Anne of Avonlea vs Little House in the Big Woods: Which Should You Read?

Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1909 ★★★★☆ 4.2 244 pages · ≈ 4 h 31 m · Challenging

“A TALL, SLIM girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.”

The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to…

Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1932 ★★★★☆ 4.2 258 pages · ≈ 4 h 47 m · Moderate

“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”

The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an…