The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood (1985)

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is the most prescient dystopian novel written by a woman and one of the most discussed political novels of the 21st century. Written in 1984-85 from primary sources of actual historical events—nothing invented that humans haven't already done somewhere—it gained new urgency after the 2016 US election and the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.