Anne of Green Gables

The book that taught millions of readers to believe in the transformative power of love. When the Cuthbert siblings of Prince Edward Island send away for an orphan boy, they get instead an eleven-year-old girl with a wild imagination, a tongue that runs ahead of her thoughts, and hair the color of carrots. Anne Shirley is too much for the practical Marilla, too dreamy for the quiet Matthew, and too alive for the small town of Avonlea to ignore. She breaks things, says the wrong thing, dreams too loudly, and loves too fiercely. But somehow, impossibly, she becomes the thing none of them knew they needed: a daughter. Montgomery's prose has the rare quality of making you feel eleven again, of remembering what it was to believe that beauty mattered and that somewhere, finally, someone would choose you. Over a hundred years later, it still does.