44+ Of Your Favorite Books About Siblings
This post is sponsored by Still a Work in Progress by Jo Knowles
In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life when his older sister is in crisis.
Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she’d been doing better ever since the Thing They Don’t Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes clear through Emma’s ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she’s not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis.
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Siblings: love ’em or hate ’em, if you’ve got ’em, then you’ve probably got a story or two.
We asked for your favorite books about siblings, and you answered. Here are more than 44 great books about siblings.
Among Others by Jo Walton
Beezus & Ramona by Beverly Cleary
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Cassandra at The Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Elemental Series (Storm, Spark, Spirit, Secret & Sacrifice) by Brigid Kemmerer
Fearie Tale by Raymond Feist
First Light by Charles Baxter
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
“Gaither Sisters” books (starting with One Crazy Summer) by Rita Williams-Garcia
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
M for Mischief by Robert Parker
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
Sister Salty, Sister Sweet: A Memoir of Sibling Rivalry by Shannon Kring Biro and Natalie Kring
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Super Fudge by Judy Blume
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
