These three books ae a must read  ... if you consider yourself a literate person.

Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction); Mass Market Paperback 

The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand(Introduction), Leonard Peikoff (Afterword); Mass Market Paperback 

Anthem -- Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction); Mass Market Paperback

[ (Feb. 2, 1905, St. Petersburg, Russia-- March 6, 1982, N.YC.), Russian-born American writer who,  presented her philosophy of objectivism, which held that all real achievement is the product of individual ability and effort, that laissez-faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice. Her reversal of the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic won her a cult of followers. 

After graduating from the University of Petrograd, Rand went to the United States in 1926 and was a screenwriter in Hollywood.  Naturalized a U.S. citizen in 1931. The Fountainhead (1943), her first best-selling novel, depicts a highly romanticized architect-hero, a superior individual whose egoism and genius prevail over timid traditionalism and social conformism. The allegorical Atlas Shrugged (1957), another best-seller, combines science fiction and political message in telling of an anticollectivist strike called by the management of U.S. big industry, a company of attractive, self-made men. Rand also wrote a number of nonfiction works expounding her beliefs .... (adapted from the 99 e. britannica.)

a more complete Ayn Rand bibliography / & critical scholarly works selection follows:

 

Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff / Paperback / Published 1999
$19.95

Anthem 

Ayn Rand, Chris Lane (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published 1997
$14.36 Save: $3.59 (20%)

Anthem

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction) / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1996
$6.39 Save: $1.60 (20%)

Anthem

Ayn Rand / Hardcover / Published 1966
$12.95

Anthem : 50th Anniversary Edition

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction) / Hardcover / Published 1995
$16.07 Save: $6.88 (30%)

Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies

George H. Smith / Hardcover / Published 1991
$22.37 Save: $9.58 (30%)

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand / Paperback / Published 1999
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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction) / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1996
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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction) / Hardcover / Published 1992
$27.97 Save: $11.98 (30%)

Atlas Shrugged [ABRIDGED] 

Ayn Rand / Audio Cassette / Published 1995
$24.00 Save: $6.00 (20%)

Atlas Shrugged/35th Anniversary Edition

Ayn Rand / Turtleback / Published 1992
$15.35

Ayn Rand : A Sense of Life : The Companion Book

Michael Paxton / Hardcover / Published 1998
$24.47 Save: $10.48 (30%)

Ayn Rand : Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1997
$14.38 Save: $3.60 (20%)

Ayn Rand : The Russian Radical

Chris Matthew Sciabarra / Paperback / Published 1995
$17.20 Save: $4.30 (20%)

The Ayn Rand Column : Written for the Los Angeles Times

Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1998
$11.96 Save: $2.99 (20%)

The Ayn Rand Cult 

Jeff Walker / Paperback / Published 1998
$15.96 Save: $3.99 (20%)

The Ayn Rand Lexicon : Objectivism from A to Z (Ayn Rand Library, Vol 4)

Harry Binswanger, Ayn Rand / Paperback / Published 1990
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The Ayn Rand Reader

Ayn Rand, et al / Paperback / Published 1999
$13.56 Save: $3.39 (20%)

Capitalism : The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1984
$6.39 Save: $1.60 (20%)

The Early Ayn Rand : A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (The Ayn Rand Library, Volume 2)

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Editor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1986
$5.59 Save: $1.40 (20%)

Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Re-Reading the Canon)

Mimi Reisel Gladstein(Editor), Chris Matthew Sciabarra (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999
$19.95

For the New Intellectual

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1984
$6.39 Save: $1.60 (20%)

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand(Introduction), Leonard Peikoff (Afterword) / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1996
$7.19 Save: $1.80 (20%)

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand / Hardcover / Published 1979
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The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Photographer) / Paperback / Published 1994
$15.16 Save: $3.79 (20%)

The Fountainhead : An American Novel (Twayne's Masterworks Studies, No 169)

Douglas J. Den Uyl, Uyl Den / Hardcover / Published 1999
$32.00

The Fountainhead [ABRIDGED]

Ayn Rand, Edward Herrmann / Audio Cassette / Published 1994
$24.00 Save: $6.00 (20%)

Ideas of Ayn Rand

Ronald E. Merrill, Ron Merrill / Paperback / Published 1991
$14.36 Save: $3.59 (20%)

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Ayn Rand, et al / Paperback / Published 1990
$14.36 Save: $3.59 (20%)

Journals of Ayn Rand

David Harriman(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999
$15.16 Save: $3.79 (20%)

Letters of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, et al / Paperback / Published 1997
$14.36 Save: $3.59 (20%)

My Years With Ayn Rand

Nathaniel Branden / Paperback / Published 1999
$15.20 Save: $3.80 (20%)

Night of January 16th

Ayn Rand / Paperback / Published 1990
$8.76 Save: $2.19 (20%)

The Night of January Sixteenth : A Play Book

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Edward Reeid (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1981
$10.00

 

Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Ayn Rand Library, Vol 6)

Leonard Peikoff / Paperback / Published 1993
$13.56 Save: $3.39 (20%)
 

 

The Ominous Parallels

Leonard Peikoff(Editor), Ayn Rand (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1997
$11.16 Save: $2.79 (20%)

Passion of Ayn Rand

Barbara Branden / Paperback / Published 1987
$13.56 Save: $3.39 (20%)

Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand 

Douglas Den Uyl, et al / Paperback / Published 1987
$14.95

Philosophy : Who Needs It

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1985
$6.39 Save: $1.60 (20%)

The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand : A Novella and 13 Stories 

Gene H. Bell-Villada, et al / Paperback / Published 1998
$11.20 Save: $2.80 (20%)

Return of the Primitive : The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Peter Schwartz(Editor), Ayn New Left Rand / Paperback / Published 1999
$11.96 Save: $2.99 (20%)

Romantic Manifesto

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1975
$5.59 Save: $1.40 (20%)

Russian Writings on Hollywood

Ayn Rand, et al / Paperback / Published 1999
$19.95

Sewer, Gas & Electric : The Public Works Trilogy

Matt Ruff / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1998
$5.59 Save: $1.40 (20%)

Stance of Atlas : An Communication of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Peter Erickson / Paperback / Published 1997
$19.95

Virtue of Selfishness : A New Concept of Egoism

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1989
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The Voice of Reason : Essays in Objectivist Thought (The Ayn Rand Library, Vol V)

Ayn Rand, et al / Paperback / Published 1990
$12.76 Save: $3.19 (20%)

We the Living

Ayn Rand / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1996
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We the Living

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction) / Hardcover / Published 1995
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