Mona Awad Books
Bunny Series
Bunny – 2019
Samantha, an MFA outsider, scorns the cloying "Bunny" clique at Warren University. Drawn into their occult workshops, she uncovers rituals morphing rabbits into monstrous boyfriends. This satirical horror probes female bonds, creativity, and desire, blending Heathers-esque wit with dark academia’s dread in a feverish descent into belonging’s deadly cost.
We Love You, Bunny – 2025
Samantha, now a famed author, is kidnapped by vengeful Bunnies on tour. Forced to narrate their origins, she unravels a metafictional prequel-sequel at Warren, where fairy-tale rituals birth golems amid academic envy. This chaotic satire explores grief, revenge, and sisterhood’s hive-mind in a delirious, thorned literary nightmare.
Standalone Novels
All’s Well – 2021
Miranda, a pained ex-actress teaching drama, battles skeptical students and a failing body while staging Shakespeare’s All’s Well. Supernatural benefactors offer healing and revenge, thrusting her into a feverish dream. This dark comedy explores ambition, doubt, and power’s cost, weaving Shakespearean intrigue with visceral, triumphant agency.
Rouge – 2023
Belle, reeling from her mother’s suicide, returns to Belle du Jour, uncovering a cosmetic cult stealing faces and souls. Blending Snow White motifs with Hollywood satire, this surreal horror probes grief, envy, and mother-daughter legacies in a hallucinatory descent into beauty’s monstrous price and inherited obsessions.
Short Stories/Novellas
If That’s All There Is – 2016
A young woman’s road trip through desolate landscapes mirrors her inner unraveling. Fleeting encounters with strangers echo lost dreams, romances, and ambitions. This meditative novella blends nostalgia and disillusionment, exploring memory, regret, and the quiet courage to embrace life’s imperfections in a poignant, bittersweet reflection on existence.
Collections
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl – 2016
Elizabeth’s life, from “Lizzie” to mother, unfolds in linked stories, tracing body dysmorphia amid diets, judgmental lovers, and family pressures. With sharp wit and vulnerability, this collection dissects fat stigma’s cruelty, illuminating how external gazes erode self-worth while celebrating the multifaceted humanity resisting society’s reductive judgments.