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Bunny: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Soon to be a major motion picture

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times


"Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post

The Vegetarian
meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge


"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. 

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.


Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

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320 pages

Average rating: 6.47

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Community Reviews

Anonymous
Mar 31, 2025
2/10 stars
Not gonna lie, I have NO CLUE what the fuck this book was about, what it's purpose was or what I just read. I'm not entirely sure what to do with the words I just experienced.
Andréa
Mar 07, 2025
1/10 star
RTC
ElleBelle
Mar 03, 2025
9/10 stars
Wild ride. And pretty sure being friends with anyone is somehow scary.
karinaaa
Jan 23, 2025
8/10 stars
This book keeps you engaged while you question “what is going on” and “is she serious right now” a majority of the time. It’s not for everyone but was definitely for me.
Anonymous
Jan 08, 2025
4/10 stars
Not a fan. Hoping Rouge is better than Bunny.

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