# 10 Books To Read if You Love ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/10-books-to-read-if-you-love-the-handmaids-tale/
- Published: 2026-10-28T11:16:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T04:05:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/books-like-handmaids-tale/
- Topics: Film

## Key points

- The article recommends ten books for fans of *The Handmaid’s Tale*.
- Several explore gender, power and control over women’s lives.
- The list spans dystopian, science-fiction and motherhood-focused stories.

## Summary

Margaret Atwood’s *The Handmaid’s Tale* helped establish a lasting vision of a society that controls women’s lives, and its themes continue to resonate in political debate and protests. This article recommends ten books for readers drawn to its dystopian settings and questions about gender, power and motherhood.

The examples described include Sheri S. Tepper’s *The Gate to Women’s Country*, where women govern after a nuclear war, and Naomi Alderman’s *The Power*, in which teenage girls gain the ability to generate electricity and overturn existing power structures. *Elsewhere* follows women in an isolated town who fear disappearing as they approach motherhood. The article also notes that the television adaptation of Atwood’s novel premiered in 2017, ran for six seasons and covered the novel’s events in its first season.

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