5 Of The Best Mona Awad Books In Order

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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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If you’ve recently discovered Mona Awad and are wondering where to begin, you’re not alone. Known for her darkly imaginative storytelling and sharp explorations of identity, desire, and obsession, Awad has quickly become a favourite among fans of literary fiction and unsettling tales. Whether you’ve heard the buzz around Bunny, been intrigued by All’s Well, or are anticipating her latest release, it helps to know the best Mona Awad book in order. Reading Mona Awad’s novels in publication order gives you a clear view of how her writing has evolved, whilst also letting you experience recurring themes and ideas as she originally presented them. Today at What We Reading, we’re sharing a complete list of Mona Awad books in order, highlighting her most popular works, and helping you decide which one to pick up first. If you’re ready to dive into her uniquely haunting world, this list is for you. 

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13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl (2016)

Kicking off our list of Mona Awad books is 2016’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Growing up in the suburban hell of Missy Saga (aka Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks – even though her best friend, Mel, tells her she is the pretty one. She begins dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, and her reflection in the mirror. But, no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? 

In her brilliant, hilarious, and sometimes shocking debut novel, Mona Awad skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is upended by her struggle to conform. 

Bunny (2019)

Undoubtedly, the most famous Mona Awad book and the title that put the Canadian on the literary map, Bunny opens with Samantha Heather Mackey earning a scholarship to the small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. Preferring the company of her dark imagination, she is repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort – a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who all call one another Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to join the Bunnies’ fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself drawn to their front door, leaving her best friend, Ava, in the process. 

As Samantha is pulled deeper and deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, taking part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality soon begin to blur. Soon, her friendship with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. Bunny charts the female experience and is a tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic, terrible power of the imagination. 

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All’s Well (2021)

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. 

That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalising promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible doubt that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known. 

Rouge (2023)

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about death. The stakes are escalated when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalising clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. 

With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror – and the great simmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Hailed as Snow White meeting Eyes Wide Shut, this Mona Awad novel is a surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. 

We Love You, Bunny (Bunny #2) (2025)

When We Love You, Bunny opens. Samantha Heather Mackey has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at how they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, the discovery of their unusual creative powers, and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. 

With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Frankenstein by way of Heather, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel to Mona Awad’s 2019 viral sensation. It is a dazzingly original and darkly hilarious romp into the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream herself. 

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