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Maps
You can order all kinds of maps from Ferdakort.is The 1:500.000 road map should have enough detail for your trip.
Check out The National Land Survey of Iceland for more detailed information.
Guidebooks
There are a few guidebooks on Iceland, including The Visitor's KEY to ICELAND which very popular with Icelanders. "This essential guidebook accompanies you around the country.
Organised around maps - of all the roads in the country including the
highlands and all mountain roads, as well as streetmaps of towns and
villages - it gives a running commentary on all you see, providing
information and anecdoted relating not only to natural featurs but also
to local social, political and literary history." Unfortunately for cyclist it's 1.2kg and half of that is advertising, but at least they keep the price down hopefully. You can buy one here .
The Lonely Planet is a popular choice and for reading at home the Insight Guides are usually great, but not very practical to take with you.
 The only guidebook written specifically for cyclists is only available in German. It's called Island per Rad and is written by Ulf Hoffmann who has cycled extensively here in Iceland and the book comes highly recommended by those who read German. Here is his website. Some of this material may be out of date.
If you can't read german you can still check out the site with an automated Google translation. Here for example is a little chapter on his visit to our clubhouse.
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