Ebooks by Margaret Atwood

Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid’s Tale : an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” ( New York Times ). The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its image and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes...

From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Handmaid's Tale Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of...

From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Handmaid's Tale Set in the visionary future of Atwood’s acclaimed Oryx and Crake , The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared...

From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Handmaid's Tale Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the...

Neil Gaiman's perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book , has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.  Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod...

Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which...

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • The beloved author of  The Handmaid’s Tale  reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play,  The Tempest,  in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge.   “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly...

A  New York Times  bestselling modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” ( People )—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic,  The Handmaid’s Tale .        “Atwood’s powers are on full display” (...

From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Handmaid's Tale In this delightful mélange of short fiction, Margaret Atwood pushes the boundaries of form in intriguing directions. Alongside meditations on warlords, cat heaven, and orphans, she offers a sly pep talk to the ambitious young, laments the proliferation...

In Alias Grace , the bestselling author of  The Handmaid's Tale  takes readers into the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century—recently adapted into a 6-part Netflix original mini-series by director Mary Harron and writer/actress Sarah Polley. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her...