#1 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery
#2 Anne of Avonlea by Lucy M. Montgomery
A bachelor brother and spinster sister living on Prince Edward Island try to adopt a boy to help on their farm but get a girl, Anne, by mistake.
My wife recommended Anne of Green Gables and I was very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. I am not the target audience but the story is a good mix of plot, humor and vivid "poetical" descriptions of the island that kept it interesting and made me get the next book. (Though to be honest, her descriptions of the landscape would have made this a hard read if I didn't live in a place equally beautiful.)
