Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo 

Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) is Hugo’s last novel and one of his best. It is an excellent introduction to his works: it presents—in story, style and spirit—the condensed essence of that which is uniquely “Hugo-esque.” 
The Romantic Manifesto

Fyodor Dostoyevsky​

I like Dostoevsky, for his superb mastery of plot structure and for his merciless dissection of the psychology of evil, even though his philosophy and his sense of life are almost diametrically opposed to mine 
​The Romantic Manifesto

Victor Hugo 

I love the work of Victor Hugo, in a deeper sense than admiration for his superlative literary genius, and I find many similarities between his sense of life and mine, although I disagree with virtually all of his explicit philosophy.
The Romantic Manifesto

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The (implicit) standards of Romanticism are so demanding that in spite of the abundance of Romantic writers at the time of its dominance, this school has produced very few pure, consistent Romanticists of the top rank. Among novelists, the greatest are Victor Hugo and Dostoevsky, and, as single novels (whose authors were not always consistent in the rest of their works), I would name Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Among playwrights, the greatest are Friedrich Schiller and Edmond Rostand.

Letters of Ayn Rand

The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner​
(page 175)​

The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson (page 78)​

The complete works of Aristotle by Aristotle
(page 179)​

An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers​

Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (page 331)​

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas​​

NONFICTION

1. Escape from the Soviets by Tatiana Tchernavin
2. When Democracy Builds by Frank Lloyd Wright
3. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
4. The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
5. Aristotle by John Herman Randall
6. A History of Philosophy by B.A.G. Fuller​
7. The Republic by Plato
8. Science and the Planned State by John R. Baker
9. Manifesto for the Atomic Age by Virgil Jordon
10. Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises
11. My Father Who Is on Earth by Lloyd Wright
12. I Saw Poland Betrayed by Arthur Lane
13. Who Owns America? by Herbert Agar and Allen Tate
14. A History of Our Country by David Muzzey
15. Communism and the Conscience of the West by Fulton Sheen
16. Human Conduct by John Hospers
17. Harvest of My Years by Channing Pollock
18. The Adventures of a Happy Man by Channing Pollock
19. Capitalism the Creator by Carl Snyder
20. How Can Europe Survive by Hans Sennholz
21. The Concept of Morals by W.T. Stace
22. Reason and Goodness by Brand Blanshard
23. The Right to Work by Tom Girdler
24. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

FICTION

1. Calumet 'K' by Samuel Merwin and Henry Webster
2. Held for Orders by Frank H. Spearman
3. Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
4. Grim Grow the Lilacs by M.F. Rodell
5. The Crying Sisters by Mabel Seeley
6. Love Letters by Christopher Massie
7. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
8. The Girl Hunters by Mickey Spillane
9. A Stranger and Afraid by Gwen Davenport
   
10. Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
11. Day of the Guns by Mickey Spillane

Ayn Rand's Marginalia

Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior by Helmut Schoeck​​

The Road to Serfdom by F. a. Hayek

A History of Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband​

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises​​

Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises​

The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson​

• The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
• On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz
• Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
• Irrational Man by William Barrett
• The Big Four by Oscar Lewis
• The Story of American Railroads by Stewart H. Holbrook
• The Road of the Century by Alvin F. Harlow
• Grand Central by David Marshall
• The Strategy of Great Railroads by Frank H. Spearman
• Sensory Deprivation by Philip Solomon, et al.
• Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori
• The School and Society by John Dewey​

• The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur A. Ekirch
• Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
• Teaching Montessori in the Home by Elizabeth Hainstock
• This Little Band of Prophets by Anne Fremantle
• Brain-Washing in Red China by Edward Hunter
• Ten Thousand Commandments by Harold Fleming
• The Incredible Ivar Kreuger by Allen Churchill
• Immanuel Kant: His Life and Doctrine by Friedrich Paulsen
• Communication, Organization, and Science by Jerome Rothstein
• How to Think Creatively by Eliot Hutchinson
• The Elements of Politics by Henry Sidgwick
• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
• American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, & Dewey by Edward C. Moore

The Art of Fiction

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo​​

Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

Hamlet by William Shakespeare​​

King Lear by William Shakespeare​​

Othello by William Shakespeare​​

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

• Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe
• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
• Star Money by Kathleen Winsor
• By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens
• Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
• One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane
• The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe
• Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
• Quo Vadis by Henryk K. Sienkiewicz
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

• ​The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
• ​Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• Seven Footprints to Satan by Abraham Merritt
• The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
• Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis​​

The Romantic Manifesto

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky​​
(page 88)​

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky​​
(page 114)​

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy​​ (page 118)​

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
(page 85)

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin​​ (page 121)​

​​Philosophy: Who Needs

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
(page 114)​

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant​​
(page 117)​

The Passion of Ayn Rand

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann​
(page 101)​

Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare​​
(page 45)​

Macbeth by William Shakespear
(page 45)​

Journals of Ayn Rand​

1. Architecture and Democracy by Claude Bragdon
2. Building to the Skies by Alfred C. Bossom
3. Towards a New Architecture by "Le Corbusier"
4. Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
5. Modern Architecture by Bruno Taut
6. W.R. Hearst, An American Phenomenon by John K. Winkler
7. The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
8. The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
9. While Rome Burns by Alexander Woollcott
10. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche​

 Review, The Objectivist Newsletter

1. The Language of Dissent  by Lowell Mason
2. Poverty Is Where the Money Is by Shirley Scheibla
3. Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me by Lillian Gish with Ann Pinchot

The Ayn Rand Column

1. The Organization Man by William H. Whyte
2. The Long Wait by Mickey Spillane

Ayn Rand Answers

1. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
2. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
3. The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan
4. Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan
5. The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
6. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
7. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
8. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
9. Moonraker by Ian Fleming
10. The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller
11. Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
12. The Great Idea (Time Will Run Back) by Henry Hazlitt

Philosophy: Who Needs It
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

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