

The Handmaid's Tale
2 books
The Handmaid's Tale series by Margaret Atwood has 2 books. Start with The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel (2019), then read the rest in the order below.
The Handmaid's Tale reading order

The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
Margaret Atwood
In a near-future theocracy, a woman is stripped of her name and forced into a system of ritualized control where survival depends on obedience, secrecy, and the smallest acts of resistance. This graphic adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s landmark novel follows her struggle to endure—and to reclaim agency—amid a society that weaponizes faith, gender, and fear. Rendered with stark visual intensity, the story explores themes of power, complicity, bodily autonomy, and the ways propaganda can reshape what people believe is “normal.” With Atwood’s sharp, unsettling insight translated into a bold graphic format, it delivers a haunting, thought-provoking experience that resonates long after the final panel.

The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Fifteen years after the fall of one set of certainties in Gilead, a new generation of voices emerges from within the Republic’s iron grip. Told through three interwoven narrators, this sequel reveals how power is maintained, how faith is weaponized, and how small acts of resistance can ripple into something far larger than any one person intends. As the regime tightens its control over bodies, language, and belief, the women at the center of the story navigate surveillance, sacrifice, and the dangerous hope of change. Margaret Atwood’s razor-edged, darkly inventive style turns history into a warning—probing themes of authoritarianism, gendered oppression, and the stories societies tell to justify cruelty.