Bunny Books in Order

The Bunny world starts at Warren University, a small, highly selective MFA program in New England. At the center is Samantha Heather Mackey, a scholarship student who feels cut off from the money, polish, and shared language around her. Her one real ally is Ava. Everyone else seems to belong to a clique of rich, eerily coordinated classmates who call one another Bunny.

Then Samantha gets invited in.

That invitation is the engine of the story. The Bunnies' circle is part writing workshop, part performance, part private cult, and Samantha cannot quite tell whether she wants to mock it or join it. Awad builds the tension out of that push and pull. Samantha is repelled by the group's sweetness, privilege, and fake intimacy, but she is also lonely enough to be tempted by the promise of being chosen.

The setting matters a lot. Because the book lives inside a graduate writing program, it gets to have fun with workshop language, artistic ego, and the small humiliations of academic life. Warren feels cloistered, competitive, and unreal in just the right way. Every class discussion, party, and private conversation comes loaded with questions about talent, class, taste, and who gets to decide what counts as serious art.

Nothing in this world stays ordinary for long.

As Samantha follows the Bunnies to their off-campus Workshop, the novel slides from campus satire into surreal horror. Awad keeps the line between metaphor and magic deliberately blurry, so the book can feel like dark academia, fairy tale, body horror, and friendship drama all at once. The deeper question is not only what the Bunnies are doing, but what Samantha is willing to trade for closeness, recognition, and creative power. Belonging is seductive here, and so is reinvention.

If you're deciding whether this is your kind of series, expect something sharp, creepy, funny, and intentionally disorienting. Bunny works less like a neat puzzle and more like a fever dream about loneliness, class anxiety, female friendship, and the danger of letting a group rewrite your reality. Readers who enjoy books that are strange on purpose, and that use horror to talk about identity and desire, usually click with it fast.