I work in early childhood education, and it always strikes me how important of a role siblings play in each other's lives before they grow up. You can always tell when a kid has a new little sibling because they're extra emotional. As for twins, they're often more absorbed with playing with each other than with friends–and when it's time to go home, they're ready to leave because they have each other. As someone who is a twin and who lost a sibling at a young age, I think about the subject a lot.
I'd be interested to read books that revolve around a sibling relationship/relationships. About the sacrifices we make for our siblings, the comparisons we make between ourselves, the experience of being called by their name on accident, the way we always see each other as a younger version of ourselves. This kind of happens in Private Rites by Julia Armfield, but I'd like siblinghood to take even more center stage rather than romances. Little Fires Everywhere had some shades of sibling dynamics too. Nonfiction about siblings would be great as well!
by UnwarrantedRabbit
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Three weeks with my brother!
*Sister Snake* by Amanda Lee Koe
*The Reformatory* by Tananarive Due
Just recommended on another thread too, but being in childhood ed, you might like Educated by Tara Westover. Crazy non-fiction story about a family with a prepper patriarch that all live off the grid, and the different sibling and family dynamics that come with living an extreme upbringing.
Ooh I have some recs for this:
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi – fiction. Korean American sisters living in New York. They have many differences but a very real world situation forces them back together.
Still, I Cannot Save You by Kelly Thompson – Memoir. Canadian. Very complicated strained relationship between two sisters who reconnect, only to learn their time together may be limited.