Resources

For those unfamiliar with Ayn Rand and the Objectivist Philosophy, we would recommend beginning with her novels and non-fiction works.

Fiction

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

Non-fiction

  • Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)
  • The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
  • The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
  • For the New Intellectual (1961)
  • Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (originally published 1971; republished 1999 with additional essays by Peter Schwartz)
  • Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979)

Lexicon

Another valuable resource is the online Objectivist Lexicon, a encyclopedia of relevant concepts in Objectivism. A search for any concept yields relevant quotations from Ayn Rand's numerous works. The Lexicon is especially useful for understanding terms that are not used in everday language—and to reveal the true meaning being those that are.