This store section includes fictional and non-fictional novels with twins as major characters. Let us know if you have some other suggestions we can add to this section. (Clicking on any book illustration or title will take you to Amazon.Com where you can complete your purchase)
An added bonus to consider when shopping is that proceeds from the sale of any of these books will go directly towards Twinstuff Outreach, the new non-profit organization dedicated to assisting twins and higher-order multiples and their families.
This fictional account of the famous Siamese Twins, Eng and Chang Bunker, is earning high acclaim from such reviewers as The Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. Straus takes an interesting concept for his debut novel, writing the novel in the first person from the perspective of the stronger of the two conjoined twins, Eng. You can read a longer review of this novel here on this page at twinstuff.com.
A debut novel by Indian author and screenwriter Arundhati Roy that author John Updike called "A Tiger Woodsian debut" in his review in The New Yorker. Young twin sister and brother Rahel and Estha are the protagonists of this 1997 Booker National Award-winning novel.
Best-seller that was featured as part of Oprah's Book Club. The protagonist of the epic 900-page novel is Dominick Birdsey, a middle-aged house painter who tries to care for his schizophrenic twin brother while his own personal world is crumbling around him. This is a powerful book for all readers, but twins in particular may find this to be an especially gripping read. The relationship between Dominick and his twin, Thomas, is the central theme of this story and captures the twin bond at a personal depth that we've rarely seen in adult fiction.
Anna Riggs Duffy is a woman painfully out of touch with her own needs. Anna and her husband, George, live in New Orleans with their twins, George Jr. and Gregor. Though the twins are identical, they are more like doppelgangers. George is born physically perfect-and mean. Gregor, big-hearted and sweet-natured, had a chromosomal glitch that gave him blunted limbs, stumps without hands or feet. George Sr. seems to love only George Jr., while Anna favors Gregor. What happens after an accident involving the twins forms the narrative of this intense novel.
A Barron's Simply Shakespeare series that offers side-by-side text of Shakespeare's original prose with a modern "translation" on the following page. With pre-chapter previews and post-chapter teacher discussion guides, this series allows Shakespeare to be seen by a new audience. A typical Shakespeare comedy of mistaken identity that features twins as its major characters, Sebsatian and Viola.
The relationship between adult twin sisters Frances (single and unfulfilled) and Lizzie (married and successful) is the main focus of this story by British novelist, Joanne Trollope. A nice summer-type read probably better suited for female twins.
A fictional autobiography in the tradition of 'Catcher in the Rye', this short novel (147 pages) tells the story of Cambridge, Massachusetts twin brothers, William and Clive. William Bond must always try to live up to the faultless reputation of his younger brother Clive. Hmmm, interesting choice of last names for the twins...
An historical novel that tells the story of fictional twin sons of radical 19th Century feminist, Victoria Woodhull. One of the 11-year-old twins, Tomo, tries to convince his twin, Gob, to join him in the Civil War fighting but is unable to sway his brother in joining him. After Tomo is killed in fighting, his twin must deal with his grief. The novel also features appearances by Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
A debut novel from a former professor at Nicholls State University (shades of James Lee Burke?) that features a young married couple named Paul and Colette and their travails in a small Louisiana town. Among the many vibrant supporting characters are the Larousse Twins, who as one reviewer described it to us, "Some twins may take offense at the description of these two overgrown, intellectually-stunted but kind and considerate men, but they are devoted friends of the main character."
Acclaimed poet Nicole Cooley (winner of a Walt Whitman Poetry Award) authored this debut novel of twin sisters Alice and Madeline, who both worship Judy Garland while experiencing a difficult childhood in New Orleans. After an unsuccessful pregnancy, the adult Alice turns to her estranged (and slightly unbalanced) twin sister Madeline for support. A September, 1998 hard-cover.
Author Sandra Benitez, a twinless twin who lost her twin sister as an infant, deals with the void in her personal life with this introspective novel featuring a twinless twin heroine, Annie Rush, whose search for famly resolution takes her from her Minnesota home to the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico. A moving and powerful read for all twins.
One of the latest offerings from one of romance fiction's best-selling authors, this novel tells the story of quiet, shy scientist, Allison Leaman, who pretends to be her identical twin sister, the outgoing Annie, on a dinner date. Ranked on the New York Times best-seller's list at the start of 2002.
Recommended to us by a Wisconsin mom of twins, this 1999 novel includes parents of two sets of twins who are part of the Ojibwa tribe in modern-day Minnesota (Gakahbekong).
Involuntary Separation is a psychological thriller that features identical twin sisters as two of its main characters. The author spent many hours researching twin communication and reports that he made a tremendous emotional investment in developing their characters and living their experiences with them. He developed an admiration and even a jealousy of the twin experience that he hopes real twins will embrace. That fact that Beatrice Winter is an identical twin is a surprise most readers don't learn for several chapters, but had to be revealed for our site. He invites feedback from twins or from people close to twins to be communicated to him directly at rplacey@hotmail.com.
