The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency.

The 90th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 13th on Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (Harvard Book Store)
  2. - 16th on The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 (Entertainment Weekly)
  3. - 17th on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
  4. - 29th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
  5. - 46th on Top 100 World Literature Titles (Perfection Learning)
  6. - 53rd on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
  7. - 58th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
  8. - 71st on The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (Bookman.com)
  9. - 114th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
  10. - Select 100 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
  11. - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (UK))
  12. - The Great American Read (PBS)
  13. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
  14. - The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)
  15. - The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013 (Flavor Wire)
  16. - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (USA))
  17. - From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
By Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Hardcover 810646 $110.44 $25.02 1988
The Handmaid's Tale 1st (first) edition Text Only Paperback 661254 $9.60 $2.96
The Handmaid's Tale (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) Hardcover 1607315 $30.99 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) (French Edition) Paperback 1564323 $8.30 $0.21 1996
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale (Salamandra Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition) Mass Market Paperback 4318244 $13.95 2021
The Handmaid's Tale Paperback 732301 $9.82 $0.22
The Handmaid&#146s Tale Audio CD 1480177 $154.39 $28.94 2004
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale (Salamandra Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition) Paperback 1968490 $13.95 2021
The Handmaid's Tale (The Classic Collection) Audio CD 6427734 $54.97 $33.99 2014
The Handmaid's Tale (York Notes Advanced) Paperback 889568 $6.74 $0.89 2003
The Handmaid's Tale Mass Market Paperback 1095259 $65.53 $2.17 1986
The Handmaid's Tale Mass Market Paperback 2243981 $0.25
Handmaid's Tale (Bloom's Guides) Hardcover 1117101 $65.22 $6.15 2006
[The Handmaid's Tale] (By: Margaret Atwood) [published: March, 1998] Paperback 1910582 $17.57 1998
Kisah Sang Handmaid (The Handmaid's Tale) (Indonesian Edition) Paperback 938347 $17.20 2018
[(The Handmaid's Tale )] [Author: Margaret Atwood] [Feb-1993] Hardcover 1774229 $21.92 $26.15 1993
By Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale (Unabridged) [Audio CD] Audio CD 1398006 $46.09 $45.98 2014
The Handmaid's Tale Hardcover 463667 $86.67 $0.01 1988
The Handmaids Tale (BBC Radio Collection) Audio CD 2384420 $79.91 2004
The Handmaid's Tale Paperback 522759 $7.50 $7.49 2016
The Handmaid's Tale Audio CD 330923 $14.05 $21.05 2014
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale Audio CD 103059 $40.92 2019
The Handmaid's Tale Paperback 1285926 $4.02 $3.99 1998
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel): A Novel Kindle Edition 215784 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (text only) 1st Anchor Books edition by M. Atwood Paperback 693896 $9.81 $6.87
The Handmaid's Tale (Chinese Edition) Paperback 3798939 $16.99 2020
Handmaid's Tale Paperback 1778779 $9.98 $0.01 1996
By Margaret Eleanor Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) (1996-06-16) [Paperback] Paperback 1985698 $35.01 $15.03 1996
The Handmaid's Tale 1st (first) edition Text Only Paperback 1683475 $11.39 $5.06
Spark Notes: The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) Paperback 1787037 $74.41 $3.41 2002
The Handmaid's Tale Deluxe Edition Flexibound 66399 $11.98 $7.00 2019
The Handmaid's Tale Paperback 1398 $5.48 $0.95 1998
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (Random House Large Print) Paperback 1016 $13.50 $13.00 2019
The Testaments: A Novel (The Handmaid's Tale) Paperback 2547 $11.38 $8.83 2020
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set Paperback 18386 $24.48 $24.25 2020
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale - Edicion especial (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition) Hardcover 1006185 $22.04 $21.71 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel): A Novel Hardcover 1535871 $22.95 2019
Handmaid's Tale (Study & Revise for As/a Level) Paperback 16788678 $10.27 $10.99 2016
El cuento de la criada [The Handmaid's Tale] Audible Audiobook 89838 $19.84 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Chinese Edition) Paperback 1344526 $31.90 2017
The Handmaid's Tale Hardcover 8711 $16.90 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (New Windmills) Hardcover 599404 $12.18 $4.66 1993
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition) Paperback 371208 $15.04 $11.29 2017
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 1st (first) Anchor Books edition [Paperback(1998)] Paperback 2138885 $8.85 $8.50 1997
The Handmaid's Tale Hardcover 548771 $17.88 $4.05 2006
By Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale Paperback 61951 $10.54 $5.77 1998
The Handmaid's Tale Kindle Edition 2883 $8.54 1986
The Handmaid's Tale Paperback 3173743 $9.43 $2.00 2005
The Handmaid's Tale Mass Market Paperback 3983702 $7.99
The Testaments: A Novel Kindle Edition 11469 $12.99 2019
The Handmaids Tale (Julie Christie Reads The Handmaids Tale) Audio CD 4732768 $119.31 $45.50
The Testaments Hardcover 2 $17.37 2019
MUST-READ: THE HANDMAID’S TALE (A GREAT BOOK): Illustrated Kindle Edition 7363 $0.00 2023