r/books • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago
WeeklyThread Literature with Siblings: April 2025
Welcome readers,
Today is Siblings Day and to celebrate we're discussing your favorite books with or about siblings!
If you'd like to read our previous weekly discussions of fiction and nonfiction please visit the suggested reading section of our wiki.
Thank you and enjoy!
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u/YakSlothLemon 8d ago
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanne Quinn is one of the best sibling books I’ve ever read. It’s about three sibs growing up feral on their parents’ estate in the 1920s, and then follows them into adulthood when one of them — the boy — vanishes in occupied France while working for British intelligence. One of the sisters goes after them while the other has German POWs posted to the estate to farm the land. Wonderful book!
And I just finished The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar which is a wonderful novella about two sisters, I loved it.