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How many Christie's have you read?
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Sep 24, 2014 05:35AM
One day I'll finish them all, but it will take a while :)
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Hope to read them all at some point, but for now I'm on 21
I hope to read them all one day. I've actually lost count of how many I've read but I've re read them as well. One of my life's goals is to collect & read all her works. Doing great so far. 35. Of those I've read 5 but I've read more from various libraries. I confess I'm not reading them in order, but me in my typically geeky way, will read them in chronological order after I've read them all first. :)
Deciding to be less vague. These are the ones I've thus far read & re read:Murder on The Orient Express
Curtain
Mysterious Affair At Styles
The Big Four
Elephants Can Remember
Five Little Pigs
Nemesis
By The Pricking of My Thumbs
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Poirot Investigates
The Body In The Library
While The Light Lasts
(Odds are I'll read these again sooner rather than later. I could read her texts countless times). ;)
Currently reading Dame Agatha's autobiography. And then I intend on reading Three Act Tragedy. Yup. I'm excited :)
I think I've read about 20-25 so far, but I have a ton of them that I own but haven't read yet! :)
My plan is to read all of them. So far I've read 67.
This month I have read my "last" Christie book, meaning that I have now read them all. I was happy and sad at the same time, as it has been a goal of mine for a while and it was nice to complete it, but at the same time now I don't have any more of her books to look forward to. Now I think that I will start again and I hope that some of them I will enjoy more the second time around... and probably in some of them I will not remember who did it, so it will be like reading them for the first time!
I've read 84 written under 'Agatha Christie' plus her two autobiographical books. I re-read my favourites all the time. This is a sad situation that began when I was 7 or 8. I do wish she'd written several hundred!!
I am reading them as a challenge called 'Agatha Christie Reading Challenge. The link of the same is given below:https://pgalmora.wordpress.com/agatha...
I do hope to complete this herculean task one day.
15 Books . I started to read Christie's book since 1 or 2 months ago
i have read all of them except for curtain and And Then There Were None. i have not read those two because I know how they turn out and for that reason don't want to read them.
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That's really good for only starting about 1-2 months ago Mohammad.
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As of yesterday, 12. By the end of the month, should be 13. I'm trying to be methodical about it - reading the series - but I'm also trying to follow the group reads when I can.
I have read 39 Agatha Christie books. Some of my favorites are Three Act Tragedy, Murder at the Vicarage, The Mystery of the Blue Train & Halloween Party.I have a wonderful hardcover collection that I have been building for many years, and hopefully one day it will be complete!
I just finished a re read of one of my favourites, "Halloween Party" :) I'm hoping to add more yo my collection of paperbacks at Christmas time-ish :)
I have read most of them but it was about 20+ years ago. I collected the books with my grandmother and we had at least 70. During a move we culled those on the verge of collapse (1960s paperbacks!) so I have inherited about 60.
My New Year's resolution is to read all of Agatha Christie's mysteries in chronological order so at the end I will have a complete collection.
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Carolyn F. wrote: "We've been doing that Esther. That's what our books of the month are - we're reading them in order of publication. I think we only have about a year left before we start all over again."If you don't mind a late comer I may join in the book threads
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Over the years from High School to now..all of them.
I've read every mystery novel. I keep hoping that someday I'll magically find one that I haven't read...
I feel like I read way too little! So far it is 17. But since I have quite some more in my bookshelf, the number will grow. And I will also try to keep with the book of the month.
I have read all of her books, since I was a teenager. I've also been trying to find, read & keep any book about her. With age comes good things.. :)
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Maybe if you're in the US, one that was never published here. It seems that the anthologies are different between the US and UK so maybe one short story didn't make it here.
So far only 14...I have two in my collection now along with her autobiography and her plays....
I finished all the Poirot and Miss Marples. I'll update this post as I go, rather than add a new comment for every update.1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Murder on the Links
3. Poirot Investigates
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. The Big Four
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train
7. Peril at End House
8. Lord Edgware Dies (Thirteen At Dinner)
9. Murder on the Orient Express
10. Three Act Tragedy
11. Death in the Clouds
12. The ABC Murders
13. Murder in Mesopotamia
14. Cards on the Table
15. Dumb Witness
16. Death on the Nile
17. Murder in the Mews (aka Dead Man's Mirror)
18. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (or A Holiday for Murder)
19. Appointment with Death
20. Sad Cypress
21. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
22. Evil Under the Sun
23. Five Little Pigs
24. The Hollow
25. Taken at the Flood
26. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
27. After the Funeral
28. Hickory Dickory Dock
29. Third Girl
30. Black Coffee
31. The Labours of Hercules
32. Dead Man's Folly
33. A Cat Among the Pigeons
34. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
35. The Clocks
36. Hallowe'en Party
37. Elephants Can Remember
38. Poirot's Early Cases
39. The Under Dog and Other Stories
40. Curtain
41. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
42. Problem at Pollensa Bay
43. Destination Unknown
44. Murder at the Vicarage
45. The Body in the Library
46. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
47. A Murder Is Announced
48. They Do It With Mirrors
49. A Pocket Full of Rye
50. 4:50 from Paddington
51. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
52. A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10)
53. At Bertram's Hotel
54. Nemesis
55. Sleeping Murder
56. Miss Marple's Final Cases
57. The Man in the Brown Suit
58. Sparkling Cyanide
59. The Listerdale Mystery And Eleven Other Stories
60. While the Light Lasts
61. An Autobiography
62. The Secret Adversary
63. And Then There Were None
64. Death Comes as the End
65. Crooked House
Many of the audiobooks are done by the actor who played Hastings in the tv show.
I have read/listened to 18 of her books so far. These are the ones I have finished, in the order I have read them:1. And Then There Were None
2. The Murder at the Vicarage
3. 4:50 From Paddington
4. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
5. Sleeping Murder
6. The Body in the Library
7. The Moving Finger
8. The Unexpected Guest
9. The Thirteen Problems
10. The Golden Ball and Other Stories
11. A Murder Is Announced
12. They Do It With Mirrors
13. A Pocket Full of Rye
14. A Caribbean Mystery
15. The Dead Harlequin: A Short Story
16. The Mystery of the Blue Jar: A Short Story
17. At Bertram's Hotel
18. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
I believe I've read everything--certainly all the actual books (including the autobiographical stuff, and the Mary Westmacotts), and at least the vast majority of the short stories and the odd article too. And I love them dearly and re-read nearly all of them regularly!
All 67 novels and almost all short stories. Made a spreadsheet tallying themes, murder weapons, and other details trying to find a pattern or formula. There is none. Each book is original in its own way.
All 67 novels and almost all short stories. Made a spreadsheet tallying themes, murder weapons, and other details trying to find a pattern or formula. There is none. Each book is original in its own way.
I count only ones I have read, not watched their adaptation to film/television, I do however count audiobooks! So that would make 6 completed and a few others have been started simultaneously.
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Wow, even the Westmacotts - great job Polly!
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That's so funny Cora - you'd think she'd have some type of pattern for all of her books.
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I count audiobooks too mod_lyn.
Audiobooks (if unabridged) are books, too!
I thought I'd read them all, so I was quite surprised to find out there's 2 I hadn't read yet:1) Three Act Tragedy. I found I was having a hard time getting into this one -- not sure why, but it feels dry...this would be the only A.C. book I did not finish! --anyone else have a similar problem?
2) One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. This one I'm enjoying very much & I think it's very clever the way she related each section of the book to a part of the rhyme.
I think I've read more of her books than anyone else. However, I think I'm only on my 19th - I can't imagine reading all 80+ (which is not to say I won't).
I've read all her crime novels/short stories/plays. I tried to read her books, written as Mary Westmacott, but it didn't hook me up. At the same time I'm eagerly waiting to read the new sequel to The Monogram Murders - Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie.
All of the Poirot stories, including plays. Also the monogram murders, albeit that one not having been written by AC.I think I've also read most if not all of Miss Marple, a couple of T&T and some Harle Quinn ones and of course the one-offs like Toward Zero, ATTWN etc.
I haven't gotten round to reading her autobiography and the ones she wrote under Mary Westmacott.
But I don't mind a reread of Poirot/Marple mysteries I haven't visited in a long time since I've forgotten most of them ^^;
I've read almost all of her novels/plays/short stories. 4 more to go!! I haven't finished reading her autobiography yet and am still on the lookout for her romance novels. Her novels are among the few that I don't mind rereading. :)
