Handmaid’s Tale soars 400 places to third place on bestseller charts after Trump win
Handmaid’s Tale soars 400 places to third place on bestseller charts after Trump win
Other dystopian titles have seen up to a 30,000 per cent surge in sales
Summary
Since Donald Trump’s election win, sales of dystopian and politically themed books have surged, with titles like The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 climbing the U.S. bestseller lists.
Feminist and anti-tyranny works, such as Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit and On Democracy by Timothy Snyder, have also seen significant spikes, reflecting public concerns over women’s rights and democratic values.
Women’s rights groups and individuals have voiced alarm over potential threats to reproductive rights, recalling Trump’s support for the Roe v. Wade overturn during his previous term.
Atwood is also one of the sanest centrist voices I've ever read, in essays and interviews. (Centrist by Canadian standards -- probably quite left by US standards). She always seems to be acutely aware of institutional inertia and how things like independent courts are vital to free societies. Wish there were more like her.
People are buying these books while they’re still allowed to.
I'm just glad she's safe in Canada.
Fuck, if only the road was clear BEFORE the election..
They should have read it before the election to learn what the Trump Movement is aiming at. Well, at least they will now learn what to expect.
At least if people wear those handmaid hats to the protests that should help skirt the facial recognition systems.
That’s a really solid point, but they make it difficult to have proper situational awareness, so use cautiously.
They want to read the book so they'll understand the live action play when it happens in real life.
Under His eye.
It was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual!!!
Fascists by definition don't get the joke (or point)
You mean we shouldn't build the torment Nexus from the best selling dystopian book Don't build the torment Nexus?
Big tech: "Don't be ridiculous! Think of the shareholder dividends!"
You may also want to add Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” to this list. Zweig was a Viennese Jew who escaped* the Nazis, and wrote poignantly about the world he has loved that was lost to Hitler. Today’s Zweigs would write about the mundane, taken-for-granted world before 2017.
* he and his wife managed to make it to Argentina, but then, a year or so before the end of the war, committed suicide. Being safe from physical harm doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve escaped.
Check out The Parable of the Sower
The fact that this book starts in 2024 with an election gone wrong is too spot on.
Great read that goes into climate and class issues as well.
Great timing.
