100 Must-Read Books About Sisters

I was only eighteen-months-old when my little sister was born. I literally cannot remember a world where I didn’t have a sister. Having and being a sister has been my most important relationship to date. It’s probably not a surprise that I love sister books. Growing they were always my favorite. I read Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild, so many times the cover eventually fell off. My sister and I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books so much we’d imagine our bunk beds were a covered wagon to reenact Laura and Mary’s journey West.  On this list you’ll see a few of my childhood favorites mixed in with books that range from classics to contemporary novels and fantasy to nonfiction. What they all have in common is interesting sister relationships. Please let me know which ones you love and what books I missed and should have added to the list!

1. Half of the Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
3. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
4. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
5. In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
6. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
9. Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani
10. The Brontës by Juliet Barker*
11. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
12. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
13. The Sisters Grimm Series by Michael Buckley
14. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
15. The Dark Queen Saga by Susan Carroll
16. Wise Children by Angela Carter
17. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
18. Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin
19. Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung
20. The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie
21. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
22. One by Sarah Crossan
23. The Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz
24. Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin
25. Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
26. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
27. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
28. Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
29. Entwined by Heather Dixon
30. Sister Mother Husband Dog by Delia Ephron*
31. Like Water for Chocolate by Laurel Esquivel
32. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
33. Howards End by E. M. Forster
34. I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
35. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
36. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
37. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
38. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
39. Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu
40. Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu*
41. Frederica by Georgette Heyer
42. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
43. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
44. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
45. Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
46. The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins by Dean Jensen*
47. The Key to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson
48. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
49. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
50. Watermelon by Marian Keyes
51. The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
52. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
53. Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok
54. The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
55. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell*
56. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
57. Bumped by Megan McCafferty
58. Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
60. The Summer Girls by Mary Alice Monroe
61. Beloved by Toni Morrison
62. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
63. Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro
64. The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
65. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
66. Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
67. Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
68. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
69. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
70. Vanessa and her Sister by Priya Parmar
71. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
72. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport*
73. Three Sisters Island Trilogy by Nora Roberts
74. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
75. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
76. I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn
77. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
78. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
79. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
80. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
81. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
82. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
83. Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
84. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
85. All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
86. Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
87. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
88. The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls
89. This Side of Home by Renée Watson
90. In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
91. The Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
92. Mind Games by Kiersten White
93. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
94. Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams
95. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
96. The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
97. Lena by Jacqueline Woodson
98. Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
99. The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
100. What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang