The Testaments
Canadian novelist, born 1939. Won the Booker Prize in 2000 and 2019.
The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood. It won the Booker Prize in 2019.
On 4 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 2019
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2019
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2020
- Genre
- Science fiction, Dystopian, Feminist, Political
- Series
- Book 2 of The Handmaid's Tale
Is The Testaments worth reading?
4 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2019) | Winner | See the list |
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2020) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Goodreads Choice Awards: Fiction and Historical Fiction winners (Goodreads, 2009-) | Winner | See the list |
| Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (Waterstones, 2012-) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Testaments
The edition we link to is the Chatto & Windus paperback (2019).
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus (paperback, 2019)
- ISBN
- 9781784742324
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Testaments
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 33% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Testaments
If you liked The Testaments, try The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake or The Blind Assassin.
