Order of Mona Awad Books

Mona Awad is a Canadian author of darkly comic fiction novels. She is known for her sharp, unsettling blend of dark humor, psychological tension, and surreal or uncanny elements. Her work often explores beauty, desire, obsession, and the pressures placed on women, moving between realism and the grotesque with a distinctive, playful edge. Awad’s breakout novel Bunny earned wide attention for its mix of satire and horror, while All’s Well continued her interest in characters caught between pain, performance, and fantasy.

Mona Awad made her debut as a novelist in 2016 with 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Below is a list of Mona Awad’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Bunny Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Mona Awad Synopses: Bunny is a standalone novel by Mona Awad that follows Samantha Heather Mackey, an outsider in the tightly knit and aggressively whimsical MFA program at Warren University in New England. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her own unsettling imagination, Samantha feels alienated by the rest of her fiction cohort, a group of wealthy, hyper‑affectionate young women who call one another “Bunny” and seem to operate as a single, saccharine organism.

Everything shifts when Samantha receives an unexpected invitation to the Bunnies’ notorious “Smut Salon.” Against her better judgment, she finds herself drawn toward their world and begins drifting away from her only friend, Ava. As Samantha becomes entangled in the Bunnies’ rituals, she is pulled into their secret off‑campus “Workshop,” a place where creative exercises take on a sinister, uncanny life of their own. The boundaries between fantasy and reality begin to dissolve, and the consequences of her divided loyalties grow increasingly dangerous.

All’s Well is a standalone novel by Mona Awad that follows Miranda Fitch, a former actress whose career ended after a devastating injury. Now a college theater professor living with chronic pain, Miranda is determined to stage Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well despite the open rebellion of her students, who want to perform Macbeth instead. Her colleagues doubt her, her body betrays her, and her life feels like it is collapsing under the weight of disappointment and exhaustion.

Everything shifts when Miranda encounters three mysterious benefactors who seem to understand her suffering with uncanny precision. Their arrival brings a strange new energy to her world, and Miranda begins to experience changes that feel impossible to explain. As rehearsals spiral into chaos and reality grows increasingly unstable, Miranda finds herself caught between desire, power, and the dangerous allure of getting exactly what she thinks she deserves.

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is a standalone novel by Mona Awad that follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in the suburban sprawl of Misery Saga (otherwise known as “Mississauga”), a place she experiences as a constant reminder of how she believes she falls short. She has never been comfortable with her appearance, even when her best friend Mel insists she is the pretty one. When Lizzie begins dating boys online, she refuses to send photos, convinced that anyone who saw her would lose interest. Even China, her effortlessly thin friend who does her makeup, cannot shift Lizzie’s belief that she is unworthy of being seen.

Determined to change her life, Lizzie begins to lose weight with relentless discipline. She counts every almond, tracks every mile, and watches the numbers on the scale fall. As she grows older and thinner, she slips into coveted dresses and receives the complicated approval of her mother, her friends, her husband, and even her own reflection. Yet the validation she chases never feels secure. No matter how much she sheds, Lizzie cannot escape the question that shadows her: will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?