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.
Fiction ''
Novels and short stories •
Ideal (written in 1934, published in 2015). NAL. . •
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, . •
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, . •
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, . •
Atlas Shrugged (1957). New York: Random House. 35th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1992, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, . •
The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (1984).
Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. . Expanded second edition published in 2005, .
Drama •
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 •
Love Letters (1945). Screenplay. •
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. . Stage play, published in
The Early Ayn Rand prior to first production. •
Three Plays (2005). Richard E. Ralston, ed. New York: New American Library. . Anthology of plays, including
Night of January 16th,
Ideal, and
Think Twice.
Non-fiction books •
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1961). New York: Random House. •
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (1964). New York: New American Library. Includes essays by
Nathaniel Branden. Introduction was revised in 1970. •
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 Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (1969). New York: The World Publishing. Expanded second edition published by New American Library in 1975. •
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. •
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979). New York: New American Library. . Includes an essay by
Leonard Peikoff. A booklet of Rand's title essay was published by The Objectivist in 1967. Expanded second edition published by Meridian in 1990, edited by
Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff, . •
Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: Bobbs-Merrill. . •
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (1989). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. . 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. . Expanded second edition published by Second Renaissance Books in 1998, . 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. •
Letters of Ayn Rand (1995). Michael S. Berliner, ed. New York: Dutton. . Includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff. •
Journals of Ayn Rand (1997). David Harriman, ed. New York: Dutton. . Includes a foreword by Leonard Peikoff. •
The Ayn Rand Reader (1999) Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff, eds. New York: Plume. . •
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1999). Peter Schwartz, ed. New York: Meridian. . Revised edition of Rand's earlier book,
The New Left, and includes essays by Schwartz. •
Russian Writings on Hollywood (1999). Michael S. Berliner, ed.; Dina Garmong, trans. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. . 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. . Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Edwin A. Locke, John Ridpath, Richard M. Salsman, and Jaana Woiceshyn. •
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2000). Tore Boeckmann, ed. New York: Plume. . Includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff. •
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2001). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: Plume. . Includes an introduction by Peter Schwartz. •
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (2005). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: New American Library. .
Periodicals edited by Ayn Rand •
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==