If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Margaret Atwood ‘s The Handmaid’s Tale has returned to the top of Amazon’s bestsellers charts, less than 24 hours following the reelection of Donald Trump , a convicted felon and twice impeached former president, to a second term. The day after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 general election, Atwood’s dystopian bestselling book saw a staggering 1,826% increase in sales on Amazon’s Movers & Shakers chart .
The book previously sat in the 443 spot on the list and has jumped to the eighth spot on the chart. $8.38 $17.
00 51% off Atwood’s bestseller The Handmaid’s Tale returned to the top of Amazon’s charts following the 2024 election results. It’s available in paperback, hardcover, audiobook, and on Kindle. The dystopian novel is set in a post-war future as “declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War.
The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women,” as the book’s logline goes. In a Rolling Stone interview back in 2021, Atwood discussed watching Trump’s rise “With trepidation! We’ve seen this before. It’s right out of the playbook.
The big propaganda lies, the replacement of people in pivotal positions in the judiciary — because every totalitarian regime controls t.