Dystopian books See an Increase in Sale Following Donald Trump’s Win

After it was officially announced the Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, dystopian novels saw an increase in sales. People are scared of what a second Donald Trump presidency will mean and have turned to popular dystopian books as a result.

Only two days after Trump won, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood surged 400 places to number three in US Amazon’s bestsellers chart. Funny enough, the novel also saw a big surge after Trump’s first win 8 years ago. The novel was released in 1985 and went on to win the Booker Prize and has been popular ever since.

One reason the novel is popular with critics of Trump is the similarity it has with Trump and the Republican party limiting and trying to abolish abortion rights. In 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned after a Republic-leaning Supreme Court revisited the historical case.

Another novel that many people have flocked to is 1984 by George Orwell. The novel is about a Britain under a totalitarian dictatorship and many people believe Trump will lead the United States in that direction. This novel is in the top 40 right now alongside Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a novel about censorship as books and other sources of information are burned by firefighters.

As a big fan of dystopian novels, I am all for this. People should read this amazing novels because they imagine the worst-case scenario and now, we might actually be living them soon. Abortion rights have been limited and women are dying because they can’t get abortion. Mass propaganda has made the internet a mess as people are fed disinformation on social media websites. And books are being banned at an unprecedented rate.

But dystopian books aren’t the only books to see a surge in sales. Nonfiction books by left and right-leaning politicians are also charting high as a result of the election. Books such the next vice president J.D Vance and the former first lady Melania Trump are also trending.

“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,” Shannon DeVito, Barnes & Noble’s director of books, said.

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