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Mona Awad

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Fiction, Horror, Contemporary

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Mona Awad is the author of BUNNY, ALL'S WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL. 13 WAYS won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Her second novel, BUNNY, was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award, and won the Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award. It is currently being optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. ALL'S WELL was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. Her new novel, ROUGE, is forthcoming in September 2023 with Simon & Schuster.

She earned an MFA from Brown University and an MScR in English from the University of Edinburgh where her dissertation was on fear in the fairy tale. In 2018, she completed a Ph.D. in Creative ...more

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	Bunny 3.49 avg rating — 237,859 ratings — published 2019 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rouge 3.55 avg rating — 32,395 ratings — published 2023 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All's Well 3.74 avg rating — 28,283 ratings — published 2021 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl 3.08 avg rating — 18,005 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lolly Willowes: Or, The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mona Awad (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 10,803 ratings — published 1926 — 151 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron Project by The New York Times (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Edwidge Danticat 3.57 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore by Michael Harris Cohen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Angela Buck (Contributor), Simon P. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If That's All There Is by Mona Awad (Goodreads Author), Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) (Forward) 3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Summer 2021 by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) (Guest-Editor), Nana Kwame Adjei-Breniyah, Rumaan Alam (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storie by Nick Mount, Mona Awad (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kevin Hardcastle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
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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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“We never joke about bunnies, Bunny.”
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