All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister (nonfiction 2016)

Exciting and insightful, although it took me a couple chapters to warm to it.  I learned a lot and smiled again and again.

Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena by Shelley Emling (nonfiction 2016)

Interesting look at a woman who had a lot of influence on Italian affairs, even in the 14th century.  Emling is able to characterize her as a woman of her times and out of time.

Elizabeth - Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton (nonfiction 2015)

First rate, illuminating arguments.  It can be tough to come up with something new about old Liz.  Hilton analyzes her statecraft in the light of the newly forming Renaissance ideals about princehood.