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“The Handmaid's Tale” was popular throughout Trump's first term,
along with such dark futuristic narratives as George Orwell's
“1984” and Ray Bradbury's “Fahrenheit 451,” both of which were
in the Amazon top 40 as of Thursday afternoon. Another
best-seller from Trump's previous time in office, Timothy
Snyder's “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth
Century,” was in the top 10.
Pro-Trump books also were selling well. Former first lady
Melania Trump's memoir, “Melania,” was No. 1 on the Amazon list,
and Vice President-elect JD Vance's “Hillbilly Elegy” was in the
top 10. Donald Trump's photo book “Save America” was in the top
30.
At Barnes & Noble, “Fiction and non-fiction books that feature
fascism, feminism, dystopian worlds and both right-and-left
leaning politics rocketed up our sales charts with the election
results,” according to Shannon DeVito, the chain's director of
books. She cited “Melania,” “On Tyranny” and Bob Woodward's
latest, “War,” which covers the responses of Trump and President
Joe Biden to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
DeVito also cited “a massive bump in dystopian fiction,” notably
for “The Handmaid's Tale” and “1984.”
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