Anne of Green Gables is one of those books where I know I'm not now, ever have been, or ever will be part of the target audience. So really my opinion doesn't matter too much here. I know my wife loved it, probably because she first read it when she was a little girl. I can say I enjoyed it somewhat and I was interested in finding out what would happen in the end, but really it is a book intended for little girls... and I guess on that level it is pretty good.
Anne is an interesting character though after a couple hundred pages of her jabbering on and on about what happended to her I just wanted it to end. I also found the style slightly distracting. The book is written in third person, but most of Anne's adventures aren't really presented that way. Each chapter starts out with a bit of set up and then instead of finding out what happens in the third person narrative the action skips to Anne getting home and then Anne telling her adopted mother what happened. Usually this results in a paragraph that is at least an entire page in which Anne just talks and talks and talks.
It won't crack my top 50, but I'll give it an A, because if I don't Lucinda will bug me about it.
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