Bunny Paperback by Mona Awad – Dark Academia Horror Novel

by Mona Awad (Author)

Bunny – Paperback by Mona Awad is a surreal dark-academia novel blending literary satire, psychological horror, friendship, creative obsession, and unsettling fantasy.

Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in the prestigious writing program at Warren University. She feels disconnected from her wealthy classmates, especially the mysterious group of women who call one another “Bunny.” Everything changes when the Bunnies invite Samantha to one of their exclusive gatherings.

Drawn into their secretive world, Samantha becomes involved in strange workshops, elaborate rituals, and increasingly disturbing creative experiments. As the boundaries between reality and imagination begin to collapse, she must confront the group’s influence and decide how much of herself she is willing to lose.

Darkly funny, imaginative, and unpredictable, Bunny is ideal for readers who enjoy campus novels, surreal horror, complex female friendships, literary satire, and atmospheric dark-academia fiction. The publisher describes the novel as a blend of outsider narrative, elite academic culture, and a dangerously seductive clique.

Book Highlights

• Written by bestselling author Mona Awad
• Paperback edition
• Dark-academia and campus horror novel
• Features a prestigious creative-writing program
• Follows outsider Samantha Heather Mackey
• Includes a secretive group known as the Bunnies
• Blends literary satire, horror, fantasy, and dark humor
• Explores friendship, belonging, creativity, and obsession
• Features surreal transformations and unsettling rituals
• Suitable for fans of experimental and atmospheric fiction
• Popular with readers of weird-girl literature and BookTok fiction
• Strong choice for book clubs and literary-horror readers

Author Biography

Mona Awad is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. Awad's debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her most recent novel, All's Well,  was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror.