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- Jared - â‚� Book Nerd â‚� Well technically the fist Hercule Poirot story was The Chocolate Box written in 1909 but this was a short story. This was indeed the first novel however written in 1916 but not published until 1920. There isn't really any continuity to worry about in the series so you can read them in any order you like.

But just in case you're still interested, here is the order, when written, not published, that I have:
01 - The Chocolate Box (1909)
02 - The Mysterious Affair at Stiles (1916)
03 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister (1918)
04 - The Lemesurier Inheritance (1918)
05 - The Affair at the Victory Ball (1919)
06 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim (1920)
07 - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (1920)
08 - The Submarine Plans (1920)
09 - The Incredible Theft (The Submarine Plans) (1920)
10 - The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1920)
11 - The Cornish Mystery (1921)
12 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (1921)
13 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1921)
14 - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1921)
15 - The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1921)
16 - Double Sin (1921)
17 - The King of Clubs (1922)
18 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (1922)
19 - The Double Clue (1922)
20 - The Adventure of Johnny Waverley (1922)
21 - The Case of the Missing Will (1922)
22 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (1922)
23 - The Veiled Lady (1923)
24 - The Lost Mine (1923)
25 - The Adventure of the Western Star (1923)
26 - A Fellow Traveler (The Murder on the Links) (1923)
27 - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (The Theft of a Royal Ruby) (1923)
28 - The Big Four (1924)
29 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
30 - The Plymouth Express (1926)
31 - The Mystery of the Blue Train (The Plymouth Express) (1926)
32 - The Third Floor Flat (1929)
33 - The Underdog (1929)
34 - The Wasps Nest (1929)
35 - Black Coffee (1930)
36 - Dead Man's Mirror (The Second Gong) (1930)
37 - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (Baghdad Chest) (1930)
38 - Peril at End House (1931)
39 - Lord Edgeware Dies (Thirteen at Dinner) (1932)
40 - Murder in Mesopotamia (1932)
41 - Murder on the Orient Express (1932)
42 - Three Act Tragedy (1933)
43 - Death in the Clouds (1934)
44 - How Does Your Garden Grow (1935)
45 - The ABC Murders (1935)
46 - Dumb Witness (The Incident of the Dog's Ball) (1936)
47 - Problem at Sea (1936)
48 - Triangle at Rhodes (1936)
49 - Market Basing Mystery (1936)
50 - Murder in the Mews (Market Basing Mystery) (1936)
51 - Cards on the Table (1937)
52 - Death on the Nile (1937)
53 - Appointment with Death (1937)
54 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1937)
55 - Yellow Iris A Hercule Poirot Short Story (1939)
56 - The Dream (1939)
57 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1939)
58 - Sad Cypress (1939)
59 - The Nemean Lion (The First Labor of Hercules) (1939)
60 - The Lernaean Hydra (The Second Labor of Hercules) (1939)
61 - The Arcadian Deer (The Third Labor of Hercules) (1939)
62 - The Erymanthian Boar (The Fourth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
63 - The Augean Stables (The Fifth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
64 - The Stymphalean Birds (The Sixth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
65 - The Cretan Bull (The Seventh Labor of Hercules) (1939)
66 - The Horses of Diomedes (The Eighth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
67 - The Girdle of Hippolyta (The Ninth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
68 - The Flock of Geryon (The Tenth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
69 - The Apples of Hesperides (The Eleventh Labor of Hercules) (1939)
70 - The Capture of Cerberus (The Twelfth Labor of Hercules) (1939)
71 - Evil Under the Sun (1941)
72 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1941)
73 - Five Little Pigs (1942)
74 - The Hollow (1945)
75 - Taken at the Flood (1946)
76 - Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
77 - After the Funeral (1953)
78 - Hickory, Dickory Dock (1954)
79 - Dead Man's Folly (The Greenshore Folly) (1955)
80 - Cat Among the Pigeons (1958)
81 - The Clocks (1962)
82 - Third Girl (1963)
83 - Hallowe'en Party (1968)
84 - Elephants Can Remember (1971)
85 - Curtain (1974)

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Juree Chakma The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
by Agatha Christie

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Alberto There are several errors in Jared's list. The two most noticeable ones are that The Chocolate Box is SET before Stiles, but was NOT written before Stiles. Stiles was the first Poirot story that Christie wrote. Also, Curtain was not written in 1974; it was written during WW2.

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