‘Handmaid’s Tale’ sales skyrocket on bestseller charts after Trump win: report

Sales of the futuristic dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale" – along with other books with themes revolving around democracy, dystopia, feminism and far-right politics – shot up best-seller charts in the days following Donald Trump’s stunning election night victory, according to media reports.

As of Friday, the novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985, soared more than 400 spots to land as the third best-selling book on Amazon’s best-sellers chart, the Guardian reported. The novel later reached a new audience when it was adapted into a popular streaming series for Hulu.

Also on Amazon’s top 10 list include Sen. J.D. Vance’s novel “Hillbilly Elegy,” Timothy Snyder’s non-fiction book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century” and Melania Trump’s self-titled “Melania," which took the No. 1 spot.

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Snyder's title saw a dramatic rise in sales, according to the Guardian, which noted that the book climbed "hundreds of places over the past day" to the No. 8 spot.” George Orwell’s “1984” currently sits at No. 13, while Fahrenheit 451 surged to Amazon's No. 17 spot.

“The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, has also experienced a spike in sales,” according to the Guardian, which noted that Atwood wrote in an Election Day social media post: “Despair is not an option. It helps no one.”

The publication added that Kamala Harris’ memoir, “The Truths We Hold,” rose nearly 2,000 places over the past day to No. 345 in the best-sellers chart.