The 52 Book Club's Agatha Christie Mystery Challenge

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You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

The goal of this challenge is simple — read through all of Agatha Christie’s mystery stories. Unlike our annual challenges, this doesn’t have to be completed in a year.

Here are three ideas for working through the challenge:

  1. Read the books in order of publishing date. (List below) For this version of the challenge, simply complete the list in order.

  2. Complete the list randomly. While many of the books feature the same characters, it’s not necessary to read them in order. Pick and choose from the list as you desire, checking off reads as you go.

  3. Mystery version! Draw from a hat! Finally, what better way to complete an Agatha Christie mystery challenge than with a little mystery of your own. Download the pdf from our website (www.the52book.club/the-agatha-christie-mystery-challenge/). Cut out each of the book titles and place them in a hat. Draw to randomly select your next read!
 
Grab a free printable for this challenge on our website:  www.the52book.club/the-agatha-christie-mystery-challenge/ 
 
Since this is a Christie mystery challenge, we didn’t include autobiographies or any stories published under her Mary Westmacott pseudonym. We also chose to keep this strictly Christie and didn’t add the Charles Osborne adaptations of her plays or any novels by Sophie Hannah.

We also chose to only include the UK short story collections to avoid reading the short stories twice. You can swap these out for the US editions if you prefer.

Challenge Prompts