Order of Agatha Christie Books
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English novelist who is best known for her detective novels featuring characters such as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She has sold four billion novels altogether, making her the best-selling novelist of all time according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Agatha Christie has been dubbed “The Queen of Crime,” having written 66 detective novels along with 14 short stories. Also to her credit are numerous West End Plays, television plays and radioplays. She also wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Her work has been adapted into just about every medium imaginable – film, television, plays, video games and graphic novels. Without a doubt, Agatha Christie’s legacy lives on.
Below is a list of Agatha Christie’s novels in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles | (1920) |
  
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| The Murder on the Links | (1923) |
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| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | (1926) |
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| The Big Four | (1927) |
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| The Mystery of the Blue Train | (1928) |
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| Peril at End House | (1932) |
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| Lord Edgware Dies | (1933) |
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| Murder on the Orient Express | (1934) |
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| Three Act Tragedy | (1935) |
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| Death in the Clouds | (1935) |
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| The A.B.C. Murders | (1936) |
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| Murder in Mesopotamia | (1936) |
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| Cards on the Table | (1936) |
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| Dumb Witness | (1937) |
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| Death on the Nile | (1937) |
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| Appointment with Death | (1938) |
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| Hercule Poirot's Christmas | (1938) |
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| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | (1940) |
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| Sad Cypress | (1940) |
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| Evil Under the Sun | (1941) |
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| Five Little Pigs | (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 | (1953) |
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| Hickory Dickory Dock | (1955) |
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| Dead Man's Folly | (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) |
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| The Monogram Murders | (2014) |
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Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
| Poirot Investigates | (1924) |
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| Murder in the Mews | (1937) |
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| The Labours of Hercules | (1947) |
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| Poirot's Early Cases | (1974) |
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Publication Order of Miss Marple Books
| The Murder at the Vicarage | (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 | (1964) |
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| At Bertram's Hotel | (1965) |
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| Nemesis | (1971) |
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| Sleeping Murder | (1976) |
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Publication Order of Miss Marple Collections
| The Thirteen Problems | (1932) |
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| Miss Marple's Final Cases | (1979) |
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Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Books
| The Secret Adversary | (1922) |
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| N or M? | (1941) |
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| By the Pricking of My Thumbs | (1968) |
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| Postern of Fate | (1973) |
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h2>Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Collections
| Partners in Crime | (1929) |
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Publication Order of Superintendent Battle Books
| The Secret of Chimneys | (1925) |
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| The Seven Dials Mystery | (1929) |
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| Cards on the Table | (1936) |
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| Murder is Easy | (1939) |
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| Towards Zero | (1944) |
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Man in the Brown Suit | (1924) |
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| Giant's Bread | (1930) |
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| The Sittaford Mystery | (1931) |
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| Unfinished Portrait | (1934) |
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| Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | (1934) |
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| And Then There Were None | (1939) |
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| Absent in the Spring | (1944) |
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| Death Comes as the End | (1944) |
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| Sparkling Cyanide | (1945) |
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| The Rose and the Yew Tree | (1948) |
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| Crooked House | (1949) |
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| They Came to Baghdad | (1951) |
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| A Daughter's a Daughter | (1952) |
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| Destination Unknown | (1954) |
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| The Burden | (1956) |
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| Ordeal by Innocence | (1958) |
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| The Pale Horse | (1961) |
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| Endless Night | (1967) |
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| Passenger to Frankfurt | (1970) |
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Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Mysterious Mr. Quin | (1930) |
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| The Hound of Death | (1933) |
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| The Listerdale Mystery | (1934) |
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| Parker Pyne Investigates | (1934) |
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| The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories | (1939) |
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| The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | (1948) |
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| Three Blind Mice and Other Stories | (1950) |
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| The Under Dog and Other Stories | (1951) |
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| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | (1960) |
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| Double Sin and Other Stories | (1961) |
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| Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories | (1965) |
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| The Golden Ball and Other Stories | (1974) |
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| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | (1991) |
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| The Harlequin Tea Set | (1997) |
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| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | (1997) |
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Come, Tell Me How You Live | (1946) |
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| Agatha Christie: An Autobiography | (1977) |
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Notes: Agatha Christie novels have often been released under one or two other titles. For the most part, we have listed the original title (also the title the book is being sold under).
The novels Giant’s Bread, Unfinished Portrait, Absent in the Spring, The Rose and the Yew Tree, A Daughter’s a Daughter and The Burden are romance novels that Christie wrote under the pen name of Mary Westmacott. We have included them in the publication order along with Christie’s other standalone novels. Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories is published as by Agatha Christie Mallowan.
The Monogram Murders is an authorized Hercule Poirot novel, written by Sophie Hannah.
When multiple recurring characters appear in an Agatha Christie novel, we have listed them under both characters.
If You Like Agatha Christie Books, You’ll Love…
Agatha Christie Synopsis: In And Then There Were None, ten people are tricked into coming to an island. Despite the fact that nobody other than the ten are on the island, they are all picked off and murdered one by one. The novel has been adapted countless times as Ten Little Indians.
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