The Reading List for June

In one way, posting a list of the books I've read in the month of June is less complicated than in previous months. I only have to list one writer for the month - Agatha Christie. The only complication would be in the number of her books I read in June.

I've mentioned in earlier posts that very few of Agatha Christie's work is in the public domain and available at Project Gutenberg. Fortunately, for Christie fans, nearly all of her books are available to download as EPUB at Internet Archive. Of course, most commercial e-readers (including Kindle) cannot read EPUB files. However, there are websites which will convert the EPUB files to MOBI free of charge. Using those various sites, and the Christie bibliography, I've been able to read these ebooks in pretty much the order in which they were published. Sadly, the Internet Archive does not contain the works written by Christie under the nom de plume - Mary Westmacott.

Agatha Christie's novels are not particularly long; many being 200 pages or less. Most of the novels are "page turners" and one can usually read two of her books in two or three days. In June, I managed to read 24 of her books. Oddly enough, going in the order of publication, only 2 of those 24 books featured Miss Marple. It looks as though I'll be reading more of Agatha Christie's books in July, if I want to read Marple.

Now, for the list.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Poirot Investigates
The Big Four
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Secret of Chimneys
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Seven Dials Mystery
The Murder at the Vicarage
The Sittaford Mystery
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Three Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
The A.B.C. Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the Table
Dumb Witness
Death on the Nile
Appointment With Death
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
The Thirteen Problems