Bunny Bites Book Club

Cynthia:

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – A man returns to his childhood home and remembers a supernatural encounter that changed his life forever. Google
• Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley – A strange tale of alien colonization, transformation, and the price of connection between worlds. Google
• We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry – A darkly comic novel about a 1980s high school field hockey team that dabbles in witchcraft to win games. Google
• Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh – An elderly woman finds a mysterious note that leads her down a rabbit hole of paranoia and delusion. Google
• Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford – A haunting tale of a healer and her daughter living in isolation on the edge of a suspicious village. Google
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune – A heartwarming fantasy about a caseworker who discovers a magical orphanage and finds unexpected family. Google

Sloan:

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf – A fantastical biography of a character who lives for centuries and changes gender, exploring identity and time. Google
• A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – A powerful memoir about grief and the year following her husband’s sudden death. Google
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro – An elderly couple journeys through post-Arthurian Britain, haunted by memory loss and buried trauma. Google
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong – A poetic novel written as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother about family, trauma, and identity. Google

Monica:

• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin – A haunting, surreal tale of a mother’s anxiety and environmental poisoning told from a hospital bed. Google
• The Outsider by Stephen King – A detective investigates a child murder case where the evidence points to an impossible supernatural culprit. Google
• Mile 81 by Stephen King – A horror novella about a supernatural car that traps and kills travelers at a rest stop. Google
• The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon – A psychologist returns home to investigate her sister’s death by drowning in a cursed spring. Google
• Catchers by Thomas C. Sweterlitsch – A noir thriller set in a near-future where digital memories of a destroyed city can be explored virtually. Google
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende – A young boy discovers a magical book that draws him into the fantasy world of Fantastica. Google

Chantal:

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus – A 1960s chemist becomes an unlikely cooking show star while fighting workplace sexism and societal expectations. Google
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – A heartwarming story about an elderly woman who forms an unlikely friendship with an octopus at an aquarium. Google
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros – A fantasy romance about a war college where dragon riders train and deadly secrets lurk. Google
• Educated by Tara Westover – A powerful memoir about a woman who grows up in a survivalist family and educates herself, eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge. Google

Chery:

• The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich – A contemplative memoir about finding healing and perspective in the vast landscapes of Wyoming. Google

Dori:

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – A darkly comic thriller about a woman who keeps covering up her sister’s murders. Google
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler – A dystopian novel about a young woman with a new religion trying to survive in a collapsing America. Google
• The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods – A dual-timeline story connecting a modern woman with a 1920s bookshop owner in Dublin. Google
• Dawn by Octavia Butler – The first book in the Xenogenesis trilogy about humanity’s survival after Earth’s destruction through alien intervention. Google
• Severance by Ling Ma – A satirical pandemic novel following a woman navigating both corporate life and a zombie-like plague. Google
• After Annie by Anna Quindlen – A novel about four adult siblings dealing with their mother’s death and family secrets. Google

Books Read and Discussed (as of 10/1125)

• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – An epic gothic novel following a young woman’s search for her missing father and the truth about Dracula. Google
• Bunny by Mona Awad – A darkly surreal novel about a graduate student who gets drawn into her classmates’ twisted creative writing rituals. Google
• The Outsider by Stephen King – A detective investigates a child murder case where the evidence points to an impossible supernatural culprit. Google
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro – An elderly couple journeys through post-Arthurian Britain, haunted by memory loss and buried trauma. Google
• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin – A haunting, surreal tale of a mother’s anxiety and environmental poisoning told from a hospital bed. Google
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros – A fantasy romance about a war college where dragon riders train and deadly secrets lurk. Google
• The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich – A contemplative memoir about finding healing and perspective in the vast landscapes of Wyoming. Google