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1. Any of the two books is useful.
2. Either of the two books is useful.
3. Either book is useful.

Which are the correct sentences?

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I would choose the first variant but the best is the forth one: ''Both books are useful''.
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I wouldn't use any when there are only two items.

Both implies that neither book is useful by itself, so I wouldn't use that.

There isn't much difference between your sentences numbers 2 and 3, I would use either of them.
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