100 Books That Defined the Decade

Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala (2013)

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

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Essential Stats: This inspirational autobiography by the young Pakistani activist and Nobel laureate (who was shot by the Taliban for standing up for female education) has been translated into over forty languages, sold over two million copies, and been banned in Yousafzai’s home country.

Fun Audio Book Fact: The audio book edition of I Am Malala, narrated by the writer and activist Neela Vaswani, won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album.

What’s Malala Yousafzai up to now? As well as continuing to break down barriers preventing more than 130 million girls around the world from going to school though her work at the Malala Fund, Yousafzai is currently studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University.

Watch Yousafzai’s Nobel Prize speech here:

–DS