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#30Authors

legacy

#30Authors began in 2014 and connects and celebrates readers, authors, and bloggers with 30 authors reviewing their favorite recent read on 30 blogs in 30 days. It takes place annually during the month of September and has been met with incredible support from and success in the literary community. It has also been turned into an anthology, which is available on Amazon. Previous contributors include Celeste Ng (Amazon Editor’s Pick), Cynthia Bond (Oprah Book Club Pick 2.0), Rene Denfeld (Powell’s Books Top 5 Books of the Year), Brian Panowich, and M.O. Walsh (both Amazon’s Best Debuts of 2015).

Toggle the tabs below to learn more about the book, find previous reviews (including affiliate links – thank you!), or check out this year’s lineup. You can also read my own reviews of #30Authors contributors and picks here. Lastly, don’t forget to follow on Twitter!

#30Authors is a first of its kind event inspired by a conversation with Jenny Milchman. Although there have been several similar events created since its inception, none are associated or affiliated with this #30Authors. 

#30Authors has been such a success that Velvet Morning Press has published Legacy: An Anthology based on the concept! You can buy the book here.

About the book:

legacyWhat will you leave behind?

Long after we’ve left this world, our legacy remains. Or doesn’t. Or remains only in the minds of those who knew us, those whose lives we’ve touched. Those we’ve written to, or about.

If you had a choice, what mark would you leave? How should people remember you? Should they remember you?

Fourteen authors sat down during the month of January 2015, shut out distractions of the outside world and wrote about the subject. The resulting fiction and nonfiction stories fill the pages of Legacy: An Anthology. The book includes stories from Kristopher Jansma, winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction, New York Times best-selling author Regina Calcaterra and Canadian best-selling author Marissa Stapley among others.

Within these pages, there is laughter, pride and hope. There is romance and rock and roll. Certain messages are eerie, while others bestow a sense of peace. The collection, through the discerning lens of each writer, runs the gamut of the human experience.

 


 

 

Reviews for Legacy: An Anthology, a #30Authors Book

Reviews from Goodreads.com

Reviewing Author
Book Reviewed
Blog Host/Review Link

Kristopher Jansma (Why We Came to the City)
Prodigals and Wagner in the Desert by Greg Jackson
The Book Wheel

Sarai Walker (Dietland)
Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
Estella’s Revenge

Allison Winn Scotch (In Twenty Years)
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Traveling With T

Adria J. Cimino (A Perfumer’s Secret)
The Moon In The Palace by Weina Dai Randel
Read Diverse Books

Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities)
Grace by Natashia Deon
Mom’s Small Victories

Mary Kubica (Don’t You Cry)
The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor
My Novel Opinion

Laura McNeill (Sister Dear)
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Always With a Book

Sara Dobie Bauer (Bite Somebody)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Tif Talks Books

Richard Alley (Five Night Stand)
City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
Sarah’s Bookshelves

Claire Fuller (Our Endless Numbered Days)
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
My Life in Books

Julie Cantrell (The Feathered Bone)
Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann Hamilton
The Novel Life

Rufi Thorpe (Dear Fang, With Love)
After Birth by Elisa Albert
Steadfast Reader

Erin Lindsay McCabe (I Shall Be Near to You)
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Read at Home Mama

J.J. Hensley (Measure Twice)
Method 15/33 by Shannon Kirk
The Suspense is Thrilling Me

Priya Parmar (Vanessa and Her Sister)
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Reads and Treats

Ed Tarkington (Only Love Can Break Your Heart)
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
Fourth Street Review

Rafia Zakaria (The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan)
Look by Solmaz Sharif
The Book Musings

E.A. Aymar (You’re As Good As Dead)
Floodgate by Johnny Shaw
The Book Wheel

Jenny Milchman (As Night Falls)
Make Me by Lee Child
Traveling With T

Olga Grushin (Forty Rooms)
The Moomin books by Tove Jansson
Mom’s Small Victories

Marietta Miles (Route 12)
Hustle by Tom Pitts
Novel Visits

Jung Yun (Shelter)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Sarah’s Bookshelves

Stephanie Danler (Sweetbitter)
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Reading and Eating

David Bell (Since She Went Away)
Late One Night by Lee Martin
Doing Dewey

Annette Dashofy (Zoe Chambers Series)
To Brew or Not to Brew by Joyce Tremel
The Suspense is Thrilling Me

Krystal Covington (The 4 Keys to Influence)
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Far Beyond Love

Colleen Shogan (Homicide in the House)
Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Novel Gossip

Garrard Conley (Boy Erased)
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
Roofbeam Reader

Keija Parsinnen (The Unraveling of Mercy Louis)
The Return by Hisham Matar
Novel Novice

Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun)
We Need New Names by NoViolent Bulawayo
The Book Wheel

See the successes of 2015 authors and contributors here!

Reviewing Author
Book Reviewed
Blog Host/Review Link

Jenny Milchman (As Night Falls)
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne
The Book Wheel

Sara Taylor (The Shore)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Estella’s Revenge

Heather Brittain Bergstrom (Steal the North)
The Unravelling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
Traveling With T

S.M. Hulse (Black River)
Road Ends by Mary Lawson
The Novel Life

Stacy Robinson (Surface)
Three Rivers by Tiffany Quay Tyson
Guiltless Reading

Tiffany Quay Tyson (Three Rivers)
The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinski
Mom’s Small Victories

J.J. Hensley (Measure Twice)
Peter Pan Must Die by John Verndon
The Book Wheel

Cynthia Swanson (The Bookseller)
At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
My Novel Opinion

Brian Panowich (Bull Mountain)
Soil by Jamie Kornegay
Sarah’s Bookshelves

Claire Fuller (Our Endless Numbered Days)
The Casualties by Nick Holdstock
My Life In Books

Mary Kubica (Pretty Baby)
Come Away With Me by Karma Brown
Always With a Book

Ruth Galm (Into the Valley)
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
The Well Read Redhead

Richard Alley (Five Night Stand)
Memphis Movie bye Corey Mesler
52 Books or Bust

Jason Mott (The Wonder of All Things)
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
A Silver Twig

Anna North (The Life and Death of Sophie Stark)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
E-Book Classics

Jamie Ford (Songs of Willow Frost)
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Tif Talks Books

Kristy Woodson Harvey (Dear Carolina)
Paris, Rue des Martyrs by Adria Cimino
The Book Wheel

Lisa See (China Dolls)
The Witches by Stacey Schiff
Traveling With T

Anesa Miller (Our Orbit)
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Spirit Blog

Lauren Acampora (The Wonder Garden)
Viral by Emily Mitchell
I’m Lost In Books

Kent Wascom (The Blood of Heaven)
Against the Country by Ben Metcalf
The Book Musings

Paula Lee (Deer Hunting in Paris)
White Light by Vanessa Garcia
Eclectic Bookworms

Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You)
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
Sarah’s Bookshelves

M.O. Walsh (My Sunshine Away)
I Was a Revolutionary by Andrew Malan Milward
Doing Dewey

Adria Cimino (Paris, Rue des Martyrs)
Dear Carolina by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Words and Peace

Chris Holm (The Killing Kind)
Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville
Fourth Street Review

Keija Parssinen (The Unraveling of Mercy Louis)
Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns
Running N Reading

Darragh McKeon (All That Is Solid Melts Into Air)
Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson
Doing Dewey

Pam Jenoff (The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach)
My Very Best Friend by Cathy Lamb
Hazy Reads

Liza Klaussmann (Tigers in Red Weather)
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
Always With a Book

Reviewing Author
Book Reviewed
Link to Review/Blog Host

Cynthia Bond (Ruby)
Euphoria by Lily King
Lost In Books

Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You)
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
The Turning Pages

Rene Denfeld (The Enchanted)
The End of Eve by Ariel Gore
Estella’s Revenge

Jamie Ford (Songs of Willow Frost)
China Dolls by Lisa See
My Life In Books

Jenny Milchman (Ruin Falls)
Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Kortya
The Book Wheel

A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible)
Poking A Dead Frog: Conversations With Today’s Top Comedy Writers by Mike Sacks
The Steadfast Reader

Patti Callahan Henry (The Stories We Tell)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Write Meg!

Ava Chin (Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal)
Every Day Is For the Thief by Teju Cole
Books Speak Volumes

Eleanor Brown (The Weird Sisters)
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Tif Talks Books

David Ebsworth (The Assassin’s Mark)
The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black
Words and Peace

David Vann (Goat Mountain)
The Medici Boy by John L’Heureux
The Relentless Reader

Marie-Helene Bertino (2 A.M. At the Cat’s Pajamas)
The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson
Ivory Owl Reviews

Marissa Stapley (Mating for Life)
The Bear by Claire Cameron
52 Books or Bust

Michael Hurley (The Prodigal)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Book Musings

Ariel Lawhon (The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress)
The Distance by Helen Giltrow
Traveling With T

Stephanie Carroll (A White Room)
The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Fourth Street Review

Kristopher Jansma (The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards)
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
A Lovely Bookshelf

Tayari Jones (Silver Sparrow)
Into the Go-Slow by Bridgett M. Davis
Joy’s Book Blog

Patry Francis (The Orphans of Race Point)
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Mom’s Small Victories

Adria Cimino (Paris, Rue des Martyrs)
The Art of Falling by Kathryn Craft
Love At First Book

Paula Lee (Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat)
Hungry by H.A. Swain
Book Hounds

Heather Gudenkauf (Little Mercies)
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Pages Unbound

Lisa O’Donnell (The Death of Bees)
Crooked River by Valerie Geary
Gilmore Guide to Books

J.J. Hensley (Measure Twice)
FaceOff by Several Authors
Read At Home Mama

Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures)
Vivian Divine Is Dead by Lauren Sabel
Suey’s Books

Jean Kwok (Girl in Translation)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Doing Dewey

Jeff Abbott (Panic)
After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman
From Isi

Lisa Unger (In the Blood)
The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton
Guiltless Reading

Regina Calcaterra (Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived An Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island)
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
The Book Wheel

Aisha Saeed (Written in the Stars)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
My Novel Opinion

Adriana Trigiani (The Shoemaker’s Wife)
Good Talk Dad: The Birds and the Bees…and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have by Bill Geist and Willie Geist
Read At Home Mama

 

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