Malala Yousafzai Books in Order
Malala Yousafzai has written 8 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (2012) and the newest is Finding My Way (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
Malala Yousafzai also publishes as Gul.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2012–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,037 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 17–26 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,037 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and a producer of film and television, and the youngest Nobel laureate in history, awarded the Peace Prize in 2014 at seventeen. Yousafzai campaigns for the education of women and children in her home district of Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times barred girls from school. Eight books are catalogued, opening with I Am Malala (2012) and its 2014 edition for younger readers, and continuing through Malala's Magic Pencil (2017), We Are Displaced (2018), My Name Is Malala (2022), Malala Speaks Out (2023) and Finding My Way (2025).
How many Malala Yousafzai books are there?
Malala Yousafzai has 8 books, released between 2012 and 2025.
Malala Yousafzai Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Malala Yousafzai books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban2012 · 327 pages · confirmed 1/420123271/4
- 2I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World2014 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420142401/4
- 3Malala's Magic Pencil2017 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/42017481/4
- 4We Are Displaced2018 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420182241/4
- 5Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights2018 · 170 pages · confirmed 1/420181701/4
- 6My Name Is Malala2022 · 28 pages · confirmed 1/42022281/4
- 7Malala Speaks Out2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 8Finding My Way2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Malala Yousafzai books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
8 books8 Malala Yousafzai titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Malala Yousafzai books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Malala Yousafzai books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Malala Yousafzai
Start with I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Malala Yousafzai book?
Finding My Way (2025) is the newest Malala Yousafzai book released so far.
Is there a new Malala Yousafzai book coming?
No next Malala Yousafzai book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Malala Yousafzai has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Malala Yousafzai. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award2018Won
Malala Yousafzai at a glance
- Still publishing
- Malala Yousafzai published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Malala Yousafzai books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,037 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 197 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Malala Yousafzai books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Malala Yousafzai books are about
5 of the 8 Malala Yousafzai books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: education is tagged on 4 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Education 4 of 5 books
- Biography 3 of 5 books
- Children's rights 3 of 5 books
- Girls 3 of 5 books
- Young women 3 of 5 books
- Women social reformers 2 of 5 books
- Women, education 2 of 5 books
- Crimes against 1 of 5 books
- Emigration and immigration 1 of 5 books
- Girls, juvenile literature 1 of 5 books
- History 1 of 5 books
- Juvenile literature 1 of 5 books