Reddit reviews The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams (Eastman Studies in Music)
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I had to choose between Zyklus and Bone Alphabet. Steven Schick, the guy performing is truly impressive! His book is one of my favorite reads.
If you are really interested in learning how to interpret and perform extremely complex rhythms, I highly recommend the paper "Learning Bone Alphabet" by Steven Shick. You can also get that paper and more in his book "The Percussionist's Art" which you can find on amazon here.
Shick writes about learning Brian Ferneyhough's piece for solo percussion, Bone Alphabet, which is, like most of Ferneyhough's music, a seemingly impossible undertaking. Shick identifies three strategies for learning how to handle extremely complex rhythms and guides the reader through them.
From my own experience, I found one strategy that Shick talks about particularly helpful: Identify the metric unit that a particular tuple fills and then slowly add more and more of the tuple into that unit.
For example lets say there is an 11-tuplet in a beat. Well, playing 8 16ths in a beat is pretty normal so, I'd just repeat the first 8 notes of the 11-tuplet in that beat and get used to that. Then I'd speed that beat up slightly, relative to the rest of the measure, so that I can play the first 9 notes. Then speed up the beat again and fit in 10 notes. And then take that beat fast enough that I can finally fit in 11 notes. By doing that I'm able to play an 11-tuplet perfectly and evenly, without ever actually thinking about how to divide 2 8th notes into 11 parts.