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The seduction of Egypt
One very young colleague of mine was getting married and told me that the wedding trip was in Egypt. This is one thing that I could help the young couple with: I selected a whole box of books about ancient Egypt (about 50 volumes as I recall) and brought it to her at work. She was taken aback. "Why did you bring this?" she asked. "Well, it is to prepare for your wedding trip". She looked at me in genuine shock: "We are not going to Egypt to visit ruins, she said, we are going there to swim and dive." It was one of the greatest surprises of my life. I staggered back to my car with my pile of books, and I could hear the whole office snickering behind me. But you are different.
You might enjoy a mystery book such as Murder at the God's Gate (Lord Meren Mysteries) (Lynda S. Robinson), but there is much more fun in the truth. If you did not buy the wonderful book by Ceram to get a feel of archeology in Mesopotamia, you are going to buy it now for Egyptian archeology: Gods, Graves and Scholars: the Story of Archaeology.(essential book) A lot of brilliant archeology was made since the book was written, but if you want to spend the night reading with your tongue hanging out, this is still the book.
And you cannot miss the book of Howard Carter himself The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen. Go to the source, this is a good book!
Plus, you may reward yourself with a mystery book about modern Egypt, such as Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. You might, however, be more excited by the historical novel she wrote on Ancient Egypt, it is superb Death Comes As the End
Try also Lord of the Silent. I have not read the book, but I like the author: Elizabeth Peters.
I tried to read The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips; it is the story of an archeologist at the time of WWI. It did not work for me, the style lacks poetry and turns me off; but the book made a respectable success, so I thought I would mention it. Try it for yourself.
The Egyptian also called Sinue the Egyptian, by Mika Waltari: this is a beautiful book, but it is sad to the extreme, so it may be more rewarding for a curious adult than a teenager.