Agatha Christie Reading Order

42 books (1931–2025)

Start with Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, the first of 42 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1931Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Floating Admiral 1931Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ask a Policeman 1933Buy 🇺🇸
4	Six Against the Yard 1937Buy 🇺🇸
5	World's Great Mystery Stories 1943Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction 1948Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 1954Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 1958Buy 🇺🇸
9	Nine Detective Stories 1964Buy 🇺🇸
10	Daring Detectives 1969Buy 🇺🇸
11	Women Writing 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	Ghosts That Haunt You 1980Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1981Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1982Buy 🇺🇸
15	Murder in the Dark 1983Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Scoop and Behind the Screen 1983Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Web She Weaves 1983Buy 🇺🇸
18	Spooky Tales 1984Buy 🇺🇸
19	Witches' Brew 1984Buy 🇺🇸
20	Handle with Care: Frightening Stories 1985Buy 🇺🇸
21	English Country House Murders 1988Buy 🇺🇸
22	English Crime Stories of Today 1993Buy 🇺🇸
23	Murder British Style 1993Buy 🇺🇸
24	Murder Intercontinental 1996Buy 🇺🇸
25	Win, Lose or Die 1996Buy 🇺🇸
26	Law and Order 1997Buy 🇺🇸
27	Murder to Music 1997Buy 🇺🇸
28	Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas 1999Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 1999Buy 🇺🇸
30	A Century of British Mystery and Suspense 2000Buy 🇺🇸
31	Malice Domestic 9 2000Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Oxford Book of Detective Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
33	Crime Never Pays 2001Buy 🇺🇸
34	Murder On The Railways 2003Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction 2004Buy 🇺🇸
36	Books to Die For 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Bodies from the Library 2019Buy 🇺🇸
38	Bodies from the Library 2 2019Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works 2020Buy 🇺🇸
40	Marple: Twelve New Mysteries 2022Buy 🇺🇸
41	Capital Christie 2025Buy 🇺🇸
42	Country Christie 2025Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1936–1972)

Start with Cards on the Table, the first of 7 books in the Ariadne Oliver series.

#	Title
1	Cards on the Table 1936Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mrs. McGinty's Dead / Blood Will Tell 1952Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dead Man's Folly 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Pale Horse 1961Buy 🇺🇸
5	Third Girl 1966Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hallowe'en Party / A Haunting in Venice 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	Elephants Can Remember 1972Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1924–1944)

Start with The Man in the Brown Suit, the first of 4 books in the Colonel Race series.

#	Title
1	The Man in the Brown Suit 1924Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cards on the Table 1936Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death on the Nile 1937Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sparkling Cyanide / Remembered Death 1944Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1930–1930)

#	Title
1	The Mysterious Mr. Quin 1930Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1924–1993)

Start with The Coming of Mr. Quin, the first of 14 books in the Harley Quin Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Coming of Mr. Quin 1924Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Shadow on the Glass 1924Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sign in the Sky 1925Buy 🇺🇸
4	At the 'Bells and Motley' 1926Buy 🇺🇸
5	Harlequin's Lane 1927Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Face of Helen 1927Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Soul of the Croupier 1927Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Voice in the Dark 1927Buy 🇺🇸
9	The World's End 1927Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Dead Harlequin 1929Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Man from the Sea 1929Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Bird with the Broken Wing 1930Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Harlequin Tea Set 1971Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Love Detectives 1993Buy 🇺🇸

39 books (1920–1975)

Start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first of 39 books in the Hercule Poirot series.

#	Title
1	The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Murder on the Links 1923Buy 🇺🇸
3	Poirot Investigates 1924Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Big Four 1927Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928Buy 🇺🇸
7	Black Coffee 1930Buy 🇺🇸
8	Peril at End House 1932Buy 🇺🇸
9	Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner 1933Buy 🇺🇸
10	Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach 1934Buy 🇺🇸
11	Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts 1934Buy 🇺🇸
12	Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air 1935Buy 🇺🇸
13	Cards on the Table 1936Buy 🇺🇸
14	Murder in Mesopotamia 1936Buy 🇺🇸
15	The ABC Murders 1936Buy 🇺🇸
16	Death on the Nile 1937Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client 1937Buy 🇺🇸
18	Murder in the Mews / Dead Man's Mirror 1937Buy 🇺🇸
19	Appointment with Death 1938Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas 1938Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Girdle of Hyppolita 1939Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Nemean Lion 1939Buy 🇺🇸
23	One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death 1940Buy 🇺🇸
24	Sad Cypress 1940Buy 🇺🇸
25	Evil Under the Sun 1941Buy 🇺🇸
26	Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect 1942Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Hollow / Murder after Hours 1946Buy 🇺🇸
28	Taken at the Flood / There Is A Tide.... 1948Buy 🇺🇸
29	Mrs. McGinty's Dead / Blood Will Tell 1952Buy 🇺🇸
30	After the Funeral / Funerals are Fatal 1953Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hickory Dickory Dock 1955Buy 🇺🇸
32	Dead Man's Folly 1956Buy 🇺🇸
33	Cat Among the Pigeons 1959Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding / The Theft of the Royal Ruby 1960Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Clocks 1963Buy 🇺🇸
36	Third Girl 1966Buy 🇺🇸
37	Hallowe'en Party / A Haunting in Venice 1969Buy 🇺🇸
38	Elephants Can Remember 1972Buy 🇺🇸
39	Curtain 1975Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1947–2019)

Start with The Labours of Hercules / The Labors of Hercules, the first of 11 books in the Hercule Poirot Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Labours of Hercules / The Labors of Hercules 1947Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Witness for the Prosecution 1948Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Under Dog and Other Stories 1951Buy 🇺🇸
4	Poirot's Early Cases 1974Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hercule Poirot's Casebook 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Poirot's Finest Cases 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Double Clue 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot 2019Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot 2019Buy 🇺🇸

55 books (1923–2019)

Start with Christmas Adventure, the first of 55 books in the Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Christmas Adventure 1923Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly 1923Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Adventure of the Cheap Flat 1923Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Adventure of the Clapham Cook 1923Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb 1923Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman 1923Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Adventure of the Western Star 1923Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Affair at the Victory Ball 1923Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan 1923Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Kidnapped Prime Minister 1923Buy 🇺🇸
11	The King of Clubs 1923Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Lemesurier Inheritance 1923Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Lost Mine 1923Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Plymouth Express 1923Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Submarine Plans 1923Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 1923Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Veiled Lady 1923Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Chocolate Box 1925Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Chess Problem 1927Buy 🇺🇸
20	Double Sin 1928Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Third-Floor Flat 1929Buy 🇺🇸
22	Wasps' Nest 1929Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest 1932Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Second Gong 1932Buy 🇺🇸
25	How Does Your Garden Grow? 1935Buy 🇺🇸
26	Poirot and the Regatta Mystery 1936Buy 🇺🇸
27	Triangle at Rhodes 1936Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Dream 1937Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Incredible Theft 1937Buy 🇺🇸
30	Yellow Iris 1937Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Cretan Bull 1939Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Lernean Hydra 1939Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Stymphalean Birds 1939Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Apples of Hesperides 1940Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Arcadian Deer 1940Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Augean Stables 1940Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Erymanthian Boar 1940Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Flock of Geryon 1940Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Horses of Diomedes 1940Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Capture of Cerberus 1947Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Mystery of the Spanish Chest 1960Buy 🇺🇸
42	Afternoon at the Seaside 1962Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Patient 1962Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Witness for the Prosecution 1983Buy 🇺🇸
45	Four and Twenty Blackbirds 1989Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 1998Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim 2012Buy 🇺🇸
48	Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly 2013Buy 🇺🇸
49	Problem at Sea 2013Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Cornish Mystery 2013Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Market Basing Mystery 2013Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 2013Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Under Dog 2016Buy 🇺🇸
54	The Case of the Missing Will 2019Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Double Clue 2019Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1930–2026)

Start with The Affair at the Bungalow, the first of 16 books in the Miss Marple series.

#	Title
1	The Affair at the Bungalow 1930Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Companion 1930Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Four Suspects 1930Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Murder at the Vicarage 1930Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Body in the Library 1942Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Moving Finger 1942Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Murder is Announced 1950Buy 🇺🇸
8	They Do It With Mirrors / Murder With Mirrors 1952Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Pocket Full of Rye 1953Buy 🇺🇸
10	4:50 From Paddington / What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! 1957Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side 1962Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Caribbean Mystery 1964Buy 🇺🇸
13	At Bertram's Hotel 1965Buy 🇺🇸
14	Nemesis 1971Buy 🇺🇸
15	Sleeping Murder 1976Buy 🇺🇸
16	Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel Series(With: Lucy Foley) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1932–2005)

Start with The Thirteen Problems, the first of 5 books in the Miss Marple Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Thirteen Problems 1932Buy 🇺🇸
2	13 Clues for Miss Marple 1966Buy 🇺🇸
3	Miss Marple's Final Cases 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	Miss Marple Short Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1928–2013)

Start with Ingots of Gold, the first of 14 books in the Miss Marple Short Stories/Novellas series.

4 books (1946–2012)

Start with Come, Tell Me How You Live(By: Agatha Christie Mallowan), the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Come, Tell Me How You Live(By: Agatha Christie Mallowan) 1946Buy 🇺🇸
2	Agatha Christie: An Autobiography 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	Clues to Christie 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery(With: Mathew Prichard) 2012Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1932–1934)

Start with The Case of the City Clerk / The £199 Adventure, the first of 11 books in the Parker Pyne Short Stories/Novellas series.

4 books (1952–1962)

Start with The Mousetrap, the first of 4 books in the Plays series.

#	Title
1	The Mousetrap 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spider's Web 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	Verdict 1958Buy 🇺🇸
4	Rats 1962Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (1923–2013)

Start with Accident, the first of 33 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

35 books (1932–2023)

Start with The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories, the first of 35 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories 1932Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hound of Death 1933Buy 🇺🇸
3	Parker Pyne Investigates 1934Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories 1934Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories 1948Buy 🇺🇸
6	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 1952Buy 🇺🇸
7	Double Sin and Other Stories 1961Buy 🇺🇸
8	Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories(By: Agatha Christie Mallowan) 1965Buy 🇺🇸
9	Surprise! Surprise! 1965Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Golden Ball and Other Stories 1971Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mousetrap and Other Plays 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	Agatha Christie Hour 1982Buy 🇺🇸
13	Problem at Pollensa Bay 1985Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Tuesday Club Murders 1986Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
16	While the Light Lasts 1997Buy 🇺🇸
17	Bloodstained Pavement and Other Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸
18	Death by Drowning 2003Buy 🇺🇸
19	Murder In Three Stages(With: Charles Osborne) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
20	Seven Deadly Sins 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	Masterpieces in Miniature 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Detectives - Short Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Listerdale Mystery 2005Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Red Signal and Other Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Tuesday Night Club and Other Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸
26	A Fruitful Sunday and Other Short Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
27	Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown 2006Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Actress and Other Short Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
29	Miss Marple and Mystery 2008Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural 2019Buy 🇺🇸
31	Midwinter Murder 2020Buy 🇺🇸
32	Midsummer Mysteries: Tales from the Queen of Mystery 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	A Deadly Affair 2022Buy 🇺🇸
34	Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime 2023Buy 🇺🇸
35	Sinister Spring 2023Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1930–1999)

Start with Giant Bread(As:Mary Westmacott), the first of 19 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Giant Bread(As:Mary Westmacott) 1930Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at Hazelmoor 1931Buy 🇺🇸
3	Unfinished Portrait(As:Mary Westmacott) 1934Buy 🇺🇸
4	Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / The Boomerang Clue 1934Buy 🇺🇸
5	And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians 1939Buy 🇺🇸
6	Absent in the Spring(As:Mary Westmacott) 1944Buy 🇺🇸
7	Death Comes as the End 1944Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Rose And The Yew Tree(As:Mary Westmacott) 1947Buy 🇺🇸
9	Crooked House 1949Buy 🇺🇸
10	They Came to Baghdad 1951Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Daughter's a Daughter(As: Mary Westmacott) 1952Buy 🇺🇸
12	Destination Unknown / So Many Steps to Death 1954Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Burden(As:Mary Westmacott) 1956Buy 🇺🇸
14	Ordeal by Innocence 1958Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Pale Horse 1961Buy 🇺🇸
16	Endless Night 1967Buy 🇺🇸
17	13 at Dinner 1969Buy 🇺🇸
18	Passenger to Frankfurt 1970Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Unexpected Guest(With: Charles Osborne) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1925–1944)

Start with The Secret of Chimneys, the first of 5 books in the Superintendent Battle series.

#	Title
1	The Secret of Chimneys 1925Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Seven Dials Mystery 1929Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cards on the Table 1936Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill 1939Buy 🇺🇸
5	Towards Zero 1944Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1929–1972)

Start with The Unbreakable Alibi and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Unbreakable Alibi 1929Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Case of the Missing Lady 1972Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1929–2013)

Start with A Fairy in the Flat, the first of 14 books in the Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	A Fairy in the Flat 1929Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Affair of the Pink Pearl 1929Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Man Who Was No. 16 1929Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Sunningdale Mystery 1933Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Man in the Mist 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	The House of Lurking Death 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Finessing the King 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Pot of Tea 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Blindman's Buff 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Ambassador's Boots 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Crackler 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper 2013Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1922–1973)

Start with The Secret Adversary, the first of 5 books in the Tommy and Tuppence series.

#	Title
1	The Secret Adversary 1922Buy 🇺🇸
2	Partners in Crime 1929Buy 🇺🇸
3	N or M? 1941Buy 🇺🇸
4	By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	Postern of Fate 1973Buy 🇺🇸