YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. This week’s YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS is topped by “Nausea”, 1938. It is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.

“A Heart So White” by Javier Marías is ranked the 2nd 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.

Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” comes next. It 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.

“Dandelion Wine”, 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury is ranked 4th. 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.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is ranked 5th in the list.  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.

“Art of Devotion or Ode to Rose” by photographer and writer Edgar Harutyunyan comes next.

"1984" by George Orwell ranks the 7th in the list. The book is labeled as “banned” in many countries of the world.

Zakhar Prilepin’s “Black Monkey” entered the Bestseller’s list raking the 8^th. A young journalist on assignment in the classified version allowed the government lab where children explore the very cruel. Seeing this excellent material for the book and the chance to escape from family problems, he embarks on a complicated investigation and trying to link the massacre of the inhabitants of a porch in the Russian town, an ancient legend about the attack on the town nedorostkov cruel story of child soldiers in Africa ... if only all of this - not the fruit of his imagination.

Dan Brown’s “Inferno” is ranked 9th place in the 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.

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury concludes the list. 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.

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).