Margaret Atwood, author portrait
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Margaret Atwood

MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. She has won the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Paper Boat
Old Babes in the Wood
Burning Questions
The Testaments
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
The Bad News
Hag-Seed
The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in)
The Heart Goes Last
Dire Cartographies
Stone Mattress
MaddAddam
The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle
Moral Disorder: A Story
In Other Worlds
Good Bones and Simple Murders
The Year of the Flood
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
The Tent
The Handmaid's Tale
Oryx and Crake
Negotiating with the Dead
The Blind Assassin
Dancing Girls
Life Before Man
Lady Oracle
Bodily Harm
The Edible Woman
Surfacing
Wilderness Tips
Bluebeard's Egg
The Robber Bride
Cat's Eye
Alias Grace

The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017

Books

Paper Boat
Old Babes in the Wood
Burning Questions
The Testaments
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
The Bad News
Hag-Seed
The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in)
The Heart Goes Last
Dire Cartographies
Stone Mattress
MaddAddam
The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle
Moral Disorder: A Story
In Other Worlds
Good Bones and Simple Murders
The Year of the Flood
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
The Tent
The Handmaid's Tale
Oryx and Crake
Negotiating with the Dead
The Blind Assassin
Dancing Girls
Life Before Man
Lady Oracle
Bodily Harm
The Edible Woman
Surfacing
Wilderness Tips
Bluebeard's Egg
The Robber Bride
Cat's Eye
Alias Grace

Media

The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017

Sales of Comics and Graphic Novels Up 6% in 2020

According to an estimate by pop culture trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron, graphic novel sales in particular via the bookstore channel were $645 million, higher than comic book shops. 

According to the report, sales in the bookstore channel (which includes physical stores and online retailers) increased “dramatically” over comics shop market share and the popularity of graphic novels over periodical comics continued to grow. (PublishersWeekly.com)

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Banned Books Week Is 9/26 – 10/2

It’s time for another celebration of the right to read! Join the ongoing and imperative mission by working with booksellers to feature titles whose value has been contested at local and national levels. 

This year’s honorary (and inaugural) chair of Banned Books Week, Jason Reynolds: “To censor a book is to damage the framework in which we live,” adds Reynolds. “Any time we eliminate or wall off certain narratives, we are not getting a whole picture of the world in which we live. And navigating the world in a way that is closed-off, closed-minded, is poisonous. It means that we limit our vocabulary, which complicates how we communicate with one another. We have to celebrate stories and ensure that all books have a space on the shelves and the opportunity to live in the psyches of our children, as they grow into the human beings who will inherit this wonderful place.” 

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Cli-Fi

Cli-Fi (short for climate fiction) is a genre that invites readers to consider the effects of climate change both in their own lives and for future generations. The foundation of the genre is an acknowledgement that climate change is an unignorable crisis. And while it is often speculative, cli-fi is usually grounded in real science.

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Cli-Fi