What Books Are Recommended by the National Assembly President and Members

February 19 marks the birthday of Hovhannes Tumanyan and is celebrated in Armenia as Book Giving Day. The National Assembly's information department has compiled a list of books recommended for reading by its members.

Some of the notable recommendations include:

• Alen Simonyan: Albert Camus “The Fall”, Niccolò Machiavelli “The Prince”, Mikhail Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”
• Vahagn Aleksanyan: Jordan Peterson “12 Rules for Life”
• Hovik Aghazaryan: William Golding “Lord of the Flies”
• Eduard Aghajanyan: Jerome David Salinger “The Catcher in the Rye”
• David Arushanyan: Niccolò Machiavelli “The Prince”
• Hakob Aslanyan: Eghishe Charents “The Land of Nairi”
• Tadevos Avetisyan: Derenik Demirchyan “Vardanank”
• Gurgen Arsenyan: V.A. Bayburdyan “History of the Ottoman Empire”, Xenophon “Anabasis”
• Sergey Bagratyan: Erich Maria Remarque “Three Comrades”
• Lusine Badalyan: Edgar Hilsenrath “The Last Thought's Fairy Tale”
• Zaruhi Batoyan: Zaruhi Batoyan “For Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After…”
• Rustam Bakoyan: Khaled Hosseini “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
• Sisak Gabrielyan: Vahagn Grigoryan “Paul-Peter”
• Vilena Gabrielyan: Edward Luttwak “Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace”
• Lilit Galstyan: Eghishe Charents “The Book of the Road”
• Meri Galstyan: Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov”
• Irina Gasparyan: Mikhail Bulgakov “Heart of a Dog”
• Tatevik Gasparyan: Erich Maria Remarque “Three Comrades”
• Argisht Gevorgyan: Ruben Ter-Minasyan “Armenia on Intercontinental Routes”
• Armen Gevorgyan: Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile”
• Anna Grigoryan: Sun Tzu “The Art of War”
• Hripsime Grigoryan: Vano Siradeghyan “Country: Needs…”
• Martun Grigoryan: Garegin Nzhdeh “The Indomitable People”
• Narek Grigoryan: Henry Ford “My Life and Work”
• David Danielyan: Henry Kissinger “World Order”
• Arpine Davoyan: John Galsworthy “The Forsyte Saga”
• Gayané Yeghiazaryan: Hamlet Davtyan “The Unknown Battle of Vardanants”
• Arman Yeghoyan: Mark Twain “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
• Ishkhan Zakaryan: Mikael Shatiryan “Silver Age”
• Narek Zeynalyan: James Joyce “Ulysses”
• Taghuhik Tovmasyan: Mkhitar Gosh “The Book of Judgment”
• Arsen Torosyan: Gabriel Garcia Marquez “The General in His Labyrinth”, “Of Love and Other Demons”
• Shirak Torosyan: Shirak Torosyan “The Marine Entry Issue in the Foreign Policy of the Republic of Armenia 1919-1920”
• Mikael Tumasian: Gregory David Roberts “Shantaram”
• Babken Tunyan: Nassim Nicholas Taleb “The Black Swan”
• Agnese Khamoyan: Nassim Nicholas Taleb “The Black Swan”, Javier Marias “The So White Heart”
• Sargis Khandanyan: Anna Davtyan “Hannah”
• Arthur Khachatryan: Ernest Hemingway “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
• Armen Khachatryan: Paulo Coelho “The Alchemist”
• Maria Karapetyan: Christian Batiqyan “Metal Dreams”
• Lilit Kirakosyan: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Faust”
• Armenuhy Kuryegyan: Garegin Nzhdeh “Complete Works”, Vahan Hovhannisyan “Mandolion”
• Haik Konyoryan: Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile”
• Asprem Krpeyan: Irina Barseghyan-Krpeyan “Tatoul Krpeyan: Self-defense of the Gegharkunik Region of Artsakh”
• Edgar Hakobyan: Alexander Shirvanzade “Chaos”
• Hasmik Hakobyan: Richard Bach “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, Orhan Pamuk “Snow”
• Hrachya Hakobyan: Hovhannes Tumanyan “Tales”
• Karen Hambardzumyan: Hayk Khachatryan “Tigran the Great”
• Knyaz Hasanov: Raffi “Samvel”
• Arthur Hovhannisyan: Winston Churchill “My Early Life”
• Hripsime Hunanian: Robin Sharma “The Leader Without a Title”
• Alkhas Ghazaryan: Paruir Sevak “The Song of the Sea”, Nikos Kazantzakis “The Greek Zorba”, Ashot Agababyan “The Alone”
• Arman Ghazaryan: Erich Maria Remarque “Heaven Has No Chosen Ones”, Elif Shafak “The Bastard of Istanbul”
• Taguhi Ghazaryan: Eghishe Charents “The Land of Nairi”
• Marina Ghazaryan: Theodore Dreiser “The Financier”
• Sona Ghazaryan: Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged”
• Vahe Ghalumyan: Dale Carnegie “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
• Narek Gharamanian: Jerome David Salinger “The Catcher in the Rye”
• Haik Mamijanyan: Mario Puzo “The Godfather”
• Arusyakh Manavazyan: Alex Michaelidis “The Silent Patient”
• Areknaz Manukyan: George Orwell “Animal Farm”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez “The Autumn of the Patriarch”
• Gegham Manukyan: Hovhannes Shiraz “Collected Works”, “What is our Motherland, father?”
• Taron Margaryan: Garegin Nzhdeh “Nationalism”
• Gurgen Melkonyan: Derenik Demirchyan “Vardanank”
• Mher Melkonyan: Levon Shant “Our Independence”
• Arzvik Minasyan: Garegin Nzhdeh “Complete Works”, Hovhannes Tumanyan “We Are Not Honest”
• Lilit Minasyan: George Orwell “1984”, Yuval Noah Harari “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, Kazanjyuni “Does the Dashnaktsutyun have a task or not?”
• Zemfira Mirzoeva: Fyodor Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”
• Arev Mkrtychan: Gabriel Garcia Marquez “The Autumn of the Patriarch”
• Gegham Nazaryan: George Orwell “1984”, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “The Little Prince”, “The Bible”
• Lena Nazaryan: Ruben Pilian “The Story of the Blown-Up Nuts”
• Emma Palyan: Paruir Sevak
• Georg Poghosyan: Taron Ajemoglu “The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Freedom”
• Tigran Parsilyan: Kurt Vonnegut “Slaughterhouse-Five”
• Mariam Poghosyan: Eghishe Charents “The Land of Nairi”
• Kristine Poghosyan: Dan Brown “Origin”
• Arusyakh Julhakyan: Mikhail Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”
• Armen Rustamyan: “The Bible”
• Mher Sahakyan: Raffi “The Memoirs of a Crossbearer”
• Ishkhan Sagatelyan: Jan-Werner Müller “What is Populism?”
• Alexey Sandikov: Narine Abgaryan “Simon”
• Arthur Sargsyan: Khachik Dashtents “The Call of the Ranchers”
• Hayk Sargsyan: Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter “Rich Dad Poor Dad”
• Karen Sarukhanyan: Dale Carnegie “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
• Ashot Simonian: Chingiz Aitmatov “And the Day Lasts Longer Than a Century”
• Khachatur Sukiasyan: Lee Kuan Yew “Singapore Story: Memories of a First World Country”
• Lilit Stepanyan: David Green “Back to Civil Society”
• Aghvan Vardanyan: Umberto Eco “The Name of the Rose”, Hrant Matevosyan
• Arpine Vardanyan: Vahan Hovhannisyan “Mandolion”
• Elinar Vardanyan: Mikhail Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “The Little Prince”
• Tsoyin Vardanyan: Hermann Hesse “Steppenwolf”
• Vladimir Vardanyan: Erich Maria Remarque “The Arch of Triumph”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
• Heriknaz Tigranyan: Eghishe Charents “The Land of Nairi”, Erich Maria Remarque “Night in Lisbon”
• Haik Tsirunyan: Eghishe Charents “The Land of Nairi”
• Anush Kloyan: Robin Sharma “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”
• Andranik Kocharyan: V.A. Bayburdyan “History of the Ottoman Empire”
• Levon Kocharyan: Malcolm Gladwell “Outliers”, Andre Agassi “Open Book”