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Books by Ayn Rand

Each of the lists below is in chronological order according to the publication date of the first edition of each book. For books published posthumously, the editor is listed.

Ayn Rand's Fiction

Novels

• We the Living (1936)
• Anthem (1938)
• The Fountainhead (1943)
• Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Other Works

• Night of January 16th (originally produced in 1936, published in 1968)
• The Early Ayn Rand, edited by Leonard Peikoff (1984)
• Three Plays, edited by Richard E. Ralston (2005)

Ayn Rand's Non-Fiction

Non-fiction Books Published in Rand's Lifetime

• For the New Intellectual (1961)
• The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
• The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
• The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971)
• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979)

Non-fiction Books Published Posthumously

• Philosophy: Who Needs It, edited by Leonard Peikoff (1982)
• The Voice of Reason, edited by Leonard Peikoff (1989)
• The Ayn Rand Column, edited by Peter Schwartz (1991)
• Letters of Ayn Rand, edited by Michael S. Berliner (1995)
• Ayn Rand's Marginalia, edited by Robert Mayhew (1995)
• Journals of Ayn Rand, edited by David Harriman (1997)
• The Ayn Rand Reader, edited by Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff (1999)
• Return of the Primitive, edited by Peter Schwartz (1999)
• Russian Writings on Hollywood, edited by Michael S. Berliner, translated by Dina Garmong (1999)
• The Art of Fiction, edited by Tore Boeckmann (2000)
• The Art of Nonfiction, edited by Robert Mayhew (2001)
• The Ayn Rand Sampler (2002)
• Ayn Rand Answers, edited by Robert Mayhew (2005)

Books with Selections by Ayn Rand

The following books include essays or lengthy excerpts by Ayn Rand, but the bulk of the material in them is by other authors.

• The Capitalist Reader, edited by Lawrence S. Stepelevich (1977)
• The Market Economy: A Reader, edited by James L. Doti and Dwight R. Lee (1991)
• Humanity: Ideas and Ideals, edited by Jane Z. Brown (1993)
• Moral Philosophy: A Reader (Second Edition), edited by Louis P. Pojman (1998)
• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy, edited by Richard E. Ralston (1999)
• Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (Tenth Edition), edited by Joel Feinberg (1999)
• The Moral Life, edited by Louis P. Pojman (2000)

Note: Some of the items above are textbooks which are updated frequently with new editions. The listings above reflect the most recent edition confirmed to still contain an excerpt by Rand. Other editions may also contain such excerpts.

Related Sites

Excerpts (and some complete texts) of Rand's writings can be found in the ORC Texts section. (Links are also provided from the pages for the individual works above.)

The Ayn Rand Institute offers a Bibliographic Search Engine for finding references to selected topics in Rand's writings.

Many of the essays in Rand's non-fiction books were originally published in the newsletters and magazines she edited. For information on Objectivist magazines and newsletters, see the ORC section on Objectivist periodicals.

Additional keywords: Ann Rand, Anne Rand, Ayn Rad, Ayn Ran, Any Rand

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