So many new books and authors to check out!

A few not mentioned:

The short stories of David Sedaris are hilarious and irreverent.

Another vote for Barbara Kingsolver, and just about anything by Margaret Atwood.

Some memorable books from the last few years - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber,
Life of Pi, Ella Minnow Pea, Cryptonomicon... and I'm blanking on others.

For some "guilty secret" reading, I got hooked on Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series (A is For Alibi, etc) a long time ago, and fully intend to see them through to Z. Maybe good reading for trainer sessions and airplane trips.

Cycling related - Lance Armstrong's War and The Rider.