Recommended reading: Dr. Elizabeth Waterston's Magic Island. "Waterston draws parallels between Montgomery's personal life, her professional career, and the characters in her novels."
Read about the DEDICATIONS in her books in The Shining Scroll p. 20 (and other issues)
The Anne series in order of story:
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Chronicles of Avonlea (Short Stories)
Anne of the Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside
The Blythes Are Quoted
Novels in order of publishing date (for publishing information see Collecting page):
Anne of Green Gables. 1908. L.C. Page and Company The Shining Scroll 2007
Anne of Avonlea. 1909. L.C. Page and Company The Shining Scroll 2009 part1
Kilmeny of the Orchard. 1910. L.C. Page and Company The Shining Scroll 2005
The Story Girl. 1911. L.C. Page and Company
Chronicles of Avonlea. 1912. L.C. Page and Company The Shining Scroll 2012 part 1
The Golden Road. 1913. L.C. Page and Company The Shining Scroll 2013
Anne of the Island. 1915. L.C. Page and Company The Shining Scroll 2012 part 2
Anne's House of Dreams. 1917. McClelland, Goodchild, and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
Rainbow Valley. 1919. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes Montgomery and WW1
Further Chronicles of Avonlea. 1920. The Page Company (unauthorized publication, LMM lawsuit)
Rilla of Ingleside. 1921. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes The Shining Scroll 2014, part 1
Emily of New Moon. 1923. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes George B. MacMillan
Emily Climbs. 1925. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
The Blue Castle. 1926. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
Emily's Quest. 1927. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
Magic for Marigold. 1929. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
A Tangled Web. 1931. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes The Shining Scroll 2004
(also as Aunt Becky Began It)
Pat of Silver Bush. 1933. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
Courageous Women. 1934. McClelland and Stewart
Mistress Pat. 1935. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
Anne of Windy Poplars. 1936. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
(Anne of Windy Willows by British publisher)
Jane of Lantern Hill. 1937. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
Anne of Ingleside. 1939. McClelland and Stewart. Frederick A. Stokes
The Blythes Are Quoted. 2009. Viking Canada
more titles at L.M. Montgomery Online, Director Benjamin Lefebvre: Shorter Works, Letters, Posthumous Books
Later Short Story Collections
The Road to Yesterday. 1974. McGraw-Hill Ryerson
The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories. 1979. McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Akin to Anne. 1988. McClelland and Stewart
Along the Shore. 1989. McClelland and Stewart
Among the Shadows. 1990. McClelland and Stewart
After Many Days. 1991. McClelland and Stewart
Against the Odds. 1993. McClelland and Stewart
At The Altar. 1994. McClelland and Stewart
Across the Miles. 1995. McClelland and Stewart
Christmas with Anne. 1995. McClelland and Stewart
The Blythes Are Quoted. 2009. Viking Canada
AFTER MANY YEARS: TWENTY-ONE “LONG-LOST” STORIES BY L. M. MONTGOMERY. 2017, Nimbus Publishing.
AROUND THE HEARTH. 2022, Nimbus Publishing.
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS, 2025, Nimbus Publishing.
LETTERS
The Green Gables Letters from L.M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909. 1960. The Ryerson Press
My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery. 1980. McGraw-Hill Ryerson
After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Ephraim Weber. 2006. University of Toronto Press
L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Scotland: The Complete Collection. Coming 2026, Rocks Mills Press.
The Green Gables Letters from L.M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909. 1960. The Ryerson Press
My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery. 1980. McGraw-Hill Ryerson
After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Ephraim Weber. 2006. University of Toronto Press
L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Scotland: The Complete Collection. Coming 2026, Rocks Mills Press.
JOURNALS
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, [1889-1942] Vols. 1,2,3,4,5. 1985, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2004. Oxford University Press
The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery, The P.E.I. Years, [1889-1911] Vols. 1,2. 2012, 2013. Oxford University Press
L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: [1911-1933] Edited by Jen Rubio. Rock’s Mills Press, 2019.
Read more on the BIOGRAPHY page
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, [1889-1942] Vols. 1,2,3,4,5. 1985, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2004. Oxford University Press
The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery, The P.E.I. Years, [1889-1911] Vols. 1,2. 2012, 2013. Oxford University Press
L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: [1911-1933] Edited by Jen Rubio. Rock’s Mills Press, 2019.
Read more on the BIOGRAPHY page
POETRY
The Watchman and Other Poems. 1916. McClelland, Goodchild, and Stewart.
The Watchman and Other Poems. 1917. Frederick A. Stokes
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1987. Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921. 2019. A collection of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery that is edited by Benjamin Lefebvre.
NOVELS - Note: The only truly unabridged books are the Montgomery books published before the 1940s (and possibly 1950s) which used the text from the original plates. All reprints since then, especially paperbacks and current editions, appear to have used edited texts, in spite of claims printed on the inner pages of some of the books. The only original-text books published recently, to our knowledge, are The Blythes Are Quoted (the unabridged version of The Road to Yesterday) and Rilla of Ingleside, both published by Viking Canada, 2009 and 2010.
Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre is the editor of both of these books: "Yes, there are a number of differences between the Seal edition of Rilla of Ingleside and the Viking Canada edition Andrea McKenzie and I edited. The first Seal edition (with the cover in which Rilla looks a bit like a vampire) used the plates of the American Reprint Company edition, which had silently abridged the text by about 4% (about 4,500 words, or 20 pages) in the 1970s; the second Seal edition, the one that's still in print today, reset the same text. Our edition restores the full text of the original edition of 1921, makes a few corrections (including three made in Montgomery's hand in her personal copy), and includes bonus material that provides the kind of wartime context that readers would already have in 1921..."
