Why is this book published in 1949 hitting bestseller lists today?

A scene from MGM’s 1984 movie adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a book from the 1940s that remains distressingly relevant today.

Truly, what can be said about George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that has not been said already? Especially in a 2017 of alternative facts, fake news, constant surveillance, and cyber attacks?

As Donald Trump’s presidency began in January, the book from 1949 shot to the top of the bestseller lists in the United States – partly due to Trump’s aide Kellyanne Conway birthing the term “alternative fact”, which for many smacked dangerously of the book’s representation of the Ministry of Truth and its attempts to shape reality.