THIS FALL IS STACKED

There are so many fantastic books out this season—from big, buzzy memoirs to an absolutely wild novel about women who can turn bunnies into men (and back again!)— that I'll just get right to it. Without further ado, your fall reading list.

- Maureen Halushak

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

It's impossible to sum up this deeply weird and hilarious horror-fantasy fever dream, a sequel to 2019's Bunny, in one sentence. Even Mona Awad herself hesitates when I ask her to do so.

The original Bunnies (four truly effed-up MFA students) kidnap Samantha—the outsider who gets enmeshed in their messy circle in the first book—after she publishes a thinly veiled novel that portrays them in a less-than-flattering light. As each Bunny takes a turn sharing her version of previous events with Sam, we get pulled deeper into the first book's dark, fuzzy and very bloody bunny-to-man creation story. The emoji-laden sections narrated by rabbit-man Aerius (yes, like the allergy medicine—"a nod to my Canadian background," says Awad) are the best thing I've read in 2025. Sept. 23

All the Way to The River by Elizabeth Gilbert

Wondering what the “nice lady who wrote