I loved "The Rider" and think it's the best bicycling book I've read, and I've read lots.
Recent reads I thought very highly of:
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Novel-...8921837&sr=8-1
And if you like science fiction, Iain M. Banks is as good or better than the masters of my youth.
I'm almost done with
Surface Detail and am blown away by it.
http://www.amazon.com/Surface-Detail...8921979&sr=1-1