Season’s best picks

1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, paperback, published by Penguin Books, pp 368, Rs 695

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, paperback, published by Bloomsbury, pp 336, Rs 575

3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published by Penguin Books, pp 128, Rs 425

4. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta, paperback, published by Penguin Books,

pp 608, Rs 695

5. Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran, paperback, published by Arrow books, pp 400, Rs 650