Everything that rises must converge
Flannery O'Connor
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien
Tick Tock
Dean Koontz
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
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau