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Alphabet Authors 2025

Posted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025 by Sami

This one’s from StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page. The goal is to read a book that the author’s name starts with each letter of the alphabet before the end of the year. For Q, X, and Z, the letters can be anywhere in the name.

A –
B –
C –
D –
E –
F –
G –
H –
I –
J –
K –
L – Lackey, Mercedes – Burning Water
M – Moriarty, Liane – Here One Moment
Michaelides, Alex – The Silent Patient
N –
O –
P –
Q* –
R –
S –
T –
U –
V – Van Pelt, Shelby – Remarkably Bright Creatures
W – Wells, Martha – Compulsory; Artificial Condition
X* –
Y –
Z* –

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Seanan McGuire

Posted on November 27, 2024January 22, 2025 by Sami

This is an attempt to read everything by Seanan McGuire I can get my hands on, including things under her pen names. I highly recommend her Patreon, where you can read a whole lot of short stories for as little as $1 a month. (That’s where you’ll find everything tagged “Patreon” on this list.)

  • October (Toby) Daye
  • Incryptid
  • Newsflesh
  • Velveteen
  • Parasitology
  • Indexing
  • Ghost Roads
  • Drowning Deep
  • Wayward Children
  • Alchemical Journeys
  • The Up and Under (as A Deborah Baker)
  • Other Books as Seanan McGuire
  • Other Books as Mira Grant
  • Nonfiction & Essays
  • Patreon (the Tybalt Stories)
  • Patreon (not listed elsewhere)
  • Short Stories (not listed elsewhere)

October (Toby) Daye

X1Rosemary and Rue (2009)
X2A Local Habitation (2010)
2.1Rat Catcher in A Fantasy Medley 2 (Tybalt- Dec 2012)
X3An Artificial Night (2010)
X4Late Eclipses (2011)
4.1Through This House in Home Improvement, Undead Edition (Aug 2011)
X5One Salt Sea (2011)
5.1In Sea-Salt Tears in One Salt Sea (Luidaeg- Sep 2011) on website
5.2Forbid the Sea (Sep 2013)
X6Ashes of Honor (2012)
6.1No Sooner Met (Jan 2015) on website
X7Chimes at Midnight (2013)
7.1Never Shines the Sun in Chimes at Midnight (Sep 2013)
7.2Full of Briars e-original (Quentin- Aug 2016)
X8The Winter Long (2014)
8.1Heaps of Pearl (Lordens- Jan 2016) on website
8.2Shore to Shore Patreon (Lordens- May 2017)
8.3Write in Water Patreon (Lordens- Jan 2018)
8.4Live in Brass Patreon (Lordens- Feb 2018)
8.5The Ambitious Ocean Patreon (Lordens- Oct 2018)
8.6And Thrice Again Patreon (Lordens- Dec 2018)
8.9The Fixed Stars in Shattered Shields (Luidaeg- Nov 2014)
X9A Red-Rose Chain (2015)
9.1In Little Stars Patreon (Prince Gilad- Aug 2016)
X10Once Broken Faith (2016)
10.1Dreams and Slumbers in Once Broken Faith (Arden- Sep 2016)
X11The Brightest Fell (2017)
11.1Of Things Unknown in The Brightest Fell (April- Sep 2017)
11.2These Antique Fables Patreon (January- Apr 2018)
X12Night and Silence (2018)
12.1Suffer a Sea Change in Night and Silence (Gillian Sep 2018)
12.2Sun Sets Weeping Patreon (Jun 2019)
X13The Unkindest Tide (2019)
13.1Hope is Swift in The Unkindest Tide (Raj- Sep 2019)
13.2Strangers in Court in Rosemary & Rue 10th Anniversary Edition (Oct 2019)
X14A Killing Frost (2020)
14.1And Deeps Below Patreon (Lordens- Nov 2021)
14.2Sacrifice Your Tears Patreon (Lordens- Feb 2022)
14.3Into the Sea Patreon (Lordens- May 2022)
14.4In Safety Rest Patreon (Lordens- Jul 2022)
14.5Upon Your Honor Patreon (Lordens- Aug 2022)
14.6With Sweet Peace Patreon (Lordens- Sep 2022)
14.7Like a Dream Patreon (Lordens- Nov 2022)
X15When Sorrows Come (2021)
X16Be the Serpent (2022)
17Sleep No More (2023)
18These Violent Delights (2024)

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Incryptid

0.01The Flower of Arizona in Westward Weird (Jonathan & Francis- Feb 2012)
0.02One Hell of a Ride (Jonathan & Francis- Feb 2012) on website
0.03No Place Like Home (Jonathan & Francis- Apr 2012) on website
0.04Stingers and Strangers in Dead Man’s Hand (Jonathan & Francis- May 2014)
0.05Married in Green (Jonathan & Francis- Mar 2013) on website
0.06Sweet Poison Wine (Jonathan & Francis- Apr 2013) on website
0.07The First Fall (Jonathan & Francis- Jun 2013) on website
0.08Loch and Key (Jonathan & Francis- Aug 2013) on website
0.09We Both Go Down Together (Jonathan & Francis- Nov 2013) on website
0.10Oh Pretty Bird (Jonathan & Francis- Jul 2014) on website
0.11Bury Me in Satin (Jonathan & Francis- Aug 2014) on website
0.12Snakes and Ladders (Jonathan & Francis- Oct 2014) on website
0.13Broken Paper Hearts (Jonathan & Francis- Feb 2015) on website
0.14The Star of New Mexico (Jonathan & Francis- Jun 2015) on website
0.15The Way Home (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2015) on website
0.16Take the Shot Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2019)
0.17Winter Sunshine Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Nov 2019)
0.18The Lay of the Land (Thomas & Alice- Feb 2017) on website
0.19Target Practice (Thomas & Alice) on website
0.20Off Balance Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jan 2020)
0.21All That Glitters Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Feb 2020)
0.22What You Pay For Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Nov 2020)
0.23What You Build Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jan 2021)
0.24The Hand of the Forest Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Mar 2021)
0.25By Any Other Name Patreon (Thomas & Alice- May 2021)
0.26To Build a Better… Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jun 2021)
0.27Halfway Through the Wood Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jul 2021)
0.28School Belles Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2021)
0.29Long Way from Home Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jan 2022)
0.30How to Bake a Pie Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2022)
1Discount Armageddon (Verity- 2012)
1.1What Was I Meant to Do? Patreon (Dave- Aug 2020)
2Midnight Blue-Light Special (Verity- 2013)
3Half-Off Ragnarok (Alex- 2014)
3.1The Ghosts of Bourbon Street (Verity & Dominic- Mar 2014) on website
3.2Snake in the Glass (Verity & Dominic- Dec 2015) on website
3.3Swamp Bromeliad (Verity & Dominic- Feb 2016) on website
3.4Waking Up in Vegas (Verity & Dominic- May 2016) on website
3.5My Last Name (Verity & Dominic- Jan 2017) on website
3.10Blocked (Antimony- Feb 2014) on website
3.11Bad Dream Girl in Glitter & Mayhem (Antimony- Aug 2013)
3.12Jammed in Games People Play (Antimony- Apr 2014)
3.13Survival Horror in Press Start to Play (Antimony & Artie- Aug 2015)
3.20IM (Sarah & Arthur- Jun 2014)
3.30Red as Snow in Hex and the City (Istas & Ryan- Dec 2013)
3.31Black as Blood (Istas & Ryan- Jan 2014) on website
3.32White as a Raven’s Wing (Istas & Ryan- Dec 2014) on website
4Pocket Apocalypse (Alex & Shelby- 2015)
4.1Balance in Urban Enemies (Eliza (unmodified cuckoo) Aug 2017)
4.2Sleepover in Shadowed Souls (Elsie- Nov 2016)
5Chaos Choreography (Verity- Mar 2016)
6Magic for Nothing (Antimony- Mar 2017)
X6.1The Recitation of the Most Holy and Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork Patreon (Aisling Mice- Apr 2017))
7Tricks for Free (Antimony- 6 Mar 2018)
8That Ain’t Witchcraft (Antimony- 5 Mar 2019)
9Imaginary Numbers (Sarah- 25 Feb 2020)
10Calculated Risks (Sarah- 23 Feb 2021)
11Spelunking Through Hell (Alice- 2022)
12Backpacking Through Bedlam (Alice- 2023)

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Newsflesh (as Mira Grant)

X1Feed (George- 27 Apr 2010)
X1.5Fed (AU alternate ending- May 2012)
X2Deadline (Shaun- 31 May 2011)
X3Blackout (Both- 1 Jun 2012)
X4Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection (SSC 2016)
– Countdown (2011)
– Everglades (2010)
– San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats (2012)
– How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea (2013)
– The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (2014)
– Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (2015)
– All the Pretty Little Horses (2016)
– Coming to You Live (2016)
5Feedback (4 Oct 2016)

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Velveteen

1Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots (9 Nov 2012)
2Velveteen vs. The Multiverse (31 Aug 2013)
3Velveteen vs. The Seasons (5 May 2016)

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Parasitology (as Mira Grant)

1Parasite (29 Oct 2013)
2Symbiont (25 Nov 2014)
3Chimera (24 Nov 2015)

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Indexing

X1Indexing (21 Jan 2014)
X2Indexing: Reflections (12 Jan 2016)

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Ghost Roads

0.5Train Yard Blues in Coins of Chaos (Oct 203)
1Sparrow Hill Road (6 May 2014)
1.1Last Call at the Last Chance Patreon (Nov 2017)
2The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (17 Jul 2018)
3Angel of the Overpass (11 May 2021)

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Drowning Deep (as Mira Grant)

0.5Rolling in the Deep (6 Aug 2015)
X1Into the Drowning Deep (4 Nov 2017)

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Wayward Children

X1Every Heart a Doorway (Nancy- 5 Apr 2016)
X2Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Jack & Jill- 13 Jun 2017)
X3Beneath the Sugar Sky (Rini- 9 Jan 2018)
X4In an Absent Dream (Lundy- 8 Jan 2019)
X4.1Juice Like Wounds (Lundy- Oct 2022)
X5Come Tumbling Down (Jack & Jill- 7 Jan 2020)
X5.1In Mercy, Rain (Jack- Jul 2022)
X6Across the Green Grass Fields (Regan- 12 Jan 2021)
X7Where the Drowned Girls Go (Cora- Jan 2022)
X7.1In Mercy, Rain ()
7.2Skeleton Girl (Christopher- Oct 22)
X8Lost in the Moment and Found (Antoinette- Jan 2023)
X9Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Antoinette and friends- Jan 2024)
10Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Nadya- Jan 2025)

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Alchemical Journeys

1Middlegame (7 May 2019)
2Seasonal Fears (2022)

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The Up and Under (as A Deborah Baker)

1Over the Woodward Wall (Oct 2020)
2Along the Saltwise Sea (Oct 2021)
3Into the Windwracked Wilds (2022)

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Other Books (as Seanan McGuire)

1Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day (10 Jan 2017)
2Deadlands: Boneyard (17 Oct 2017)
3Laughter at the Academy (SSC 2019 – Collected 2009-2019)
– Laughter at the Academy: A Field Study in the Genesis of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD) (2013)
– Lost (2012)
– The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells (2011)
– Uncle Sam (2011)
– Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage (2011)
– Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (2013)
– Homecoming (2013)
– Frontier ABCs: The Life and Times of Charity Smith, Schoolteacher (2013)
– We Are All Misfit Toys in the Aftermath of the Velveteen War (2014)
– The Lambs (2014)
– Each to Each (2015)
– Bring About the Halloween Eternal (2014)
– Office Memos (2014)
– Lady Antheia’s Guide to Horticultural Warfare (2014)
– Driving Jenny Home (2014)
– There is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold (2015)
– In Skeleton Leaves (2015)
– Please Accept My Most Profound Apologies for What is About to Happen (But You Started It) (2017)
– Threnody for Little Girl, With Tuna, At the End of the World (2016)
– From A to Z in the Book of Changes (2017)
– #connollyhouse #weshouldntbehere (2019)
– Down, Deep Down, Below the Waves (2015)
4Dying with Her Cheer Pants On: Stories of the Fighting Pumpkins (SSC Oct 2020)
– The Most Sincere Patch (2020)
– Dying With Her Cheer Pants On (2010)
– Tryouts (2020)
– Trial by Fire (2020)
– Gimme a “Z” (2011)
– Turn the Year Around (2014)
– Fiber (2015)
– Switchblade Smile (2020)
– School Colors (2017)
– Compete Me (2020)
– Away Game (2019)

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Other Books (as Mira Grant)

1When Will You Rise? Stories to End the World (2012)
– Countdown (Nov 2011)
– Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box (2011)
2Final Girls (Apr 2017)
3Kingdom of Needle and Bone (Dec 2018)
4Alien: Echo (9 Apr 2019)
5In the Shadow of Spindrift House (Jul 2019)
6Square3 (Dec 2021)

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Nonfiction & Essays

1Mathematical Excellence: A Documentary in Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It (Mar 2010)
2The Girls Next Door: Learning to Live with the Living Dead and Never Even Break a Nail in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them (Mar 2011)
3Waiting for the Doctor: The Women of Series Five in Chicks Unravel Time (2012)
4Summers and Winters, Frost and Flame in Chicks Dig Comics (Apr 2012)
5How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Numbers: A Girl, A Rulebook, and Arithmetic in Chicks Dig Gaming (2014)
6Letters to the Pumpkin King (Feb 2014)
5That Nitro-9 That You’re Not Carrying: Violence and the Companion in Companion Piece (2015)
6Neat Things in Letters to Tiptree (2015)
7The Secret Language of Fanfic in Loose Lips (2016)
8Thoughts on Writing online at Aphelion Webzine (ongoing)

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Patreon (the Tybalt Stories)

1Stage of Fools (Jun 2016)
2The Voice of Lions (Oct 2016)
3The Act of Hares (Jan 2017)
4Instruments of Darkness (Aug 2017)
5With Honest Trifles (Sep 2017)
6In Deepest Consequence (Dec 2017)
7Jealous in Honor (Jun 2018)
8Quick in Quarrel (Aug 2018)
9Of Strange Oaths (Apr 2019)
10Dreams and Sighs (Aug 2019)
11Wishes and Tears (Jul 2020)
12Poor Fancy’s Followers (Oct 2020)
13Our Trial Patience (Dec 2020)
14Earth for Charity (Apr 2021)
15Mean and Mighty (Sep 2021)

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Patreon (not listed elsewhere)

1Threnody for Little Girl, With Tuna (Jul 2016)
2The Levee Was Dry (Sep 2016)
3In the Before, When Legends Were True (Nov 2016)
4Falls Like Snow (Dec 2016)
5Her Heart Never Came Down Again (Feb 2017)
6Carry On (Mar 2017)
7Cabbages and Kings (Jun 2017)
8From A to Z in the Book of Changes (Jul 2017)
9Heart of Straw (Oct 2017)
10Now Rest, My Dear (Mar 2018)
11Good Night, Sleep Tight (May 2018)
12Harvest (Jul 2018)
13File and Forget (Sep 2018)
14Love in the Last Days of the Doomed World (Nov 2018)
15Sweet as Sugar Candy (Jan 2019)
16On the Side (Feb 2019)
17Emergency Landing (Mar 2019)
18Vegetables and Vaccines (May 2019)
19Face Your Furs (Jul 2019)
20Come Marching In (Sep 2019)
21Help Wanted (Dec 2019)
22Another Beautiful Day (Mar 2020)
23In the Land of Rainbows and Ash (Apr 2020)
24The Proper Thing (May 2020)
25Ratting (Jul 2020)
26Belief (Sep 2020)
27Inflatable Angel (Feb 2021)
28Conflation (Aug 2021)
29Until Persephone Comes Home (Dec 21)
30Ghost Lights (Mar 2022)
31Those Three Girls from Rush’s Bend (Apr 2022)
32The War Comes Home (Jun 2022)

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Short Stories (not listed elsewhere)

1Let’s Pretend in The Edge of Propinquity (Nov 2008)
2Animal Husbandry in Grants Pass, reprinted in Wastelands 2 (Aug 2009)
3Anthony’s Vampire on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
4Knives on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
5Changing Meanings on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
6Lady of Tides on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
7A Citizen in Childhood’s Country on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
8Julie Broise and the Devil in Wily Writers (Rush’s Bend Oct 2009)
9Inspirations in The Edge of Propinquity (Oct 2009)
10The Alchemy of Alcohol in Tales form the Ur-Bar (Mina Norton Mar 2011)
11Riddles in Human Tales (Apr 2011)
12Cinderella City in Human for a Day (Mina Norton Dec 2011)
13Lady of the Waters in River (Dec 2011)
14We Will Not Be Undersold! in The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity (Mar 2012)
15Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea in Carniepunk (Jul 2013)
16Hook Agonistes with Jay Lake in Subterranean Magazine (Sep 2013)
17Midway Relics and Dying Breeds in METAtropolis 3: Green Spaces and at Tor.com (Oct 2013)
18Spores in The End is Nigh (Fungal Apocalypse 1of3 Feb 2014)
19Knit a Sweater Out of Sky in Dead But Not Forgotten (world of Sookie Stackhouse May 2014)
20In Roses as Mira Grant in Popular Science (Aug 2014)
21Fruiting Bodies in The End is Now (Fungal Apocalypse 2of3 Sep 2014)
22Best Served Cold in Streets of Shadows (Sep 2014)
23The Happiest Place… as Mira Grant in The End Has Come (May 2015)
24Resistance in The End Has Come (Fungal Apocalypse 3of3 May 2015)
25The Myth of Rain in Lightspeed Magazine reprinted in Loosed Upon the World (May 2015)
26The Moon Inside in Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed (Jul 2015)
27Reading Lists in Temporally Out of Order (Aug 2015)
28Something Lost, Something Gained in Seize the Night (Oct 2015)
29Into the Green in Bloodlines (Oct 2015)
30Hello, Hello in Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft (Nov 2015)
31We are the Shadows Cast by the Memory of Giants in Truth Beyond Paradox (Feb 2016)
32Dragonflies in The Doomsday Chronicles (Mar 2016)
33The Jaws that Bite, The Claws that Catch in Lightspeed Magazine (May 2016)
34Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands in Uncanny Magazine (May 2016)
35Something in the Rain in Defying Doomsday (May 2016)
36Regulation in Galactic Games (Jun 2016)
37Long Way Down in Genius Loci (Jun 2016)
38Tailed in Urban Allies (non-canonical Verity story Jul 2016)
34Inch by Inch and Row by Row in Limbus, Inc. Volume III (Jul 2016)
35Best in Show in Were- (Sep 2016)
36Sincerity (Gatsby) in Loose Lips (Sep 2016)
37In the Desert Like a Bone in The Starlit Wood (Oct 2016)
38Forbidden Texts in What the #@&% is That? (Nov 2016)
39Be Still, and Listen in The Grimm Future (Nov 2016)
40And Men Will Mine the Mountains For Our Souls in Unfettered II (Nov 2016)
41The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids in Black Feathers (Feb 2017)
42Persephone at Tor.com (Mar 2017)
43Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair in Cosmic Powers (Apr 2017)
44Graffiti of the Lost and Dying Places in Dark Cities (May 2017)
45Pedestal in Behind the Mask (May 2017)
X46How the Maine Coon Cat Learned to Love the Sea in Uncanny Magazine (Jul 2017)
47You Can Stay All Day as Mira Grant in Nights of the Living Dead (Jul 2017)
48Pixie Season in Lawless Lands (Jul 2017)
49Rust in Peace in Submerged (Sep 2017)
50Heroes Never Die in Hail Our Robot Conquerors (Sep 2017)
51With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds in Haunted Nights (Oct 2017)
52Blood and Sand as Mira Grant in Predator: If It Bleeds (Oct 2017)
53Red Dirt as Mira Grant in Joe Ledger: Unstoppable (Oct 2017)
54What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down in Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction (Nov 2017)
55An Emptied Vessel in Hardboiled Horror (Nov 2017)
56The Wine in Dreams as Mira Grant in Star Wars: Canto Bright (Dec 2017)
57Sentence Like a Saturday in Mad Hatters and March Hares (Dec 2017)
58By Promise Preordained in The Demons of King Solomon (Dec 2017)
59Build Me A Wonderland in Robots vs. Fairies (Jan 2018)
60Sister, Dearest Sister, Let Me Show You to the Sea in The Devil and the Deep (Mar 2018)
61Rise Up, Rise Up, You Children of the Moon in The Razors Edge (Jun 2018)
62Swear Not By the Moon in Infinity’s End (Jul 2018)
63Riding Ever Southward, In the Company of Bees in Hath No Fury (Aug 2018)
64Mother, Mother, Will You Play With Me in Mother of Invention (Sep 2018)
65Remember the Green in Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders (Sep 2018)
66Falling’s Free, Gravity Costs in Unidentified Funny Objects 7 (Sep 2018)
67Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like Hunger with Jennifer Brozek in Chiral Mad 4 (Oct 2018)
68Fresh as a New Fallen Snow in Hark! The Herald Angels Scream (Oct 2018)
69Under the Sea of Stars in Lightspeed Magazine (Dec 2018)
70Harmony in A People’s Future of the United States (Feb 2019)
71But We Were Heroes Once, In Empty Places, After Dark in the Gamer Chronicles (Feb 2019)
72Stripes in the Sunset in Unfettered III (Mar 2019)
73So Sharp, So Bright, So Final in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (Jun 2019)
74Must Be This Tall to Ride in Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Aug 2019)
75Phantoms of the Midway in Mythic Dream (Sep 2019)

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Turtle Recall: Discworld

Posted on October 18, 2024January 22, 2025 by Sami

A listing of books in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett in order for the Turtle Recall reading challenge. The sub-series for each book is noted.

1The Color of MagicWizards 1
2The Light FantasticWizards 2
X3Equal RitesWitches 0.5
4MortDeath 1
5SourceryWizards 3
6Wyrd SistersWitches 1
7Pyramidssingle 1
8Guards! Guards!City Watch 1
9EricWizards 4
10Moving Picturessingle 2
11Reaper ManDeath 2
12Witches AbroadWitches 2
13Small Godssingle 3
14Lords and LadiesWitches 3
15Men at ArmsCity Watch 2
16Soul MusicDeath 3
17Interesting TimesWizards 5
18MaskeradeWitches 4
19Feet of ClayCity Watch 3
20HogfatherDeath 4
21JingoCity Watch 4
22The Last ContinentWizards 6
23Carpe JugulumWitches 5
24The Fifth ElephantCity Watch 5
25The Truthsingle 4
26Thief of TimeDeath 5
27The Last HeroWizards 7
28The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodentssingle 5
29Night WatchCity Watch 6
30The Wee Free MenTiffany Aching 1
31Monstrous Regimentsingle 6
32A Hat Full of SkyTiffany Aching 2
33Going PostalMoist von Lipwig 1
34Thud!City Watch 7
35WintersmithTiffany Aching 3
36Making MoneyMoist von Lipwig 2
37Unseen AcademicalsWizards 8
38I Shall Wear MidnightTiffany Aching 4
39SnuffCity Watch 8
40Raising SteamMoist von Lipwig 3
41The Shepherd’s CrownTiffany Aching 5
42The Science of Discworld I
43The Science of Discworld II – The Globe
44The Science of Discworld III – Darwin’s Watch
45The Science of Discworld IV – Judgement Day
46The Discworld Companion
X47Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook
48The Discworld Almanak
49The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld
50The Folklore of Discworld
51The Compleat Ankh-Morport City Guide
52Mrs. Bradshaw’s Handbook
53Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion
54The Discworld Imaginarium
55A Tourists Guide to Lancre
56Death’s Domain: A Discworld Mapp
57Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett
58A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
59A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
60The Sea and Little Fishes
61The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
62Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes

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Parts of a Card on Arena

Posted on July 21, 2024January 23, 2025 by Sami

The parts of a card on Arena are just a little bit different from a paper card, in part because Arena cards don’t have the footer detail about the card and because Arena cards don’t have the flavor text from the paper cards on the front – it shows up in a small pop-up next to the card when you mouse over it.

This is a card from Arena. The numbered areas are the important parts of the card:

1- The card name. Sometimes cards are reprinted into different sets and/or with different art; as long as the name is a match, it’s functionally the same card.

2- The card’s cost and color. This card costs one generic mana and one black mana to case, so it has a

mana value of 2. Because the colored mana needed to cast it is black, it is a black card. If casting required more than one color of mana, it would be a multicolor card. If it required only generic mana, it would be a colorless card.

3- This is the card art.

4- The type line. To the left of the dash is the card’s supertype; to the right of the dash is the card’s subtype. The most common supertypes in Standard are Artifact, Battle, Creature, Enchantment, Instant, Land, Planeswalker, and Sorcery. Another post will cover these supertypes and each of their subtypes.

5- The expansion symbol. Each card set has a unique symbol that shows what set a card originated in. This card is from Dominaria United. The color of the symbol shows the rarity of that card. From easiest to hardest to find, the colors are black for common, silver for uncommon, gold for rare, and red-orange for mythic rare. This card is an uncommon card. Another post will go into what these rarities mean and how they affect collecting cards and building decks.

6- This area shows a keyword. Keywords are shortcut words that indicate particular common abilities a card can have. This card has Menace – it takes two creatures to block it when it attacks another player. Other posts will go into detail about different keywords and what they mean. Not all cards have keywords.

7- This line tells what static abilities the card has. In this case, as long as this card is on the battlefield under your control, your opponent cannot gain life even if he has cards that would normally increase his life total.

8- This is an ability that has a cost. It indicates that if you pay one generic and one black mana, you can add a +1/+1 counter to this card until the end of the turn.

9- This is the artist who created the art that appears on the card. In a paper card this area would also have a set indicator, a card number, and copyright text in this area.

10- This number is the card’s power. Power is the amount of damage a creature can do when it attacks.

11- This number is the card’s toughness. Toughness is how much damage a card can take before it “dies”.

There are a few other areas on specific cards, but we’ll talk about Loyalty when we talk about planeswalker cards, and we’ll talk about Defense when we talk about battle cards.

Anne McCaffrey

Posted on February 10, 2024May 26, 2025 by Sami
  • Pern
  • Crystal Universe
  • Petaybee
  • Acorna’s Universe
  • Brain and Brawn Ships
  • Ireta
  • Talents Universe
  • Doona
  • Barque Cats
  • Freedom / Cattini
  • Short Story Collections
  • Collections / Anthologies
  • Romances
  • Children’s Books
  • Cookbooks
  • Other

Pern

1.Dragonflight – 1968
2.Dragonquest – 1971
2.1The Smallest Dragonboy – 1973
3.Dragonsong – 1976
4.Dragonsinger – 1977
5.The White Dragon – 1978
6.Dragondrums – 1979
7.Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern – 1983
8.Nerilka’s Story – 1986
8.1The Girl Who Heard Dragons – 1986
9.Dragonsdawn – 1988
10.The Renegades of Pern – 1989
11.All the Weyrs of Pern – 1991
11.1Rescue Run – 1991
12.The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall – 1993 (short story collection)
13.The Dolphins of Pern – 1994
14.Red Star Rising – 1996 (aka Dragonseye)
15.The Masterharper of Pern – 1998
15.1Runner of Pern – 1998
16.The Skys of Pern – 2001
17.A Gift of Dragons – 2002 (short story collection)
18.Dragon’s Kin – 2003 (with Todd McCaffery)
18.1Beyond Between – 2003
19.Dragonsblood – 2005 (by Todd McCaffery)
20.Dragon Fire – 2006 (with Todd McCaffery)
21.Dragon Harper – 2007 (with Todd McCaffery)
22.Dragonheart – 2008 (by Todd McCaffery)
23.Dragongirl – 2010 (by Todd McCaffery)
24.Dragon’s Time – 2011 (by Todd McCaffery)
25.Sky Dragons – 2012 (with Todd McCaffery)
26.Dragon’s Code – 2018 (by Gigi McCaffery)

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Crystal Universe

Earlier works:
The Coelura – 1983
Nimisha’s Ship – 1998
Crystal Singer Trilogy:
1.Crystal Singer – 1982
2.Killashandra – 1986
3.Crystal Line – 1992

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Petaybee

Powers: (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
1.Powers That Be – 1993
2.Power Lines – 1994
3.Power Play – 1995
Twins: (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
1.Changelings – 2005
2.Maelstrom – 2006
3.Deluge – 2008

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Acornia’s Universe

(with Margaret Ball)
1.Acorna: the Unicorn Girl – 1997
2.Acorna’s Quest – 1998
3.Acorna’s People – 1999
4.Acorna’s World – 2000
5.Acorna’s Search – 2001
6.Acorna’s Rebels – 2003
7.Acorna’s Triumph – 2004
Acorna’s Children (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
1.First Warning – 2005
2.Second Wave – 2006
3.Third Watch – 2007

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Brain and Brawn Ships

(set in the Crystal Universe)
1.The Ship Who Sang – 1969
2.Partnership – 1992 (with Margaret Ball)
3.The Ship Who Searched – 1992 (with Mercedes Lackey)
4.The City Who Fought – 1993 (with SM Stirling)
5.The Ship Who Won – 1994 (with Jody Lynn Nye)
6.The Ship Errant – 1996 (by Jody Lynn Nye)
7.The Ship Avenged – 1997 (by SM Stirling)
8.The Ship Returned

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Ireta

Dinosaur Planet Duo:
1.Dinosaur Planet – 1978
2.Dinosaur Planet Survivors – 1984
Planet Pirates Trilogy:
1.Sassinak – 1990 (with Elizabeth Moon)
2.The Death of Sleep – 1990 (with Jody Lynn Nye)
3.Generation Warriors – 1991 (with Elizabeth Moon)

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Talents Universe

The Talents Trilogy:
1.To Ride Pegasus – 1973 (short story collection)
2.Pegasus in Flight – 1990
3.Pegasus in Space – 2000
The Tower and the Hive:
1.The Rowan – 1990
2.Damia – 1991
3.Damia’s Children – 1993
4.Lyon’s Pride – 1994
5.The Tower and the Hive – 1999

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Doona

  1. Decision at Doona – 1969
  2. Crisis on Doona – 1992 (with Jody Lynn Nye)
  3. Treaty at Doona – 1994 (with Jody Lynn Nye)

Barque Cats

  • Catalyst – 2010 (with Elizabeth Ann Scarbrough)
  • Catacombs – 2010 (with Elizabeth Ann Scarbrough)

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Freedom / Catteni

0.5The Thorns of Barevi – 1970
1.0Freedom’s Landing – 1995
2.0Freedom’s Choice – 1996
3.0Freedom’s Challenge – 1998
4.0Freedom’s Ransom – 2002

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Short Story Collections

  • Get Off the Unicorn – 1977
  • The Girl Who Heard Dragons – 1991 (includes one Pern story)

Collections/Anthologies

  • Alchemy and Academe – 1970
  • Space Opera – 1996 (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)

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Romances

  • The Mark of Merlin – 1971
  • Ring of Fear – 1971
  • The Kilteman Legacy – 1975
  • Stitch in Snow – 1985
  • The Year of the Lucy – 1986
  • The Lady – 1987 (aka the Carradyne Touch)

Children’s Books

  • An Exchange of Gifts – 1995
  • No One Noticed the Cat – 1996
  • If Wishes Were Horses – 1998
  • Black Horses for the King – 1998

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Cookbooks

  • Cooking Out of This World – 1973 (revised 1992)
  • Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffery – 1996

Other

  • A Diversity of Dragons – 1997 (part art book, part nonfiction)

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Jodi Taylor

Posted on February 10, 2024February 10, 2024 by Sami
  • The Chronicles of St. Mary’s
  • The Time Police
  • Frogmorton Farm
  • Elizabeth Cage
  • as Isabella Barclay

The Chronicles of St. Mary’s

1.0Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jun 2013
1.5The Very First Damned Thing – Oct 2015
2.0A Symphony of Echos – Oct 2013
2.1When a Child is Born – Nov 2013
3.0A Second Chance – Feb 2014
3.1Roman Holiday – Jun 2014
4.0A Trail Through Time – Jul 2014
4.1Christmas Present – Nov 2014
5.0No Time Like the Past – Feb 2015
6.0What Could Possibly Go Wrong – Aug 2015
6.1Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings – Nov 2015
7.0Lies, Damned Lies, and History – May 2016
7.1The Great St. Mary’s Day Out – Aug 2016
7.2My Name is Markham – Dec 2016
8.0And the Rest is History – Apr 2017
8.1A Perfect Storm – Aug 2017
8.2Christmas Past – Dec 2017
9.0An Argumentation of Historians – May 2018
9.1The Battersea Barricades – Apr 2018
9.2The Steam Pump Jump – Jul 2018
9.3An Now for Something Completely Different – Dec 2018
10.0Hope for the Best – May 2019
10.1When Did You Last See Your Father? – Sep 2019
10.2Why is Nothing Ever Simple? – Dec 2019
11.0Plan for the Worst – Apr 2020
11.1The Ordeal of the Haunted Room – Dec 2020
12.0Another Time, Another Place – Apr 2021
12.1The Toast of Time – Dec 2021
13.0A Catalogue of Catastrophe – Apr 2022
14.0The Good, the Bad, and the History – Jun 2023
14.1Christmas Pie – Dec 2023
— Short Story Collections:
The Long and Short of It – Jun 2017
includes:
– The Very First Damned Thing
– When a Child is Born
– Roman Holiday
– Christmas Present
– Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings
– The Great St. Mary’s Day Out
– My Name is Markham
– A Perfect Storm
Long Story Short – Jul 2019
includes:
– Christmas Past
– The Battersea Barricades
– The Steam-Pump Jump
– And Now for Something Completely Different
– When Did You Last See Your Father?
– Desiccated Water
– Markham and the Anal Probing
– Little Donkey

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The Time Police

1.0Doing Time – Oct 2019
2.0Hard Time – Oct 2020
3.0Saving Time – Oct 2021
4.0About Time – Oct 2022
4.1Santa Grint – Dec 2022

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Elizabeth Cage

1.0White Silence – Sep 2017
2.0Dark Light – Sep 2018
3.0Long Shadows – Aug 2021

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Frogmorton Farm

1.0The Nothing Girl – May 2014
1.1Little Donkey – Feb 2015
2.0The Something Girl – Jul 2017
2.1Joy to the World – Nov 2020

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as Isabella Barclay

  • A Bachelor Establishment – Jul 2015

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Agatha Christie

Posted on February 3, 2024February 10, 2024 by Sami
  • Hercule Poirot Novels
  • Tommy & Tuppence Novels
  • Superintendent Battle Novels
  • Miss Marple Novels
  • Standalone Mystery Novels
  • Plays
  • Short Story Collections
  • Other Publications
  • Novels by Publication Date
  • Short Stories by Publication Date

Hercule Poirot

1920The Mysterious Affair at Styles (US Oct – UK Jan 1921)
serialized 27 Feb – 25 Jun 1920 in The Times Weekly (UK)*
1923The Murder on the Links (Mar)
serialized 22 Dec – 23Mar 1923 as “The Girl with the Anxious Eyes” in Grand Magazine (UK)
1926The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
serialized Jul – Sep 1925 in the London Evening News (UK)*
serialized 19 Jun – 10 Jul 1926 in Flynn’s Detective Weekly (US)
1927The Big Four (Jun)
originally 12 short stories published in various periodicals
1928The Mystery of the Blue Train (Mar)
serialized 1 Feb – 15 Mar 1928 in The Star (without the first 2 chapters and with minor edits)*
1932Peril at End House (Feb)
serialized 13 Jun – 22 Aug 1932 in Liberty (US)
serialized 10 Oct – 19 Dec 1932 in Women’s Pictorial (UK)
1933Lord Edgeware Dies (UK Sep) or Thirteen at Dinner (US)
serialized Mar – Aug 1933 as “13 for Dinner” in The American Magazine (US)*
1934Murder on the Orient Express (UK Jan) or Murder in the Calais Coach (US Feb)
serialized Mar – May 1934 in Grand Magazine (UK)
serialized 30 Sep – 4 Nov 1934 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)
1934Three Act Tragedy (UK Jan) or Murder in Three Acts (US)
Serialized 9 Jun – 14 Jul 1935 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)
1935Death in the Clouds (UK Jul) or Death in the Air (US Mar)
serialized 9 Feb – 16 Mar 1935 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)*
serialized 16 Feb – 23 Mar 1935 as “Mystery in the Air” in Women’s Pictorial (UK)
1936The ABC Murders (Jan/Feb)
abridged Nov 1935 in Cosmopolitan (US)*
shortened 28 Nov – 12 Dec 1935 in the Daily Express (UK) (several chapters removed)
1936Murder in Mesopotamia (Jul)
serialized 9 Nov – 14 Dec 1935 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)*
serialized 8 Feb – 28 Mar 1936 as “No Other Love” in Women’s Pictorial (UK)
1936Cards on the Table (Nov)
serialized 2 May – 6 Jun 1936 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)*
1937Dumb Witness (UK Jul) or Poirot Loses a Client (US)
serialized 7 Nov – 19 Dec 1936 as “Poirot Loses a Client” in The Saturday Evening Post (US)*
serialized 20 Feb – 3 Apr 1937 as “Mystery of Littlegreen House in Women’s Pictorial (UK)
1937Death on the Nile (UK Nov – US 1938)
serialized 15 May – 3 Jul 1937 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)*
1938Appointment with Death (May)
serialized 28 Aug – 23 Oct 1937 in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
serialized 19 Jan – 19 Feb 1938 as “A Date with Death” in the Daily Mail (UK)
1938Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (UK Dec) or Murder for Christmas (US Feb 1939)
serialized 14 Nov – 10 Dec 1938 as “Murder for Christmas” in the Daily Express (UK)
serialized 12 Nov 1938 – 14 Jan 1939 as “Murder for Christmas” in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
1940Sad Cypress (Mar)
serialized 25 Nov – 27 Jan 1940 in Collier’s Weekly (US)
serialized 23 Mar – 13 Apr 1940 in the Daily Express (UK)*
1940One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (UK Nov) or The Patriotic Murders (US) or An Overdose of Death (US 1953)
serialized 3 Aug – 28 Sep 1940 as “The Patriotic Murders” in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
1941Evil Under the Sun (Jun/Oct)
serialized 14 Dec 1940 – 22 Feb 1941 in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
1942Five Little Pigs (UK Jan) or Murder in Retrospect (US)
serialized 20 Sep – 22 Nov 1941 as “Murder in Retrospect” in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
1946The Hollow (UK Nov) or Murder After Hours (US)
serialized 4 – 25 May 1946 as “The Outraged Heart” in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
1948Taken at the Flood (UK Nov) or There is a Tide… (US Mar)
1952Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (UK Feb) or Blood Will Tell (US Mar)
serialized 7 Oct – 30 Dec 1951 as “Blood Will Tell” in the Chicago Tribune (US)*
1953After the Funeral (UK May) or Funerals are Fatal (US Mar) or Murder at the Gallop (UK 1963)
serialized 20Jan – 14 Mar 1953 in the Chicago Tribune (US)*
serialized 21 Mar – 2 May 1953 in John Bull (UK)
1955Hickory Dickory Dock (UK Oct) or Hickory Dickory Death (US Nov)
serialized 28 May – 2 Jul 1955 in John Bull (UK)*
serialized 14 Oct – 11 Nov 1955 in Collier’s Weekly (US)
1956Dead Man’s Folly (Oct/Nov)
serialized 20 Jul – 17 Aug 1956 in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
serialized 11 Aug – 15 Sep 1956 in John Bull (UK)
1959Cat Among the Pigeons (UK Nov – US Mar 1960)
serialized 26 Sep – 31 Oct 1959 in John Bull (UK)
serialized Nov 1959 in Ladies Home Journal (US)
1963The Clocks (UK Nov – US 1964)
serialized 9 Nov – 14 Dec 1963 in Woman’s Own (UK)
condensed Jan 1964 in Cosmopolitan (US)
1966Third Girl (UK Nov – US 1967)
condensed Apr 1967 in Redbook (US)*
1969Hallowe’en Party (UK Nov – US Dec) or A Haunting in Venice (Radio/TV/film)
serialized 15 Nov – 27 Dec 1969 in Woman’s Own (UK)*
condensed Dec 1969 in Cosmopolitan (US)
1972Elephants Can Remember (Nov)
serialized 10-17 Feb 1973 in the Star Weekly (Canada)*
1975Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case (Sep/Oct)
serialized Jul – Aug 1975 in Ladies Home Journal (US)*
This was the last novel published while Mrs. Christie was alive.

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Tommy & Tuppence

1922The Secret Adversary (Jan)
serialized 12 Aug – 2 Dec 1921 in The Weekly Times (UK)
1941N or M? (Oct)
condensed Mar 1941 in Redbook (US)
abridged/serialized 26 Apr – 7 Jun 1941 as “Secret Adventure” in Women’s Pictorial (UK)
1968By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Nov)
1973Postern of Fate (Oct)
This was the last novel written by Mrs. Christie.

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Superintendent Battle

1925The Secret of Chimneys (Jun)
1929The Seven Dials Mystery (Jan)
1939Murder is Easy (UK Jun) or Easy to Kill (US Sep)
serialized 19 Nov – 31 Dec 1938 as “Easy to Kill” in The Saturday Evening Post (US)*
serialized 10 Jan – 3 Feb 1939 as “Easy to Kill” in the Daily Express (UK)
1944Towards Zero (Jun/Jul)
serialized 6-20 May 1944 as “Come and Be Hanged” in Collier’s Weekly (US)*
serialized Oct – Nov 1944 in The Mail (Australia)

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Miss Marple

1930The Murder at the Vicarage (Oct)
serialized 18 Aug – 20 Oct 1930 in the Chicago Tribune (US)*
1942The Body in the Library (Feb/May)
serialized 18 Aug – 21 Jun 1942 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)
1942The Moving Finger (Jun/Jul)
serialized 28 Mar – 16 May 1942 in Collier’s Weekly (US)
serialized 17 Oct – 21 Nov 1942 in Women’s Pictorial (UK)
US serialization is ~9000 words shorter, mostly in introduction and characterization
1952They Do It with Mirrors (UK Nov) or Murder With Mirrors (US)
condensed Apr 1952 as “Murder With Mirrors” in Cosmopolitan (US)
serialized 26 Apr – 31 May 1952 in John Bull (UK)
1953A Pocket Full of Rye (UK – US 1954)
abridged/serialized 28 Sep – 13 Oct 1953 in the Daily Express (UK)
serialized 11 Jan – 27 Feb 1954 in the Chicago Tribune (US)
1962The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (UK Nov) or The Mirror Crack’d (US 1963)
serialized 9-16 Mar 1963 as “The Mirror Crack’d” in the Star Weekly (Canada)
1964A Caribbean Mystery (UK Nov – US 1965)
serialized 16-23 Jan 1965 in the Star Weekly (Canada)
1965At Bertram’s Hotel (UK Nov – US 1966)
abridged/serialized 20 Nov – 18 Dec in Woman’s Own (UK)
serialized Mar – Apr 1966 in Good Housekeeping (US)
1971Nemesis (Nov)
serialized 25 Sep – 6 Nov 1971 in Women’s Realm (UK)
serialized 16-23 Oct 1971 in the Star Weekly (Canada)
This was the last Miss Marple book written.
1976Sleeping Murder (Oct)
titled “Cover Her Face” until publication
Published posthumously, written 1940-1944.

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Standalone Mystery Novels

1931The Sittaford Mystery (UK Sep) or The Murder at Hazelmore (US)
serialized Mar- Aug 1931 as “Murder at Hazelmore” in Good Housekeeping (US)
1934Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (UK Sep) or The Boomerang Clue (US)
condensed Nov 33 as “The Boomerang Clue” in Redbook (US)
1939And Then There Were None (US Jan 1940, also later UK title)
Ten Little Niggers (original UK title) or Ten Little Indians (US title 1964-1986)
(All titles are from versions of a 1869 minstrel song by Frank Green that includes the forms of murder that are part of the plot of the book.)
serialized 6 Jun – 1 Jul 1939 in the Daly Express (UK)
1944Death Comes as the End (UK Mar – US Oct)
1949Crooked House (US Mar – UK May)
condensed Oct 1948 in Cosmopolitan (US)*
serialized 23 Apr – 4 Jun 1949 in John Bull (UK)
1954Destination Unknown (UK Nov) or So Many Steps to Death (US 1955)
serialized 25 Sep – 23 Oct 1954 in John Bull (UK)
serialized 12 Apr – 9 Jun 1955 as “Destination X” in the Chicago Tribune (US)
1958Ordeal by Innocence (UK Nov – US 1959)
serialized 20-27 Sep 1958 in John Bull (UK)*
serialized 1 Feb – 14 Mar 1958 as “The Innocent” in the Chicago Tribune (US)
abridged 21 Feb 1959 in the Star Weekly (Canada)
1961The Pale Horse (UK Nov – US 1962)
serialized 2 Sep – 21 Oct in Women’s Mirror (UK)
condensed Apr 1962 in Ladies Home Journal (US)
1967Endless Night (UK Oct – US 1968)
serialized 24 Feb – 9 Mar 1968 in The Saturday Evening Post (US)
1970Passenger to Frankfort (Sep)

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Plays

1934Black Coffee
Novelized by Charles Osborne in 1998.
1944And Then There Were None
(Originally produced as Ten Little Niggers.)
1945Appointment With Death
1948Murder on the Nile
1952The Hollow
1954The Mousetrap
1954Witness for the Prosecution
1957Spider’s Web
Novelized by Charles Osborne in 2000.
1957Towards Zero
1958Verdict
1958The Unexpected Guest
Novelized by Charles Osborne in 1999.
1960Go Back for Murder (based on the Five Little Pigs)
1963Rule of Three
1971Fiddlers Three
1973Akhanaton
2006Chimneys
Written in 1931, not performed until 2006.
2018The Lie
Written in the 20s, discovered in Christie’s archive and performed in 2018.
Unpublished:
The Conqueror
Teddy Bear
Eugenia and Eugenics
The Clutching Hand
The Last Seance
Ten Years
Marmalade Moon
Someone at the Window
Miss Perry
Bleak House (movie script based on the Charles Dickens novel)

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Short Story Collections

1924 – Poirot Investigates Poirot stories, includes:

  • The Adventure of the Western Star
  • The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
  • The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
  • The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
  • The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
  • The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
  • The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
  • The Kidnapped Prime Minister
  • The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
  • The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
  • The Case of the Missing Will
  • The Chocolate Boy (US editions only)
  • The Veiled Lady (US editions only)
  • The Lost Mine (US editions only)

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1929 – Partners in Crime Tommy & Tuppence stories, includes:

  • A Fairy in the Flat
  • A Pot of Tea
  • The Affair of the Pink Pearl
  • The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
  • Finessing the King
  • The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
  • The Case of the Missing Lady
  • Blindman’s Bluff
  • The Man in the Mist
  • The Crackler
  • The Sunningdale Mystery
  • The House of Lurking Death
  • The Unbreakable Alibi
  • The Clergyman’s Daughter
  • The Red House
  • The Ambassador’s Boots
  • The Man Who Was Number Sixteen

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1930 – The Mysterious Mr. Quinn Harley Quinn stories, includes:

  • The Coming of Mr. Quinn
  • The Shadow on the Glass
  • At the “Bells and Motley”
  • The Sign in the Sky
  • The Soul of the Croupier
  • The Man from the Sea
  • The Voice in the Dark
  • The Face of Helen
  • The Dead Harlequin
  • The Bird with the Broken Wing
  • The World’s End
  • Harlequin’s Lane

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1933 – The Thirteen Problems or The Tuesday Club Murders (US 1933) Miss Marple stories, includes:

  • The Tuesday Night Club
  • The Idol House of Astarte
  • Ingots of Gold
  • The Blood-Stained Pavement
  • Motive v. Opportunity
  • The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
  • The Blue Geranium
  • The Companion
  • The Four Suspects
  • A Christmas Tragedy
  • The Herb of Death
  • The Affair at the Bungalow
  • Death by Drowning

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1933 – The Hound of Death (UK only) includes:

  • The Hound of Death
  • The Red Signal
  • The Fourth Man
  • The Gypsy
  • The Lamp
  • Wireless
  • The Witness for the Prosecution (story version)
  • The Mystery of the Blue Jar
  • The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Charmichael
  • The Last Seance
  • SOS

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1934 – The Listerdale Mystery (UK only) includes:

  • The Listerdale Mystery
  • Philomel Cottage
  • The Girl on the Train
  • Sing a Song of Sixpence
  • The Manhood of Edward Robinson
  • Accident
  • Jane in Search of a Job
  • A Fruitful Sunday
  • Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure
  • The Golden Ball
  • The Rajah’s Emerald
  • Swan Song

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1934 – Parker Pyne Investigates (UK) or Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (US) Parker Pyne stories, includes:

  • The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
  • The Case of the Discontented Soldier
  • The Case of the Distressed Lady
  • The Case of the Discontented Husband
  • The Case of the City Clerk
  • The Case of the Rich Woman
  • Have You Got Everything You Want?
  • The House at Shiraz
  • Death on the Nile (story version)
  • The Oracle at Delphi
  • The Gate of Baghdad
  • The Pearl of Price

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1937 – Murder in the Mews (UK) or Dead Man’s Mirror (US) Poirot stories, includes:

  • Murder in the Mews
  • The Incredible Theft (UK edition only)
  • Dead Man’s Mirror (shorter version)
  • Triangle at Rhodes

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1939 – The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (US only) includes:

  • The Regatta Mystery (Parker Pyne)
  • The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (Hercule Poirot)
  • How Does Your Garden Grow? (Hercule Poirot)
  • Problem at Pollensa Bay (Parker Pyne)
  • Yellow Iris (Hercule Poirot)
  • Miss Marple Tells a Story (Miss Marple)
  • The Dream (Hercule Poirot)
  • In a Glass Darkly
  • Problem at Sea (Hercule Poirot)

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1947 – The Labors of Hercules Poirot stories, includes:

  • The Nemean Lion
  • The Lemaean Hydra
  • The Arcadian Deer
  • The Erymanthian Bear
  • The Augean Stables
  • The Stymphalean Birds
  • The Cretan Bull
  • The Horses of Diomedes
  • The Girdle of Hippolyta
  • The Flock of Geryon
  • The Apples of Hesperides
  • The Capture of Cerberus

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1948 – Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US only) includes:

  • Accident
  • The Fourth Man
  • The Mystery of the Blue Jar
  • The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (aka Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure)
  • Philomel Cottage
  • The Red Signal
  • The Second Gong (aka Dead Man’s Mirror) (Hercule Poirot)
  • Sing a Song of Sixpence
  • SOS
  • Where There’s a Will (aka Wireless)
  • The Witness for the Prosecution (story version)

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1951 – The Under Dog and Other Stories (US only) Poirot stories, includes:

  • The Under Dog
  • The Plymouth Express
  • The Affair at the Victory Ball
  • The Market Basing Mystery
  • The Lemesurier Inheritance
  • The Cornish Mystery
  • The King of Clubs
  • The Submarine Plans
  • The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

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1950 – Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (US only) includes:

  • Three Blind Mice (reworked into the play The Mousetrap)
  • Strange Jest (Miss Marple)
  • The Case of the Perfect Maid (Miss Marple)
  • Tape-Measure Murder
  • The Case of the Caretaker (Miss Marple)
  • The Third Floor Flat (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (Hercule Poirot)
  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Love Detectives (Harley Quinn)

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1960 – The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees (UK only) includes:

  • The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding or The Theft of the Royal Ruby (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Under Dog Hercule Poirot)
  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Dream (Hercule Poirot)
  • Greenshaw’s Folly

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1961 – Double Sin and Other Stories (US only) includes:

  • Double Sin
  • Wasp’s Nest
  • The Theft of the Royal Ruby (aka The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding)
  • The Dressmaker’s Doll
  • Greenshaw’s Folly
  • The Double Clue
  • The Last Seance
  • Sanctuary

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1974 – Poirot’s Early Cases (UK only) Poirot stories, includes:

  • The Affair at the Victory Ball
  • The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
  • The Cornish Mystery
  • The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
  • The Double Clue
  • The King of Clubs
  • The Lemesurier Inheritance
  • The Lost Mine
  • The Plymouth Express
  • The Chocolate Boy
  • The Submarine Plans (basis for Murder in the Mews)
  • The Third Floor Flat
  • Double Sin
  • The Market Basing Mystery
  • Wasp’s Nest
  • The Veiled Lady
  • Problem at Sea
  • How Does Your Garden Grow?

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1979 – Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Other Stories (UK only) includes:

  • Sanctuary
  • Strange Jest
  • Tape-Measure Murder
  • The Case of the Caretaker
  • The Case of the Perfect Maid
  • Miss Marple Tells a Story
  • The Dressmaker’s Doll
  • In a Glass Darkly
  • Grenshaw’s Folly (not in the first edition)

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1991 – Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (UK only) includes:

  • Problem at Pollensa Bay (Parker Pyne)
  • The The Second Gong (Hercule Poirot)
  • Yellow Iris (Hercule Poirot)
  • The Harlequin Tea Set
  • The Regatta Mystery (Hercule Poirot) (original version)
  • The Love Detectives (Harley Quinn)
  • Next to a Dog
  • Magnolia Blossom

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1997 – While the Light Lasts and Other Stories includes:

  • The House of Dreams
  • The Actress
  • The Edge
  • Christmas Adventure (the original of The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding)
  • The Lonely God
  • Manx Gold
  • Within a Wall
  • The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
  • While the Light Lasts

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Other Publications

1924The Road of Dreams poetry collection
1930Giant’s Bread as Mary Westmacott
1934Unfinished Portrait as Mary Westmacott
1944Absent in Spring as Mary Westmacott
1946Come, Tell Me How You Live autobiographic travel book
1948The Rose and the Yew Tree as Mary Westmacott
1952A Daughter’s a Daughter as Mary Westmacott
1956The Burden as Mary Westmacott
1965Star Over Bethleham poetry and short stories
1973Poems poetry collection
1977Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
2012The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery letter collection

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