The Handmaid's Tale
★★★★★Read Dec 6, 2016
Excellent novel! Really liked its exploration of the subjugation of women in American society, the reduction to sex and breeding. But that's just the simple overnarrative. Beneath that is a more subtle level of commentary on women's society, or a distortion of it, and sorority and individuality and competition between women. A well spun story in the sci-fi vein of "what if our world but one twist".
Also I am not kidding: Goodreads shows me ads for a hospital's maternity ward for this book. Almost exactly on target there guys.
Goodreads readers give it 4.16★, from 2,570,322 ratings. I gave it 4★, −0.2, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Feminism, Fantasy, Literature.
Won Arthur C. Clarke Award 1987, Audie Award 2013, Los Angeles Times Book Prize 1986, Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général 1985.
Also nominated for Booker Prize 1986, Nebula Award 1986, Locus Award 1987, Prometheus Award 1987 and 5 more.