Award in 2002. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2000 and included it in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923. As of 2019, The Blind Assassin is Atwood's second highest-selling novel after The Handmaid's Tale, having sold over half a million copies of hard-cover and paper-back combined. Sales of the novel jumped tenfold in 2000 after receiving the Booker Prize. See also Southern Ontario Gothic References Novels set in Toronto Novels by Margaret Atwood Metafictional novels Postmodern novels McClelland & Stewart books Booker Prize-winning works Great Depression novels 2000 Canadian novels Nonlinear narrative novels