Agatha Christie's Favourite Agatha Christie Books! | Celebrating Christie!

[@mitzireadsandwrites]

YES to a Agatha Christie book tour!!! Please!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

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[@mitzireadsandwrites]

I love this! I just finished my last Miss Marple, so I'm planning a video ranking those this week. Yay! And thank you SO much for getting me hooked on Agatha Christie.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed them so much. I’ll look forward to your video ranking all of Marple. I need to do one of those myself! 😊📚

[@janeduffield4801]

Great video! So interesting to hear Agatha's choices and reasons. I really like A Murder is announced and I like the train one . I like most of them in fact!Time I did some re- reads.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Always love a good Agatha reread! Glad you liked the video. 😊📚🕵️‍♀️

[@tabitha_h2000]

Lovely video as always! I have only read ‘And Then There Were None’ by Christie so far but would definitely like to read more. A reading guide/where to start with Christie’s work would be a really helpful video!😊

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Thank you. I’ve done some video guides to Poirot, Marple and Tommy and Tuppence but at some point will put one together for Christie overall. Thanks for the suggestion. 😊📚🕵️‍♀️

[@jenniferlovesbooks]

You've made me want to reread all the books!! I recently reread A Pocketful of Rye and I have They Do It With Mirrors out from the library. Think I'm going to enjoy some Christie rereading over the next few months 😊 I had a video idea related to Christie when I first started my channel and I still (two year later!!) haven't made that video. I must do so!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Agatha Christie’s list made me want to reread all of these and then getting the books off my shelf made me want to reread even more! And Autumn/ Winter is a great time to read mysteries. Definitely make the video- I’d love to see that! 😊📚🕵️‍♀️

[@jenniferlovesbooks]

@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I'm definitely going to reread lots of Christie over autumn/winter 😁

[@Lu.G.]

I love this! 👏🏻 As much as I love Miss Marple and Poirot, And Then There Were None is my favorite Christie. 🤓 A couple of my favorite Marples are: Murder at the Vicarage (it was my first-ever Christie) and A Murder is Announced; and a couple of my favorite Poirots would be: The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Death on the Nile (also love Evil Under the Sun and Hallowe'en just to name a couple more). But, as you mentioned, these are always subject to change! 🤷🏼‍♀️ So many wonderful stories with interesting characters and so very re-readable! Would love more Christie content and I look forward to your bookshelf tour. 📚 Thank you for sharing.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Thank you. 😊 All the ones you name are brilliant reads! I think And Then There Were None is such a fantastic book! As you say her characters (good and bad and all the shades in between) are so interesting and well explored. 🕵️‍♀️📚

[@soniajohnson8878]

Currently my favourite Christie's are the Poirots with Ariadne Oliver.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I love Ariadne Oliver, such a character! There are some great mysteries with her involved! 😊📚🕵️‍♀️

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Definitely going to read a Christie on Fri as my shorty. Such an interesting list!! Thank you for sharing Alice ❤

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Yay! I like to celebrate her birthday by reading one of her books! 💛🕵️‍♀️

[@spreadbookjoy]

Look forward to an Agatha Christie shelf tour! Some here I've not heard of before (of course!) - I've got to get to Five Little Pigs! 🐽

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

You have! Set in Devon as well! 🐖 🐖 🐖 🐖 🐖 😊

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I have read three Agatha Christie books this year: Sparkling Cyanide, Death on the Nile and Cards on the Table, all were compelling mysteries. The chaneel Bookslikewhoa has put up a lot of Agatha Christie videos. I can see I still have quite a few to read...

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

All three are very good mysteries, I am fond of Cards on the Table. I enjoy Books Like Whoa’s Christie videos. 😊📚

[@nothingspecial163]

I LOVE The Moving Finger, even though Miss Marple appears only at the end, I enjoyed spending time with the narrator and his sister so much that I didn't complain. The mystery was alright, not the strongest but alright, the setting was interesting and the romantic part was great

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I actually really like most of the Marple books where she only turns up halfway through or towards the end. I think it works and I like hearing from the other characters before she is asked to save the day! I definitely need to reread that one as I remember the opening but I don’t think I remember the Marple bit that much at all. 😊📚

[@quileshawebber9185]

loved finding your channel! 🥰

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Thank you, I’m glad you like it! 😊📚

[@reddotreads2693]

Great video, Alice! Really interesting to hear which were Christie’s favourites! You’re tempting me to return to the Miss Marple series! 😂📚💜

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Do it! There are some fantastic Marple books! 😊🕵️‍♀️💛

[@saraho92]

The last 10% of Endless Night is cracking but the rest of it is incredibly dull.... it took me MONTHS to read and I found it quite tedious. A Murder is Announced is one of my favourites and I think it is incredibly funny.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I quite agree on both counts. It didn’t take me months but I didn’t enjoy it. Love A Murder is Announced though! 😊📚

[@RachelB.BookReferences]

Good to know. I loved "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" because it was funny, and I'm realizing I appreciate humor in books, generally, so I'll have to check this one out.

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

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[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

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[@GemofBooks]

And Then There Were None is one I’m really excited to get to. And Roger A seems to get a lot of love across the board too (and will probably be my next one!) I’m not sure I’m going to be a Marple person, but I will try one at some point.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I’m going to do Roger Ackroyd next. I’m always saying that! But I really am going to read it soon. 😂 I’m not sure you’ll be a Marple fan, but for an old lady she really does kick ass sometimes! 😂

[@DearReaders_thisisJess]

I loved this video!!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Thanks Jess.

[@skeletonkeybooks]

I haven't re-read it yet, as I'm still in 1934 for my chronological read-through of her work, but my favorite is Crooked House. It will be interesting to see how that holds up. This month I am planning to read The Stranger, a play she wrote based on one of her short stories. It's been fun tracking down her more obscure plays. Did you know she wrote another ending to the stage version of And Then There Were None?

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I did, yes. I think when I went to see it performed they went with the book ending. I will soon be at the stage of tracking down obscure plays. Do you have any tips on that?

[@StefkoMinkov]

I watched the movie adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express . I wonder if i will enjoy the book even when i know the ending so i put it off for now . I'm currently reading ABC murders and just finished The murder of Rojer Ackroyd (i loved it)

[@glendaw5221]

Well I thought I didn’t consider Agatha Christie one of my favorites. Actually I only have two unread on “her” favorite list. I enjoyed them all. I think I’m finding Poirot irritating and I’ve heard that Agatha did too!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

You’re doing well! And yes your opinion corresponds to Christie’s- she was quoted a fair bit as saying she didn’t like Poirot and was irritated by him. I just love him despite all his flaws. She did well to keep writing books long after she was fed up with him. 😊📚

[@lizh9497]

I still haven’t read any Christie. The only one I own is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (same edition as yours) and Lucy Worsley’s documentary spoilt it for me so it will stay shelved for quite a while longer!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I was really disappointed that Lucy Worsely chose to spoil that one as it was such a surprise to me when I read it, one of her biggest surprises I think. I know some people don’t mind spoilers but I just don’t like to be spoiled for books! 😊📚

[@lizh9497]

@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I don’t mind small spoilers but that was a pretty major one! She avoided spoilers for everything else so I’m not sure why that one got through!

[@harmonyln7]

I heard Agatha Christie said she preferred Miss marpel over Hercule Poirot as a dective. I've only read 4 of her books so far, but my favorite of those would have to be "Towards Zero". Love the way she gets all the characters together and leads up to the murder after. Do you know any other stories like that? They all seem to put the murder right near the start.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Have you read Death on the Nile? It does quite a fair bit of character work before the murder which is over 100 pages in! I also loved Towards Zero. 😊📚

[@harmonyln7]

@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I haven't read it, but pretty sure I have it. By the way, it's Roald Dahl's birthday. :)

[@bjminton2698]

My biggest complaint about Dame Agatha is that she ruins me for other authors! Some of them are quite pitiful if I've just finished an AC 🙃🙂. My favorite is usually the one I just finished. I'm starting The Mysterious Affair At Styles as the beginning of an attempt to read the whole list in publication order.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Same problem for me! And my favourites will often change based on what I’ve read recently! 😊 I might go from the beginning one day! 🕵️‍♀️📚

[@davidcreager1945]

I've always enjoyed the movies better than the books ,

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I am the opposite, so fussy about adaptations although I do enjoy the David Suchet Poirot tv series on occasion! 😊📚

[@novellenovels]

I loved five little pigs.. I think I saw ordeal for innocence in my charity shop so will get it Thursday if it’s there 😊

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

Glad you enjoyed it! That’s a good one, I though Charlie was giving you her copy of that! 😂🕵️‍♀️

[@dawncox4019]

They’ve just put a statue of her where she lived her later years.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I saw photos of it in Wallingford. I’d love to visit one day! 😊📚

[@dawncox4019]

It’s very eery in the dark! I swear she looks like she’s moving.I’ve lived here my whole life and have shown her grave and house to people and I read a lot but haven’t read a single one of her books! I don’t know whether I ought to or to continue on stubbornly. She was once rude to my dad😅