Library

Readings that support our educational work on individual rights and capitalism. The list includes works by Ayn Rand and other Objectivist authors, along with historical and comparative sources on self-government, special jurisdictions, and political founding. Works are listed for study only; listing a title does not endorse every idea it contains, and nothing here is a plan for or endorsement of any contemporary project. Some entries discuss anarchism, communism, or socialism, which Objectivism rejects.

Sovereignty and institutional design

Special jurisdictions and comparative governance

Books
  • The Hawksbill Creek Agreement — Sir Hugh Wooding CBE et al. Kindle
  • Startup States — Julien A. Starr Read Online, PDF
  • Your Next Government? — Tom W. Bell Amazon
  • The Atlas of Unusual Borders — Zoran Nikolic Amazon
Articles

Zionism (comparative case study)

Russia (state formation and collapse)

  • Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture (2022) — Janusz Bugajski Amazon
  • The Russian Revolutions of 1917 — John Shelton Curtiss Amazon

American History

Objectivism

Books

  • For the New Intellectual — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Virtue of Selfishness — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Ayn Rand Letter — Ayn Rand Amazon
  • The Letters of Ayn Rand — ed. Michael Berliner Amazon
  • Ayn Rand Answers — ed. Robert Mayhew Amazon
  • The Tyranny of Need — Peter Schwartz Amazon
  • Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty — Peter Schwartz ARI eStore
  • The Objectivist Forum (all issues) — HB Letter

Essays

  • Ayn Rand Speaks — interviews, recordings, bibliographies, and other resources Essay
  • Libertarianism vs. Liberty — Peter Schwartz HuffPost
  • Sorry Libertarian Anarchists, Capitalism Requires Government — Harry Binswanger Forbes

Periodicals

Podcasts and Video Recordings

  • Ayn Rand Institute — YouTube
  • The Yaron Brook Show — Yaron Brook YouTube
  • HB TV — Harry Binswanger YouTube

Economics and related
  • Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt Kindle
  • The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure — John Allison Amazon
  • A Treatise on Political Economy (1803) — Jean-Baptiste Say Econlib
  • On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) — David Ricardo Econlib
  • Two Treatises of Government — John Locke Kindle
  • The Law — Frédéric Bastiat Kindle

Fiction

Books

  • Anthem — Ayn Rand Read Online, Project Gutenberg, Kindle
  • Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • We the Living — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Island of Crimea — Vasily Aksyonov Amazon
  • Foundation — Isaac Asimov Kindle
  • The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood Kindle
  • The Shipwreck Island — Alexander Belyaev Kindle
  • Planet of the Apes — Pierre Boulle Kindle
  • The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury Kindle
  • Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe Kindle
  • Daniel Deronda — George Eliot Kindle
  • Lord of the Flies — William Golding Kindle
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein Kindle
  • Dune — Frank Herbert Kindle
  • Les Misérables — Victor Hugo Kindle
  • Brave New World — Aldous Huxley Kindle
  • Mowgli (The Jungle Book) — Rudyard Kipling Kindle
  • The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin Kindle
  • 1984 — George Orwell Kindle
  • The Prometheus Frontier — Kevin Osborne Kindle
  • Hard to Be a God — Strugatsky Amazon
  • Looking for Hugh — Leon Weinstein Kindle
  • The Time Machine — H. G. Wells Kindle

Short Stories

  • The Lottery — Shirley Jackson Kindle
  • Heart of the Wilderness — Alexander Grin Kindle

Essays

  • Anthem in the Context of Related Literary Works — New Ideal

Film