Malala Yousafzai's autobiography, co-written with Christina Lamb, is titled I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the United Kingdom and Little, Brown, and Company in the United States released it on October 8, 2013. The book chronicles Yousafzai's early years, including her father's school ownership and advocacy, the emergence and fall of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Swat Valley, and a murder attempt on her when she was 15 years old, in response to her activism for female education. Though it has been banned in many Pakistani schools, it has gained favorable critical acclaim and has won accolades.

According to Publishers Weekly, the book sold about 2 million copies in 2017, with 750,000 copies in print for the children's edition. According to The Bookseller, 328,000 copies of the book were sold in the UK in March 2018, netting almost £2.47 million.

• Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards.
• Best Memoir & Autobiography, 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards
• Finalist for Political Book of the Year at the 2014 Political Book Awards.
  

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World was published in 2014 as a children's edition of the memoir. Neela Vaswani narrated the audiobook edition, which received the Grammy Award for Best Children's Album in 2015.

I Am Malala was released by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the US on October 8, 2013. More than 40 languages have been translated into the book.