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I struggled with the original topic for this week, “Favorite Secondary/Minor Characters,” because I’ve been reading more nonfiction lately. Therefore, I’m going rogue.
When I was a teenager, someone called out my name at an amusement park. I turned around only to see a man talking to his young daughter. This was the only time during my childhood that I can recall someone saying Lydia and not meaning me!
Here are ten books that include characters named Lydia.
How common is it for you to find your first name used for fictional characters or in real life to draw the attention of someone who isn’t you?
1. Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates
2. A Home for Goddesses and Dogs by Leslie Connor
3. How to Be a Girl in the World by Caela Carter
4. The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson
5. Lydia, Queen of Palestine by Uri Orlev
6. An Accomplished Woman by Jude Morgan
7. The Education of Lydia by Charles X. Wolffe
8. The Testaments (The Handmaid’s Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood
9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
10. China Trade (Lydia Chin & Bill Smith #1) by S.J. Rozan