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Which book in the series was your favorite and why?

I loved Anne's House of Dreams. Just the romance of the newlyweds their beautiful home their early tragedy. It was such an emotional roller coaster I loved it.

My second favorite would be Rilla of Ingleside. Such a rich story about the time, era the war. I suppose it is why I am obsessed with Downton Abbey which would be set at the same time.

My favorite is definatley Rilla of Ingleside. I liked being able to watch her grow up from being self centered and self absorbed to being a woman who cared for those around her. I liked how it portrayed the homefront during the war and how it effected everyone. I remember reading it the first time and bawling when they learned about Walter's death (even though I knew it was going to happen at some point due to the foreshadowing in Anne of Ingleside) and and during the chapter when she receives his last letter. Also I really like her romance with Ken Ford, and how the booked ended with her lisping "yeth" when he asks her if she is "Rilla my Rilla".

Anne of Windy Poplars. She's grows a great deal as a character and a young woman out on her own. I haven't read the books following Anne's House of Dreams since the story started to focus more on her children and I am much more interested in Anne!

Jess wrote: "My favorite is definatley Rilla of Ingleside. I liked being able to watch her grow up from being self centered and self absorbed to being a woman who cared for those around her. I liked how it po..."

Jess you just gave me goosebumps remembering the foreshadowing of Walter and the shadow of a cross that Anne sees in Ingleside.

My favorite is Anne of the Island. I love the air of romance around it and the joy of friends and college.
I liked Rilla but I cried so much when Walter died,it's such a sad book.Walter was my favorite of Anne's children. It hurt me so to see him die, and not be able to marry Una Meredith. The thought that she never found love again!

And it is so sad that Walter never knew her true feelings for him.

Jess wrote: "And it is so sad that Walter never knew her true feelings for him."

Yes, I know! It is all very tragic.

Ohh, goodness. I do agree that Rilla of Ingleside is excellent. I hate to say, though, that it's my favorite of the Anne books, because it isn't really about Anne, you know? So while it is one of my all-time L. M. Montgomery favorites, I don't know that I'd put it in a category WITH the Anne books.
Right, so, my favorite book about Anne, I think, might just be Anne of the Island. Being an almost-college-aged girl has somewhat to do with it; Anne's experiences at Redmond are all just so...romantic? I don't know.
But then again how can you beat Anne of Green Gables?
Augh!
I can't decide. They're all my favorite!

Anne of the Island and Rilla of Ingleside are my guilty pleasure books!

I love Anne of the island! And Anne of ingleside. But im partial because I love them all.

I loved Rilla of Ingleside! It is not only my favourite book of the series, but my favourite book period. When L. M. Montgomery was born, Canada was only 7 years old. P.E.I. is the scene of Confederation as well. There are those who have said that Canada became a country with an identity of her own during the Great War. There is so much heartfelt emotion in this book...I think it was the only way L. M. Montgomery could voice all that she had felt during the war, having her friends go off to war one by one, and so many never coming back. As far as the foreshadowing goes, Anne of Ingleside was written AFTER Rilla of Ingleside.

@sandie, really it was written after? I did not know that.

Hi Gretchen! Yes, Anne of Ingleside and Anne of Windy Poplars were written after the rest of the series, to "fill in the gaps", so to speak. The public never grew tired of Anne. But this is why Rebecca Dew appears only in Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside, but not in Rainbow Valley or Anne's House of Dreams.

Rilla of Ingleside is my favorite by far. I love the character of Rilla with all her flaws and to watch her grow throughout the book. My second favorite is Anne of the Island. It makes me want to go to college myself and live with my friends in an old house with a soul. And the romance does not hurt either :)

�鲹���Գ��ð�ܰ�, we're on the same page. My favorite when I was a teenager first reading them was Anne of the Island, because I wanted to be in college and live with smart, kooky ladyfriends like Philippa, and because Anne seemed to be constantly getting proposed to. Very provocative for 14-year-old me.

Anne's House of Dreams is lovely, too. None of them are as perfect as the original Anne of Green Gables, though. Even if there had never been any sequels, people would still know L.M. Montgomery for that book.

My favorite is Anne of the Island! It's so cool how she lives with her friends in an old house, plus, I really enjoyed the romance!

The original Anne of Green Gables is the only one I have read more than once and I can't believe it is not listed above as anyone's favourite. Reading the comments above makes me want to read the other books again though. Don't think I ever read Rilla of Ingleside or Rainbow Valley.

My favorite book is definitely Anne of the Island. Mostly because it shows her as a young woman growing up full of dreams and falling in love! That's when she finally realizes how much Gilbert really means to her. But I also like Rainbow valley. It isn't so much about Anne it's about the Medriths. Fun story. I really enjoyed it. My other favorite is the first book, Anne of Green Gables!

I loooove Anne of Ingleside because we get to know all Blythe children (except Shirley, who was neglected by L.M. for some reason). I think this book is the only one in which I did not cry while reading it.

I think is safer to say that Rainbow Valley is my least favorite one... cuz all books are terrific.

Sakura wrote: "I loooove Anne of Ingleside because we get to know all Blythe children (except Shirley, who was neglected by L.M. for some reason). I think this book is the only one in which I did not cry while re..."

I also noticed LMM neglected Shirley! He gets practically no attention in Rainbow Valley. In Rilla, we get to know him a bit more, but it's nothing to how we knew Walter or Jem or Rilla. Mmmm...even She had favorites among Anne's kids.

I've just started to read Anne of Green Gables again after many years. I think it's my favourite, but I only read those after Anne's House of Dreams once, whereas I read the earlier ones so many times earlier on.
I was very interested to read in an earlier comment that Anne of Ingleside and Anne of Windy Poplars (which I know as Anne of Windy Willows) were written later.

My favorite was Anne of the Island. I loved how Anne grew and experienced life outside of Green Gables but still returned home. The moment when she finds out Gilbert is ill and realizes how much he means to her is so heartbreaking. I loved the ending when they are walking and talking about their future.

Anne of Green Gables is my favorite, hands down. Then probably Anne's House of Dreams and Anne of the Island, in a tie for second. My favorite part to re-read is the end of Anne of the Island when Anne finally realizes that she loves Gilbert. Those whole last few chapters get me every time!

Alright you are all bringing up such great moments. I think I may discard my other to read list and reread all of the Anne books right now!

Gretchen wrote: "Alright you are all bringing up such great moments. I think I may discard my other to read list and reread all of the Anne books right now!"

Last year I read them all again! From Anne of Green Gables all the way through to Rilla!

I was curious about the comment about the order L.M.Montgomery wrote the books, so I looked it up. (I'm a librarian, it's what I do!)

Acording to the L.M.Montogermy Institute in Canada, here are the years her books were published. (I took out the non-Anne books.)

1908 Anne of Green Gables
1909 Anne of Avonlea
1915 Anne of the Island
1917 Anne's House of Dreams
1919 Rainbow Valley
1920 Rilla of Ingleside
1936 Anne of Windy Poplars
1939 Anne of Ingleside

Gretchen wrote: "Alright you are all bringing up such great moments. I think I may discard my other to read list and reread all of the Anne books right now!"
I feel the same way! Although I love all the Anne books, my favs were the original Anne of Green Gables and Rilla of Ingleside. Outside of the Anne series, I loved Jane of Lantern Hill. I think Jane was my all-time favorite.

My favorite is Anne of Green Gables. Without that one, the others wouldn't make sense or have as much meaning. It's the book where the majority of characters is introduced and the touching and sentimental relationship of Anne and Matthew sets up the entire rest of the series.

In addition, the Emily series is amazing. If you like the Anne books, try the Emily series.

I read the first Emily and didn't really connect with her. My favorite non-Anne L.M.Montgomery is The Blue Castle.

Incidentally, my name is Emily Anne, and it's after Emily of New Moon and Anne of Green Gables.

I loved everything L.M.M. wrote, but I think her brilliance in character development is most apparent in A Tangled Web. I swear that Big Sam and Little Sam MUST be real! Aunt Becky, Hugh and Jocelyn, all of the Darks and Penhallows in fact were absolutely amazingly well-drawn.

Thanks, Emily, for the full list of books and the dates they were published. I didn't know that info. There's quite a lot of years over which they were all published.

My favorite book always depends on my mood. But my top three are Green Gables, House of Dreams, and Rainbow Valley.
I recently read Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson. While not quite the same as LMM, I believe she did a wonderful job of filling in Anne's history.
I can't wait til I can read this series to my daughter.

The Anne of Green Gables book series is so fantastic.But beside all other seven books i like the book #4;Anne of Windy poplars because it's full of humour,sorrow and happiness.This book tells us how Anne led her life as a principal of a high school.The four books that were published after this book were ful of romance and love.Not much about Anne's joyfull life.So I think my favourite book is Anne of the Windy Poplars.

Anne's house of dreams and Rilla of Ingleside because they were sad.
And I loved Rainbow Valley too, the adventures the children had were exiting and I found them more interesting than the ones Anne had when she was a child. But I also liked the first part.

The first one (Anne of Green Gables) and the following two. I was the right age when reading them every summer holidays. I read the rest much later and felt about them like what I feel about film sequels: never the same quality as the beginning.

Anne of Green Gables is definitely my favorite of the series, but I loved them all. I saved my copies of the novels so that if/when I have a daughter, I can give them to her. :-) I love these books even more now that my husband and I are pursuing adoption.

And it was so cool to see the actual Green Gables house several years ago when visiting the Maritime provinces of Canada. Also was able to visit LMM's home.

I am currently reading the series (on the fourth book: Anne of Windy Poplars) and I love the books (my favorite has to be Anne of Green Gables out of the three I read). Montgomery's descriptions of P.E.I, Green Gables, Redmond, Patty's Place, Avonlea, and more were all spot on. Wouldn't change a thing if I could.

Anne made me look at the world a new (more imaginative) way. Just ordered the boxed set off on Amazon!

I am already a big fan of the books!

Anne Of Green Gables, and then Anne's House Of Dreams. Nothing can compare to my first introduction to Montgomery's world with AOGG, but Anne's House Of Dreams comes in a close second. My favorite Montgomery book of all has to be The Blue Castle. Absolutely love Valancy, Barney, Roaring Abel...

Jess wrote: "My favorite is definatley Rilla of Ingleside. I liked being able to watch her grow up from being self centered and self absorbed to being a woman who cared for those around her. I liked how it po..."

This was also my favorite book. I loved seeing Anne's kids grown up. I felt that this book was possibly the most well developed in the series.

Rilla of Ingleside is absolutely the best book of the series. Its sadness makes it beautiful and more real than any of the other books, in my opinion. The other books are so happy that they are more like a dream. Rilla is just a real story of real life and is all the more outstanding for it. =)

I'm so glad so many of you loved Rilla. I have heard a lot of people say they think it's the worst book in the series, but it's by far my favorite.

Ok I think its timer too re read these treasured books.

my favorite of the Anne series is Anne of Green Gables, it is this intial book that causes you to fall in love with Anne's Character and read more of Montgomery's work. Each book captivated me I felt as if I were Anne in each book or if not her then her best friend watching from a distance ever longing to dive right into the story and become apart of it. before I even read Rilla Of Ingleside I cried because I felt like I was picking up a book that would end my best friends life. I knew this was the last book and I longed for more. Montgomery wrote Rilla of Ingleside in just such a manner, If you didn't cry several times then it's not Montgomery's fault, because she wrote in such a manner to almost rip your heart from your chest, maybe this is what she felt at the time pouring her sorrow into her work. Every time I hear anyone mention the piper I think war and death. Montgomery has left a lasting impression in my heart and mind. At first I almost hated Rilla Of Ingleside but then I realized I didn't hate the book for it work but I hated the war and death that ended so much romance because in my mind I wanted Anne and her children to keep living with all the romantic notions that existed in Anne of green gables.

Rosalba wrote: "My favorite is Anne of the Island. I love the air of romance around it and the joy of friends and college.
I liked Rilla but I cried so much when Walter died,it's such a sad book.Walter was my favo..."

My favorite is Ae of the Island as well! I love how it shows Anne's college life, ad how she Finally ends up with Gilbert! I felt so bad for Roy, but he just wasn't for her!

My favourites are Anne of Green Gables and Anne of the Island. The reason for loving the first one is obvious - it's the original, after all! And AotI is such an enjoyable book. I really love the depiction of Anne's college life, especially the scenes in Patty's Place. And Phil is one of my favourite characters in the series - what a pity she never appeared in any of the other books again.

The rest of the books are excellent, of course. But some of the best ones also have some glaring flaws. For example, Rilla of Ingleside is great as a story of a spoilt girl growing up into a mature young woman during wartime; but the war updates and constant political diatribes are VERY boring for someone reading it a century later. Similarly, Anne's House of Dreams is a great book when it's focusing on Anne's new life as a married woman and her friendship with Leslie, and the atmosphere of the book is amazing. But I found the whole Captain Jim storyline very annoying, and the 'mistaken identity' cliche at the end was cringe-inducing. Rainbow Valley is a nice book, but I feel it focuses far too much on the Merediths, and Anne's family are reduced to supporting characters, with Anne herself barely present in the book at all.

The first one by far, Much the most amusing, and Anne's character is less fun by the time she grows up. Nothing in the sequels is anything like as entertaining as the first one, especially the ones about her children, none of whom are anything like as interesting as Anne was.

Sin dudas el primero, Ana, la de tejas verdes, por que es el comienzo de todo, y el ultimo Rilla la de Ingleside, como narra de la guerra desde el punto de vista de la mujer, como los hijos de Ana tienen diferentes puntos de vista sobre la guerra, me encanta cada uno de los libros de Ana la de tejas verdes pero esos dos son los que me fascinaron.

My favorite is Rilla of Ingleside. Although Anne is no longer the main character, there is so much emotion and depth to the last book - emotion that cannot be found elsewhere in the series. Because of this, Rilla of Ingleside is the most heartwrenching book in the series, but also the most satisfying in the end.

I guess I'm boring, because my favorite will always and forever be the first. Anne of Green Gables is such a treasure and a beautiful, inherent part of my childhood. All the sentimental moments and the lighthearted ones in the book are perfect. Plus, Anne's personality in the first book is my most favorite. She's so bright and fresh and innocent. That being said, I've only read the first three in the series. The second, in all honestly, bored me because it didn't center much on Anne's life. But I loved the third, especially when Anne learns more about her past roots and finally discovers her true love. I guess it's really just the nostalgic value of the first novel that captures my heart.

Elizabeth wrote: "I guess I'm boring, because my favorite will always and forever be the first. Anne of Green Gables is such a treasure and a beautiful, inherent part of my childhood. All the sentimental moments and..."

I agree, the first one is much the most fun. There is nothing so.funny in any of the others as the things that happen to Anne in the first one, and her conversation is so amusing, when she is grown up.and serious a lot of the fun goes out of it, especially when they get onto her having children etc.