Education book series in reading order

Various Authors is the catalogue entry for 153 children's and family titles with no single credited writer, published between 2010 and 2025. The earliest is The Very First Easter (2010) and the most recent is A Kids Book About Masculinity (2025). Bible story retellings for young readers make up much of the list, including Jesus Feeds the Hungry, David Battles Goliath and The Beginner's Bible Book of Prayers, alongside books on parenting, education and psychology. Titles average 64 pages.

Torey Hayden, born Victoria Lynn Hayden in Livingston, Montana in 1951, is a special education teacher and university lecturer. Hayden writes non-fiction built from her own experience teaching and counselling children with special needs, and fiction alongside it. One Child (1980) opens a catalogue of 17 books that closes with The Invisible Girl (2021), taking in Somebody Else's Kids (1981), Ghost Girl (1991), The Tiger's Child (1995) and Beautiful Child (2002). Autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome and elective mutism, her specialism, are among the subjects. The Sheila sequence is the one series catalogued, and nothing new has appeared since 2021.

Malala Yousafzai

8 books

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).

Creek Stewart writes wilderness survival handbooks. Catalogue subjects record survival, preparedness, education and handbooks and manuals, and 17 books sit under this name, from Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag (2012) to Wild God (2026). The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide (2013) attaches survival instruction to the Hunger Games films, which the subjects also record. Build the Perfect Bug Out Vehicle (2014), 365 Essential Survival Skills (2016) and Survival Hacks (2016) continue the instructional run. Later entries in the listing, among them Rugosa (2017), Dandy (2019) and The Clothesaconda (2020), sit outside that pattern.

Richard Rothstein writes on education and housing policy in the United States. Public schools, private schools, academic achievement, finance and case studies head the recorded subjects. Ten books are catalogued between 1990 and 2017, among them The Way We Were?: The Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1998), Can Public Schools Learn From Private Schools (1999), All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? (2002), Class and Schools (2004), Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (2008) and The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017).

Thomas Sowell writes non-fiction on economics, race relations and public policy. Black Education: Myths and Tragedies and Classical Economics Reconsidered both appeared in 1974, followed by Ethnic America, Race and Economics, Knowledge and Decisions and the Cultures series. Forty-nine books reach Social Justice Fallacies in 2023.

Danica McKellar is an American actress and mathematics writer. Her maths books for school students begin with Math Doesn't Suck (2007) and continue through Kiss My Math (2008), Hot X: Algebra Exposed (2009) and Girls Get Curves (2012). McKellar then moved to picture books, among them Goodnight, Numbers (2017), Bathtime Mathtime (2018), Ten Magic Butterflies (2018) and The Times Machine! (2020). The catalogue holds 11 titles and ends at Double Puppy Trouble (2022).

Dan Gutman

198 books• 23 series

Dan Gutman is an American writer of mainly children's fiction, born in 1955. The best-known lines are the My Weird School books, The Genius Files and the Baseball Card Adventures, which began with Honus & Me. The catalogue holds 198 books from It Ain't Cheating If You Don't Get Caught (1990) to Mrs. Towne Is a Clown! (2026), including early baseball titles such as Baseball Babylon (1992). Subjects include schools, teachers, baseball, time travel and humorous stories.

Upton Sinclair

116 books• 5 series

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was an American novelist, muckraking journalist and political activist, and the Democratic nominee for governor of California in 1934. The Jungle (1906) exposed labour and sanitary conditions in the United States meatpacking industry, and the uproar fed into the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act passed months later. Sinclair took the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The catalogue holds 116 titles from 1900 onward, including boys' adventure series set at West Point and Annapolis and the Lanny Budd novels.

D.H. Lawrence

146 books• 3 series

David Herbert Lawrence, 11 September 1885 to 2 March 1930, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, travel writer, literary critic and painter. Lawrence's modernist writing examines modernity, social alienation and industrialisation while arguing for sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four novels went through censorship trials over their treatment of sex and their explicit language: The Rainbow (1915), Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The catalogue lists 146 entries, among them The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912) and the story collection The Prussian Officer (1914), and groups some of them under Sons and Lovers and the Brangwen Family.

Noam Chomsky

134 books• 4 series

Noam Chomsky (Avram Noam Chomsky, born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist and social critic, sometimes called the father of modern linguistics. Chomsky helped found cognitive science, is a major figure in analytic philosophy, and holds posts as laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and institute professor emeritus at MIT. The catalogue lists 134 books, starting with Syntactic Structures (1957) and reaching The Myth of American Idealism (2024). Subjects range from generative grammar to world politics and terrorism.

Charles M. Schulz was an American cartoonist, born in Minneapolis in 1922 and working until his death in 2000. Schulz created the comic strip Peanuts, whose cast includes Charlie Brown and Snoopy, after developing an earlier strip called Li'l Folks from 1947. United Features Syndicate renamed the redeveloped strip Peanuts and began publishing it in October 1950. The book catalogue holds 781 titles, from More Peanuts in 1954 to Snoopy, the Story of My Life in 2025, gathered into collections such as The Complete Peanuts and Peanuts Every Sunday.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

55 books• 1 series

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) was an American conservative writer, commentator and novelist. God and Man at Yale (1951) opens the catalogue, a year after Buckley graduated from Yale with honours; two years at the Central Intelligence Agency followed. Espionage and the Central Intelligence Agency sit among the recorded subjects, carried by the Blackford Oakes novels, the one recorded series. Politics, conservatism and journalism fill the rest. 55 titles are catalogued through to A Torch Kept Lit (2016), averaging 295 pages.

Susan B Katz and various authors is the credit on The Story of, a biography series for readers in grades 3 to 5. 52 books were published between 2020 and 2025, from The Story of Frida Kahlo (2020) to The Story of Olivia Rodrigo (2025). Subjects range from Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Alexander Hamilton and Amelia Earhart to Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, Fred Rogers and Gandhi. The median book runs 66 pages.

Carol Ann Shields, born Warner on June 2, 1935 and died July 16, 2003, was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Stone Diaries, published in 1993, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the United States and the Governor General's Award in Canada. The catalogue holds 29 books dated between 1972 and 2021, among them Small Ceremonies (1976), The Box Garden (1977), Various Miracles (1985) and Swann (1987), and it closes with The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields (2021). Recorded subjects include Canadian women authors, families, mothers and daughters, and married people.

Jimmy Santiago Baca, born 2 January 1952, is an American poet, memoirist and screenwriter from New Mexico. Prisons, Mexican American life and the land run through the poetry, from Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (1987) and Black Mesa Poems (1989) to Immigrants in Our Own Land. A Place to Stand (2001) turns to memoir, and later work covers special education and children with disabilities. 28 titles span 1977 to The Misfits in 2022, at a median of 143 pages.

Booker T. Washington

25 books• 1 series

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was an American educator, author and orator who led the African American community and its Black elite from 1890 until his death. Born enslaved in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington gained freedom during the Civil War, studied at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and Wayland Seminary, and in 1881 became the first head of Tuskegee Institute. His 25 catalogued works include Up From Slavery (1901) and the Booker T. Washington Papers.

Fran Stewart writes the Biscuit McKee Mystery and ScotShop Mystery series, with 17 books catalogued between 2003 and 2018. Orange as Marmalade (2003) is the first title, and other titles include Yellow as Legal Pads (2004), Green As a Garden Hose (2005) and Violet as an Amethyst (2014). A Wee Murder in My Shop appeared in 2015. Stewart also has a non-fiction line. White as Ice (2018) is the latest book.

Parenting is the genre recorded for Kim John Payne, whose 8 catalogued books run from 2005 to 2019. Subjects include child development, child rearing, early childhood education, parent and child, movement education and motor learning. The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning (2005) is the earliest title, and Simplicity Parenting appears twice in the listing, dated 2009 and 2010. The Genius of Natural Childhood (2011), Too Much, Too Soon? (2011), Raising Happy Healthy Children (2017), Reclaim Early Childhood (2019) and The Parenting Toolkit (2019) complete the run. Lisa M. Ross is credited alongside Payne on one book.