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.

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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