Challenges 2014: What's in a Name

(hosted by the Worm Hole)

From the challenge's page:

The challenge runs from January to December. During this time you choose a book to read from each of the following categories (examples of books you could choose are in brackets):

• A reference to time (Eleven Minutes, Before Ever After)
• A position of royalty (The People’s Queen, The Last Empress, The Curse Of The Pharaoh)
• A number written in letters (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, A Tale Of Two Cities)
• A forename or names (Rebecca, Eleanor & Park, The Unfinished Work Of Elizabeth D.)
• A type or element of weather (Gone With The Wind, Red Earth Pouring Rain)

Possibilities:

• Time: the Year of Living Biblically; One Hundred Years of Solitude; the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time;
• Royalty: the King's Speech; King Solomon's Mines; King Lear;
• Number in Letters: the Fifth Sacred Thing;
• Forename(s): the Picture of Dorian Gray; Veronika Decides to Die; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Weather: Gone with the Wind; Cold Rain;

Lists: Business Insider's Reading through the US (by book)

Another BI list: Most famous books set in particular US states — counting the D.C. Visit the original article for more details. Some of these overlap with the other BI list.

Start: January 2014
Updated:
End:

1. Alabama // to Kill a Mockingbird // Harper Lee
2. Alaska // into the Wild // Jon Krakauer
3. Arizona // the Bean Trees // Barbara Kingsolver
4. Arkansas // a Painted House // John Grisham
5. California // East of Eden // John Steinbeck
6. Colorado // the Shining // Stephen King
7. Connecticut // Revolutionary Road // Richard Yates
8. Delaware // the Saint of Lost Things // Christopher Castellani
9. Florida // to Have and Have Not // Ernest Hemingway
10. Georgia // Gone with the Wind // Margaret Mitchell
11. Hawaii // Hawaii // James Michener
12. Idaho // Housekeeping // Marilynne Robinson
13. Illinois // the Jungle // Upton Sinclair
14. Indiana // the Magnificent Ambersons // Booth Tarkington
15. Iowa // a Thousand Acres // Jane Smiley
16. Kansas // the Wonderful Wizard of Oz // L. Frank Baum
17. Kentucky // Uncle Tom’s Cabin // Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. Louisiana // Interview with the Vampire // Anne Rice
19. Maine // Carrie // Stephen King
20. Maryland // Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant // Anne Tyler
21. Massachusetts // Walden // Henry David Thoreau
22. Michigan // the Virgin Suicides // Jeffrey Eugenides
23. Minnesota // Main Street // Sinclair Lewis
24. Mississippi // the Sound and the Fury // William Faulkner
25. Missouri // the Adventures of Tom Sawyer // Mark Twain
26. Montana // a River Runs Through It // Norman Maclean
27. Nebraska // My Antonia // Willa Cather
28. Nevada // Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas // Hunter S. Thompson
29. New Hampshire // the Hotel New Hampshire // John Irving
30. New Jersey // Drown // Junot Diaz
31. New Mexico // Red Sky at Morning // Richard Bradford
32. New York // the Great Gatsby // F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. North Carolina // a Walk to Remember // Nicholas Sparks
34. North Dakota // the Round House // Louise Erdrich
35. Ohio // the Broom of the System // David Foster Wallace
36. Oklahoma // Paradise // Toni Morrison
37. Oregon // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest // Ken Kesey
38. Pennsylvania // the Lovely Bones // Alice Sebold
39. Rhode Island // My Sister’s Keeper // Jodi Picoult
40. South Carolina // the Secret Life of Bees // Sue Monk Kidd
41. South Dakota // a Long Way from Home // Tom Brokaw
42. Tennessee // the Client // John Grisham
43. Texas // No Country for Old Men // Cormac McCarthy
44. Utah // the 19th Wife // David Ebershoff
45. Vermont // Pollyanna // Eleanor H. Porter
46. Virginia // Bridge to Terabithia // Katherine Patterson
47. Washington // Twilight // Stephenie Meyer
48. Washington, D.C. // Lost Symbol // Dan Brown
49. West Virginia // Shiloh // Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
50. Wisconsin // Little House in the Big Woods // Laura Ingalls Wilder
51. Wyoming // the Laramie Project // Moises Kaufman

Lists: Business Insider's Reading through the US (by author)

Business Insider published a list of the States' most famous authors, one from each state (plus DC). You can see the original feature here. I typed this in a simplified list form, and will proceed reading at least one book from each author accordingly.

This list also includes the suggested books from the original article, i.e. the book that the author is most known for. I may or may not deviate from these suggestions.

Started: January 2014
Last updated:
Completed:

1. Alabama // Harper Lee // to Kill a Mockingbird
2. Alaska // Marty Beckerman // The Heming Way
3. Arizona // Jeannette Walls // the Glass Castle
4. Arkansas // John Grisham // a Time to Kill
5. California // John Steinbeck // the Grapes of Wrath
6. Colorado // Ken Kesey // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
7. Connecticut // Harriet Beecher Stowe // Uncle Tom’s Cabin
8. Delaware // Christopher Castellani // a Kiss from Maddalena
9. Florida // Carl Hiaasen // Hoot
10. Georgia // Flannery O’Connor // a Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories
11. Hawaii // Armine Von Tempski // Born in Paradise
12. Idaho // Vardis Fisher // Children of God
13. Illinois // Ernest Hemingway // the Old Man and the Sea
14. Indiana // Kurt Vonnegut // Slaughterhouse-Five
15. Iowa // Bill Bryson // a Short History of Nearly Everything
16. Kansas // William Inge // Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
17. Kentucky // Hunter S. Thompson // Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
18. Louisiana // Anne Rice // Interview with the Vampire
19. Maine // Stephen King // the Shining
20. Maryland // Nora Roberts // The Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
21. Massachusetts // Nathaniel Hawthorne // the Scarlet Letter
22. Michigan // Jeffrey Eugenides // the Virgin Suicides
23. Minnesota // F. Scott Fitszgerald // the Great Gatsby
24. Mississippi // William Faulkner // the Sound and the Fury
25. Missouri // Mark Twain // the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
26. Montana // Maile Meloy // Liars and Saints
27. Nebraska // Nicholas Sparks // a Walk to Remember
28. Nevada // Charles Bock // Beautiful Children
29. New Hampshire // Dan Brown // the Da Vinci Code
30. New Jersey // Philip Roth // Portnoy’s Complaint
31. New Mexico // Rudolfo Anaya // Bless Me, Ultima
32. New York // Herman Melville // Moby Dick
33. North Carolina // Thomas Wolfe // Look Homeward, Angel
34. North Dakota // Louis L’Amour // the Walking Drum
35. Ohio // Sherwood Anderson// Winesburg, Ohio
36. Oklahoma // Ralph Ellison // Invisible Man
37. Oregon // Beverly Cleary // Ramona Quimby, Age 8
38. Pennsylvania // James Mishener // Tales of the South Pacific
39. Rhode Island // Cormac McCarthy // No Country for Old Men
40. South Carolina // Peggy Parish // Amelia Bedelia
41. South Dakota // Adam Johnson // Parasites like Us
42. Tennessee // Peter Taylor // a Summons to Memphis
43. Texas // Katherine Anne Porter // Flowering Judas and Other Stories
44. Utah // Thomas Savage // the Corner of Rife and Pacific
45. Vermont // Ralph Nading Hill // Contrary Country: a Chronicle of Vermont
46. Virginia // David Baldacci // the Camel Club
47. Washington // Rick Steves // Rick Steves’s Europe Through the Back Door
48. Washington, D.C. // Michael Chabon // the Yiddish Policemen’s Union
49. West Virginia // Pearl S. Buck // the Good Earth
50. Wisconsin // Laura Ingalls Wilder // Little House in the Big Woods
51. Wyoming // Patricia MacLachlan // Sarah, Plain and Tall

Lists: Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read

Link to the original.

Start: couldn't say
Last updated: 13.01.2014
End:

• 100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
• 99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
• 97 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• 96 One Thousand and One Nights Anon
• 95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 94 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• 93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
• 92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• 91 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
• 90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
• 89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• 88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• 87 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• 86 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
• 85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• 84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• 83 Germinal by Emile Zola
• 82 The Stranger by Albert Camus
• 81 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• 80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• 79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• 78 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• 77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• 76 The Trial by Franz Kafka
• 75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
• 74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
• 73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
• 72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
• 71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
• 70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• 69 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
• 68 Crash by JG Ballard
• 67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
• 66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 65 Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• 64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
• 63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 62 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• 61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• 60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• 59 London Fields by Martin Amis
• 58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
• 57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
• 56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
• 55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald
• 54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• 53 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• 52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• 51 Underworld by Don DeLillo
• 50 Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• 47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• 46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• 45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• 44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
• 43 The Rabbit books by John Updike
• 42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• 41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• 39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• 38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
• 37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• 36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• 35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• 34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• 33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
• 32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
• 31 Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
• 30 Atonement by Ian McEwan
• 29 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
• 28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• 27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• 26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• 25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• 24 Ulysses by James Joyce
• 23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• 22 A Passage to India by EM Forster
• 21 1984 by George Orwell
• 20 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
• 19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
• 18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
• 17 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• 16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• 15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
• 14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• 13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• 12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• 11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• 10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• 9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• 8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee
• 7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• 6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
• 5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• 4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• 3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• 2 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• 1 Middlemarch by George Eliot

Lists: Jezebel's 75 Books Every Woman Should Read

I think this list was community-voted, but I am not sure. There’s also an Esquire one, for men, which I think was an inspiration for Jezebel’s? Maybe the other way round. Anyway, I regard gender separation, especially in matters like these, a nuisance.
 
Another thing I regard as nuisance is Esquire’s website, so that list will have to wait.

Start: April 2013
Updated: 13.01.2014
Finish:

1. The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson
2. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
3. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
4. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
5. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
7. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
8. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
9. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
10. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
11. Beloved, Toni Morrison
12. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
13. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
14. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
16. The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin (DNF)
17. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
18. A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O’Connor
19. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
20. You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker
21. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
22. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
23. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
24. Earthly Paradise, Colette
25. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
26. Property, Valerie Martin
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
29. The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
30. Runaway, Alice Munro
31. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
32. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
33. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
34. You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates
35. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
36. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
37. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
38. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
39. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
40. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
41. Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
42. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
43. The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley
44. The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
45. The Group, Mary McCarthy
46. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
47. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
48. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
49. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
50. Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
51. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
52. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
53. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
54. Three Junes, Julia Glass
55. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
56. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
57. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
58. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
59. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
60. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
61. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
62. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
63. The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn
64. My Antonia, Willa Cather
65. Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
66. The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
67. Spending, Mary Gordon
68. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
69. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
70. Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
71. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
72. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
73. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
74. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
75. Possession, A.S. Byatt

Lists: Agatha Christie's Works

If you see any mistakes or missing works in this list, please tell me.

Start: 2008
Last updated: 13.01.2014
End:

Novels: Poirot

1. 1920  The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. 1923  The Murder on the Links
3. 1926  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4. 1927  The Big Four
5. 1928  The Mystery of the Blue Train
6. 1932  Peril at End House
7. 1933  Lord Edgware Dies (Thirteen at Dinner)
8. 1934  Murder on the Orient Express (Murder in the Calais Coach)
9. 1935  Three Act Tragedy (Murder in Three Acts)
10. 1935  Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air)
11. 1936  The ABC Murders (the Alphabet Murders)
12. 1936  Murder in Mesopotamia
13. 1936  Cards on the Table
14. 1937  Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client; Mystery at Littlegreen House)
15. 1937  Death on the Nile
16. 1938  Appointment with Death
17. 1938  Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Murder for Christmas; a Holiday for Murder)
18. 1940  Sad Cypress
19. 1940  One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (an Overdose of Death; the Patriotic Murders)
20. 1941  Evil under the Sun
21. 1942  Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect)
22. 1946  The Hollow
23. 1948  Taken at the Flood (There is a Tide…)
24. 1951  The Under Dog and Other Stories
25. 1952  Mrs.McGinty’s Dead (Blood Will Tell)
26. 1953  After the Funeral (Funerals are Fatal)
27. 1955  Hickory Dickory Dock (Hickory Dickory Death)
28. 1956  Dead Man’s Folly
29. 1959  Cat among the Pigeons
30. 1963  The Clocks
31. 1966  Third Girl
32. 1969  Hallowe’en Party
33. 1972  Elephants Can Remember
34. 1975  Curtain

Novels: Miss Marple

1. 1930  The Murder at the Vicarage
2. 1942  The Body in the Library
3. 1942  The Moving Finger (the Case of the Moving Finger)
4. 1950  A Murder Is Announced
5. 1952  They Do It with Mirrors (Murder with Mirrors)
6. 1953  A Pocket Full of Rye
7. 1957  4:50 from Paddington (What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!; Murder She Said)
8. 1962  The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (the Mirror Crack’d)
9. 1964  A Caribbean Mystery
10. 1965  At Bertram’s Hotel
11. 1971  Nemesis
12. 1976  Sleeping Murder

Novels: Tommy & Tuppence

1. 1922  The Secret Adversary
2. 1941  N or M ?
3. 1968  By the Pricking of My Thumbs
4. 1973  Postern of Fate

Novels: Other

1. 1924  The Man in the Brown Suit
2. 1925  the Secret of Chimneys
3. 1929  The Seven Dials Mystery
4. 1931  The Sittaford Mystery (Murder at Hazelmoor)
5. 1934  Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (the Boomerang Clue)
6. 1939  Murder is Easy (Easy to Kill)
7. 1939  Ten Little Niggers (and Then There Were None; Ten Little Indians)
8. 1944  Towards Zero (Come and Be Hanged)
9. 1944  Death Comes as the End
10. 1945  Sparkling Cyanide (Remembered Death)
11. 1949  Crooked House
12. 1951  They Came to Baghdad
13. 1954  Destination Unknown (So Many Steps to Death)
14. 1958  Ordeal by Innocence
15. 1961  the Pale Horse
16. 1967  Endless Night
17. 1970  Passenger to Frankfurt

Novels: written under the name of Mary Westmacott

1. 1930 Giant’s Bread
2. 1934 Unfinished Portrait
3. 1944 Absent in the Spring
4. 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
5. 1952 A Daughter’s a Daughter
6. 1956 The Burden

Nonfiction

1. 1946  Come, Tell Me How You Live
2. 1977  Agatha Christie: an Autobiography

(Plays and other works will be added later.)

Short Stories: by Collection

1924  Poirot Investigates (UK version)

• 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

1929  Partners in Crime

• 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 Buff
• 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 No. 16

1930  The Mysterious Mr.Quin

• The Coming of Mr. Quin
• 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

1932  The Thirteen Problems (US: Tuesday Club Murders)

• 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

1933  The Hound of Death (UK)

• The Hound of Death
• The Red Signal
• The Fourth Man
• The Gypsy
• The Lamp
• Wireless
• The Witness for the Prosecution
• The Mystery of the Blue Jar
• The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
• The Call of Wings
• The Last Seance
• SOS

1934  The Listerdale Mystery (UK)

• The Listerdale Mystery
• Philomel Cottage
• The Girl in 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

1934  Parker Pyne Investigates

• 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 Gate of Baghdad
• The House at Shiraz
• The Pearl of Price
• Death on the Nile
• The Oracle at Delphi

1937  Murder in the Mews (novella-length)

• Murder in the Mews
• The Incredible Theft
• Dead Man’s Mirror
• Triangle at Rhodes

1939  The Regatta Mystery (US)

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

1947  The Labours of Hercules

• Foreword
• The Nemean Lion
• The Lernaean Hydra
• The Arcadian Deer
• The Erymanthian Boar
• The Augean Stables
• The Stymphalean Birds
• The Cretan Bull
• The Horses of Diomedes
• The Girdle of Hyppolita
• The Flock of Geryon
• The Apples of Hesperides
• The Capture of Cerberus

1948  Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US)

• Accident
• The Fourth Man
• The Mystery of the Blue Jar
• The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (a.k.a. Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure)
• Philomel Cottage
• The Red Signal
• The Second Gong
• Sing a Song of Sixpence
• S.O.S.
• Where There’s a Will (a.k.a. Wireless)
• The Witness for the Prosecution

1950  Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (US)

• Three Blind Mice
• Strange Jest
• The Tape-Measure Murder
• The Case of the Perfect Maid
• The Case of the Caretaker
• The Third Floor Flat
• The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
• Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
• The Love Detectives

1951  The Under Dog and Other Stories (US)

• 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

1960  The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (UK)

• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby
• The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
• The Under Dog
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds
• The Dream
• Greenshaw’s Folly

1961  Double Sin and Other Stories (US)

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

1971  The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US)

• The Listerdale Mystery
• The Girl in the Train
• The Manhood of Edward Robinson
• Jane in Search of a Job
• A Fruitful Sunday
• The Golden Ball
• The Rajah’s Emerald
• Swan Song
• The Hound of Death
• The Gypsy
• The Lamp
• The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
• The Call of Wings
• Magnolia Blossom
• Next to a Dog

1974  Poirot’s Early Cases

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

1979  Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Others Stories

• 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

1984  Hercule Poirot’s Casebook (a compilation of all previously published Poirot short stories and novellas, from what I gathered)

1992  Problem at Pollensa Bay

• Problem at Pollensa Bay
• The Second Gong
• Yellow Iris
• The Harlequin Tea Set
• The Regatta Mystery
• The Love Detectives
• Next To A Dog
• Magnolia Blossom

1997  the Harlequin Tea Set

• The Edge
• The Actress
• While the Light Lasts
• The House of Dreams
• The Lonely God
• Manx Gold
• Within a Wall
• The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
• The Harlequin Tea Set

1997  While the Light Lasts

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

Short Stories: alphabetic index

(Note:  Some of the titles are, I think, renames for republishing or the US market.  I’ll go through the list eventually and weed out all doubles, leaving the original titles.)

1. The £10 Adventure
2. Accident
3. The Actress
4. The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
5. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
6. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
7. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
8. The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
9. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
10. The Adventure of the King of Clubs
11. The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
12. The Adventure of the Western Star
13. The Affair at the Bungalow
14. The Affair at the Victory Ball
15. The Affair of the Forged Notes
16. The Affair of the Pink Pearl
17. The Ambassador’s Boots
18. The Apples of the Hesperides
19. The Arcadian Deer
20. At the Bells and Motley
21. At the Crossroads
22. The Augean Stables
23. Before It Is Too Late
24. Behind Closed Doors
25. The Benevolent Butler
26. The Bird with the Broken Wing
27. Birds of Ill Omen
28. Blindman’s Bluff
29. The Bloodstained Pavement
30. The Blue Geranium
31. By Road or Rail
32. The Call of Wings
33. The Caputure of Cerberus
34. A Case of Buried Treasure
35. Case of the Capture of Cerberus
36. The Case of the Caretaker
37. The Case of the City Clerk
38. The Case of the Discontented Husband
39. The Case of the Discontented Soldier
40. The Case of the Distressed Lady
41. The Case of the Drug Peddler
42. The Case of the Erymanthian Boar
43. The Case of the Family Taint
44. The Case of the Gossipers
45. The Case of the Kidnaped Pekinese
46. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
47. The Case of the Missing Lady
48. The Case of the Missing Schoolgirl
49. The Case of the Missing Will
50. The Case of the Nemean Lion
51. The Case of the Perfect Maid
52. The Case of the Rich Woman
53. The Case of the Sinister Stranger
54. The Case of the Veiled Lady
55. The Case of The Vulture Women
56. The Chinese Puzzle Box
57. The Chocolate Box
58. Christmas Adventure
59. A Christmas Tragedy
60. The Clergyman’s Daughter
61. The Clue of the Chocolate Box
62. The Clue of the Veiled Lady
63. The Coming of Mr. Quin
64. The Companion
65. Companions
66. The Cornish Mystery
67. The Crackler
68. The Cretan Bull
69. The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls
70. The Day of His Dreams
71. The Dead Harlequin
72. Dead Man’s Mirror
73. Death by Drowning
74. Death on the Nile
75. The Disappearance of Captain Harwell
76. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
77. The Disappearance of Winnie King
78. The Double Clue
79. Double Sin
80. The Dream
81. The Dressmaker’s Doll
82. Drip! Drip!
83. The Edge
84. The Egyptian Adventure
85. The Egyptian Tomb
86. The Erymanthian Boar
87. The Face of Helen
88. A Fairy in the Flat
89. Finessing the King
90. The First Wish
91. The Flock of Geryon
92. Four and Twenty Blackbirds
93. The Four Suspects
94. The Fourth Man
95. A Fruitful Sunday
96. The Gate of Baghdad
97. The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
98. The Gipsy
99. The Girdle of Hippolyta
100. The Girl in Electric Blue
101. The Girl in the Train
102. Gold, Frankincense and Myth
103. The Golden Ball
104. The Great Bond Robbery
105. Greenshaw’s Folly
106. A Greeting
107. The Harlequin Tea Set
108. Harlequin’s Lane
109. The Hat and the Alibi
110. Have You Got Everything You Want?
111. The Herb of Death
112. Hercule Poirot in Hell
113. Hercule Poirot, Armchair Detective
114. His Lady’s Affair
115. The Horses of Diomedes
116. The Hound of Death
117. The House at Shiraz
118. The House of Dreams
119. The House of Lurking Death
120. How Does Your Garden Grow?
121. The Hunters Lodge Case
122. The Husband Who Wanted to Keep His Wife
123. The Hydra of Lernea
124. The Idol House of Astarte
125. In a Glass Darkly
126. In the Cool of the Evening
127. In the Third Floor Flat
128. The Incredible Theft
129. Ingots of Gold
130. The Invisible Enemy
131. The Island
132. The Italian Nobleman
133. Jain in Search of a Job
134. Jenny by the Sky
135. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
136. The Kidnaped Pekinese
137. The Kidnapped Prime Minister
138. The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly
139. The King of Clubs
140. The Knidnaped Premier
141. The Lamp
142. The Last Seance
143. The Lemesurier Inheritance
144. The Lemesurier Inheritance
145. The Lernean Hydra
146. The Listerdale Mystery
147. The Lonely God
148. The Lost Mine
149. The Love Detectives
150. Magnolia Blossom
151. The Maid Who Disappeared
152. The Man from the Sea
153. The Man in the Mist
154. A Man of Magic
155. The Man Who was Number 16
156. The Manhood of Edward Robinson
157. Manx Gold
158. The Market Basing Mystery
159. The Marsdon Manor Tragedy
160. The Matter of the Ambassador’s Boots
161. Meet Me in Hell
162. Midnight Madness
163. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
164. The Miss Marple and the Wicked World
165. Miss Marple Tells a Story
166. The Missing Will
167. Motive versus Opportunity
168. Mr Eastwood’s Adventure
169. Mr. Davenby Disappears
170. Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure
171. Mr. Quinn Passes By
172. Mrs Opalsen’s Pearls
173. Murder at the Vicarage
174. Murder in the Mews
175. Murder Mountain
176. The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
177. The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
178. The Mystery of the Blue Jar
179. Mystery of the Dressing Case
180. The Mystery of the Plymouth Express
181. The Mystery of the Second Cucumber
182. The Mystery of The Spanish Chest
183. The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl
184. The Naughty Donkey
185. The Nemean Lion
186. Next to a Dog
187. On the Orient Express
188. The Oracle at Delphi
189. The Passing of Mr. Quin
190. The Pearl of Price
191. The Perfect Maid
192. Philomel Cottage
193. Playing the Innocent
194. The Plymouth Express
195. The Plymouth Express Affair
196. Poirot And The Crime In Cabin 66
197. Poirot and the Regular Customer
198. The Poison Cup
199. A Pot of Tea
200. Problem at Pollensa Bay
201. Problem at Sea
202. Promotion in the Highest
203. The Rajah’s Emerald
204. The Red House
205. The Red Signal
206. The Regatta Mystery
207. The Resurrection of Amy Durrant
208. The Rich Woman Who Wanted Only To Be Happy
209. S.O.S.
210. The Saints of God
211. Sanctuary
212. The Second Gong
213. The Shadow on the Glass
214. A Sign in the Sky
215. The Sign in the Sky
216. Sing a Song of Sixpence
217. Siren Business
218. The Six China Figures
219. The Solving Six
220. The Solving Six and the Evil Hour
221. The Solving Six and the Golden Grave
222. The Soul of the Croupier
223. Sporting Challenge
224. Star Over Bethlehem
225. The Starange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
226. The Stolen Ghost
227. Strange Jest
228. The Stymphalean Birds
229. The Submarine Plans
230. The Sunningdale Mystery
231. The Sunninghall Mystery
232. Swan Song
233. Tape-Measure Murder
234. The Third Floor Flat
235. The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
236. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
237. Traitor’s Hands
238. Triangle at Rhodes
239. The Tuesday Night Club
240. The Unbreakable Alibi
241. The Uncrossed Path
242. The Under Dog
243. Vanishing Lady
244. The Veiled Lady
245. The Voice in the Dark
246. The Vulture Women
247. Wasp’s Nest
248. The Water Bus
249. Weird Monster
250. The Western Star
251. Where There’s a Will
252. Where’s the Catch?
253. While the Light Lasts
254. Wireless
255. Within a Wall
256. The Witness for the Prosecution
257. World’s End
258. The Woman Who Stole a Ghost
259. The World’s End
260. A Wreath for Christmas
261. Yellow Iris

Credits: To compile this list, I used information from the following:

• Delicious Death
• Agatha Christie bibliography

Lists: Murakami Haruki

This is a personal challenge I’ve decided to take on long ago, but I see that lots of people are doing it here. Incidentally, I also copied the list from that blog.

I’m able to read books in several languages (not Japanese, though; not yet), so if there’s a book published in a language other than English that has not appeared in English translation, I’ll add it to the list. As far as I know, this is not the case for now, so I’m using the English list, but will possibly read some books in other translations. They’ll be marked accordingly, because I’m anal retentive like that.

Start: 2001 (when I first read Kaze no uta wo kike)

Last updated: 13.01.2014

End:  possibly n/a

Novels/Novellas

• Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け Kaze no uta o kike)
• Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール 1973-nen no pinbōru)
• A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険 Hitsuji o meguru bōken)
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド Sekai no owari to hādoboirudo wandārando)
• Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森 Noruwei no mori)
• Dance Dance Dance (ダンス・ダンス・ダンス Dansu dansu dansu)
• South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi)
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru)
• Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人 Supūtoniku no koibito)
• Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ Umibe no Kafuka)
• After Dark (アフターダーク Afutā Dāku)
• 1Q84 (1Q84 Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon)

Short story collections

• after the quake
• The Elephant Vanishes
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Non-fiction

• Underground (アンダーグラウンド Andāguraundo)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto)