George Orwell's 1984 is back on the best seller list. Readers have been buying up this classic dystopian novel in recent days, driving it to number one on Amazon's best selling books list as of Tuesday night. The sales bump comes after the Trump administration's assertions his inauguration had record attendance, "alternative facts",  and his unfounded allegation that millions of illegal votes were cast against him last fall.
 
First published in 1949, Orwell's classic is dystopian tale of a superstate which wields extreme control over the people and persecutes any form of independent thought, and a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of "newspeak."
 
This is not the first time the book sales have spiked in response to political events: it enjoyed a stint on best seller lists in 2013 after Edward Snowden leaked NSA documents, when many compared the agency to "Big Brother" in the book.