NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� 鈥淭he Handmaid's Tale鈥� is selling again.
Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on the Amazon.com best seller list. 鈥淭he Handmaid's Tale鈥� was popular throughout Trump's first term, along with such dark futuristic narratives as George Orwell's 鈥�1984鈥� and Ray Bradbury's 鈥淔ahrenheit 451,鈥� both of which were in the Amazon top 40 as of Thursday afternoon. Another best-seller from Trump's previous time in office, Timothy Snyder's 鈥淥n Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,鈥� was in the top 10.
Pro-Trump books also were selling well. Former first lady Melania Trump's memoir, 鈥淢elania,鈥� was No. 1 on the Amazon list, and Vice President-elect JD Vance's 鈥淗illbilly Elegy鈥� was in the top 10. Donald Trump's photo book 鈥淪ave America鈥� was in the top 30.
At Barnes & Noble, 鈥淔iction and non-fiction books that feature fascism, feminism, dystopian worlds and both right-and-left leaning politics rocketed up our sales charts with the election results,鈥� according to Shannon DeVito, the chain's director of books. She cited 鈥淢elania,鈥� 鈥淥n Tyranny鈥� and Bob Woodward's latest, 鈥淲ar,鈥� which covers the responses of Trump and President Joe Biden to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
DeVito also cited 鈥渁 massive bump in dystopian fiction,鈥� notably for 鈥淭he Handmaid's Tale鈥� and 鈥�1984.鈥�
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
