What People Are Reading

On the Washington Post fiction bestseller list:

3. 1984 by George Orwell: “A novel of the perils of a totalitarian police state.”

5. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood: “A dystopian novel set in a theocratic-totalitarian state.”

7. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis: “A populist president becomes a dictator.”