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Hercule Poirot Reading Order
Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie has 33 main books (1920–1975). Start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and read the numbered books in order.
Hercule Poirot books in order
Your reading speed
- 3 h 34 min
- 3 h 55 min
- 4 h 29 min
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- 3 h 54 min
- 4 h 30 min
- 3 h 54 min
- 4 h 10 min
- 4 h 12 min
- 8 h 45 min
- 4 h 24 min
- 3 h 58 min
- 4 h 21 min
- 3 h 57 min
- 4 h 29 min
- 4 h 50 min
- 3 h 55 min
- 3 h 52 min
- 4 h 11 min
- 3 h 38 min
- 3 h 55 min
- 4 h 6 min
- 4 h 25 min
- 3 h 55 min
- 4 h 6 min
- 4 h 9 min
- 2 h 14 min
- 3 h 48 min
- 4 h 29 min
- 4 h 30 min
- 4 h 26 min
- 4 h 16 min
- 3 h 55 min
- 4 h 4 min
Main books together: 7,957 pages, about 139 h 16 min at 238 words per minute.
Page counts: median across editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.
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Hercule Poirot: common questions
- How many books are in the Hercule Poirot series?
- There are 33 main books in Hercule Poirot. The most recent main book listed here is Curtain (1975).
- What order should I read Hercule Poirot in?
- Read Hercule Poirot in its numbered order: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder on the Links, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, and so on. Lists the 33 Poirot novels; the short story collections are not included.
- What is the first Hercule Poirot book?
- The first book is The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie, published in 1920.
- How long does it take to read the whole Hercule Poirot series?
- The 33 main books add up to about 7,957 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 139½ hours of reading, or about 279 days at 30 minutes a day.