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Award Winning Books by
MARGARET ATWOOD

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
6313 reviews (2019) (432p) (Amazon Top100) (Amazon Top10Lit) (Time Top10) (Booker) (TIME) (Amazon)
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The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
647 reviews (2015) (320p) ()
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 Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.

     Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live i...
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
316 reviews (2014) (288p) (Amazon Top100) (PW Fiction) (Hudson Fiction)
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
728 reviews (2013) (416p) (Amazon Top100) (PW Fiction) (NYT100)
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 Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love.

Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAdd...
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
193 reviews (2009) (320p) (ALA)
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 The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religio...
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
410 reviews (2003) (400p) (Booker)
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 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 his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–w...
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
581 reviews (2000) (544p) (Booker) (TIME) (ALA)
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 The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind As...
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
177 reviews (1996) (480p) (Booker) (ALA)
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 In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.

Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, a...
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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
123 reviews (1989) (480p) (Booker)
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 Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a love...
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
635 reviews (1986) (320p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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 In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age o...
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Margaret Atwood Award Stats
Major Prize* Nominations 9  
Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 7  
Pulitzer Prize Wins 0  
Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0  
National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0  
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 0  
National Book Award Wins 0  
National Book Award Nominations 0  
Man Booker Prize Wins 2 The Blind Assassin · The Testaments ·  
Man Booker Prize Nominations 6 Alias Grace · Cat's Eye · Oryx and Crake · The Blind Assassin · The Handmaid's Tale · The Testaments ·  
PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0  
PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 0  

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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