Best cycling books (novels and narrative non-fiction)

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Can we do better than William Fotheringham's list of top 10 cycling novels, as discussed in this thread?? Novels and narrative non-fiction, please, not repair manuals.
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653 members
29 reviews
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thorold: Gripping first person account of an amateur race.
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34 members
1 review
3.9
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4,677 members
135 reviews
4
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14 members
3.2
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459 members
10 reviews
4.2
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thorold
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thorold: Tilling is hit by the cycling craze.
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17 members
½ 3.7
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1,201 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
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thorold: A cycling holiday in Germany for the Three Men who previously went boating.
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3 members
½ 3.5
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10 members
3
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thorold: The Passion considered as a hill-climb race.
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598 members
17 reviews
3.9
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thorold: With a pistol, a toothbrush and a change of underwear, you can get halfway round the world...
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40 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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thorold: Novel about a taxidermist who shocks an 1880s small town by riding a high-wheeler. What could possibly go wrong?
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15 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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thorold
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thorold: Plato and Kant are in the péloton, sharing their bike-knowledge, whilst Chambraz invokes the philosophical wisdom of a host of stars of the Tour and the Giro in lovely little tongue-in-cheek essays.
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3 members
1 review
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thorold: A Belgian cycles around London
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27 members
1 review
½ 3.5