| You Can Count on Me (see review) |
| "Frasier" |
| The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Brothers K, by David James Duncan |
| The Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, etc.), particularly for the fantastic bluegrass and roots music in their latest offering O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee |
| Big Night, a film by Stanley Tucci about Italian immigrant brothers whose dreams of success diverge |
| Eustace and Hilda trilogy, by L.P. Hartley—three funny, moving, and troubling novels (The Shrimp and the Anemone, The Sixth Heaven, and Eustace and Hilda) that trace the relationship of an English boy and his older sister from childhood to adulthood |
| Rainman, with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise |
| Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger |
| Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë |
| The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Children of Henry VIII, by Alison Weir |
| Jane Austen's novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion in which relationships between smart, silly, or warm-hearted sisters feature prominently |
| Hamlet, by William Shakespeare |
| Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen's portrait of three very different sisters and the men they share |
| Shadowing Hannah, by Sara Berkeley |
| George and Ira Gershwin |
| Wynton and Branford Marsalis |
| Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers |
| The Godfather trilogy, particularly Part II—sibling relationships marked by love, envy, greed, power, and betrayal |
| The Barthelme family, from Donald's twisted short stories (especially "The School") to Frederick's recent novel Bob the Gambler to Steven's tales of fraternal gambling, published in The New Yorker |
| Parenthood—funny and real film depicting interactions among adult siblings and their families |
| Plainsong, by Kent Haruf, for the bachelor brothers who live and farm together |
| The Carter Family (of bluegrass fame, not Jimmy and Billy, though they're pretty good by us, too) |
