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YEREVAN, JULY 8, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of “Armenpress” Yerevan Bestseller project is led by "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Márquez’s “Memories of My MelancholyWhores” comes next.
“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green is ranked 3rd in the list. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, “The Fault in Our Stars” is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
“The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes next in the list.
“Nausea” is ranked 5th. It is aphilosophical novelby theexistentialist philosopherJean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez is 6th in the list. “People are not always born the day their mothers bring them to the world: Life forces them to be reborn many times”, this is the philosophy of the novel. It was translated to Armenian by Frunzik Kirakosyan.
“The Great Gatsby”by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald comes next. It was first published in 1925.
Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose” is next.
Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is ranked 9th. This is the second novel of the author which describes the inner world of an Armenophobic Turkish former serviceman, when he, already an old man, suddenly hears a lullaby song that reminds him of his mother and later finds out that the song is in Armenian: realizing his parents were Armenians. The same former serviceman spends his remaining life searching the graves of his parents, without knowing that it was a misunderstanding.
“Lord of the Flies”is a 1954novelbyNobel Prize-winning English author William Goldingabout a group of British boys stuck on anuninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects ofhuman natureand individual welfare versus thecommon goodearned it position 68 on theAmerican Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequentlychallengedbooks of 1900–1999. The novel concludes this week’s list.
To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-25-28).