The Woman who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney (nonfiction 2014)

Ms. Cooney takes an exciting and interesting approach to telling Hatshepsut's story.  Since the queen is so far in the ancient past and many of her monuments were destroyed, the author takes care to spell out when she is riffing off the evidence, which she does throughout the book.  I thought it was pretty effective.