Poirot)
  • A Pocket Full of Rye - 1953  (Miss Marple)
  • Destination Unknown - 1954 
  • Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (Hercule Poirot)
  • Hickory Dickory Dock - 1955 (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Burden   (Published under pseudonym  -  Mary Westmacott)
  • Dean Man's Folly - 1958 (Hercule Poirot)
  • 4.50 from Paddington - 1957  (Miss Marple)
  • Ordeal by Innocence - 1958
  • Cat Among the Pigeons - 1959  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Adventure of the Christmas Pudding- 1960  (Short Story collection)
  • The Pale Horse - 1961 
  • Double Sin - 1961 (Short Story Collection)
  • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side - 1962 (Miss Marple)
  • The Clocks - 1963  (Hercule Poirot)
  • A Caribbean Mystery - 1964  (Miss Marple)
  • At Bertram’s Hotel - 1965  (Miss Marple)
  • Third Girl  - 1966 (Hercule Poirot)
  • Endless Night - 1967 
  • By the Pricking of my Thumbs - 1968 (Tommy and Tuppence)
  • Hallowe'en Party - 1969  (Hercule Poirot)
  • Passenger to Frankfurt - 1970 
  • Nemesis - 1971  (Miss Marple)
  • Golden Ball and other Stories - 1971 (US short story collection)
  • Elephants Can Remember  -1972 (Hercule Poirot)
  • Postern of Fate - 1973 (Tummy and Tuppence)
  • Poirot's Early Cases -1974 (18 story collection)
  • Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case -1975 (Hercule Poirot)
  • Sleeping Murder - 1976 (Miss Marple)
  • Miss Marples Final Cases - 1979  (8 story anthology)
  • Problem at Pollensa Bay - 1991 (Short story collection)
  • Harlequin Tea Set - 1997 (Short story collection)
  • Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot)  Christie's first play novelized by Charles Osborne
  • The Unexpected Guest (novelization of play by Charles Osborne)
  • Spider's Web  (novelization of play by Charles Osborne)
  • Monogram Murders (Hercule Poirot) Written by Sophie Hannah / Approved by Christie's estate
  • Closed Casket (Hercule Poirot) Written by Sophie Hannah / Approved by Christie's estate



16 comments:

  1. Bev HankinsDecember 9, 2018 at 7:59 AM

    I'm going to do this! Will try to read them in order--though I have to tell you, I am limiting my challenge to only Agatha Christie's work. I will most definitely not be reading the Sophie Hannah books. I got sucked into the Lord Peter Wimsey continuation books by Jill Paton Walsh (they were a sad disappointment for someone who adores Wimsey and had high hopes for more stories about him) and I really don't want to read Hannah's version of Poirot.

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    1. Robin MDecember 11, 2018 at 1:04 PM

      Glad you are diving into the world of Agatha!

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  2. Faith Hope and CherryteaJanuary 2, 2019 at 10:53 AM

    Annual readings continue . Listed under header at Faith Hope Cherrytea blogspot.
    Thanks for posting and hosting :)

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  3. PritaJanuary 13, 2019 at 12:20 AM

    I love Agatha Christie books and going to do this! Not sure I will be to maintain chronological order though

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  4. PritaJanuary 13, 2019 at 12:26 AM

    Read my first Agatha Christie this year - 4.50 from Paddington (a Miss Marple book). Loved it! Book review posted at https://mybookshelf.home.blog/2019/01/13/4-50-from-paddington/

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    1. Robin MJanuary 13, 2019 at 11:38 AM

      Great. Leave a link on week 3 and other participants will be able to read your review as well.

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  5. Bev HankinsMarch 18, 2019 at 6:49 PM

    I just finished my third for the year (will post the review on the current link in a moment). Will probably read at least another three before the year's over.

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  6. Lisbeth March 19, 2019 at 2:08 AM

    I will join. I have seen a lot of movies and TV-series, but actually read very little by her.

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  7. Luzia NarvzMay 17, 2020 at 2:37 AM

    And Then There Were None. It's been some time since I've read a book that I quite literally, couldn't put down. A little difficult to get into at first, as it introduces many characters in the first few pages (but in a way that is highly visually dynamic), And Then There Were None will keep you flipping through pages until you're suddenly down to the wire. A constant entertainment, I admire that although it's a murder mystery, it's not horribly graphic. Suspenseful enough to give you a fright, without giving you nightmares. I'd say this is one of those books everyone should read in their lifetime. A classic!

    Luzia
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  8. JuulnaMay 8, 2021 at 3:20 PM

    Hiya! I read The Hound of Death but then realized it was just the one short story by the same name, not the collection... for it to count, it needs to be the entire short story collection that goes by the same name? As you list it: "The Hound of Death - 1933 (Macabre short story collection)", correct?

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    1. Robin MMay 8, 2021 at 4:51 PM

      Yes, it's the short story collection.

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    2. JuulnaMay 8, 2021 at 7:54 PM

      Thanks! I’ll be sure to find the whole collection.

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  9. Tina HilbertNovember 26, 2022 at 12:06 AM

    So happy to have found these challenges. Is it too late to join in for 2022? Where do I sign up?

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    1. Robin MNovember 26, 2022 at 8:19 AM

      You dont need to sign up for 2022 since the year is almost gone, just join in.

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    2. Tina HilbertNovember 29, 2022 at 7:37 PM

      Awesome, thanks :) I started reading AC the end of 2021 with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and Jane in Search of a Job. In 2022 I have read The Dream, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, The ABC Murders, The King of Clubs, and The Million Dollar Bond Robbery. Looking forward to reading more but I don't think I'll get any more read until after the new year.

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