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

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections

Publication Order of Miss Marple Books

Publication Order of Miss Marple Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Miss Marple Collections

Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Books

Publication Order of Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Superintendent Battle Books

Publication Order of Colonel Race Books

Publication Order of Harley Quin Books

Publication Order of Harley Quin Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Parker Pyne Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Plays

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

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…

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Sue Grafton
• Robert B. Parker

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.

6 Responses to “Order of Agatha Christie Books”

Just a question if anyone knows. What are the differences between the “Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books” and the “Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections”? The collection is like 4 books containg all the other individual stories (i.e like the comics that first publish issues and after that they publish one big collection book with all the issues of that cycle)? Reply

From looking at it it may be a mistake on our part – the “collections” may belong in the short story collections section. I’ve flagged that and will look at it next week. Reply

My mom gave me Murder for Christmas when I was in Grade School and lo these many years later I am still hooked on Agatha Christie. I have the leather bound Bantam Books Christie collection – one signed by David Suchet. He was playing in Amadeus in NYC and I caught him outside for a photo and autograph. I might add this was before Smart Phones! Reply

Agatha Christie also wrote a rarely mentioned mystery “Ahknaton” published in 1973. Under a pseudonym she wrote a few romances but I do not remember her pseudonym nor the books. Reply

The pseudonym used by Agatha Christie was Mary Westmacott.
A web search will give you the full listing of books written by her under that name. Reply

After watching the David Suchet “Poirot” series, I decided to start reading Agatha Christie. I went to the library and took out every book of hers I could find. They were all very much worth the reads mostly due to the character interaction (rather than the mysteries themselves). I find Poirot hilarious, although I wouldn’t recommend The Big Four as he turns into sort of a “Bizzaro World” James Bond. I also enjoy some of her standalone mysteries like And Then There Were None and Endless Night. Classic reads! Reply