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ⓘ About Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is a published author of nonfiction books. He is a best selling author, a public speaker and a journalist. Malcolm was born September 3, 1963, in England in Fareham, Hampshire. His mother Joyce was a psychotherapist and Jamaican. His father Graham is from Kent, England and worked as a math professor. In much of his early life, they lived in a rural area of Canada. He has named his mother as his role model when it comes to writing. The family moved to Canada to Elmira from Southampton when he was six years old. He would wander around the University of Waterloo offices where his father worked while young and this inspired an interest in libraries and reading. He is a Christian, and his family attended church when they lived in the UK and Canada.
All Book Series by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 2000
Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise
Book 11 of 12 · published 2026 Co-authored · Barack Obama
The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2026
The Munk Debates: Volume One
Series opener · book 1 of 20 · published 2010 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
Hitchens vs. Blair
Book 2 of 20 · published 2011 Anthology · Christopher Hitchens
Does the 21st Century Belong to China?
Book 3 of 20 · published 2011 Anthology · Henry Kissinger
North America’s Lost Decade
Book 4 of 20 · published 2012 Anthology · Ian Bremmer,Paul Krugman,David Rosenberg,Lawrence H. Summers
Has the European Experiment Failed?
Book 5 of 20 · published 2012 Anthology · Niall Ferguson
Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?
Book 6 of 20 · published 2013 Anthology · Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Should We Tax the Rich More?
Book 7 of 20 · published 2013 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths,Paul Krugman
Are Men Obsolete?: The Munk Debate on Gender
Book 8 of 20 · published 2014 Anthology · Camille Paglia,Caitlin Moran,Maureen Dowd,Hanna Rosin
Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?
Book 9 of 20 · published 2015 Anthology · Bret Stephens
The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy
Book 10 of 20 · published 2015 Anthology · Steven Harper,Justin Trudeau,Thomas Mulcair
Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?
Book 11 of 20 · published 2015 Anthology · Garry Kasparov
Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?
Book 12 of 20 · published 2016 Co-authored · Alain de Botton,Steven Pinker,Matt Ridley
Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?
Book 13 of 20 · published 2016 Anthology · Newt Gingrich
The Global Refugee Crisis
Book 14 of 20 · published 2016 Anthology · Mark Steyn
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
Book 15 of 20 · published 2017 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
Is American Democracy in Crisis?
Book 16 of 20 · published 2018 Anthology · Kimberley Strassel
Political Correctness
Book 17 of 20 · published 2018 Anthology · Jordan B. Peterson
The Rise of Populism
Book 18 of 20 · published 2019 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
China and the West
Book 19 of 20 · published 2019 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths,H.R. McMaster,Michael Pillsbury,Kishore Mahbubani,Huiyao Wang
Future of Capitalism
Latest in the series · book 20 of 20 · published 2021 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2022
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Malcolm Gladwell?
Malcolm Gladwell is a published author of nonfiction books. He is a best selling author, a public speaker and a journalist. Malcolm was born September 3, 1963, in England in Fareham, Hampshire.
Which Malcolm Gladwell series should I start with?
The best place to start is The Munk Debates series, the earliest of Malcolm Gladwell's multi-book series: it opens with The Munk Debates: Volume One (2010) and runs to 20 books across 2010–2021, ending with Future of Capitalism (2021).
How many books has Malcolm Gladwell written?
Malcolm Gladwell has 37 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2000 and 2026. 20 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being The Munk Debates series with 20 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Malcolm Gladwell's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Malcolm Gladwell's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Munk Debates (2010–2021, 20 books).
How are Malcolm Gladwell's books organised into series?
This guide splits Malcolm Gladwell's 37 books into 1 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Munk Debates (20 books, 2010–2021).