YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” tops this week’s YEREVAN BESTSELLER list. It is one of the most popular novels in the world.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next.

“Nausea” is ranked 3rd. It is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.

Nineteen Eighty-Four  is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949, which is ranked 4th this week. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime”.

"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. The novel is 5th in the list.

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

“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson is 7th. It is a motivational tale by Spencer Johnson written in the style of a parable or business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people," during their hunt for cheese. 

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” comes next. 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.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez is 9th in 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.

“Letter to the Turkish writer” by Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, President of the Writers’ Union of Armenia (2001-2013) Levon Ananyan concludes the list.

 The book summarizes the author’s thoughts on the international recognition process of the Armenian Genocide in 15 languages.

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).