Agatha Christie published 84 novels, 1 novella, 27 short story collections, 1 non-fiction book, 2 children's books, 1 poetry collection and 12 plays, beginning with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). The 3 series include Hercule Poirot (34 books, starting with The Mysterious Affair at Styles), Miss Marple (12 books, starting with The Murder at the Vicarage) and Superintendent Battle (4 books, starting with The Secret of Chimneys). 4 feature Tommy Beresford. The best-known is And Then There Were None (1939).
Updated September 2026
Hercule Poirot books in order (34)Series page
Reading order: 1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) · 2 Murder on the Links (1923) · 3 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) · 4 The Big Four (1927) · 5 The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) · 6 Peril at End House (1932) · 7 Lord Edgware Dies (1933) · 8 Murder on the Orient Express (1934) · 9 Three Act Tragedy (1934) · 10 Death in the Clouds (1935) · … all 34 below
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Murder on the Links (1923)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
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The Big Four (Jan 1927)
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Peril at End House (Feb 1932)
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Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
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Murder on the Orient Express (Jan 1934)
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Three Act Tragedy (1934)
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Death in the Clouds (Mar 1935)
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The A.B.C. Murders (Jan 1936)
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Murder in Mesopotamia (Jul 1936)
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Cards on the Table (Nov 1936)
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Dumb Witness (Jul 1937)
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Death on the Nile (Nov 1937)
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Appointment with Death (May 1938)
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Dec 1938)
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Sad Cypress (1940)
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
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Evil Under the Sun (1941)
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Five Little Pigs (May 1942)
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The Hollow (1946)
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Taken at the Flood (1948)
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Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952)
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After the Funeral (Mar 1953)
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Hickory Dickory Dock (Oct 1955)
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Dead Man's Folly (Oct 1956)
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Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
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The Clocks (1963)
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Third Girl (1966)
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Hallowe'en Party (1969)
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Elephants Can Remember (1972)
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Curtain (1975)
Poirot (1989)
Miss Marple books in order (12)Series page
Reading order: 1 The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) · 2 The Body in the Library (1942) · 3 The Moving Finger (1942) · 4 A Murder Is Announced (1950) · 5 They Do It with Mirrors (1952) · 6 A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) · 7 4.50 from Paddington (1957) · 8 The Mirror Crack'd (1962) · 9 A Caribbean Mystery (1964) · 10 At Bertram's Hotel (1965) · … all 12 below
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The Murder at the Vicarage (Oct 1930)
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The Body in the Library (1942)
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The Moving Finger (1942)
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A Murder Is Announced (1950)
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They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
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A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
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4.50 from Paddington (1957)
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The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
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A Caribbean Mystery (Nov 1964)
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At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
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Nemesis (1972)
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Sleeping Murder (1976)
Superintendent Battle books in order (4)Series page
Reading order: 1 The Secret of Chimneys (1925) · 2 The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) · 3 Murder Is Easy (1939) · 4 Towards Zero (1944)
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The Secret of Chimneys (Jun 1925)
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Jan 1929)
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Murder Is Easy (Jun 1939)
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Towards Zero (Jun 1944)
Books featuring Tommy Beresford (4)
The Secret Adversary (1922)
N or M? (1941)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Nov 1968)
Postern of Fate (Oct 1973)
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Standalone novels in order
The Man in the Brown Suit (Aug 1924)
The Road of Dreams (Jan 1925)
Perilous Journeys of Hercule Poirot (1928)
Giant's Bread (Apr 1930)
The Floating Admiral (1931), with Dorothy L. Sayers and G. K. Chesterton
The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1933)
Mr. Eastwood's Adventure (1934)
Unfinished Portrait (Mar 1934)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Sep 1934)
And Then There Were None (1939)
Absent in the Spring (Aug 1944)
Death Comes as the End (Oct 1944)
Sparkling Cyanide (Feb 1945)
The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
Crooked House (Mar 1949)
They Came to Baghdad (Mar 1951)
A Daughter's a Daughter (Nov 1952)
Destination Unknown (Nov 1954)
The Burden (1956)
Ordeal by Innocence (Nov 1958)
The Pale Horse (Nov 1961)
Endless Night (Oct 1967)
Spies Among Us (1968)
A Daughter Is a Daughter (1970)
Passenger to Frankfurt (Sep 1970)
Allô, Hercule Poirot [6 Stories] (1971)
Murder on Board (1974)
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (Nov 1977)
The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983), with Dorothy L. Sayers and Anthony Berkeley Cox
Novellas in order
Dead Man's Mirror (1937)
Short story collections in order
Poirot Investigates (Mar 1924)
Partners in Crime (1929)
The Mysterious Mr Quin (Apr 1930)
The Thirteen Problems (Jun 1932)
The Hound of Death (1933)
Mr Parker Pyne, Detective (1934)
The Listerdale Mystery (Jun 1934)
Murder in the Mews (1937)
The Regatta Mystery (1939)
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées (1960)
Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
13 for Luck (1965)
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories [6 Stories and Poems] (1965)
Surprise! Surprise! (1966)
The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1971)
Some Things Strange and Sinister (1973)
Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979)
The Hound of Death and Other Stories (Oct 1981)
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (Apr 1997)
Non-fiction in order
Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making (2009)
Children's books in order
Surprise Endings (1936)
13 Clues for Miss Marple (1966)
Poetry in order
Poems (Oct 1973)
Plays in order
Black Coffee (1929)
The Mousetrap (1945)
Come, Tell Me How You Live (Nov 1946)
Three Blind Mice (1947)
Murder on the Nile (1948)
Witness for the Prosecution (1953)
Spider's Web (1954)
The Unexpected Guest (1958)
Verdict (1958)
Go Back for Murder (1960)
Akhnaton (1973)
The Mousetrap and Other Plays (Nov 1978)
Film and TV adaptations
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1989)TV · from The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Adventures Inc. (1929)Film · from The Secret Adversary
- Partners in CrimeTV · from The Secret Adversary
- The Man in the Brown Suit (1989)TV · from The Man in the Brown Suit
- Alibi (1931)Film · from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2000)TV · from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)TV · from The Mystery of the Blue Train
- Black Coffee (1931)Film · from Black Coffee
- The Lacquered Box (1932)Film · from Black Coffee
- The Seven Dials Mystery (1981)TV · from The Seven Dials Mystery
- Seven Dials MysteryTV · from The Seven Dials Mystery
- Peril at End House (1989)Film · from Peril at End House
- Peril at the End House (1990)TV · from Peril at End House
- Lord Edgware Dies (1934)Film · from Lord Edgware Dies
- Thirteen at Dinner (1985)TV · from Lord Edgware Dies
- Lord Edgware Dies (2000)TV · from Lord Edgware Dies
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)Film · from Murder on the Orient Express
- Murder on the Orient Express (2001)TV · from Murder on the Orient Express
- Murder on the Orient Express (2010)TV · from Murder on the Orient Express
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017)Film · from Murder on the Orient Express
- Murder in Three Acts (1986)TV · from Three Act Tragedy
- Three Act Tragedy (2010)TV · from Three Act Tragedy
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans?TV · from Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
- Cards on the Table (2006)TV · from Cards on the Table
- Chorabali (2016)Film · from Cards on the Table
- The Alphabet Murders (1965)Film · from The A.B.C. Murders
- The ABC Murders (1992)TV · from The A.B.C. Murders
- Grandmaster (2012)Film · from The A.B.C. Murders
- The ABC MurdersTV · from The A.B.C. Murders
- Death on the Nile (1978)Film · from Death on the Nile
- Death on the Nile (2004)TV · from Death on the Nile
- Death on the Nile (2022)Film · from Death on the Nile
- Appointment with Death (1988)Film · from Appointment with Death
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1994)TV · from Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- A Family Murder PartyTV · from Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- And Then There Were None (1945)Film · from And Then There Were None
- Desyat Negrityat (1987)Film · from And Then There Were None
- Sabotage (2014)Film · from And Then There Were None
- And Then There Were NoneTV · from And Then There Were None
- Murder Is Easy (1982)TV · from Murder Is Easy
- Sad Cypress (2003)TV · from Sad Cypress
- Evil Under the Sun (1982)Film · from Evil Under the Sun
- Evil Under the Sun (2001)TV · from Evil Under the Sun
- Partners in CrimeTV · from N or M?
- Five Little Pigs (2003)TV · from Five Little Pigs
- The Body in the Library (1984)TV · from The Body in the Library
- Innocent Lies (1995)Film · from Towards Zero
- L'Heure Zéro (2007)Film · from Towards Zero
- Towards ZeroTV · from Towards Zero
- Chupi Chupi Aashey (1960)Film · from The Mousetrap
- Le Grand alibi (2008)Film · from The Hollow
- Chupi Chupi Aashey (1960)Film · from Three Blind Mice
- Crooked House (2017)Film · from Crooked House
- Murder Most Foul (1964)Film · from Mrs McGinty's Dead
- Mrs McGinty’s Dead (2008)TV · from Mrs McGinty's Dead
- Secret of the Black Birds (1983)Film · from A Pocket Full of Rye
- Murder at the Gallop (1963)Film · from After the Funeral
- After the Funeral (2005)TV · from After the Funeral
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)Film · from Witness for the Prosecution
- Witness for the Prosecution (1982)TV · from Witness for the Prosecution
- The Spider's Web (1960)Film · from Spider's Web
- Spider's Web (1982)TV · from Spider's Web
- Dead Man's Folly (1986)TV · from Dead Man's Folly
- Murder, She Said (1961)Film · from 4.50 from Paddington
- Marple: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (2004)TV · from 4.50 from Paddington
- Le crime est notre affaire (2008)Film · from 4.50 from Paddington
- Ordeal by Innocence (1984)Film · from Ordeal by Innocence
- Ordeal by Innocence (2018)TV · from Ordeal by Innocence
- Dhund (1973)Film · from The Unexpected Guest
- Cat Among the Pigeons (2008)TV · from Cat Among the Pigeons
- The Pale Horse (1997)TV · from The Pale Horse
- The Pale Horse (2020)TV · from The Pale Horse
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980)Film · from The Mirror Crack'd
- Shubho Mahurat (2003)Film · from The Mirror Crack'd
- The Clocks (2009)TV · from The Clocks
- A Caribbean Mystery (1983)TV · from A Caribbean Mystery
- Third Girl (2008)TV · from Third Girl
- Endless Night (1972)Film · from Endless Night
- Mon petit doigt m'a dit... (2005)Film · from By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- A Haunting in Venice (2023)Film · from Hallowe'en Party
- Elephants Can Remember (2013)TV · from Elephants Can Remember
- Sleeping Murder (1987)TV · from Sleeping Murder
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About Agatha Christie
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.
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Agatha Christie FAQ
- How many books has Agatha Christie written?
- Agatha Christie published 84 novels, 1 novella, 27 short story collections, 1 non-fiction book, 2 children's books, 1 poetry collection and 12 plays that we list, as of September 2026.
- What order should I read Agatha Christie's books in?
- Read each series in its own order: start Hercule Poirot with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Miss Marple with The Murder at the Vicarage and Superintendent Battle with The Secret of Chimneys. The other books stand alone and can be read in any order.
- What is Agatha Christie's last book?
- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977).
- What is Agatha Christie's most famous book?
- And Then There Were None (1939) is Agatha Christie's most widely read book.
- Are Agatha Christie's books connected?
- 50 books belong to 3 series (Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Superintendent Battle); the other 78 books stand alone.
- Does Agatha Christie write under a pen name?
- Yes: Agatha Christie has also published as Mary Westmacott.
- Which Agatha Christie books have been adapted?
- 49 books have been adapted for film or TV, including The Mysterious Affair at Styles (TV, 1989), The Secret Adversary (as Adventures Inc., film, 1929), The Man in the Brown Suit (TV, 1989) and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (as Alibi, film, 1931).
- Can I read Agatha Christie's books for free?
- Yes. 17 books by Agatha Christie are in the public domain in the US and free to read online or download here.
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Sources: book lists and dates from Wikidata and Open Library, ratings from Open Library readers, free texts from Project Gutenberg. Last updated September 2026.