YEREVAN, JULY 29, 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 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” ranks the 3rd. 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 4th 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.

Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose” is next.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is ranked 6th in the list. It was translated from Russia by Ruben Hovsepyan.

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green is ranked 7th 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.

Márquez’s “Memories of My Melancholy Whores” comes next.

“Fahrenheit 451” is ranked 9th. It is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published 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.

“Dear Life” is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, which is ranked 10th this week. Ruth Scurr, writing in the Telegraph, points to the autobiographical aspect of the collection and declares the collection to be "a subversive challenge to the idea of autobiography: a purposeful melding of fact fiction and feeling". The reviewer goes on to suggest the collection might be Munro's last, but if so would be a "spectacular" finale.

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).