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The Handmaid's Tale Books in Order

by Margaret AtwoodLiterature & Fiction

2 books from The Handmaid's Tale (1985) to The Testaments (TV Tie-in) (2019). Rated 4.5 across 110,352 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. The Handmaid's Tale

    Book 1 1985 4.4 (83.7k)

    A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time....

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  2. The Testaments (TV Tie-in)

    Book 2 2019 4.7 (26.7k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE A gripping return to Gilead, The Testaments exposes the regime’s inner decay through the intersecting stories of three women whose choices could ignite its downfall.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Handmaid's Tale is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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