Lucy Maud LM Montgomery Books in Order
Explore Lucy Maud LM Montgomery books in order, from Anne of Green Gables to Emily and Silver Bush, with summaries, series background and simple where to start tips.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases (at no extra cost to you).
Publication Order
27 books
Imagining Anne
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
2019
Imagining Anne reproduces pages from Montgomery's richly decorated scrapbooks, kept on Prince Edward Island between the 1890s and 1910. Photos, clippings, and keepsakes sit beside commentary that helps readers see how her real world fed into Anne Shirley's.
L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
2018
Edited from Montgomery's handwritten notebooks, these volumes present her Prince Edward Island journals in full, complete with photographs and clippings. They reveal the daily routines, ambitions, moods, and private struggles that lay behind her published fiction.
Four From Lucy
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
2018
This modern collection gathers four shorter works by L. M. Montgomery in a single volume, offering readers a compact way to sample her nonfiction and lesser known writings beyond the familiar Anne and Emily stories.
The Green Gables Letters
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
2002
Drawn from Montgomery's correspondence with aspiring writer Ephraim Weber, these letters from 1905 to 1909 show her working life around the time Anne of Green Gables was written and published, mixing practical advice, literary gossip, and flashes of self doubt.
Anne of Ingleside
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1939
Anne and Gilbert have a bustling household at Ingleside, where Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley, and little Rilla get into scrapes, crushes, and misunderstandings. Amid their adventures, Anne quietly worries whether marriage has dulled the sparkle between her and Gilbert.
Jane of Lantern Hill
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1937
Toronto schoolgirl Jane Stuart learns that the father she thought dead is alive on Prince Edward Island. A summer with him in a shabby little house on Lantern Hill brings new friends, hard work, and a chance to mend her divided family.
Anne of Windy Poplars / Anne of Windy Willows
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1936
Written mostly as letters to Gilbert, this novel follows Anne through three years as principal of Summerside High. She lodges at Windy Poplars, battles the influential Pringle clan, befriends lonely Katherine Brooke, and quietly reshapes a wary town.
Mistress Pat
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1935
Years later, Pat is the quiet mistress of Silver Bush, trying to keep the beloved house and its people unchanged. Suitors, family upheavals, and financial strain slowly force her to face how tightly she can cling to the past.
Pat of Silver Bush
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1933
Pat Gardiner adores her home, Silver Bush, and dreads every change that threatens it. From childhood through her teens she leans on her noisy family, loyal housekeeper Judy Plum, and neighbour Hilary Gordon as the outside world keeps shifting.
A Tangled Web
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1931
When formidable Aunt Becky of the Dark and Penhallow clans dies, she leaves a prized heirloom jug to be awarded after one year to whichever relative proves most deserving. The result is a web of intersecting romances, feuds, and personal reckonings.
Emily's Quest
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1927
Now a young woman, Emily pursues publication while navigating a complicated bond with older friend Dean Priest and a long delayed understanding with Teddy Kent. Rejection, injury, and hard choices test her belief that writing is her true path.
The Blue Castle
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1926
At twenty nine, shy Valancy Stirling is suffocating under her respectable family's rules until a shocking diagnosis convinces her she has little time left. She decides to live honestly at last, making a scandalous proposal and discovering unexpected love and freedom.
Magic for Marigold
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1925
Imaginative Marigold Lesley grows up at Cloud of Spruce surrounded by strong willed relatives and an invisible best friend named Sylvia. Mishaps, jealousies, and small triumphs nudge her from dreamy childhood toward a surer sense of herself and her family.
Emily Climbs
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1925
Emily longs to write but agrees to attend high school in Shrewsbury under strict rules that forbid fiction. Boarding with difficult Aunt Ruth, she sharpens her eye for truth, sells her first pieces, and tangles with jealousy, pride, and early romance.
Emily of New Moon
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1923
After her father's death, sensitive, stubborn Emily Starr is sent to live with stern Murray relatives at New Moon farm. There she clashes with Aunt Elizabeth, finds kindred spirits in Ilse, Teddy, and Perry, and discovers she is meant to write.
Rilla of Ingleside
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1921
At nearly fifteen, fun loving Rilla Blythe expects dances and flirtations, not the outbreak of war. As her brothers enlist, she raises an orphaned baby, leads the junior Red Cross, and discovers her own courage on the home front.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1920
A companion volume to Chronicles of Avonlea, this book offers fifteen more stories of island villagers whose lives brush against Anne's world. Misunderstandings, old quarrels, and sudden acts of kindness drive these brief but satisfying character portraits.
Rainbow Valley
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1919
Years later, the Blythe children befriend the neglected Meredith siblings and runaway Mary Vance in a hollow they call Rainbow Valley. Their games, good conduct vows, and small rebellions play out while the adults quietly face questions of love and duty.
The Alpine Path
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1917
Part memoir, part writing life, this short volume traces Montgomery's climb from lonely island girl to published author. She describes schooldays, teaching posts, early submissions, and the long, stubborn effort that finally led to the success of Anne of Green Gables.
Anne's House of Dreams
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1917
Anne and Gilbert begin married life in a small house by the sea at Four Winds. With a kindly lighthouse keeper, sharp tongued neighbours, and a tragic young woman next door, they face joy and sorrow as they build a home.
Anne of the Island
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1915
Anne leaves Avonlea for Redmond College, sharing a snug house with friends and tasting independence for the first time. New suitors, hard choices, and a brush with grief force her to decide what love and home truly mean.
The Golden Road
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1913
Picking up where The Story Girl ends, this sequel follows the King cousins as they create a homemade magazine, Our Magazine, and savor their last carefree seasons together. Under the fun runs the knowledge that their golden road of childhood is narrowing.
Chronicles of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1912
This collection gathers twelve tales set in and around Avonlea, where stubborn spinsters, shy young couples, and eccentric neighbours struggle with pride, love, and gossip. Anne Shirley appears only in glimpses while the village itself takes centre stage.
The Story Girl
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1911
Cousins Beverley and Felix come to stay on the King farm and fall under the spell of Sara Stanley, the Story Girl. Her vivid tales and the cousins' own island adventures turn one year of childhood into something bright enough to remember forever.
Kilmeny of the Orchard
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1910
Eric Marshall accepts a short teaching post on Prince Edward Island and wanders into an overgrown orchard where he meets Kilmeny Gordon, a beautiful mute girl who speaks only through slate and violin. Their gentle romance is shadowed by her silence.
Anne of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1909
Now sixteen, Anne becomes the teacher at Avonlea school while helping Marilla raise mischievous twins Davy and Dora. Village projects, well meant schemes, and more than one embarrassment show her what it means to be genuinely grown up.
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud LM Montgomery
1908
Talkative, daydreaming orphan Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables after a mix up and must prove she deserves to stay. Her scrapes, friendships, and fierce loyalty slowly transform the quiet lives of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert.
Where should I start?
If you are new to Anne Shirley: Anne of Green Gables → Anne of Avonlea → Anne of the Island.
If you prefer to grow up with Anne and her family: Anne's House of Dreams → Anne of Ingleside → Rainbow Valley → Rilla of Ingleside.
If you love stories about writers and creativity: Emily of New Moon → Emily Climbs → Emily's Quest.
If you want cozy tales of home and change: Pat of Silver Bush → Mistress Pat.
If you are curious about Montgomery herself: The Alpine Path → The Green Gables Letters → L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals → Imagining Anne.
Author bio
Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up far from the big publishing cities that would later embrace her books. Writing as L. M. Montgomery, she became known worldwide for Anne of Green Gables and a long shelf of stories set on Prince Edward Island.
She was born on November 30, 1874, in New London, Prince Edward Island, then a small farming community. When her mother died of tuberculosis before Maud was two, her father left for western Canada and she was raised by her maternal grandparents in nearby Cavendish. The household was strict and often lonely, and she later said that the imaginary worlds she invented as a child helped her survive those early years.
Books and schooling became her way forward. After local schooling in Cavendish, she completed a teacher training program at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown in just one year, then spent several years teaching in small island schools while writing in every spare hour. By her early thirties she had placed hundreds of poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines, learning how to live by her pen.
A brief stint as a proofreader for Halifax newspapers sharpened her sense of style, but she soon returned to Cavendish to care for her widowed grandmother. In that old farmhouse she wrote the manuscript that became Anne of Green Gables, drawing on her island childhood, her love of reading, and a newspaper clipping about a couple who were accidentally sent an orphan girl instead of a boy. When the novel finally appeared in 1908, it sold quickly, went through multiple printings, and gave Montgomery an international readership almost overnight.
Readers met Anne Shirley as an eleven year old orphan, sharp tongued, dreamy, and desperate for a home at Green Gables. Across the Anne books, they watch her grow into a teacher, a college student, a doctor’s wife, and a mother whose children come of age in the shadow of war. The series balances slapstick scrapes and schoolroom rivalries with grief, financial strain, and the quiet work of making a life in a small community.
Montgomery did not stop with Anne. In the Emily trilogy, beginning with Emily of New Moon, she followed Emily Starr, an orphaned girl determined to become a writer and often considered the character closest to her own temperament. The Pat of Silver Bush books trace home loving Pat Gardiner, who would rather cling to her beloved farm than chase ambition. Later stand alone novels such as The Blue Castle and A Tangled Web turn to adult characters, tangled family loyalties, and the question of how much courage it takes to change a life.
In 1911, Montgomery married Presbyterian minister Ewen MacDonald and left Prince Edward Island for parish life in rural Ontario. She continued to write steadily in their various manses, raising two sons to adulthood, coping with her husband’s depression, and managing her own recurring bouts of anxiety and exhaustion. By the 1930s she had been honoured at home and abroad, including an appointment as an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. She died in Toronto on April 24, 1942.
All the while she kept detailed handwritten journals and scrapbooks, later published in multi volume editions and selections such as The Alpine Path, The Green Gables Letters, L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals, and Imagining Anne. Those pages show a woman very aware of her own contradictions, proud of her success yet often worn down by duty and illness, who still returned again and again to the solace of words, trees, and sea light. More than a century after Anne of Green Gables appeared, readers still come to her books for that mixture of hope, homesickness, and stubborn imagination.
Edited by
Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.
Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.











































Comments
Did we miss something? Have feedback?
Help us improve this page by sharing your thoughts