Atlas Shrugged  Order: Hardcover  Paperback   Audio cassettes
   The history-changing novel that asks the questions: Who really moves the world? Why? And what could happen to the world once the movers discover their true worth? Ranked #2 in the Book of the Month Club/Library of Congress survey of influential books, this unique work was the ultimate fictional presentation of Ayn Rand's view of Man as, in Aristotle's words, he "might be and ought to be."

The Fountainhead  Order:   Hardcover  Paperback  Audio cassettes  Video 
    What is the source -- the fountainhead -- of human creativity? Who really innovates; and who are the parasites of the human creators? Ayn Rand answers these questions and more. In continuous print since 1943, this book was also made into a movie with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.

Anthem  Order: Hardcover   Paperback   Audio cassette
    A beautiful short story (Ayn Rand characterized it as a poem) about one man's rediscovery of science, love, and the concept of ego in a bleak collectivist future.

We The Living  Order: Hardcover  Paperback    Audio cassette
    The setting is early Soviet Russia, during the brutal oppression that characterized the communists. The heroine is Kira, a young woman who refuses to become a faceless cog in a Marxist wheel. In Ayn Rand's words: We the Living is not a novel "about Soviet Russia." It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life---using the word "sanctity" not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of "supreme value."

The Early Ayn Rand (a selection from her unpublished fiction) Order: Paperback
     Read the first blossoming of Ayn Rand's superlative literary ability in the 1920's. These imaginative stories from the young Ayn Rand are must reading for any fan.

Night of January 16th Order: Paperback
      A unique play involving audience participation to be a jury for a murder trial. The play can have two endings based on the jury's decision. Brilliantly, Ayn Rand characterized this as the jury itself on trial, because the proper decision is reached on one's sense of life and perception of philosophic issues.

The Art of Non-Fiction Order: Paperback
   "Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, The Art of Nonfiction takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way." - from Amazon website.

The Art of Fiction Order: Paperback
   "In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction." - from Amazon website.

Philosophy : Who Needs ItOrder: Paperback
   The last book approved by Ayn Rand, this is a superb collection of essays about the nature of philosophy and incisive analysis of current events from a philosophic viewpoint. Includes her speech by the same name given by invitation to the graduating class at West Point Military Academy on March 6, 1974.

The Ayn Rand Lexicon (Objectivism from A-Z)  Order: Paperback
   Edited by Harry Binswanger, this is the definitive conceptual cross-indexing of Ayn Rand's works. Look up 'Altruism', 'Sex', 'Hierarchy of Knowledge', and hundreds of other subjects, and read representative passages in her writings.

Capitalism : The Unknown Ideal   Order: Paperback
    Collections of essays showing why the political system of capitalism is the ideal -- but an ideal that still needs a full philosophic foundation for its complete comprehension.

For The New Intellectual  Order: Paperback
    If the world is to see a second Renaissance, the institutionalized irrationality of the humanities departments of Western universities must be replaced with those who have a profound respect for the human mind -- the new intellectuals.

The New Left (The anti-industrial revolution)  Order: Paperback
    Collections of essays studying the "New Left" of the 60's, who have grown up to be the "tenured radicals" of the 90's, poisoning and undercutting Western civilization through its universities. Rand, ahead of her time as usual, correctly saw in the 1960s that the New Left's agenda would switch to enviromentalism after the end of the Vietnam war.

Return of the Primitive : The Anti-Industrial Revolution  Order: Paperback
    This is an update of the previous book in this listing, with additional timely material by Peter Schwartz.

The Virtue of Selfishness  Order: Paperback
    Objectivism's ethics of rational selfishness are the source of its greatest controversy. This book's essays provide further study and proof of the correctness of Objectivism's ethics and the evil of self-sacrifice.

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology Order: Paperback
    The most technical and difficult of Ayn Rand's work, this presents her theory of concepts, her answer to the classic "problem of universals." A fascinating exposition of the process of human concept formation, showing the basic process underlying all of human knowledge. This edition also contains an essay by Leonard Peikoff refuting the "Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy" as well as extremely interesting transcripts of an epistemology workshop held with Rand and a number of philosophers.

The Romantic Manifesto Order:  Paperback
    Ayn Rand's essays on the nature of art -- painting, sculpture, music, and dancing. She provides a rational basis for aesthetics for the first time in history, a proper definition of art, and intriguing insights into the nature of music. If you love Michelangelo's works and despise the idea that welded bicycle parts and banana peels glued to canvas are "art", you'll love this book.

The Ayn Rand Letter (1971-76) Order:  Hardback
    Containing the last public writing done by Ayn Rand, the essays contain philosophic studies of many current events of the time, as well as other topics. This is Ayn Rand at her intellectual peak, writing from the perspective of a lifetime of intense thought and integration.

The Ayn Rand Column : Written for the LA Times Order:  Paperback
   The collection of columns that Ayn Rand wrote for the LA Times newspaper, including her assessment of Marilyn Monroe.

Ayn Rand's Marginalia  Order: Paperback
   Edited by Robert Mayhew. Ayn Rand made extensive marginal notes in her books, collected here in one volume.

Journals of Ayn Rand   Order: Hardcover
   Edited by David Harriman. Ayn Rand kept notes throughout her life as she grappled with various intellectual problems and writing projects. A must-have for anybody wishing to see the evolution of a great mind.

Letters of Ayn Rand   Order: Hardcover
   Edited by Michael Berliner of the Ayn Rand Institute. Ayn Rand was a "packrat" for personal items throughout her life and her letters were no exception. A fascinating and intimate look at the personal correspondence written by Rand herself (not letters to her).

The Ayn Rand Reader  Order: Paperback
   To be published in 1999. Containing excerpts from all of her fiction, this is slated to be a good introduction for the reader new to Ayn Rand's thought.

Americas Persecuted Minority : Big Business  Order: Audio Cassette
     A still timely topic, given the U.S. government's monstrous ongoing harassment of America's greatest businessmen.

Apollo and Dionysis  Order: Audio Cassette
     A typically brilliant study of the ironic contrast between the development of Man's greatest technological achievement -- landing men on the moon -- and the grotesque spectacle of Woodstock's rampant anti-mind, anti-success emotionalism.

Faith and Force : The Destroyers of the Modern World  Order: Audio Cassette
     Ayn Rand held that faith and force were two related evils which go hand in hand, and studies this connection in this speech.

The Robber Barons  Order: Audio Cassette
     Some of the greatest industrialists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were smeared by the altruist intellectuals of the time with the phrase "Robber Barons." Ayn Rand gives them their proper due, studying their nature as superlatively productive men who were hated because they were successful.

The Sanction of the Victim  Order: Audio Cassette
     Ayn Rand formulated a principle she dubbed "The sanction of the victim" which explains one of the essential reasons why productive giants keep losing to the envious cockroaches of the world. Her answer: The giants, accepting the morality of altruism, feel guilt for their success and accept "punishment" for it, acting to undercut themselves and giving no defense.

What is Capitalism  Order: Audio Cassette
     The world of 1998 would be unrecognizable, with its astonishing array of technology and skyscrapers, to men of the pre-industrial revolution, and it's a world created by capitalism. Yet its moral foundation and true life-giving nature is still not grasped by most men.

Fiction Writing  Order: Audio Cassettes
     For anybody wanting to hear one of the history's greatest writers and thinkers speak extensively on the nature of writing fiction, this set of tapes is absolutely indispensible and fascinating.

Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Order: Paperback
    Leonard Peikoff's definitive book on the philosophy of Ayn Rand, Objectivism. A formal presentation of her philosophy suitable for anybody seriously interested in Objectivism.

CliffsNotes on The Fountainhead Order: Paperback
    Written by the prominent Objectivist lecturer Andy Bernstein, this is a short CliffsNotes guide to Ayn Rand's masterpiece.

CliffsNotes on Atlas Shrugged Order: Paperback
    Written by the prominent Objectivist lecturer Andy Bernstein, this is a short CliffsNotes guide to Ayn Rand's last and greatest novel of the mind on strike.

Why Businessmen Need Philosophy Order: Paperback
    "A collection of essays to help today's businessman understand the crucial role of philosophy in free trade, free markets, health care and business ethics. The book includes a title essay by Leonard Peikoff and two essays by Ayn Rand never before published in book form: "The Money-Making Personality" and "An Answer for Businessmen." Twelve additional essays by Leonard Peikoff and other contributors are included." - from the Amazon website.

The Ayn Rand Reader Order: Paperback
    "The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint." - from the Amazon website.

Viable Values Order: Paperback
    Written by Objectivist professor Tara Smith. "Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how life is the standard of morality, how flourishing is the proper end and reward of living morally, and how an intelligent egoism is the path to flourishing." - from the Amazon website.

Ayn Rand : A Sense of Life : The Companion Book Order:  Hardback
    By Michael Paxton, producer of the definitive, beautifully done and Academy Award nominated Ayn Rand film biography, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. Filled with biographical details and numerous photographs detailing Ayn Rand's life.

The Ominous Parallels (The end of freedom in America) Order: Paperback
    Leonard Peikoff's brilliant historical/philosophic analysis of the nature and roots of Nazi Germany -- and the grim conclusion that America itself has accepted many of the same philosophic ideas.

The Biological Basis of Teleological ConceptsOrder: Paperback
    By Harry Binswanger, this book covers the idea that an essential aspect of all life is goal-directedness, even non-conscious, non-conceptual life.

Effective Therapy Order: Paperback
    By Dr. Michael Hurd, Objectivist psychologist.

On Ayn Rand (Wadsworth Philosophers Series) Order: Paperback
    By Dr. Allan Gotthelf, this short (100 page) book approaches the daunting task of presenting Ayn Rand and her thought in a comprehensive yet concise way.

Loving Life Order: Paperback
    By Craig Biddle. The book is essentially a study of the Objectivist ethics and has a dedicated website here.

Ayn Rand Versus Karl Marx   Order: Audio Cassette
     By the superlative professor of history, Dr. John Ridpath.