YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, ARMENPRESS. This week’s YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS is topped by “Dandelion Wine”, 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury.

The novel is taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. It was translated from English by Zaven Boyadjyan.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde is 2nd in the list. It was first published complete in July 1890. It is a philosophical novel.  Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is ranked 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 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.

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury comes next. Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel 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 understood to be the autoignition point of paper.

“The Fault in Our Stars” is a novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. It is ranked 6th in this week’s list. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group in the "Literal Heart of Jesus" where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player as well as an amputee. 

“A Heart So White” by Javier Marías is ranked the 7th in the list. It was first published in Spain in 1992 The narrator, Juan, seeks to use his newly-wed wife, Luisa, to uncover the murky past of his father's previous marriages which include (aside from Juan's mother) two other women. The first of these women is unnamed and kept secret from Juan, while the second was the older sister of Juan's mother. The book was translated from Spanish by Ruzanna Petrosyan.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next. It was translated from Russian by Ruben Hovsepyan.

“Nausea” 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. The novel is ranked 9th this week.

The list is concluded by "The Book of Mher's Door" by Armenian author Levon Khechoyan.

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), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-26-49).