I started the Read Christie challenge in 2023 and have read 18 Agatha Christie books as a result - reading the main book each month and then occasionally one or two of the alternative options. I had previously read mainly the Marple books (love Miss Marple), but also found some new favourites - such as Partners in Crime (Tommy and Tuppence short stories) and The Sittaford Mystery. Why Didn’t they ask Evans was another favourite. As for recommendations for your next read - Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Moving Finger (Marple), A Murder is Announced (Marple) and Hallow’een Party are all good stories to continue your Christie reading. I will be doing the 2024 Christie challenge as well, 2023’s theme was Motives and Means, 2024 is reading via the decades - starting with several books Agatha Christie wrote in the 1930s I believe. Should be fun.
I was so sure you read Emma before! I love Emma so much. And I've also been working my way through all the Poirot novels in 2023 and I'm not stopping :D
Miss Marple is more present in some books than others. I’m glad you’ve found Agatha Christie. You might also like The British Library Crime Classics, which are reprints of other Golden Age writers.
I envy you because you still have all the best Christies ahead of you. A Murder Is Announced is my absolute favourite, but I also love Peril at End House, 4:50 from Paddington, The Body in the Library, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sad Cypress, Crooked House, etc, etc, etc...
BTW, I recommend reading all the best ones first so you get the thrill of surprise, because eventually your mind will be trained to recognize her tricks & you will figure out the murderer early on. Alas, the same goes for the plots of other mysteries whose authors were inspired by Christie.
If you like Miss Marple you might also like the Miss Silver mysteries by Patricia Wentworth also written in the Golden Age. My favourite Miss Silver books are Latter End (great twist ending) and The Gazebo. Murder At The Vicarage is my fave Miss Marple:) the audio books of Christie read by Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple and David Suchet who played Poroit are excellent. The film adaptation of The Mirror Cracked starring Elizabeth Taylor is fabulous!!
I love Agatha Christie's books. I'm a notorius rereader, even after knowing who the killer is, her books have so much to offer: interesting characters, charming and sometimes luxurious settings and she pokes fun of the British quite often I find. I love Miss Marple and Poirot equally and my favourite books are : Death on the Nile, Poirot's Christmas, Cat among pigeons, The moving finger, some without Marple or Poirot : Parker Pyne investigates, The secret adversary, Secret of Chimneys and Seven dials mystery.
So nice to see your shining face Lucy!!! My surprise read for the year was "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett. It was so much fun and adventuresome! The second book is coming out in January so I'm saving my pennies with the hopes of buying it the day it comes out. 🥰 Happy New Year dear!
Since you really enjoy Agatha Christie then I can recommend Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, it's the same vibes and he even says that his neighbour used to buy him Agatha Christie all the time and he enjoyed them so he had his own idea for something based on Agatha Christie
Thanks for being back with your intelligence , your bright eyes and your lovely British acent. I read Agatha Christie when I was rather young , althouhh I am not keen on detective books except from Sherlock Holmres . As I love Victorian literatue Doyle has to be on the list. I devoted a lot of time in 2023 to Dickens's long novels and Ihave enjoyed them a lot. My mother tongue is Spanish, by the way
I loved Sleeping Murder which is a Miss Marple book. Stand alones Agatha that are favorites: Sittaford Mystery, Sparking Cyanide, Crooked House, Endless Night. Jane Austen wise Emma is my favorite but then I love the movie Clueless as well so no surprise there.
It's lovely to see you back! ❤ Emma is definitely my favourite Austen novel. I just love Emma and reads a bit like a mystery. Re-read it and you'll spot things you've missed the 1st time you read it. My favourite book this year was Babel by R. F. Kaung. It's an alternative history of 1830s Oxford, where words have literal power when inscribed on silver bars. You have to intimately know a language and it's origins for the magic to work. It's such a brilliant read.
Me and my best friend are starting Emma on January 1st as our first buddy read. Neither of us have read it! Love Sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice. Next year I will also be re reading Wuthering Heights, which I love more each reading. I've also got Anne of green gables to read, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Wind in the willows and a couple of history books to read in 2024. 😊 Best wishes for 2024, really enjoy your videos.😊
Oh my goodness - you're in for such a treat! What an amazing reading year ahead! I hope you enjoy every second of it. Emma, Anne of Green Gables, Persuasion, and Wuthering Heights all in one year? I'm rather envious! Best wishes to you too!
You have impeccable taste in books Lucy and I am so so glad to have come across your channel-love classics, love TJR, and AC and excited to discover Emily Henry this way (Happy Place is on its way to me❤😊). Happy New year!
I've already read Cranford! I'm a big Elizabeth Gaskell fan. I have to admit, while I think the book is great, I quite possibly prefer the adaptation. It's one of my favourites! As for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, you'll see it in a video next week because it's top of my Christie TBR!
A very happy New Year to you, Lucy. Glad you liked Emma, and have come to regard Miss Austen as your friend. Leaving her aside, my most interesting reads this year have probably been Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, and Gulliver's Travels.
Lucy, Your videos provide a joy that I cannot even describe. Stories allow for a world to luxuriate in. Outside of books for my school coursework, I did not actually read as much throughout the year or make much progress on my novel, an exploration of two neurodivergent families and the allegiances they have to one another, since the autumn as university applications have been occupying me. Next year could be the year I begin querying agents. However, I savored every word I read and wrote this year. Particular favorites include Happy Returns by Angela Thirkell, a family saga, Lampie by Annet Schaap, a middle grade fantasy in translation, Like a Curse by Elle McNicoll, the sequel to Like a Charm, Emily Climbs and Emily’s Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the sequels to Emily of New Moon, Sula by Toni Morrison, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Emma by Jane Austen, Muse by Brittany Cavallaro, Diary of A Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty, and The Lightness by Emily Temple. Elle McNicoll’s writing serves as a portal to the self and I loved the way the Edinburgh landscapes flitted in my imagination and became a character of its own. Emma is one of my literary best friends now. I am still new to Agatha Christie, but I read both And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express. I desire to read some Miss Marple as well. I plan on reading Taylor Jenkins Reid, Donna Tartt, Emily Henry, and Laura Wood in 2024. May the winds breathe over our spirits for a lovely literary year ahead. Happy New Year. I love you
I love Miss Marple more than Hercule Poirot, too! I read the Marple books out of order but the Poirot books in order 😂 My favourite Marple books are 4:50 from Paddington, A Pocket Full of Rye and A Murder Is Announced, although she plays a smaller role in these. Of those where she is centre stage, I'd pick Sleeping Murder and Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. It's a pity there are only ten novels that feature her. On another note, I really fell in love with Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong this year. I'm not a big poetry person, so this was a surprise, but he bends the English language so artistically that I couldn't help but admire. A bit like whenever I reread Jane Austen and can't help exclaiming every time how good her prose is!
interesting! i like any other detective more than poirot, including miss marple because we can't solve the mysteries since poirot keeps key details to himself so he can brag about it in a grand reveal but with the others it feels more like you are following along and investigating with them. i also went on an agatha christie phase, i have 100+ books of her and read like 25 of them, i legit can't stand poirot 99% of the time lol
Greetings from across the Atlantic! Since you enjoy romance novels about pop rock singers, may I suggest This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs? She was a member of the 80s group The Bangles and this is her first novel.
I discovered your channel a few days ago. I'm from Brazil so my english it's not the best, however, I just wanna say congratis, your content is amazing. I'm a fan of Agatha Christie and Jane Austen, and I read Emma this year too, but I hated 😂 became the last book that i would recommend of Jane 😂 Sense and sensibility is my favourite. Anyways, kisses from brazil.
I recently came across the Jane Austen mysteries. Have you read them? Has anyone else here read them? If not, I definitely recommend. They’re a fun read.
And Then There was None was called Ten Little Indians, and there was a movie made that went by that name. I think it might have been in black and white. As for Miss Marple, I enjoy the BBC adaptations, but I do not enjoy the novels.
