“The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again.
Since President-elect Donald Trump landed his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on Amazon.com’s best-seller list. “The Handmaid’s Tale” was popular throughout Trump’s first term, alongside dark, futuristic tales like George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” both of which were in America’s top 40. Amazon Thursday afternoon. Another bestseller from Trump’s previous term, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder, was in the top 10.
Pro-Trump books also sold well. Former first lady Melania Trump’s memoir “Melania” was No. 1 on the Amazon list, and Vice President-elect JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” was in the top 10. Donald Trump’s photo book “Save America” was in the top 30.
At Barnes & Noble, “fiction and nonfiction books that feature fascism, feminism, dystopian worlds, and right- and left-wing politics have skyrocketed in our sales with the election results,” according to Shannon DeVito, the chain’s director of books. . She cited “Melania,” “On Tyranny” and Bob Woodward’s latest novel, “War,” which covers Trump and President Joe Biden’s responses to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
DeVito also cited “a huge increase in dystopian fiction,” notably for “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984.”
