The Handmaid's Tale

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Recommended by Daniel Pink, Emma Watson, Grady Booch, and 6 others. See all reviews

Ranked #1 in Canada, Ranked #1 in Amazon Unlimited — see more rankings.

Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid’s Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times).

The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the... more
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Daniel Pink AuthorRecommends this book

Emma Watson Recommends this book

Grady Booch I read this several years ago but — much like Orwell’s 1984 — it seems particularly relevant given our current political morass. (Source)

Cliff Bleszinski @HandmaidsOnHulu Done. Love the show, book is a classic, can't wait for season 2. (Source)

Jason Kottke @procload Not super necessary, since you've seen the TV show. This first book is still a great read though...different than the show (tone-wise more than plot-wise). (Source)

Catherine Mayer Atwood takes all the hard information about gender inequality that she sees around her and then turns it up a few notches. (Source)

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