Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie has written at least 793 books. Their most popular book is And Then There Were None with 2482 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

Details	Rating	Readers Count
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	4.25	1,532 reads
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	4.06	1,073 reads
The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Agatha Christie	3.83	623 reads
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Agatha Christie	4.23	594 reads
The ABC Murders Agatha Christie	3.96	310 reads
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie	3.91	235 reads
The Murder on The Links Agatha Christie	3.68	258 reads
Hallowe'en Party Agatha Christie	3.4	196 reads
The Body in the Library Agatha Christie	3.69	211 reads
Hercule Poirot's Christmas Agatha Christie	3.83	186 reads
The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie	3.69	170 reads
Five Little Pigs Agatha Christie	3.94	161 reads
Crooked House Agatha Christie	3.99	146 reads
Peril at End House Agatha Christie	4.04	167 reads
Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie	3.75	144 reads
Cards on the Table Agatha Christie	3.83	146 reads
A Murder Is Announced Agatha Christie	4.04	146 reads
Poirot Investigates Agatha Christie	3.7	137 reads
Murder in Mesopotamia Agatha Christie	3.9	132 reads
Death In The Clouds Agatha Christie	3.91	138 reads
The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie	3.76	127 reads
The Big Four Agatha Christie	3.29	133 reads
Appointment with Death Agatha Christie	3.69	110 reads
Lord Edgware Dies Agatha Christie	3.98	125 reads
The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie	3.72	95 reads
The Moving Finger Agatha Christie	3.67	110 reads
Endless Night Agatha Christie	3.57	79 reads
Three Act Tragedy Agatha Christie	3.65	91 reads
Dumb Witness Agatha Christie	3.84	101 reads
Cat Among the Pigeons Agatha Christie	3.69	85 reads
A Pocket Full of Rye Agatha Christie	3.78	92 reads
Curtain Agatha Christie	3.94	75 reads
Elephants Can Remember Agatha Christie Agata Kristi	3.41	85 reads
Sad Cypress Agatha Christie	4.04	77 reads
The Hollow Agatha Christie	3.69	70 reads
Sleeping Murder Agatha Christie	3.71	78 reads
A Caribbean Mystery Agatha Christie	3.6	86 reads
Hickory Dickory Dock Agatha Christie	3.78	75 reads
Dead Man's Folly Agatha Christie	3.76	69 reads
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Agatha Christie	3.58	79 reads
The Thirteen Problems Agatha Christie	3.79	67 reads
The Clocks Agatha Christie	3.82	70 reads
At Bertram's Hotel Agatha Christie	3.4	78 reads
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side Agatha Christie	3.65	77 reads
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Agatha Christie	3.83	78 reads
They Do It With Mirrors Agatha Christie	3.74	78 reads
Third Girl Agatha Christie	3.51	67 reads
The Labours of Hercules Hugh Fraser Agatha Christie	3.67	67 reads
Black Coffee Agatha Christie	3.33	66 reads
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Naomi Alderman Leigh Bardugo Alyssa Cole Lucy Foley Elly Griffiths Natalie Haynes Jean Kwok Karen M. McManus Dreda Say Mitchell Val McDermid Kate Mosse Ruth Ware	4	43 reads
4.50 from Paddington / A Pocket Full of Rye: Two BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation Agatha Christie Michael Bakewell	3.69	81 reads
Mrs. McGinty's Dead Agatha Christie Budijanto T. Pramono (Translator)	3.83	63 reads
Sparkling Cyanide Agatha Christie	3.73	73 reads
Nemesis Agatha Christie	3.76	61 reads
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Agatha Christie	3.35	54 reads
Taken at the Flood Agatha Christie	3.68	53 reads
The secret of Chimneys Agatha Christie	3.74	54 reads
The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie	3.68	53 reads
Partners in Crime Agatha Christie	3.59	58 reads
Death Comes as the End Agatha Christie	3.72	49 reads
The Pale Horse Agatha Christie	3.85	49 reads
Murder in the Mews Agatha Christie	3.7	45 reads
Towards Zero Agatha Christie	3.72	56 reads
After the Funeral Agatha Christie	3.75	47 reads
Ordeal by Innocence Agatha Christie	3.49	49 reads
The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie	3.5	49 reads
They Came to Baghdad Agatha Christie	3.8	45 reads
Murder is Easy Agatha Christie	3.36	46 reads
N or M? Agatha Christie	3.63	49 reads
Poirot's Early Cases Agatha Christie	3.58	26 reads
By the Pricking of My Thumbs Agatha Christie	3.53	35 reads
The Under Dog and Other Stories Agatha Christie	3.69	21 reads
Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie	3.98	31 reads
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories Agatha Christie	3.77	21 reads
The Mysterious Mr. Quin Agatha Christie	3.64	30 reads
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Agatha Christie	4.8	15 reads
Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie	3.69	24 reads
Postern of Fate Agatha Christie	3	30 reads
4:50 from Paddington Agatha Christie	3.94	28 reads
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories Agatha Christie	4.56	21 reads
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Agatha Christie	3.58	22 reads
Destination Unknown Agatha Christie	3.53	26 reads
A Deadly Affair Agatha Christie	4	8 reads
While the Light Lasts Agatha Christie	2.92	11 reads
Passenger to Frankfurt Agatha Christie	2.77	22 reads
The Unexpected Guest Agatha Christie	3.78	28 reads
Miss Marple's Final Cases Agatha Christie	3.62	20 reads
Diez Negritos Agatha Christie Orestes Llorens (Translator)	4.42	30 reads
Spider's Web Agatha Christie	3.55	14 reads
Hercule Poirot's Casebook Agatha Christie	3.43	22 reads
Problem at Pollensa Bay Agatha Christie	3.7	6 reads
The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural Agatha Christie	4	10 reads
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories Agatha Christie	2.89	12 reads
Absent in the Spring Agatha Christie	3.77	12 reads
Double Sin and Other Stories Agatha Christie	3.38	8 reads
The Cornish Mystery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story Agatha Christie	3.39	19 reads
The Mousetrap: A Play Agatha Christie	4.31	12 reads
Dead Man's Mirror Agatha Christie	3.7	11 reads
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories Agatha Christie	4.5	7 reads
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor: A Short Story Agatha Christie	3.45	15 reads