academic:

• An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt by Kathryn Bard
• Ancient Egypt: A Social History by B. Trigger
• Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Barry Kemp
• Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volumes I-III by Miriam Lichtheim
• Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Beyond Pharaohs by Douglas Brewer
• Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian by R. Faulkner
• Middle Egyptian Grammar by James Hoch
• The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner
• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt edited by Ian Shaw

fiction:

• Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran
  • Mutnodjmet, the often forgotten last queen of the Eighteenth Dyansty, is imagined as the sister of Nefertiti in this book. The story recalls their lives together, Nefertiti's marriage to Akhenaten and Mutnodjmet's own to General Horemheb, who became the last pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
• Sphinx's Princess by Esther Friesner
  • Paints a fiesty and independent picture of a young Nefertiti, (future) wife of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, her struggles to learn, and live her life outside the schemes of meddling royal relatives.
• The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
  • Nefertari, the beloved Great Royal Wife of Ramses II, for whom he built the Temple of Abu Simbel. This is a fictionalized version of her story and what might have been between her and Ramses II.
• The Lords of the Two Lands Trilogy by Pauline Gedge
  • Follows the lives of the princes of Thebes--Seqenenre, Kamose, and Ahmose of the Seventeenth and Eighteen Dynasties--and their struggle to unite Egypt and redeem it from the hands of the Asiatic Fifteenth Dynasty.
• The Ramses Series by Christian Jacq
  • Every great man was once a boy--this series illustrates the growth of Ramses the Great from the tender age of 14 through his accession to the throne and his navigation through the role of king and what that means.