10 Best Agatha Christie Books Of All Time

Listen, if you've never picked up an Agatha Christie book in your life, and you'd like to, then let this be the first one, because I won't be lying when I say that what you'll feel after reading this one, every thriller book you'll pick up after this, will be to chase the same high. And Then There Were None is the world's best-selling mystery with over a 100 million copies with an excellent plot and and even more excellent flow to it with tension in every scene. If this doesn't convince you to, then you also must know that the plot revolves around 10 strangers with wicked pasts who are lured to an island by a mysterious host, where things take a turn when each are accused of murder with sinister rhymes appearing in their rooms. 

One of my favourite Hercule Poirot books, Murder On The Orient Express revolves around a murder that takes place on a train making its way through the snowy mountainous Balkans. It falls upon Poirot–a mere passenger on vacation (giving his genius brain a break) to figure out who is the murderer on the stranded train before they decide to strike again. The book is a classic whodunit novel, which will have you guessing right till the end, and of course in even more classic Christie fashion, you won't be able to.

In this one, there's a serial killer on the loose whose modus operandi is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. It started with the murder of Alice Asher—for A—then Betty Bernard—for B with everyone waiting with bated breath wondering who'll be 'C'. Considered one of Christie's best, this one is great for folks with little patience because you'll love how fast paced it is. It obviously ends with an 'explanatory' chapter that takes you through all the loopholes, tying everything together in a neat bow. 

A rather unique novel as opposed to the rest of Christie's work, Death Comes As The End is a historical mystery novel that follows the suspicious death of Nofret a concubine to a ka-priest. While most agreed that she deserved to die, in her own family there is someone who thinks otherwise as they begin looking closely at everyone with mistrusting eyes. 

This is one of my favourite and easily recollectable Miss Marple novels solely because it stuck and my teenage self was fascinated with the whole 'death comes in three' trope. The book is evenly paced with classic two-dimensional characters following the Bantrys' who wake up one morning to find a dead body of a young woman in their library. What's even more boggling is that this might be connected to two other deaths with one involving disturbing charred remains in an abandoned quarry. 

There's an idea floating around to stage a mock murder mystery at the Village fete by the hosts Sir George and Lady Stubbs. Luckily for us mystery lovers, the mock murder mystery doesn't remain mock anymore as the victim is found playing their part a little too well with a rope tightly wound around her neck. I love this one because we see Poirot join hands with his good friend and crime writer Ariadne Oliver, who was called by Oliver when her insticts told her that things might go south—and boy was she right! I like how you know someone's going to end up murdered, but you're still as shocked as ever—clearly a mark of Christie genius. 

This book gave me one of my favourite quotes when it comes to crime, which goes something along the lines of 'People often kill those they love than those they hate, possibly only because people you love can make life unendurable.' The plot revolves around the death of Aristide Leonides by barbiturate poisoning with the suspicion of the death falling immediately on his widow, a cunning beauty who is also 50 years his junior, all set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and also rumoured to be having an affair with a young bloke. It falls on criminologist Charles Hayward to figure out what exactly happened and if the widow did it or not. 

Another one of my favourite Poirot novels, I love how Christie kept up with her mastery of writing novels so much so that she could've done it in her sleep too. And with that rock solid she decides to agonise her favourite Belgian—Poirot almost making the reader privy to her love/hate relationship of him. The plot follows Poirot using his grey cells to solve the death of Cora who gets murdered with a hatchet a day after her brother's funeral, bringing something she said at the funeral to an unsettling significance.