By Rita Mae Brown | Narrated by Anna Paquin
In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women…
By Jeanette Winterson | Narrated by Jeanette Winterson
…her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British…
By Rita Mae Brown
Perched right on the Mason-Dixon line, tiny Runnymede, Maryland, is ripe with a history almost as colorful as the women who live there—from Celeste Chalfonte, headstrong and aristocratic, who murders for principle and steals her brother’s wife, to Fannie Jump…
…What’s your main character(s)’s favorite book and why? Lauren is a huge Rita Mae Brown fan. Her favorite book is Six of One. She loves it because of how witty it is, and though it’s not a romance, it has…
…Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown that she’s read dozens of times. She loves Molly Bolt because Molly inspired her to reject labels and stereotypes and be who she is without apologizing. Moira’s favorite book: A toss-up between Machiavelli’s The…