YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS "The Little Prince" by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tops this week's "Bestseller Books List" introduced by "Armenpress" News Agency. The novella is both the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The book was translated into more than 190 languages.

“The Mark” by Blaze Minevski is the second in this week's Bestseller Books List. It is about two snipers, man and woman ... And while the man adapts to mark her, the woman has already made her a target. Thus, man becomes a unique Scheherazade who tells his story to interlocutor with the hope of “one thousand and one nights".

“The Alchemist” novel, one of the best creations of Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho is the 3rd. The novel is on one’s having a dream and perseverance to make the dream come true coupled with love, kindness and ability to recognize a new country and a new culture.

"Steppenwolf" novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse occupies the 4th place in our list. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s while memorably portraying the protagonist's split between his humanity and his wolf-like aggression and homelessness. Hesse would later assert that the book was largely misunderstood.

American well-known writer Ray Bradbury’s “Martian Chronicles” ranks the 5th. It is considered as one of the best books of the 20th century. As Astronomer Carl Sagan once noticed, “Mars is a kind of mythical arena, where our earthly hopes and fears are incarnated.”

Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is in the 6th place in the list.

Kundera's most famous work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, was published in 1984. The book chronicles the fragile nature of an individual's fate, theorizing that a single lifetime is insignificant in the scope of Nietzsche's concept of eternal return. In an infinite universe, everything is guaranteed to recur infinitely. In 1988, American director Philip Kaufman released a film adaptation.

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green comes next on our list.

One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez is on the 8th position. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.

Dan Brown’s “Inferno” comes next on our list. The book’s heroes are moving by the trace of talented scientist’s horrible message fascinated by the obsessed idea on Earth and humanity's salvation. American professor and his quick-witted assistant are in crazy searches in Florence, Venice and Istanbul. Are the efforts futile?... The novel presents constant escapes and searches: Dante Alighieri’s inferno is emerging from time to time in front of the reader and not only in the secret lines of the "Divine comedy" but also in renaissance paintings of great masters.

Grig’s “Jesus Cat” concludes the list. This is the first book of the young prose writer. The novels involved in this work bring forward a unique writing style on the one hand and an original vision on the world and people on the other. This combination forms characters in Grig’s creative space, which help to discover another invisible side of life. The book was published by “Antares”. Editor – Gurgen Khanjyan.