The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
Cursor's Fury
Jim Butcher
Jackie Brown
Elmore Leonard
Rabbit at rest
John Updike
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Basic writings of Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann
The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
Ayn Rand; Nathaniel Branden