Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
John Adams
David McCullough
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
Ayn Rand; Nathaniel Branden
Basic writings of Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche