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Agatha Christie

English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976) · 1890-1976

Agatha Christie Books in Order

120 books · 3 series · 1920-2014

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan, usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence, and Miss Marple. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers, particularly in the mystery genre.

Biography from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 .

Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.

Standalone books

Books outside a series, oldest first.
# Cover Title Published Buy
1 The Secret Adversary Free to read online 1922 Amazon
2 Poirot Investigates Free to read online 1924 Amazon
3 The Man in the Brown Suit Free to read online 1924 Amazon
4 The Secret of Chimneys Free to read online 1925 Amazon
5 The Witness for the Prosecution 1925 Amazon
6
The Tuesday Night Club 1927 Amazon
7
Black Coffee 1929 Amazon
8 Partners in Crime Free to read online 1929 Amazon
9 The Seven Dials Mystery Free to read online 1929 Amazon
10 Giant's Bread 1930 Amazon
11 The Mysterious Mr Quin Free to read online 1930 Amazon
12 The Floating Admiral 1931 Amazon
13 The Sittaford Mystery 1931 Amazon
14 The Thirteen Problems Free to read online 1932 Amazon
15
The Hound of Death 1933 Amazon
16 Murder in Three Acts 1934 Amazon
17 Parker Pyne Investigates 1934 Amazon
18 The Listerdale Mystery 1934 Amazon
19 Unfinished Portrait 1934 Amazon
20 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 1934 Amazon
21 Dead Man's Mirror 1937 Amazon
22 Murder in the Mews 1937 Amazon
23 Appointment with Death 1938 Amazon
24 And Then There Were None 1939 Amazon
25 Murder Is Easy 1939 Amazon
26 The Regatta Mystery 1939 Amazon
27 N or M? 1941 Amazon
28 Absent in the Spring 1944 Amazon
29 Towards Zero 1944 Amazon
30 Sparkling Cyanide 1945 Amazon
31 The Mousetrap 1945 Amazon
32 Come, Tell Me How You Live 1946 Amazon
33 The Hollow Free to read online 1946 Amazon
34 The Labours of Hercules 1947 Amazon
35 The Rose and the Yew Tree 1948 Amazon
36 Crooked House 1949 Amazon
37
The Under Dog and Other Stories 1951 Amazon
38 They Came to Baghdad 1951 Amazon
39 Hickory Dickory Death 1952 Amazon
40 Destination Unknown 1954 Amazon
41 Spider's Web 1954 Amazon
42 The Burden 1956 Amazon
43 4:50 from Paddington 1957 Amazon
44 Ordeal by Innocence 1958 Amazon
45 The Unexpected Guest 1958 Amazon
46 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1960 Amazon
47 Double Sin and Other Stories 1961 Amazon
48 The Pale Horse 1961 Amazon
49 Surprise! Surprise! 1966 Amazon
50 Endless Night 1967 Amazon
51 By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1968 Amazon
52 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 1968 Amazon
53
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 1968 Amazon
54 Passenger to Frankfurt 1970 Amazon
55 The Double Clue 1971 Amazon
56 The Golden Ball and Other Stories 1971 Amazon
57 Akhnaton 1973 Amazon
58 Postern of Fate 1973 Amazon
59 Poirot's Early Cases 1974 Amazon
60 The Mousetrap and Other Plays 1978 Amazon
61
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories 1979 Amazon
62 The Agatha Christie Hour 1982 Amazon
63
The Tape-Measure Murder 1985 Amazon
64 Miss Marple Tells a Story 1986 Amazon
65 Problem at Pollensa Bay 1986 Amazon
66
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories 1991 Amazon
67 While the Light Lasts and Other Stories 1997 Amazon
68 Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly 2014 Amazon

Reading Agatha Christie in order

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