Select Bibliography of Ayn Rand’s Writings

Years included in parentheses after a title signify the publication date of the first edition and of later editions that included substantial new material. A more extensive annotated bibliography of works written or endorsed by Rand is included in (Gotthelf and Salmieri, eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand, and is available online.

Novels

• Anthem (1938, 1946)

• Atlas Shrugged (1957)

• The Fountainhead (1943)

• We the Living (1936, 1959)

Non-Fiction

• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966, 1967)

• For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1961)

• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, (1967, 1979, 1990)

• Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)

• Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1998)

• The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (1969, 1975)

• The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (1964, 1965)

• The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (1988)

Selections

• The Ayn Rand Lexicon, ed. H. Binswanger (1986)

• The Ayn Rand Reader, ed. G. Hull and L. Peikoff (1999)

Periodicals (Co-)Edited by Rand

• The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)

• The Objectivist (1965–1971)

• The Objectivist Newsletter (1962–1965)

Posthumously Published Works

• The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, ed. T. Boeckmann (2000)

• The Art of Non-Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, ed. R. Mayhew (2001)

• Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q&A, ed. R. Mayhew (2005)

• Ayn Rand’s Marginalia, ed. R. Mayhew (1995)

• The Early Ayn Rand, ed. L. Peikoff (1985, 2005)

• Journals of Ayn Rand, ed. D. Harriman (1997)

• Letters of Ayn Rand, ed. M.S. Berliner (1995)

• Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed, ed. M. Podristske and P. Schwartz (2009)

Exposition based on extensive discussions with, and a lecture course authorized by, Ayn Rand

• Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, L. Peikoff (1991)

Archival Materials

• The Ayn Rand Archives of the Ayn Rand Institute

• Ayn Rand Papers at the Library of Congress