Overview
Agatha Christie's catalogue is large enough to be daunting — sixty-six detective novels, fourteen short story collections, six novels published as Mary Westmacott, and a handful of plays and memoirs. Most reading-order guides live in scattered blog posts and incomplete spreadsheets. The fans who keep returning to her work for decades deserve something better than that.
The Agatha Christie Reading List is a small, private app for keeping track of where you are. Every work is listed; you mark each as read or currently reading; you sort by publication date or by series; you see what's left. No accounts, no social features, no recommendations engine — just the list, kept in good order.
Approach
The brief was to ship the smallest version that worked. Every feature past the core of "list, mark, sort" had to earn its place — most didn't.
- Native iOS, written in Swift — no cross-platform shortcuts that would compromise feel
- Local-first by default: reading progress, notes, and custom book covers all live on the device, not in our hands
- Zero analytics, no tracking, no account required to use any feature
- Affiliate links to Apple Books for purchases, with free public-domain ebooks surfaced for users in the US where copyright allows
- A typography-forward list view designed for the long, slow browse — Christie's bibliography rewards a calm reading interface, not a busy one
Outcome
The app is live on the App Store. It's free, with no ads and no subscription, and it's intentionally narrow in scope — a tool for one specific kind of reader rather than a generic reading tracker that happens to include Christie.
It's the kind of project that defines how this studio likes to work: small, focused, native, and designed with the user's privacy as a starting point rather than an afterthought.