The lists below provide information on Rand's major works and collections. Where there are multiple editions, the primary information listed is for the first regular trade edition, with notes following about other editions if they involve revisions or additions to the content. For dramatic works, date of first production is used instead of date of first publication. Individual essays, short stories and other short items are not listed separately, but most are reproduced in the items below.
We the Living (1936). New York: Macmillan. Revised edition published by Random House in 1959. 60th anniversary edition published by New American Library in 1996, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN0-525-94054-5.
Anthem (1938). London: Cassell and Company. Revised edition published by Pamphleteers in 1946. 50th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1995, includes the revised edition text plus a facsimile of the first edition, ISBN0-525-94015-4.
The Fountainhead (1943). New York: Bobbs-Merrill. 25th anniversary edition published by New American Library in 1971, includes a new introduction by Rand. 50th anniversary edition published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1993, includes an afterword by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN0-451-17512-3.
Atlas Shrugged (1957). New York: Random House. 35th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1992, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN0-525-93418-9.
Night of January 16th (1934). Stage play. Produced in Los Angeles as Woman on Trial, then on Broadway as Night of January 16th. Player's book and director's manuscript with edits by Nathaniel Edward Reeid published in 1936. Revised version by Rand published by The World Publishing in 1968.
The Unconquered (1940). Stage adaptation of We the Living. Two versions of the script, edited by Robert Mayhew, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014
You Came Along (1945). Screenplay, co-written with Robert Smith.
The Fountainhead (1949). Screenplay adaptation of her own novel.
Ideal (1989). New York: New American Library. ISBN0-451-47555-0. Stage play, published in The Early Ayn Rand prior to first production.
Three Plays (2005). Richard E. Ralston, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN0-451-21466-8. Anthology of plays, including Night of January 16th, Ideal, and Think Twice.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966). New York: New American Library. Includes essays by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. Expanded second edition published by New American Library in 1967. Introduction was revised in 1970.
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971). New York: New American Library. Expanded second edition published by New American Library in 1975. See also Return of the Primitive below.
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (1989). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN0-453-00634-5. Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz.
The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times (1991). Peter Schwartz, ed. Oceanside, California: Second Renaissance Books. ISBN1-56114-099-6. Expanded second edition published by Second Renaissance Books in 1998, ISBN1-56114-292-1. A collection of twenty-six newspaper columns that Rand wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1962 on, as well as six essays (with an additional three in the revised edition).
Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors (1995). Robert Mayhew, ed. New Milford, Connecticut: Second Renaissance Books. ISBN1-56114-250-6
Russian Writings on Hollywood (1999). Michael S. Berliner, ed.; Dina Garmong, trans. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN0-9625336-3-7. Reproduces and translates two booklets previously published in Russia without Rand's knowledge.
Why Businessmen Need Philosophy (1999). Richard E. Ralston, ed. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN0-9625336-2-9. Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Edwin A. Locke, John Ridpath, Richard M. Salsman, and Jaana Woiceshyn.
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2001). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: Plume. ISBN0-452-28231-4. Includes an introduction by Peter Schwartz.
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (2005). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN0-451-21665-2.
The Objectivist Newsletter. Vols. 1–4. 1962–1965. Co-edited with Nathaniel Branden.
The Objectivist. Vols. 5–10. 1966–1971. Co-edited with Nathaniel Branden through the April 1968 issue (Volume 7, Issue 4), then solely by Rand. Volume numbering carried over from The Objectivist Newsletter.
The Ayn Rand Letter. Vols. 1–4. 1971–1976.
Books about Rand or Objectivism
The books listed below are either entirely about Ayn Rand/Objectivism or contain multiple relevant chapters/essays. The main body of the list consists of books about Objectivist ideas published by academic, commercial or institutional presses. A special subsection lists books about Rand's life and writing. For books with a single relevant chapter or essay, see the list of other works below.
Badhwar, Neera K. (2001). Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness?. Objectivist Studies Monographs. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN1-57724-059-6.
Bernstein, Andrew (2005). The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN0-7618-3220-3.
Bernstein, Andrew (2009). Objectivism in One Lesson: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books. ISBN978-0-7618-4359-7.
———————— (2009). Ayn Rand for Beginners. For Beginners series. Illustrations by Own Brozman. Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press. ISBN978-1-934389-37-9.
Biddle, Craig (2001). Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It. Glen Allen, Virginia: Glen Allen Press. ISBN0-9713737-0-1.
Bishop, Lloyd (2001). In Defense of Altruism: Inadequacies of Ayn Rand's Ethics and Psychological Egoism. New Orleans: University Press of the South. ISBN1-889431-79-6.
Buechner, M. Northrup (2011). Objective Economics: How Ayn Rand's Philosophy Changes Everything about Economics. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN978-0-7618-5481-4.
Ellis, Albert (2006). Are Capitalism, Objectivism, and Libertarianism Religions? Yes!. Santa Barbara, California: Walden Three. ISBN1-4348-0885-8. Revised and retitled edition of a 1968 book, originally titled Is Objectivism a Religion?
Gotthelf, Allan & Lennox, James G., eds. (2010). Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue: Studies in Ayn Rand's Normative Theory. Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN978-0-8229-4400-3. OCLC617508678.
Gotthelf, Allan & Lennox, James G., eds. (2013). Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology. Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN978-0-8229-4424-9. OCLC828682539.
Gotthelf, Allan & Salmieri, Gregory, eds. (2016). A Companion to Ayn Rand. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN978-1-4051-8684-1. OCLC932124553.
Harriman, David (2010). The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics. New York: New American Library. ISBN978-0-451-23005-8. OCLC462902937. With an introduction by Leonard Peikoff.
Hudgins, Edward (2008). An Objectivist Secular Reader. Washington, DC: The Atlas Society. ISBN978-978-098-152-5.
Kelley, David (1986). The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN0-8071-1268-2. OCLC12262170.
—————— (2000). The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism (paperback ed.). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. ISBN0-7658-0863-3. OCLC44727861. Revised and retitled edition of a 1990 book, originally titled Truth and Toleration.
Long, Roderick T. (2000). Reason and Value: Rand versus Aristotle. Objectivist Studies Monographs. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN1-57724-045-6. OCLC49875339.
——————— (2012). The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out. New York: New American Library. ISBN978-0-451-23481-0. OCLC775418851.
Peikoff, Leonard (2012). S. Berliner, Michael (ed.). Understanding Objectivism: A Guide to Learning Ayn Rand's Philosophy. New York: New American Library. ISBN978-0451236296. OCLC860770765.
Peikoff, Leonard; Wood, Barry (2013). Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing. New York: New American Library. ISBN978-0451418159. OCLC837144730.
Peikoff, Leonard; Trollop, Marlene (2014). Teaching Johnny to Think: A Philosophy of Education Based on the Principles of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN978-0979466168. OCLC879490675.
Raimondo, Justin (1993). Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement. Burlingame, California: Center for Libertarian Studies. ISBN1-883959-00-4. OCLC30055223.
Robbins, John W. (1997). Without a Prayer: Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System. Hobbs, New Mexico: Trinity Foundation. ISBN0-940931-50-8. OCLC37185367. Revised and retitled edition of a 1974 book, originally titled Answer to Ayn Rand.
——————————— (2003). Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation. Cape Town, South Africa: Leap Publishing. ISBN0-9584573-3-6. OCLC55972360.
Seddon, Fred (2003). Ayn Rand, Objectivists, and the History of Philosophy. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN0-7618-2308-5. OCLC51969016.
————— (2000). Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN0-8476-9760-6. OCLC42397381.
Touchstone, Kathleen (2006). Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN0-7618-3519-9. OCLC70783649.
Wortham, Anne (1981). The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. ISBN0-8142-0318-3. OCLC6917587.
Younkins, Edward W. (2005). Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN0-7391-1076-4. OCLC59147844.
————————— (2007). Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN978-0-7391-2647-9. OCLC228676591.
Den Uyl, Douglas J. (1999). The Fountainhead: An American Novel. Twayne's Masterwork Studies series. New York: Twayne Publishers. ISBN0-8057-7932-9. OCLC40193752.
Duggan, Lisa (2019). Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed. American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN978-0520294769.
Gladstein, Mimi Reisel (1999). The New Ayn Rand Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN0-313-30321-5. OCLC40359365. Revised and retitled edition of a 1984 book, originally titled The Ayn Rand Companion.
Johnson, Donald Leslie (2005). The Fountainheads: Wright, Rand, the FBI and Hollywood. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN0-7864-1958-X. OCLC56617298.
Younkins, Edward W., ed. (2007). Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN978-0-7546-5533-6. OCLC69792104.
Other works about Rand or Objectivism
The works listed below include articles, pamphlets, individual chapters of books, and materials in non-print media. Articles reproduced in books listed above are not included on this list.
Aune, James Arnt (2001). "Checking Ayn Rand's Premises (or, The Revenge of the Nerds)". Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN1-57230-598-3.
Forman, Frank (1989). "Ayn Rand and Natural Rights". The Metaphysics of Liberty. Theory and Decision Library, Series A. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN0-7923-0080-7.
Hessen, Robert (1999). "Objectivist, 1962–1976". In Lora, Ronald & Henry, William Longton (eds.). The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 349–56. ISBN0-313-21390-9. OCLC40481045.
Hicks, Stephen (Winter 2003). "Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics"(PDF). Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy. 3 (1): 1–26. Based on a lecture given to the Ayn Rand Society at the American Philosophical Association on December 29, 1995.
Rasmussen, Douglas (1982). "Essentialism, Values and Rights: The Objectivist Case for the Free Society". In Machan, Tibor R. (ed.). The Libertarian Reader. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN0-8476-7061-9.
Menaul, Christopher, director (1998) The Passion of Ayn Rand. (Dramatisation of Barbara Branden's The Passion of Ayn Rand; released as a motion picture in 1999; leading players: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Peter Fonda)
Stockton, Sharon (2006). "Engineering Fascism: Ayn Rand, Ezra Pound and the Virile Hero". The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-century Literature. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press Press. pp. 48–70. ISBN0-8142-1018-X.
Thomas, William (2003). "Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism". In Frost, Bryan-Paul & Sikkenga, Jeffrey (eds.). History of American Political Thought. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN0-7391-0623-6.
The Intellectual Activist (1979–2010). Peter Schwartz editor (1979–1991), Robert Stubblefield editor (1991–1996), Robert Tracinski editor (1996–2010).[1] Published fortnightly to September 1991; then bi-monthly to November 1998; monthly thereafter.