Quote Originally Posted by mickchick
If you like mysteries suspense, you can go wrong w/anything Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine writes. Also, I enjoy Sue Grafton, Nevada Barr, Elizabeth George, Leslie Glass, and a few others whom I can't readily recall.
Ooo. I'd forgotten about Nevada Barr. Her main character (Anna... Something) is a park ranger, so there's always lots of kewl outdoorsy stuff going on.

Another excellent book (non-fiction) with a bit of a bike theme is Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham. I bought it for my Mum for Christmas one year when she and Dad were planning a trip to Vietnam. All three of us ended up reading and enjoying it. Anyway, when the author was a fairly young child he had come over to California as a Veitnamese refugee. As an adult, I think it was after his father died (and his life was generally a bit in the toilet), he sold up whatever possesions he had and took his bike to Asia to travel around and rediscover his roots. Really interesting stuff about the predjudice he faced both growing up in the States and when he returned to Vietnam.

Must. Resist. Waterstone's. Until. Payday. Or at least join the library here.