‘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...