But after years of bookstore and box office success, that trend seemed to be waning.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt even put outnew editionsof the novels to capitalize on the interest.
“1984isstillon our paperback best-seller list.”
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Harper; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You see it being a gateway to other books with similar premises.”
This trend isn’t just confined to old classics, however.
There’s also a new crop of dystopian novels this year.
But without new utopian visions to replace them, we remain stuck in dystopias.
But maybe things are changing.
“Now we have a big display on Fight the Power and Resist kind of thing.
We’re seeing a lot of sales going to our activism/politics section.”
