L.M. Montgomery
Fourteen recordings across the Anne and Emily series, read by two narrators on two shows.
L.M. Montgomery wrote from Prince Edward Island, and the island sets the pace of everything she published. Her chapters tend to work like small village episodes: a scrape, a misunderstanding, a supper, a resolution. That shape is what makes her catalog such reliable sleep listening. You can stop mid-book without losing a plot, and pick up the next night wherever the story happens to be.
We publish fourteen of her recordings, split between our two fiction shows. Elizabeth Grace reads the Anne books on The Sleepy Bookshelf: start with Anne of Green Gables, then follow Anne through Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, and into marriage in Anne's House of Dreams. Rainbow Valley and The Chronicles of Avonlea return to the same village from new angles and stand on their own if the series order ever slips.
Andrew Bond reads the Emily trilogy on Send Me To Sleep. Emily of New Moon is moodier than Anne, a lonely orphan finding her way among strict relatives, and Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest follow her ambition to write. If you want Montgomery without a child protagonist, The Blue Castle is the one to queue: Valancy Stirling is an adult, and her story is the warmest thing in this collection. The Story Girl rounds out his set with a summer of cousins and told tales.
The gentlest entries are the three short story collections. Each tale ends inside a single listen, which suits nights when even a chapter feels like a commitment. On heavy-eyed evenings, begin there; save Green Gables for when you want somewhere to live for a few weeks.
