YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/21: Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is back in the rankings

YEREVAN, JULY 15, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of “Armenpress” Yerevan Bestseller project is led by“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. It is one of the most popular novels in the world.

“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson comes next. It is amotivational tale bySpencer Johnsonwritten in the style of aparableorbusiness fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by twomiceand two "little people," during their hunt for cheese.

“Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” by Joanne Rowling is ranked 3rd. Itis the first novel in theHarry Potterseries andJoanne Rowling'sdebut novel, first published in 1997 byBloomsbury. The plot followsHarry Potter, a youngwizardwho discovers his magical heritage as he makes close friends and a few enemies in his first year at theHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizardLord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just a year old. The book was translated from English by Alvard Jivanyan.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is ranked 4th in the list. It was translated from Russia by Ruben Hovsepyan.

Márquez’s “Memories of My MelancholyWhores” comes next.

“Fahrenheit 451”is ranked 6th. It is adystopiannovel byRay Bradburypublished in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperature of paper. The novel concludes the list this week.

“And the Mountains Echoed” by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini is ranked 7th in the list.

“The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes next in the list.

“Nausea”is ranked 9th. 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 concludes this week’s 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.

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).