my FAVORITE L. M. MONTGOMERY BOOKS 😍 & let me show you my LMM collection (it's beautiful) 😍

[@ericayoder]

As someone who loves L.M. Montgomery, this was delightful to watch!!!😍

[@tammys5687]

My favorite LMM is the Blue Castle. Last year I read the Emily books, and really enjoyed the first and second books, and was quite disappointed with the third book. All I'll say is that after reading the third book, I read more about LMM and the young adult life of Emily has some similarities to LMM.

[@beansfriend7033]

I've just stumbled across this and was so glad to see it. I've read the Anne books, the Emily books, the two Pat books, and _The Blue Castle,_ but I hadn't known too much about her other books (only that they existed). My favorites might be _The Blue Castle,_ _Anne of the Island,_ _Anne's House of Dreams,_ and _Rilla of Ingleside._ That said, I find several characters in the Emily and Pat books delightful, as well; I just have some nitpicks about their books overall, so they don't make my list of favorites. Thank you so much for posting this so I can consider some additional L.M. Montgomery titles to add to my list. (Also, and this is so random, the sound of your handling of the books, opening them and gently turning the pages, was somehow so satisfying! I'm not normally one for ASMR, but it just really struck me.)

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Rilla! 😭😭😭

[@msguinevere3702]

Emily is my favourite series - but A Tangled Web is a fave stand-alone!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I have A Tangled Web on my wish list/list to keep an eye out for when I go to book stores.

[@agohl85]

I can't make myself read Rilla of Ingleside anymore. It's so good, but I cried so hard. It is so heartbreaking after getting so attached to all of the characters. I think the only other time I cried so hard in a book was in Little Women when Beth dies.

[@haley7266]

Favorite author ever! I ordered an adorable edition of Anne of Green Gables at LitJoyCrate. They have cute accessories too. I was surprised how much I enjoyed The Blue Castle and am looking forward to reading some more non-Anne Montgomery books.

[@nxvaks]

She's my favourite author!! I wish more people talked about her. I think my fav book of hers is Rilla of Ingleside, I just love her so much and I wish there was more stories about her and the other kids after the war but it was a great ending ❤

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

She's so great!

[@joysundari3771]

I think the same!!

[@littlehousema7162]

I have a boxed set of Anne and have plans to buy the series again in a different cover. My daughter has been collecting the Puffin Classics edition of the series. I finally branched out beyond the Anne series and read The Blue Castle this year. Now I want to read everything she has written.😊

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Glad you are enjoying her books too!

[@viennafingers26]

I loved Pat of Silver Bush!! Hope you will, too.

[@maryadair5051]

I'm new to LMM books. I did receive Anne of Green Gables for Christmas. It's a goal to read it in 2023. The Story Girl sounds interesting . I may try finding it on my Kindle. TFS Chantel.🇱🇷📚💜

[@amyofhearthridge]

Yay! Maud!!! ♥️♥️♥️ My favorite author EVER. So glad you love her, too!

[@AshleasBookshelf]

The Blue Castle and Jane of Lantern Hill are my favorite L. M. Montgomery books. I don't think I ever read Rilla of Ingleside.

[@MamaMacReads]

I feel your pain when it comes to Rilla. I read the series for the first time in high school. I remember staying up late one night to read with my book light and I had to stifle my sobs because I shared a room with my sister and she was sleeping. I read so many LM Montgomery books in high school but haven't since. Seeing this definitely makes me want to reread them all!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

SO MANY TEARS with Rilla!

[@WBCRO]

I read someplace that “Rilla of Ingleside” is considered to be a unique and significant novel because it’s one of the few WWI books written from the perspective of what things were like in Canada during that war and how our citizens handled it. Neat, huh?

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Yes, I've heard that too!

[@joysundari3771]

it's such a good book, I loved it! and soo motivational!

[@relikvia4]

Yes it's true. It's an accurate representation of the day-to-day life of average citizens during those years.

[@nerthameus6643]

Sourcebooks fire has also some beautiful L M Montgomery books. You will find the set for Pat of Silver Bush and Mistress Pat from them.

[@wellreadcoffeeaddict]

I love the Tundra editions. I'm slowly collecting them 😊

[@insearchofwonder]

I just re-read Anne of GG and Anne of Avonlea last year.... the first is definitely in my top ten books of all time. I also really really love Rilla of Ingleside. It's such a beautiful, funny, sad depiction of a girl growing into womanhood. I also really love the Story Girl series - I read it as a teenager when I wanted more "Anne" in my life, and that was a nice substitute. I just got in the mail a biography of LM Montgomery that was recommended to me a long time ago. It's The Gift of Wings by Mary Henley Rubio. I'm really looking forward to reading it - maybe that's a biography you can try if you didn't like the previous one you read.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I'll have to check that biography out, thanks for sharing!

[@lhalnan]

My favorites are Pat of Silverbush and Mistress Pat. I'm not a person who has to have a pet, but I wanted a cat after reading these 2 books!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Oh dear, we have one cat already, how many are we going to end up with after I read those ones?!?! 😊

[@pampalumbo8678]

I just finished Anne of Green Gables, so your video is very timely for me. I loved the book. Anne is the best. You have just convinced me to read the Anne series and try out other L.M. Montgomery books. ❤

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Yay, I hope you enjoy the rest of the series!

[@robinkirk1821]

I loooved this video! I think many of us, new to “Anne,” fell in love with her last year. I personally owe it to you for recommending L. M. Montgomery the past several years. Thank you for bringing something good in this world (Anne ☺️) into our lives!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Yay, I'm so glad!

[@joyward4858]

Enjoyed your video! Want to know more.

[@charlescarpenter9000]

After writing a full comment, everything I had written disappeared! In summary, I have read all of LMM’s fictional works. When I was in college, I was an English major. The great majority of contemporary novels (i.e., the last 100 years) take a very pessimistic viewpoint of reality. LMM is a rare exception. There are two other authors whom I highly recommend who are uplifting: Barbara Pym and Anthony Trollope.

[@delightfullyfeasting8351]

Love Montgomery(and Anne) so dearly. Have you read The Alpine Path?

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I just looked it up and have added it to my wish list, thanks for sharing!

[@traciesandoval2882]

I love the Anne of Green Gables series ❤ 📚

[@traciesandoval2882]

I have all of her books, I even have the Anne of Green Gables Cookbook 😊

[@christinaalbee6874]

I just finished Rainbow Valley. I am doing them on Audio. I really need to buy the whole series.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Audio would be a fun way to read them!

[@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

Wow I love those Tundra editions. I was abt to look them up when you said they are out of print. 😭 This was beautiful!! I loved it!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Keep an eye on Book Outlet for the Tundra editions, they pop up sometimes, that's how I completed my collection.

[@crystalh28]

I've also seen them on Amazon and at Target. 😊

[@minettasmith9931]

Anne of Green Gables always makes my favorite list as number one. The journals are wonderful and give a great look not only into her life but life during that time period. Yes, the journals do get darker and the last one is hard to read. If you have not been to Prince Edward Island you must go. We drove all the way from Texas to PEI. It was a wonderful time and the island is beautiful.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I would love to visit PEI! Unfortunately when I start looking at flights I quickly remember that it costs the same for my to fly there as it does to England and then I start planning an England adventure . . .

[@vanrust5348]

Thank you so much for the video. This year, I'll start my LM Montgomery journey, as I am from Germany and none of her books are typically read to or by children. Though I already have the feeling that that has to be changed as I hear only amazing things about all of her stories. Looking into all the editions, I also decided to buy the Tundra editions; they are absolutely beautiful! Two of the Anne books, however, I had to buy in a different design as unfortunately not all of them were available here. I was lucky enough that the Emily books and the Story Girl books were in stock, so I immediately purchased them! But I am going to save your video, as I love hearing people talk about their favourite stories so much. Your joy is an absolute delight! All the best.

[@CheekyLittleJournaller]

I love LM Mntgomery! I have my Mum's old Anne books & I read the Emily books but I don't have them now sadly....

[@carlyhunt5339]

Have you read The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables by Catherine Reid? It’s a beautiful book if you are interested in the nature of PEI.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Um no, but I just looked it up and added it to my wish list, it looks amazing!

[@hannahkimmel8054]

I loved this video! Thank you for sharing ❤

[@WBCRO]

I’m a year late to this commenting party but want to chime in when I find LMM lovers! Does is bother anyone else that the Anne books are invariably relegated to the children’s sections in libraries and book stores? I think they’re best appreciated when the reader is at least sixteen years old. My favourite LMM books are The Blue Castle, Jane of Lantern Hill, A Tangled Web, Anne of Windy Poplars and Rilla Ingleside.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

All of Montgomery's books I've read as an adult and while I wish I would have read them when I was younger I don't think I would have appreciated them like I have an adult.

[@WBCRO]

@@ChantelReadsAllDay I understand that. I first tried reading Anne of Green Gables when I was eleven years old and, even though I had above average reading skills, I didn’t really appreciate it and gave up on it about halfway through. I returned to it one summer in high school and I loved it and voraciously read several more Anne books that summer. As the old saying goes, timing is everything. I think many children miss out on Anne - especially here in Canada (I live in NB) - because they “just watch the Anne movies instead” or because it’s presented as being aimed for younger children. Sorry! Rant over! I believe literacy is vital and that LMM’s works are still relevant today.

[@gloriaterry333]

I love the series but I haven’t read any of them, I always see the books at my local thrift stores, and I don’t get them but I will from now on.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I hope you enjoy them!

[@confidentgrace]

What a fun video. I read Anne of Green Gables because of your recommendation during a read-a-thon. I really enjoyed it. Sad to hear the Tundra editions are no longer in print. I would love to get my hands on the whole collection.

[@capturedbyannamarie]

I really need to read her other books. I have only read the Anne series, and they are my favorite classics from childhood.

[@cindyloveofbook]

I have the older versions of the Anne books and I really want to update them to the Tundra ones. Perhaps this will be the year I start picking them up.

[@debbienealcrawford218]

I just ordered her journal book because of your recommendation.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I hope you love it as much as I do!

[@bethanywhite7904]

I has read Anne of Green Gables a long time ago. I just finished collecting all the books in the series! I read Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island this past year. Hoping to read some more this year. I will be sad once I finish the series. I need to collect more of her books!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I really loved the series, but yes, there is a sadness when it's over.

[@lizlittle1641]

I agree with you. Why didn't they publish the 1st book in the series. That's so strange.

[@ChautonaHavig]

Oh, I hated Rilla of Ingleside the first time I read it. Despised it. Thought Rilla was a huge brat and just didn't enjoy her. But then when I reread it, it became one of my favorites of the whole series!!! That line... I think it was in that one where Anne says, "At least I didn't have to urge him to go" (or was that Rainbow Valley? I can't remember). That broke me and made me cheer at the same time. It was like the Anne equivalent to Mrs. Weasley screaming "Not my daughter..." Yeah. You go, Anne! The Blue Castle is one of my faves, too. It reminds me of The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter. The kind of romance you don't mind because it's just so genuine and has more to it than fluttering hearts and gagging syrupy blechiness. Ahem. I liked it so much that I even wrote a short story dreaming up how LM Montgomery could have come up with the idea for her name. The same blog post has how I imagine Agatha Christie coming up with Poirot. And some other thing. OH!!! IT hink it's Austen and Persuasion--Sophy Croft and calm waters... that comment. YEah. It was fun. I have a couple of different Anne sets as well and then random others. If I could buy any set at all, it would probably be the Juniper set with the Hat that runs across the spines. Love that set. Or if the Ellie McKay set came in hardback! That would be nice. Still need to get Montgomery's Journals for this year's book. I need to read LOTS of montgomery this year!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I completely remember that line in Rilla. 💔😭

[@kimbitner]

I have tried reading Anne of Green Gables multiple times and have never gotten very far. I don’t know why it doesn’t click for me. Haha, I feel like a Canadian fraud because I’m not a huge Anne fan. Maybe I should try another of LM Montgomery’s books, thanks for the recommendations!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

I dare you to try another LMM book. Or maybe Anne of Avonlea.

[@WBCRO]

Please don’t give up on Anne! Anne of Avonlea - the second Anne book - is great and the series stays strong throughout. Of all of the Anne books, I think Anne of Ingleside is my least favourite and that’s just because it focuses more on the scrapes and challenges of her children rather than on Anne herself.

[@LittlePrairieLibrary]

WHY didn't Tundra do Pat of Silver Bush?? It bothers me so much too.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

It doesn't make any sense!

[@ejrobison99]

I need those tundra books so bad if that’s how you spell it!!! Also have you read a tangled web by her? It’s so good!

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

No, I haven't read that one yet!

[@psalm19creations]

Sadly, I've only read Anne of Green Gables by her. I was liking Anne more as the story went on, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to really enjoy Anne of Avonlea. But I want to own the books too and the edition I really like is hard to find and it looks like I have to buy the whole set at once, so I've been putting it off. Maybe one of these days.

[@psalm19creations]

Of course, I post that and then decide to look up the edition again (which is usually around $80 for the set), and Book Outlet has it for less than half that price. Needless to say, I bought it.

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

Oh yay, glad you could find it AND get a good deal! 😊

[@crystalh28]

I love the Tundra editions as well! That would bother me as well to not have matching books. I wonder why they chose to not make the first book in that edition. 🤔 I was beginning to wonder if Emily's Quest was in the Tundra edition. I can't seem to find it, but I have the other 2 in the Tundra edition. This bothers me that I don't have the complete set in this edition. Haha If you ever see it, let me know. I wouldn't be able to buy it fast enough. 😂 My library had a book sale in October and I found House of Dreams The Life of L.M. Montgomery there, but haven't read it yet. As always, I loved this video! ❤️

[@ChantelReadsAllDay]

It looks like Book Depository has Emily's Quest! www.bookdepository.com/Emilys-Quest-L-M-Montgomery/9781770497511?ref=grid-view&qid=1673543747878&sr=1-4

[@crystalh28]

@@ChantelReadsAllDay thank you so much! I just ordered it. Yay!

[@books106]

Hi I am Sara and I was wondering if you could give me some prompt ideas for the card game you inspired me to make. I really would appreciate prompt ideas that get me out of my comfort. My comfort is romance and I am trying to get out of my comfort

[@muskaan-2767]

can u share the links of anne of green gables ?

[@gunjansharma1269]

Is anyone of these books middlegrade .

[@nxvaks]

most of them! specially anne of green gables (also the 2nd and 3rd books anne of avonlea and anne of the island) and the story girl. Emily of New Moon is a favourite of a lot of people but i haven't read it.