Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie has written at least 768 books. Their most popular book is And Then There Were None with 2268 saves with an average rating of 4.25⭐.
Author Bio
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born.
Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
As of June 2018, Christie has retained her crown as the world’s [most translated author][1] with a total of 7,236 translated versions of her works are on record with the UNESCO Translationum Index.
[1]: https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-author.php
1939 • 2,268 Readers • 116 pages • 4.2
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1938 • 243 Readers • 180 pages • 3.9
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1938 • 169 Readers • 9 pages • 3.7
#1 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1922 • 166 Readers • 222 pages • 3.7
#1 of 4 in Colonel Race
1924 • 159 Readers • 280 pages • 3.7
#6 of 3 in Agatha Christie Graphic Novels
1967 • 136 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5
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1948 • 130 Readers • 359 pages • 3.7
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1972 • 129 Readers • 228 pages • 3.4
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1953 • 115 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7
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1940 • 111 Readers • 20 pages • 3.6
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1957 • 109 Readers • 196 pages • 3.7
1934 • 106 Readers • 304 pages • 3.8
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1939 • 101 Readers • 119 pages • 3.6
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1997 • 98 Readers • 3.7
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1942 • 97 Readers • 343 pages • 3.8
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1952 • 95 Readers • 228 pages • 3.9
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1923 • 88 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3
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1925 • 83 Readers • 182 pages • 3.7
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1958 • 72 Readers • 292 pages • 3.5
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1929 • 67 Readers • 222 pages • 3.5
198 • 64 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8
#4 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1968 • 51 Readers • 291 pages • 3.5
2020 • 48 Readers • 287 pages • 4
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1973 • 48 Readers • 292 pages • 3
1934 • 47 Readers • 529 pages • 4.8
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1954 • 43 Readers • 237 pages • 3.5
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1985 • 41 Readers • 359 pages • 4.6
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1932 • 41 Readers • 383 pages • 3.5
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1979 • 36 Readers • 193 pages • 3.6
1939 • 34 Readers • 165 pages • 4.4
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1991 • 32 Readers • 8 pages • 3.7
1954 • 31 Readers • 241 pages • 3.7
1926 • 31 Readers • 24 pages • 4.1
1944 • 30 Readers • 224 pages • 3.8
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1923 • 30 Readers • 3.4
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1961 • 27 Readers • 288 pages • 3.2
#10 of 13 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 25 Readers • 29 pages • 3.3
