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161d

LGBTQ+ Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-lgbtq-books-i-cant-believe-ive-never-read/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #LGBTQ

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Book cover for On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Image on cover is a black and white shot of a pair of muscular arms wrapped around a man’s knees as he sits on the ground.

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Book cover for Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera. Image on cover is a drawing of a brown person who has shaved most of the hair off from the back and sides of their head. The hair on top is arranged into a bun.

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133d

Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2026: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-second-half-of-2026/

#Books #AmReading #TopTenTuesday #TBR #Nonfiction #ScienceFiction

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Book cover for As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers. Image on cover shows two Earths floating through outer space, one green and blue like ours and a second one on top that is purple and pink.

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ook cover for Building 903 by Lois Lowry. Image on cover shows a drawing of a child standing in the light-filled doorway to a library filled with shadows and books.

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112d

Books I’ve Read Whose Titles Begin With the Letter B: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-ive-read-whose-titles-begin-with-the-letter-b/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #Fiction #NonFiction

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Book cover for Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina. Image on cover is a photograph of two adult elephants helping a baby elephant stand up. Perhaps he or she has recently been born?

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Book cover for Bog Child by Siobahn Dowd. Image on cove shows a blurry painting of a child wearing an orange shirt and blue jeans who is standing in front of a forest with his or her arms stretched out wide.

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154d

Books with Handwriting on the Cover: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-handwriting-on-the-cover/

#Books #TopTenTuesday #Cover #Handwriting

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Book cover for When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Image on cover is a photograph of the bottom two-thirds of a young Indian girl’s face. She’s grinning and drinking an orange beverage that has the name of this book written on it.

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118d

Books I Want to Read by New to Me Authors: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-want-to-read-by-new-to-me-authors/

#Books #TopTenTuesday #NonFiction #LGBTQ #Disability

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Book cover for Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences by Alex Iantaffi (Editor) . Image on cover shows a curved row of blue, light pink, and dark pink flowers swooping up. They look like the trans pride flag. There is also a cane standing in front of them.

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Book cover for The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love by Alice Hoffman. Image on cover shows a simple drawing of a yellow dog who is holding his or her head up as if someone is about to pet them.

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77d

Bookish Places I Want to Visit: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-places-i-want-to-visit/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #Travel

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Sand sculpted into the image of an old man sitting at a desk and leaning over to read a book. He looks a little concerned with what he is reading.

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91d

Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-was-reading-on-this-day-over-the-last-ten-years/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #AmReading #LGBTQ

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Book cover for Let's Play White by Chesya Burke. Image on cover is a painting of a black woman who is staring straight ahead at the audience with a somber expression on her face.

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Book cover for Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus. Image on cover shows two young white women embracing romantically while standing in a windswept meadow.

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84d

Book Series I Want to Catch Up On: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-series-i-want-to-catch-up-on/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #AmReading

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Book cover for Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke. Image on cover shows a red and yellow alien plant slowly unfurling its long, thin leaves.

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98d

Ice Cream Trucks on Covers: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-ice-cream-trucks-on-covers/

#Food #Books #TopTenTuesday #Summer

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Book cover for Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan. Image on cover shows a drawing of two young queer women sitting on top of an ice cream truck watching the sunset. The one with dark, curly hair is turning to the one with straight blond hair as if she’s about to say something or perhaps kiss her companion.

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Book cover for The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson. Image on cover shows a drawing of a young white woman wearing a blue sundress who has several dogs surrounding her in front of an ice cream truck. I think they’re all about to get a treat!

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55d

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was a little tricky for me because I’m not the kind of reader who seeks out meet and greets with authors.

I’d generally rather talk to other readers instead or, if it were possible, the characters themselves.

How about all of you?

Authors I’ve Met: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-authors-ive-met/

#TopTenTuesday #Books

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Book cover for Molly: Child Number 583 by Mary Keenan, John Stevens. Image on cover shows a photo of Mary as a child. She’s wearing a light blue dress, a red sweater, and is carrying a doll that has a red dress on. This photo looks like it was taken in the 1940s or 1950s.

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28d

Hygge Reads: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-hygge-reads/

#Books #Hygge #TopTenTuesday

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Book cover for The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Image on cover shows a young white girl hiding behind a tree in a snowy forest. There is a fox peeking out behind a white tree trunk nearby her.

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Book cover for Hygge - Discovering the Danish Art of Happiness by Olivia Telford. Image on cover shows a small log cabin with lamplight glowing out of its window. There’s a thick layer of snow outside, the sky overhead is turning from dusk to dark, and there is a pine forest behind the cabin.

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70d

Books With Nationalities In The Title: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-nationalities-in-the-title/

#TopTenTuesday #Books

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Book cover for Cuban Sun (Sofia Koury, #1) by Ann Bauer. Image on cover shows a Cuban woman’s face superimposed over what appears to be the hull of a modern ship. The sun is setting over the ocean in the distance.

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49d

Books on My Fall 2026 To-Read List: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-fall-2026-to-read-list/

#Books #TopTenTuesday #AmReading #TBR

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Book cover for As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers. Image on cover shows a purple planet hovering about our own green Earth. They otherwise look fairly similar as far as continents and size go. This image is shown from outer space so that both planets can be seen in full effect.

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42d

Picture Books About Pumpkins: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-picture-books-about-pumpkins/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #PictureBooks #Food

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Book cover for The Biggest Pumpkin Surprise Ever by Steven Kroll. Image on cover shows about eight little mice who are all wearing clothes gathered around a gigantic pumpkin in a garden. One is climbing a ladder to better inspect the pumpkin.

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Book cover for It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Justine Korman Fontes. Image on cover shows Charlie Brown, the comic strip character, sitting joyfully in a pumpkin patch after dark. Snoopy the Dog is running around with a scarf and a pair of goggles on his head in the distant meadow.

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One-Word Reviews for the Last Ten Books I Read: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-one-word-reviews-for-the-last-ten-books-i-read-2/

#Books #TopTenTuesday

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Book cover for We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib. Image on cover is a series of person-shaped items, each of which is a different colour like pink, orange, green, or dark pink.

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Book cover for Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard by Jason Collins. Image on cover is a painting of a roe deer standing in the desert just after sunrise. It is standing facing to the left but its head is looking at the viewer. You can also see a few small cacti and scrub brushes in this otherwise dry and dusty desert.

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35d

Books that Bring Me Happy Memories: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-that-bring-me-happy-memories

#Books #TopTenTuesday

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Book cover for Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary. Image on cover shows a little brunette white girl who is gleefully squeezing all of the toothpaste out of the tube as her horrified older sister looks on.

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Book Characters I Wish Were Real People: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-characters-i-wish-were-real-people/

#Books #TopTenTuesday

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Book cover for The Deep by Rivers Solomon. Image on cover is of a black mermaid with long dreadlocks swimming past a whale.

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