Agatha Christie Reading Challenge

The Agatha Christie Reading Challenge is run by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise. It is quite simply to read Agatha Christie’s books. I’m not reading them in order of publication but as I come across them.

I’ve included short stories in my list in italics.

Progress in publication date order:

  1. 1920 The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Poirot)
  2. 1922 The Secret Adversary
  3. 1923 The Murder on the Links (Poirot)
  4. 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
  5. 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  6. 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
  7. 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
  8. 1932 Peril At End House
  9. 1932 The Thirteen Problems
  10. 1933 The Hound of Death
  11. 1933 Lord Edgware Dies
  12. 1934 Murder on the Orient Express
  13. 1934 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (Aka The Boomerang Clue)
  14. 1935 Death in the Clouds
  15. 1936 The A.B.C. Murders
  16. 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia
  17. 1936 Cards on the Table (Poirot, Ariadne Oliver, Supt. Battle, Col. Race)
  18. 1937  Dumb Witness
  19. 1937 Death on the Nile
  20. 1937 Murder in the Mews (Poirot 4 short stories)
  21. 1938 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
  22. 1939 Murder is Easy
  23. 1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
  24. 1941 Evil Under the Sun
  25. 1942 The Body in the Library
  26. 1946 The Hollow
  27. 1947 The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)
  28. 1948 Taken at the Flood
  29. 1949 Crooked House
  30. 1951 They Came to Baghdad
  31. 1952 Mrs McGinty’s Dead
  32. 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye
  33. 1953 After the Funeral
  34. 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock
  35. 1956 Dead Man’s Folly
  36. 1957 4.50 from Paddington
  37. 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons
  38. 1961 The Pale Horse
  39. 1962 The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
  40. 1963 The Clocks
  41. 1964 A Caribbean Mystery
  42. 1965 At Bertram’s Hotel (Miss Marple)
  43. 1967 Endless Night
  44. 1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
  45. 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
  46. 1972 Elephants Can Remember
  47. 1973 Postern of Fate
  48. 1975 Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (written in the 1940s)
  49. 1976 Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’s Last Case (written in the 1940s)

Autobiography/Biography

  1. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
  2. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade