Books like “Bunny”

What to read after “Bunny” by Mona Awad: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo · 2019
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia” and “Creeping Dread”
Galaxy Stern, the lone survivor of a brutal murder, is offered a place at Yale by the secret societies that run the university's magic. Her task is to watch their rituals, but when a local girl dies, Alex must use the very power she fears to find the killer.
2
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
Years ago four Blackfeet men shot an elk on land they had no right to hunt. Now something is stalking them across the reservation, taking them one by one, in a story about grief, guilt and the debts that follow a person home.
3
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
Five boys and their scoutmaster camp on a remote island for a weekend. A starving stranger arrives by boat, carrying a parasite that turns the body against itself. As the infection spreads, the small group's most immediate danger becomes one of the boys themselves.
4
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
- Secret Society
Six talented magicians are invited to the Alexandrian Society, a secret fellowship that guards lost knowledge. Only five can be initiated at the end of the year, and the recruits must decide how far they will go to keep their places, and whom they are willing to betray.
5
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Satire”
- Body Horror
- Satire
After a virus makes all animal meat deadly, Argentina legalises the farming of humans for food. Marcos works the slaughter line and keeps his feelings out of it, until he is given a live woman as a gift and begins to treat her as a person.
6
Misery
Stephen King · 1987
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
After a car crash in a snowstorm, novelist Paul Sheldon wakes in the remote home of Annie Wilkes, who calls herself his number one fan. She nurses him back to health, then learns he has killed off her favourite character, and will not let him leave until he writes her a new book.
7
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
In 1950s Mexico, socialite Noemi Taboada travels to the mountain mansion of High Place to check on her newly married cousin, who writes of ghosts and sickness. The English family that owns it is cold and strange, and the house itself seems to be listening and slowly changing her.
8
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Satire”
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy Wall Street banker with a taste for designer labels, fine dining and status, and a private life of extreme violence. His narration moves between expensive restaurants and scenes of cruelty, refusing to say how much of either is real.
9
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
Alex Easton travels to the Ushers' decaying manor to see a childhood friend who is dying. Madeline's body is changing in ways the doctors cannot explain, down to the hairs on her arms, the local hares behave strangely, and the tarn beside the house seems to be watching.
10
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
Four women cross into Area X, a coastal region sealed off for decades, to survey it as the twelfth expedition. The biologist records the abandoned bunker, the writing on its walls and the animals that seem almost aware. She also knows her husband went in before her and came back changed.
11
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
- Unreliable Narrator
Seven acting students at an elite Shakespeare conservatory are so close they share every role. When one of them is found dead during their final year, the friends must decide what story to tell the police. Ten years later, one of them finally explains what really happened.
12
Slade House
David Mitchell · 2015
Similar atmosphere: “Creeping Dread”
- Creeping Dread
Behind a hidden door in a narrow London alley waits a house that appears only every nine years. Guests are drawn inside and never come out the same. Linked over decades, their stories reveal what feeds the house. A haunting dark-fantasy tale about appetite and illusion.