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Agatha Christie


Born
in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
September 15, 1890

Died
January 12, 1976

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Genre
Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Influences
Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Ch ...more


Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen ...more

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And Then There Were None
4.28 avg rating — 1,363,093 ratings — published 1939 — 943 editions
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Death on the Nile (Hercule ...
4.12 avg rating — 260,642 ratings — published 1937 — 711 editions
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Murder at the Vicarage (Mis...
4.05 avg rating — 189,476 ratings — published 1930 — 7 editions
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule...
4.03 avg rating — 167,490 ratings — published 1936 — 258 editions
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The Man in the Brown Suit
3.95 avg rating — 112,002 ratings — published 1924 — 595 editions
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
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January 2016 New School Group Read

1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, 366 pages
 
  23 votes, 15.9%

 
  21 votes, 14.5%

1915, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 201 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.7%

 
  12 votes, 8.3%

1953, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.3%

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.3%

 
  11 votes, 7.6%

1999, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, 617 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.8%

 
  7 votes, 4.8%

 
  7 votes, 4.8%

 
  7 votes, 4.8%

1984, The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 450 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.4%

 
  3 votes, 2.1%

1926, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 218 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1957, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, 246 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

145 total votes
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