Recommended Books


Title: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Hardcover: 1192 pages
Publisher: Dutton Adult (April 21, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525948929
ISBN-13: 978-0525948926
Amazon price: $25.17 (free shipping)

Title: The Fountainhead
Author: Ayn Rand
Mass Market Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Signet (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451191153
ISBN-13: 978-0451191151
Amazon price: $8.99

Title: We the Living
Author: Ayn Rand
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (May 5, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451226852
ISBN-13: 978-0451226853
This title will be released on May 5, 2009
Amazon price: $11.56

Title: Anthem
Author: Ayn Rand
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Plume (December 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0452281253
ISBN-13: 978-0452281257
Amazon price: $11.16

Non-fiction by Ayn Rand:
The Virtue of Selfishness
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff

Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Signet Classics (July 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451528891
ISBN-13: 978-0451528896
Amazon price: $5.95

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams
American Capitalism by Louis M. Hacker
   (This book, an excellent reference for hard facts about America's economic history,
   is out of print and may be hard to find.)
The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (excellent introduction to economics)
Facts Not Fear (Parents Guide to Teaching Children About the Environment)
   by Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw
For Your Own Good by Jacob Sullum
Freedom in Chains by James Bovard
The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson
   (an interesting look at history from an engineering point of view)
The Government Against the Economy by George Reisman
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism by Walter E. Williams
Lost Rights by James Bovard
Our Enemy the State by Albert Jay Nock
Planning for Freedom by Ludwig von Mises
Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat
The Psychology of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
The Rights Retained by the People (History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment)
   by Randy E. Barnett
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
The Tax Racket by Martin L. Gross
Taxation and Confiscation - Freeman Classics
Those Dirty Rotten Taxes by Charles Adams
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes
Your Money or Your Life by Sheldon Richman

Books co-edited by Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling:
Liberty, Security, and the War on Terrorism (2003)
The Tyranny of Gun Control (1998)
The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars (1996)
The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration (1995)
The Dangers of Socialized Medicine (1994)

Books authored by Sheldon Richman:
Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State (2001)
Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax (1999)
Separating School and State: How to Liberate America’s Families (1994)

Books authored by Thomas Sowell:
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Basic Economics 3rd Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Inside American Education
Education Assumptions versus History