My personal Top 66

TeddyBg

After I finished the rereading I said to myself why not to make my top… 66. Of course it’s not so easy, there are always two or three books which I like on an equal level and can’t decide, so one book might be with one place up or down. Books like Evil Under the Sun, Dumb Witness, Death in the Clouds, The Clocks, Sad Cypress – I’ve watched so many times the tv adaptations before I started the books and when I was reading them all the time I compared the books with the adaptation or thought if I hadn’t watched the movies would I revealed the murderer and really couldn’t enjoy the reading. In Dumb Witness adaptation I like the fact that Bob’s part is more underlined. Appointment with Death could be rated higher, but I was really disappointed with the murderer, and prefer the tv version. The Body in the Library also could be rated higher but there is something (which I don’t want to spoil), that exists in one or two other books and I was tired of it. Saying all this, my top 66 approximately looks like this:

TeddyBg

1. The Murder on the Links (1923)
2. The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
3. Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
4. Curtain
5. After the Funeral (1953)
6. Crooked House (1949)
7. Death on the Nile (1937)
8. Cards on the Table (1936)
9. The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
10. The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
11. A Murder is Announced (1950)
12. Sleeping Murder
13. And Then There Were None (1939)
14. Five Little Pigs (1942)
15. Peril at End House (1932)
16. The Secret Adversary (1922)
17. Endless Night (1967)
18. Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
19. Murder is Easy (1939)
20. A Carribean Mystery (1964)
21. The Murder at Vicarage (1930)
22. Mrs. McGuinty’s Dead (1952)
23. 4.50 From Paddington (1957)
24. The Big Four (1927)
25. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
26. Three Act Tragedy (1935)
27. Evil Under the Sun (1941)
28. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
29. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
30. Taken at the Flood (1948)
31. Appointment with Death (1938)
32. The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
33. Nemesis (1971)
34. N or M? (1941)
35. Hallowe’en Party (1969)
36. Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)
37. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938)
38. Death in the Clouds (1935)
39. Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
40. Destination Unknown (1954)
41. They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
42. Sad Cypress (1940)
43. The Mirror Crack’d (1962)
44. Death Comes as the End (1944)
45. Dumb Witness (1937)
46. Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
47. The Hollow (1946)
48. Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
49. The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
50. The Moving Finger (1942)
51. The Clocks (1963)
52. The Body in the Library (1942)
53. Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
54. They Came to Baghdad (1951)
55. Towards Zero (1944)
56. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
57. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
58. Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
59. The Pale Horse (1961)
60. A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
61. One, Two, Buckle My Show (1940)
62. The Third Girl (1966)
63. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
64. At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
65. Postern of Fate (1973)
66. Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)

Tommy_A_Jones

I tried to do that with the Poirot Books but I have a favourite 6, ABC, Cards, Clocks, Mrs McGinty, CATP and After The Funeral and I can't put my Average ones in Order, Hckory Dickory, The Hollow, Sad Cyprus and One, Two Buckle My Shoe and made it easy for myself by Considering Labors as a Book of Short Stories, All I was sure abot was Murder In Mesopotamia was my Least Favourite Poirot Book.

Lucy G Lemon

Wow that is a great list.  

I haven't yet read all of her books so am a bit behind here...keep re-reading favourites!

Funny Tommy how you least like Murder in Mesopotamia. I loved it, though I know there were a few too many coincidences and unlikelihoods for a lot of people with the plot, I just loved the atmosphere of the setting. I watched it later with David Suchet and my own concoction of the setting (from reading) was very similar to that of the TV version. Very interesting!

Tommy_A_Jones

I felt the Book Needed Hastings, fortunately ITV Provided him, I found the Book slow, I have seen a few before reading them, and mostly for me id doesn't matter I can enjoy them but not this time.

Lucy G Lemon

Fair enough!

Agathasmykid

Thanks for posting your list Teddy. I always enjoy reading them. I hope the AC website does some polls in the future asking us about our favorite AC books.

Agathasmykid

Also, looking at that list I just realized that the 1930s is my favorite decade of Christie works.

tudes

@Agathasmykid, I think the 30s was the decade of her best works. I also enjoy 20s and 40s a lot!

shana

@TeddyBg, do you also have a rating for Ac"s short stories? That would be a much longer list. 
What were the criteria you applied to make your Top 66 list, I wonder.