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Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels BUNNY, ROUGE, ALL'S WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL. She is a three time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, a finalist for the Giller Prize, and a winner of the Amazon Best First Novel Award. BUNNY was also a finalist for the New England Book Award and it won the Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award. It's currently in development for film with Bad Robot Productions. Her forthcoming novel, WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY will be released with Simon & Schuster in September 2025.

She earned an MFA from Brown University and an MScR in English from the University of Edinburgh where her dissertation was on fear in the fairy tale. In 2018, she completed a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literary ...more

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	Bunny (Bunny, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 355,241 ratings — published 2019 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rouge 3.53 avg rating — 53,205 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All's Well 3.74 avg rating — 37,894 ratings — published 2021 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl 3.10 avg rating — 21,101 ratings — published 2016 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2) 3.44 avg rating — 17,588 ratings — published 2025 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lolly Willowes: Or, The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mona Awad (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 3.69 avg rating — 14,239 ratings — published 1926 — 169 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chartreuse 4.19 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If That's All There Is by Mona Awad (Goodreads Author), Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) (Forward) 3.38 avg rating — 45 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bunny: Le livre phénomène TikTok au succès planétaire traduit en français et disponible en poche: COLLECTOR 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I loved this book as I love all of Sims’ novels. So eerie and sharp, so classic feeling yet contemporary. I think of Highsmith and Hitchcock when it comes to her gift for suspense and dark Americana, but she also has a poet’s eye and ear for conjurin ...more
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“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

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“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
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“We never joke about bunnies, Bunny.”
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2nd Quarter 2023 - Horror #3

The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert - 336 pp

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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - 419 pp

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Lone Women by Victor LaValle - 304 pp

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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin - 183 pp

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Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder - 272 pp

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi - 304 pp

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Bunny by Mona Awad - 307 pp

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The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett - 304 pp

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