I as you probably sensed am a big fan.

Both of Atwood's dystopian fiction in general--'Oryx and Crake' trilogy--and the 4 TV series of The Handmaid's Tale.

Your analogy of the Inferno is a good one. It is a tour through the worst regimes in human history and yet the similarities to our own world are depressingly familiar. Yet, her story (June) is a revolutionary catharsis much needed and much desired as I find myself in England dominated by a corrupt fascist elite winning election after election and after 150,000 people have died from a virus ignored at the beginning by Johnson and his cabal of criminals. The Handmaids Tale couldnt be more necessary.