We Love You, Bunny

The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny , a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’. In the cult classic novel Bunny , Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam 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 the way 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, their 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. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers , We Love You, Bunny is a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete standalone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to a dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream, Mona Awad.

About the author

Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. Margaret Atwood named Awad her “literary heir” in The New York Times’s T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.

Report

A goofy, overblown flower of a book with lots of thorns that pleasurably scratch' - Guardian

'Fresh yet nostalgic, darkly funny and a complete page-turner' - Daily Mirror

'[A] dark, twisted satire of academia and the cultlike world of writers.' - New York Times

'Rising stars [like Awad]...make a return this season... Twisted dark academia comes in the form of We Love You Bunny.' - BBC, "The best culture to look forward to this autumn"

'Mona Awad has returned and her latest will get under your skin just the way her fans have come to expect.' - PEOPLE

'Dark comedy never had it so good.' - Hamilton Cain, The Boston Globe

'You don't have to have read the original Bunny book to dive into this one-though it's so good and strange that you really, really should. We Love You, Bunny serves as a prequel, a sequel, and a standalone journey into the bizarre Bunny hive-mind. It mashes up Mona Awad's familiar combo of dark academia, fairytale-y and horror-y elements, and wry humor to tell the Bunnies's origin story.' -Marie Claire, "The 20 Best New Novels You Need to Read in 2025"

'[A] twisty sequel... Mona Awad's long-awaited follow-up to her cult classic novel, Bunny, takes readers back into the eerily haunting universe of Samantha Heather Mackey-a world in which MFA students are really as scary as they seem.' -Harper's Bazaar, 'The 30 Best Book Releases of Fall 2025'

'[A] fever dream of a dark comedy... [Awad's] dark fairy tales are firmly rooted in the familiar. They shock us into questioning common assumptions we may not have examined as critically as we should... While things frequently turn capital-G-Gothic and can be baroquely gory at times, Awad's writing is also a delight to read: chatty, gossipy, light as spun sugar.' -Toronto Star

'We Love You, Bunny is stranger and more ambitious than Bunny... Awad's new novel pulls apart academia and the nature of creativity itself... [T]his new novel is richly creative... In long sections written from [the] point of view [of one of the Bunnies' creations], Awad flexes her creative muscles to glorious effect.' - Jezebel

'Awad's Bunny...is beloved-and regularly included in 'best of dark academia' roundups-for good reason: It's as sharp as axes wielded by the Bunnies (think Mean Girls' Plastics, but if they got MFAs). With We Love You, Bunny...she recreates that singular magic.' - Bustle, "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025"

'[A] fascinating fever dream.' -USA Today

'We've missed you, Bunny. [Mona Awad is] Canada's Queen of Highbrow Horror.' -Toronto Star

'If you know, you know. Mona Awad's bonkers novel Bunny-beloved by Margaret Atwood and the zanier corners of BookTok-has achieved cult status since hopping on the scene in 2019. But the new sequel (which is also a prequel) might be an even bigger deal! ... And with the culture in its Labubu/matcha/Dubai Chocolate era, We Love You, Bunny's maximalist mood of creepy-cute weirdness is exactly the amount of extra we need right now.' -Audible, "Editors Select: September 2025"

'Awad's Bunny is a modern cult classic... As each one takes their turn [narrating in We Love You, Bunny], we turn back to the monstrous creations and darkly sweet world of the Bunnies.' -Book Riot, "5 New Audiobooks on Spotify"

'I'm generally not fond of sequels, but Mona Awad's outrageous We Love You, Bunny is a worthy exception... The novel pays homage to Frankenstein in particular, with its focus on mad science (or perhaps mad creative writing). We Love You, Bunny contains as much social satire and dark comedy as its predecessor, and with multiple distinctive narrators, it emerges as even bolder and stranger.' -The Walrus, "The Best Books of Fall 2025"

'Grim, funny, and frightening, this tale of witchery, confusion, and evil juxtaposed with a curious innocence is fascinating and compelling... [T]his will chill and fascinate in equal measures... Written with a wry and dark worldview limned with consummate skill, this tale of selfishness, lust, hunger for power, and egotism is horror at its best.' -Reading the West

'Frankenstein meets Heathers in this darkly funny, gory fairytale of friendship, self-exploration, creation, and the horrifying yet wonderful power of imagination... Everyone's favourite literary mean girls are back in Mona Awad's sequel to the sensation Bunny... Beneath their bubblegum-pink, rotting, sickeningly sweet allure, there is a vulnerability inside [the Bunnies]... The writing process is made explicit in the Bunnies' search for perfection, dissecting the raw and individualistic process of what it means to be a writer, from the excitement of worldbuilding to the pain of killing your favourite character.' -Readings (Australia)

'[A] twisted tale of art, obsession and friendship... Blending fairy tale, slasher, and dark academia, We Love You, Bunny is a wicked exploration of the wonder and terror of creation-and the dangerous intimacy of love and loyalty. Mona Awad's follow-up is both a prequel and sequel to Bunny, combining Frankenstein with Heathers in a truly wild ride.' -Geek Girl Authority

'Darkly hilarious and feverishly surreal... A phantasmagoric, blood-splattered fairy tale of creation, obsession, and the monstrous power of female friendship.' -BookTrib

'Equal parts dark academia and fairy-tale slasher, this sequel flips the script on Bunny... [W]e're drawn into a wicked, surreal tale of creativity, power, and the bonds that both terrify and transform. Strange, sharp, and intoxicating, it's a book you won't stop talking about. (Trust me, I can't.)' -Camille Styles

'Out of the frying pan and into the fire-or from dark academia into publishing, as this case may be... Described as Heathers meets Frankenstein, this sequel pulls us back to a literary landscape worth revisiting.' -Everything Zoomer, "Ring the Bell: September's Fiction Highlights"

'Part prequel, part sequel, and entirely its own wild tale, this is a sharp, dark academia novel perfect for book clubs.' -Bookclubs, "The Most Anticipated Book Club Books for Fall 2025"

'A surreal story about belonging.' - KUOW (Seattle NPR) Meet Me Here

'[Awad's] command of acerbic wit and satiric plotlines, talent for characterization, and sharp metacriticism of creative writing programs make her story sing in the way only bleeding tongues, broken hearts, and battle axes can... It's Bookstagram-worthy dark academia that's alarming, allegorical, and nuanced and unravels Bunny catastrophically and captivatingly. Fans of Atwood, R.F. Kuang, and Marisha Pessl will savor this book, whose heady, unsettling intellectualism builds on Awad's reputation as one of today's boldest feminist satirists.' -Library Journal (starred)

'Awad adds another brilliant roast of academia to the shelves, once again unmatched in playful language... with dialogue-heavy, laugh-out-loud funny, cinematic prose... Readers will laugh to tears and be fully immersed in this ethereal trip back to Warren.' -Booklist (starred)

'The Bunnies get to tell their side of the story: it's an Alice in Wonderland, dark academia, slasher romp that is so much fun.' -Lit Hub, "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two"

'We Love You, Bunny is playfully self-aware as it looks both to the Bunny origins and towards a new chapter-another banger from Awad to obsess over.' -Reactor Mag, "30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025"

'Awad's prose remains as biting as ever, skillfully oscillating between the lyrical and the absurd. Readers need not be familiar with Bunny to appreciate this outing, though fans will relish the deepened mythology and twisted callbacks. This bold satire breaks exciting new ground in the Bunny universe.' -Publishers Weekly

'We Love You, Bunny returns to the uncanny terrain that made Awad cult-famous [and] burrows further into the fragmented, hallucinatory terrain she began to chart in Bunny. Her commitment to the surreal is gripping, as is her evolving command of structure - the way her stories fold in on themselves, mimicking the mental contortions of her narrator. With its feverish premise, metafiction turns, and a built-in cult following hungry for more, We Love You, Bunny is poised to be the buzziest release of the season.' -Women.com "Most Anticipated Book Releases of Fall 2025"

Praise for Bunny by Mona Awad

'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 X (formerly Twitter)

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

'A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . A touching story of true-versus-faux friendship that many women will relate to is at the heart of this novel, but fans of the occult will find plenty to love about the Bunnies' sci-fi-adjacent ritual experimentation. As if grad school needed to get any scarier.' -Vogue, "The Best Novels of 2019"

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

'Wacky and delicious.' -Lauren Groff, via X (fromerly Twitter)

'[One of] the most cerebral and compulsively readable books of the season . . . This compelling novel about a mysterious grad school clique draws a bit of inspiration from Mean Girls or Heathers...before long, the novel takes a turn into the surreal, applying the logic of a horror movie to its incisive exploration of cruelty between young women.' -Vanity Fair

'Every time I open it up, I stumble upon a crackling sentence.'-Dwight Garner, The New York Times

'Outstanding . . . highly addictive, darkly comedic . . . Awad will have readers racing to find out how it all ends-and they won't be disappointed once the story reaches its wild finale. This is an enchanting and stunningly bizarre novel.' -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

'A work of toothsome and fanged intelligence....wickedly hilarious.' -The New Yorker

'A viciously funny bloodbath . . . Awad gleefully pumps up the novel's nightmarish quality until the boundary between perception and reality has all but dissolved completely. It's clear that Awad is having fun here-the proof is in the gore-and her delight is contagious . . . Wickedly sharp . . . A near-perfect realization of a singular vision.' -Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

'Mona Awad's prose is dangerous. She crafts beautiful meals laced with poison.' -The Paris Review

Product details

• Authors: Mona Awad, Awad Mona, To Be Confirmed Simon Element, To Be Confirmed Simon Element
• Publisher: Scribner UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2025
• EAN: 9781398535169
• ISBN: 978-1-398-53516-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: general and literary