Trump win boosts book sales from "The Handmaid's Tale" to "Hillbilly Elegy"

"The Handmaid's Tale" is trading again.

Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to nan White House, Margaret Atwood's dystopian classical astir a state successful which women are brutally repressed has been precocious connected nan Amazon.com champion seller list. "The Handmaid's Tale" was celebrated passim Trump's first term, on pinch specified acheronian futuristic narratives arsenic George Orwell's "1984" and Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," some of which were successful nan Amazon apical 40 arsenic of Thursday afternoon. Another best-seller from Trump's erstwhile clip successful office, Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from nan Twentieth Century," was successful nan apical 10.

Pro-Trump books besides were trading well. Former first woman Melania Trump's memoir, "Melania," was No. 1 connected nan Amazon list, and Vice President-elect JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" was successful nan apical 10. Donald Trump's photograph book "Save America" was successful nan apical 30.

At Barnes & Noble, "Fiction and non-fiction books that characteristic fascism, feminism, dystopian worlds and some right-and-left leaning authorities rocketed up our income charts pinch nan predetermination results," according to Shannon DeVito, nan chain's head of books. She cited "Melania," "On Tyranny" and Bob Woodward's latest, "War," which covers nan responses of Trump and President Joe Biden to nan conflicts successful Ukraine and nan Middle East.

DeVito besides cited "a monolithic bump successful dystopian fiction," notably for "The Handmaid's Tale" and "1984."

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