Banning something this minute and benign is ridiculous, but I can assure you, nobody at all below the age of 40 wants to read The Handsmaid's Tale.
It's totally the kind of thing I'd have read in high school if I'd known about it then.
Off the premise it's not something I'm interested in but I'll put it in my reading list, just to see what it's all about haha
https://www.statista.com/statistics/741790/the-handmaids-tal...
assuming that viewership leads to people buying the book.
on edit: https://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/handmaids-tale/#:~:te....
The Handmaid’s Tale is written for adults but appears on high school reading lists, often in a student’s junior year.
which I guess is why this whole conversation is happening.