Fiction Books
- 1936 We The Living
- 1938 Anthem
- 1943 The Fountainhead
- 1957 Atlas Shrugged
Nonfiction Books
- 1961 For the New Intellectual
- 1964 The Virtue of Selfishness
- 1966 Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1979 Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
- 1969 The Romantic Manifesto
- 1999 Return of the Primitive
- 1982 Philosophy: Who Needs It
- 1991 Objectivism: the Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Periodicals
- 1962–1965 The Objectivist Newsletter
- 1966–1971 The Objectivist, Vol. 5–10
- 1971–1976 The Ayn Rand Letter, Vol. 1–4
Essays Available Freely Online
- 1943 The Nature of the Second-Hander
- 1943 The Soul of a Collectivist
- 1943 The Soul of an Individualist
- 1957 The Forgotten Man of Socialized Medicine
- 1957 The Martyrdom of the Industrialists
- 1957 The Meaning of Money
- 1957 The Meaning of Sex
- 1957 The Moral Meaning of Capitalism
- 1957 The Nature of an Artist
- 1961 The Objectivist Ethics
- 1962 Conservatism: An Obituary
- 1962 Doesn’t Life Require Compromise?
- 1962 How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?
- 1962 Introducing Objectivism
- 1962 The Pull Peddlers
- 1962 Through Your Most Grievous Fault
- 1963 Man’s Rights
- 1963 Racism
- 1963 Review of Aristotle by John Herman Randall, Jr.
- 1963 The Goal of My Writing
- 1963 The Nature of Government
- 1964 “Extremism,” or The Art of Smearing
- 1964 Patents and Copyrights
- 1964 The Cult of Moral Grayness
- 1965 The Psycho-Epistemology of Art
- 1965 What Is Capitalism
- 1965 Who Is the Final Authority in Ethics
- 1966 Art and Sense of Life
- 1966 Axiomatic Concepts
- 1966 Cognition and Measurement
- 1966 Concept-Formation
- 1966 Our Cultural Value-Deprivation
- 1966 Philosophy and Sense of Life
- 1966 The Question of Scholarships
- 1966 The Roots of War
- 1967 Consciousness and Identity
- 1968 Of Living Death
- 1969 Apollo 11
- 1969 Apollo and Dionysus
- 1970 “Political” Crimes
- 1970 Causality Versus Duty
- 1970 From a Symposium
- 1970 The Left: Old and New
- 1971 The Anti-Industrial Revolution
- 1971 The Psychology of Psychologizing
- 1973 An Untitled Letter
- 1973 Selfishness Without a Self
- 1973 The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made
- 1974 Philosophy: Who Needs It