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 this longer review of this novel here on this page at twinstuff.com.

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.

But one day there is a tragic accident, and Anna can save only one of the twins. In their grief and estrangement, George turns to another woman while Anna turns to the slot machines in the waterfront casinos, depleting her savings. How will she win George back and save their marriage? And does she really want to, anyway? Anna realizes her odds for survival come to rest squarely on purposefulness instead of on accident and probability in this wonderful and strange new book by Patty Friedmann.

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...

Gob's Grief (hc)
by Chris Adrian

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.

One of the top horror writers has authored this new paperback with prospective teenage twin witches Kip and Shelley Davies whose work at a Victorian Inn draw them into a world of magic. One of the few novels that features fraternal brother and sister twins as the main characters.

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.

Offers a new low in the "I'm the Good Twin--I'm the Evil Twin" theory. Female heroine Jeanine Ferrami falls in love with an identical twin whose brother is arrested for raping her best friend. High-concept thriller featuring racial purity projects and government cover-ups. Suspend believability while reading this novel that serves as a quick, mindless diversion.

"In lush, romantic prose, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer uses the notion of twinship to explore the psychological predicament of coming to terms with one's identity, an exploration that takes the form of a quasi-mystery story."--Boston Globe.

A 1997 novel (371 pages) featuring twin sisters, Doris and Florence Meek.

Popular author Joyce Carol Oates has written a series of thrillers under the pen name, Rosamond Smith, all of which feature twins. Her latest offers an evil twin of the highest order, Sharon Donner, a dancer with the stage name Starr Bright, who returns home to her twin sister's idyllic hometown in upstate New York, while trying to conceal her sordid past.