Our pick of biographies, history and investigative journalist to accompany this year’s race:
- The climb by Chris Froome and David Walsh
- Lanterne Rouge: The last man in the Tour de France by Max Leonard
- Shadows on the road: Life at the heart of the peleton, from US Postal to Team Sky by Michael Barry
- Inside Team Sky by David Walsh
- Seven deadly sins by David Walsh
- Racing through the dark: The fall and rise of David Millar by David Millar and Jeremy Whittle
- On the road bike: The search for a nation’s cycling soul, or, sniffing the yak-skin shoe, or, the great eccentrics of British cycling by Ned Boulting
- Gironimo!: Riding the very terrible 1914 Tour of Italy by Tim Moore