Hot on the heels of 1984, Sinclair Lewis’s speculative satire It Can’t Happen Here is surging to the forefront of a suddenly very popular genre, prophetic dystopian lit. It Can’t Happen Here will probably be the next novel to sell out on Amazon; right now, it’s the number-two recommended read by booksellers capitalizing on the current craze.

It happened last summer too: Donald Trump was an unassailable force leading into the primaries with his populist pitch and authoritarian-sounding promises that resonated with Americans who felt they’d been forgotten. Neo-fascist comparisons cropped up. And think pieces remembered It Can’t Happen Here—because the rise of such a leader meant we might actually be hurtling toward an authoritarian American dystopia, I guess.