Highly recommended:
Jobst Brandt The Bicycle Wheel - everything you've ever wanted
to know about wheels and some stuff you don't want to know
Edmund Burke Serious cycling - great if your training
for whatever, TdF, Century or just riding.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 years of solitude great book but difficult at times.
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita probably the best 20th century
novel written, highly misunderstood
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Bizarre book about
post WWII search for buzz bombs.
Jimmy Buffett Tales From Margaritaville Fictional Facts and
Factual fiction . . . nuff said.

thats my short list.
Marty