Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie has written at least 768 books. Their most popular book is And Then There Were None with 2379 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
1933 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 3
#4 of 18 in Miss Marple
1950 • 1 Reader • 251 pages
1980 • 1 Reader • 511 pages
1970 • 1 Reader • 543 pages
1971 • 1 Reader • 512 pages
1928 • 1 Reader • 544 pages
1971 • 1 Reader • 509 pages
1972 • 1 Reader • 510 pages
1926 • 1 Reader • 32 pages • 3
#0.5 of 18 in Miss Marple
1932 • 1 Reader • 174 pages • 4
#0.003 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1932 • 1 Reader • 35 pages
1957 • 1 Reader • 473 pages
#2 of 3 in Bodies from the Library
2019 • 1 Reader • 400 pages • 4
#2 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1923 • 1 Reader • 3
1939 • 1 Reader • 256 pages • 5
#4 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1926 • 1 Reader • 267 pages
1 Reader
#13 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1936 • 1 Reader • 344 pages • 3
1934 • 1 Reader • 224 pages
1 Reader • 3
1 Reader • 340 pages
2006 • 1 Reader • 432 pages
1 Reader
2019 • 1 Reader • 157 pages • 5
2018 • 1 Reader • 312 pages • 4
1923 • 1 Reader • 24 pages
#0 of 18 in Miss Marple
1928 • 1 Reader • 21 pages
1940 • 1 Reader • 3 pages
#2.08 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1977 • 1 Reader • 31 pages
1924 • 1 Reader
2005 • 1 Reader • 740 pages
1 Reader • 506 pages
1982 • 1 Reader • 190 pages
1 Reader
1 Reader
#9 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1929 • 1 Reader • 37 pages
#8 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1927 • 1 Reader • 31 pages
#7 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1927 • 1 Reader • 31 pages
#6 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1929 • 1 Reader • 39 pages
#3 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1926 • 1 Reader • 31 pages
1 Reader
1 Reader • 4
2012 • 1 Reader • 3
1 Reader • 4
1965 • 1 Reader • 478 pages
2010 • 1 Reader • 637 pages • 5
2020 • 1 Reader • 214 pages • 3
#3 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1941 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 4
#5 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1927 • 1 Reader • 224 pages • 3
2023 • 1 Reader • 320 pages
2005 • 1 Reader • 64 pages • 5
#1 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1922 • 1 Reader • 344 pages • 3
1986 • 1 Reader
2018 • 1 Reader • 10 pages
1998 • 1 Reader
1973 • 1 Reader
#11 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1927 • 1 Reader • 33 pages
#7 of 12 in Mr. Harley Quin
1927 • 1 Reader • 26 pages
1929 • 1 Reader • 30 pages
1 Reader • 3
1931 • 1 Reader • 288 pages • 4
1934 • 1 Reader • 239 pages
1 Reader • 1,179 pages
#1 of 10 in Parker Pyne
1934 • 1 Reader • 210 pages
2008 • 1 Reader • 364 pages
1974 • 1 Reader • 404 pages
1956 • 1 Reader • 256 pages
1970 • 1 Reader • 352 pages • 3
#5 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1927 • 1 Reader • 288 pages • 3
#1 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1922 • 1 Reader • 376 pages • 3
#47 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1997 • 1 Reader • 232 pages
#26 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1946 • 1 Reader • 408 pages
1 Reader • 327 pages • 4
#26 of 47 in Hercule Poirot
1946 • 1 Reader • 295 pages • 3
1954 • 1 Reader • 2
#2.11 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1995 • 1 Reader
1924 • 1 Reader
1926 • 1 Reader
1974 • 1 Reader
#2.08 of 5 in Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries
1977 • 1 Reader
#6 of 10 in Parker Pyne
1932 • 1 Reader
#4 of 5 in Superintendent Battle
1939 • 1 Reader • 257 pages • 2