Fiction revolving around sibling relationships?

[taintedlove]

I've been very interested in sibling relationships lately and have been looking for some good fiction books in which this kind of relationship is central to the plot. Does anyone have any suggestions?

To give a sense of what I tend to like....I love all genres of literature, but I'm especially into classics with well-defined, complex characters and a philosophical or psychological tilt. I also enjoy well-written fantasy novels. I tend to veer more toward fiction than non-fiction, but if the non-fiction work places a strong emphasis on characterization, then I'll surely enjoy it. Some of my favorite books include The Brothers Karamazov (all-time favorite), The Mists of Avalon (and anything King Arthur, really), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1984, and Jane Eyre, among many others.

Thanks to anyone who answers!

[kiki1982]

The Mill On the Floss is one, although that might probably come across as quite borng for the frst 100-200 pages...

Sense and Sensibility is one too. P&P to a lesser extent.

[laymonite]

How about Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (sisters) or John Steinbeck's East of Eden (brothers)?

[OrphanPip]

Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury to some extent.

[JBI]

Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury to some extent.

As I Lay Dying perhaps more.

[Dark Muse]

Middlemarch by George Elliot
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

[kelby_lake]

I've been very interested in sibling relationships lately and have been looking for some good fiction books in which this kind of relationship is central to the plot. Does anyone have any suggestions?

To give a sense of what I tend to like....I love all genres of literature, but I'm especially into classics with well-defined, complex characters and a philosophical or psychological tilt. I also enjoy well-written fantasy novels. I tend to veer more toward fiction than non-fiction, but if the non-fiction work places a strong emphasis on characterization, then I'll surely enjoy it. Some of my favorite books include The Brothers Karamazov (all-time favorite), The Mists of Avalon (and anything King Arthur, really), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1984, and Jane Eyre, among many others.

Thanks to anyone who answers!

Some sibling classics:
Little Women
The Railway Children

There's quite a few siblings in Shakespeare but King Lear is probably the best example of sibling rivalry. If you're interested in reading plays, I could name you quite a few that focus on sibling relationships.

Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

[hazelk]

Try "Fall on Your Knees" by Ann-Marie Macdonald.

[hazelk]

"A Thousand Acres" By Jane Smiley.

[Wilde woman]

The Mists of Avalon (and anything King Arthur, really)

Book 2 of T.H. White's The Once and Future King re-imagines in quite a unique fashion the relationships between the four Orkney brothers: Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth, and their troubled relationship with their mother, Morgause.

To Kill a Mockingbird features a pretty prominent brother-sister relationship. And The God of Small Things shows the developing relationship of a set of Indian twins.

[sixsmith]

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Solid Mandala - Patrick White