Education book series in reading order

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).

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.