Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlas Shrugged | 1957 | Ayn Rand | Buy |
| 2 | Непротиворечие | 1957 | Ayn Rand | N/A |
| 3 | Атлас изправи рамене. Втора част | 1957 | Ayn Rand | N/A |
| 4 | Sisyphus Shrugged | 2012 | Ayn Rand | Buy |
| 5 | Атлас изправи рамене. Трета част | 1957 | Ayn Rand | N/A |
| 6 | Money’s Men | 2013 | Ayn Rand | Buy |
Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957 and became one of the best-selling novels in American history despite mixed initial reviews. At over a thousand pages, it is Rand’s longest work and the fullest expression of the Objectivist philosophy she developed across her fiction and non-fiction. The novel took more than ten years to write.
Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, the central figures, are industrialists in a degenerating America who face both external pressure from government regulations and the mysterious disappearance of the country’s most capable people. The novel’s third act, in which the nature and purpose of the disappearance is revealed, contains John Galt’s extended philosophical speech, a lengthy argument for Objectivism embedded in the narrative.
The series listing in this database includes multiple editions alongside the main novel. The core reading is the 1957 Rand text, which has remained continuously in print and was named by readers in a 1998 Library of Congress survey as the second most influential book in their lives after the Bible.