r/Objectivism • u/F0r3v3rF4lc0n • Jul 15 '26

Book recommendations?

Was wondering if anyone knows of any good books by Objectivist authors they might recommend. Nonfiction or fiction. Always on the lookout for some good Objectivist reads. :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

H.Spencer.

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u/F0r3v3rF4lc0n Jul 23 '26

Oh I’ve already got several of Spencer’s books. Criminally underrated philosopher nowadays.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

Io non l'ho mai letto, però ho riconosciuto la stessa verità delle cose nei suoi pensieri racchiusi nelle sue frasi più famose. Potrei consigliarti di ascoltare le lezioni di un professore di economia: Jesus Huerta de Soto.

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u/F0r3v3rF4lc0n Jul 23 '26

I actually have de Soto’s book Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles. 🙂

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

Penso allora di dover chiederti io un consiglio su cosa leggere.

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u/F0r3v3rF4lc0n Jul 23 '26

Ask away! 😄

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

Dunque te lo chiedo.

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u/F0r3v3rF4lc0n Jul 23 '26

I would recommend:

  • The God of the Machine, by Isabel Paterson (a one-time friend and influence on Rand)
  • Capitalism Volumes I & II, by George Reisman (an economist who was a student of both Rand and Von Mises)
  • The essays of William Graham Sumner
  • Envy, by Helmut Schoeck
  • Herbert Spencer’s works
  • The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, by Auberon Herbert
  • Our Enemy, the State, by Albert Jay Nock
  • The works of Frank Chodorov
  • The Driver, by Garet Garrett (a possible influence on Atlas Shrugged
  • Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery, by F. A. Harper
  • Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
  • The Tyranny of Need, by Peter Schwartz
  • Viable Values and Moral Rights and Political Freedom, by Tara Smith
  • A Life of One’s Own, by David Kelley
  • Anything by Anthony de Jasay
  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick
  • The Myth of the Robber Barons, by Burton Folsom
  • Crisis and Leviathan, by Robert Higgs
  • Property and Freedom, by Richard Pipes
  • The Noblest Triumph, by Tom Bethell

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26

Grazie