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capitalism

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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand's 1957 novel — imagining a world where society's productive geniuses go on strike, withdrawing from an increasingly collectivist economy — which functions as a fictional argument for Rand's Objectivism and capitalism — the most commercially successful philosophical novel.

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Trust

Hernan Diaz's 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — told in four parts, each rewriting the story of a Gilded Age financial titan and his wife from a different perspective — examining how wealth controls narrative and how women's stories are erased from official history.

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