Michael Novak Bibliography
(in chronological order)

Non-Fiction: [* for New, Revised editions, see below]

• The Open Church: Vatican II, Act II (New York: Macmillan, 1964).*
• Belief and Unbelief: A Philosophy of Self-Knowledge (New York: Macmillan, 1965).*
• The Experience of Nothingness (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).*
• Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies
(New York: Harper and Row, 1971).
• The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies
(New York: MacMillan, 1972).*
• A Book of Elements: Reflections on Middle-Class Days, Illustrations by Karen Laub
Novak, Richard and Tanya (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972).
• Choosing Our King: Symbols of Political Leadership (New York: Macmillan, 1974).*
• The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the
American Spirit (New York: Basic, 1976).*
• The Guns of Lattimer (New York: Basic, 1978).*
• The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982).*
• Confession of a Catholic (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983).*
• Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions: Freedom with Justice (San Francisco:
Harper & Row, 1984).*
• Will It Liberate?: Questions About Liberation Theology (New York: Paulist, 1986).*
• Free Persons and the Common Good (Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1989).
• This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1990).*
• The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Free Press, 1993).
• Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (New York: Free Press, 1996).
• The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (Lanham, Md.:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1997).
• Tell Me Why: A Father Answers His Daughter’s Questions about God with Jana Novak
(New York: Pocket Books, 1998).
• On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding (San Francisco:
Encounter Books, 2001).*

New and Revised Editions:

• The Open Church, new edition with new introduction (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 2002).
Read the Introduction in PDF file format.
• Belief and Unbelief: A Philosophy of Self Knowledge, 2nd edition with new preface
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986). --, 3rd edition with new introduction
(Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1995).
• The Experience of Nothingness, revised edition (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1998).
• Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in American Life, revised edition (Piscataway,
NJ: Transaction, 1995).
• Choosing Presidents: Symbols of Political Leadership, revised edition of Choosing Our
King (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1995).
• The Joy of Sports, revised edition (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1993).
• The Guns of Lattimer, revised edition (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1996).
• Toward a Theology of the Corporation, revised edition (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1991).
• The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, revised edition with new afterword (Lanham, MD:
Madison Books, 1991).
• Confession of a Catholic, new edition (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985).
• Catholic Social Thought & Liberal Institutions: Freedom with Justice, revised edition
(Transaction, 1989).
• Will It Liberate?: Questions about Liberation Theology, revised edition (Lanham, MD:
Madison Books, 1991).
• This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas, revised edition (Washington,
D.C.: AEI Press, 1992).
• On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding, revised edition
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003).

Novels:

• The Tiber Was Silver (New York: Doubleday, 1961); paperback (New York: Echo 1966).
• Naked I Leave (New York: Macmillan, 1970).

Essay Collections:

• A New Generation: American and Catholic (New York: Herder and Herder, 1964).
• A Time to Build (New York: Macmillan, 1967).
• A Theology for Radical Politics (New York: Herder and Herder, 1969).
• Politics: Realism and Imagination (New York: Herder and Herder, 1971).
• All the Catholic People: Where Did All the Spirit Go? (New York: Herder and Herder, 1971).
• Further Reflections on Ethnicity (Middletown, PA: Jednota Press, 1977).
• Rethinking Human Rights: Speeches by the United States Delegation to the 37th
Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerland,
February 2-March 14, 1981, with Richard Schifter (The Foundation for Democratic
Education, Inc., 1981).
• Rethinking Human Rights II: Speeches by the United States Delegation to the 38th
Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerlans,
1982, (The Foundation for Democratic Education, Inc., 1982).
• Speaking to the Third World: Essays on Democracy and Development, with Peter L. Berger
(Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1985).
• Taking Glasnost Seriously: Toward an Open Soviet Union (Washington, D.C.: AEI
Press, 1988).
• Awakening from Nihilism (Crisis Books, 1995) [Templeton Award Ceremony Lecture,
Remarks, Interview].
• In Praise of the Free Economy, ed. Samuel Gregg (Sydney, Australia: The Centre for
Independent Studies, 1999).
• On Cultivating Liberty: Reflections on Moral Ecology, ed. Brian C. Anderson (Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
• Three in One: Essays on Democratic Capitalism 1976-2000, ed. Edward W. Younkins
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).

Monographs:

• The American Vision: An Essay on the Future of Democratic Capitalism (Washington,
D.C.: AEI Press, 1978).
• Toward a Theology of the Corporation (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1981).*
• Character and Crime: An Inquiry into the Causes of the Virtue of Nations (Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1986).
• Human Rights and the New Realism: Strategic Thinking in a New Age (Freedom House, 1986).
• Morality, Capitalism, and Democracy (London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit, 1990).
• Awakening from Nihilism: Why Truth Matters (London: IEA, 1995).
• The Future of the Corporation (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1996), The Pfizer Lectures,
First of Three.
• The Fire of Invention, The Fuel of Interest: On Intellectual Property (Washington, D.C.:
AEI Press, 1996), Second of Three.
• On Corporate Governance: The Corporation as It Ought to Be (Washington, D.C.: AEI
Press, 1997), Third of Three.
• Is There a Third Way?: Essays on the changing direction of socialist thought, with commentaries
by Anthony Giddens, John Lloyd, and Paul Ormerod (London: IEA Health and Welfare, 1998).
• The International Vocation of American Business, The Hansen-Wessner Memorial Lecture
(The ServiceMaster Company, 1998).
• God’s Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously, The 1999 Francis Boyer Lecture
(Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1999).

Books Edited:

• The Men Who Made the Council: 24 Biographies of Major Council Fathers (Notre Dame,
IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1963, 1966).
• The Experience of Marriage (New York: Macmillan, 1964).
• American Philosophy and the Future (New York: Scribner’s, 1968).
• The Denigration of Capitalism: Six Points of View (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1979).
• Capitalism and Socialism: A Theological Inquiry (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1979).
• Democracy and Mediating Structures: A Theological Inquiry (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1979).
• The Other Holocaust: Many Circles of Hell by Bohdan Wytwycky (Washington, D.C.:
The Novak Report, 1980).
• The Corporation: A Theological Inquiry, co-editor John W. Cooper (Washington, D.C.:
AEI Press, 1981).
• Liberation South, Liberation North (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1981).
• Latin America: Dependency or Interdependence?, co-editor Michael P. Jackson (Washington,
D.C.: AEI Press, 1985).
• A Free Society Reader: Principles for the New Millennium, ed. Michael Novak, William
Brailsford, and Cornelis Heesters (New York: Lexington Books, 2000).

Group Studies:

• Moral Clarity in the Nuclear Age (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1983).
• Toward the Future: Catholic Social Thought and the U.S. Economy (New York: Lay
Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy, 1984).
• The New Consensus on Family and Welfare (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1987).

Foreign Editions of Books

The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

• Bengali: Dhaka, Bangladesh: Khoshroz Kitb Mahal, 1986.
• Britain (UK): London: Institute for Economic Affairs, 1991. Received Antony Fisher Award, 1992.
• Chinese: Beijing, 1993.
• Czech: Duch demokratickeho kapitalismu, translated by Jiri Pilucha. Prague: Obcansky Institut,
1992. ISBN: 80-900190-1-3
• French: Une éthique économique: Les valuers de l’économie de marché, translated by Bernard
Dick. Paris: Institut la Boétie, 1987. ISBN: 2-204-02615-8
• German: Der Geist des demokratischen Kapitalismus, translated by Eberhard Aebischer-Crettol.
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Josef Knecht, 1992. ISBN: 3-7820-0642-9
• Hungarian: A demokratikus Kapitalizmus Szelleme. General Press Kiado, 1994. ISBN: 963 7548 34 3
• Italian: Lo spirito del capitalismo democratico e il cristianesimo, translated by Rosanna Bruschi,
Annarosa Frati and Marilena Fratini. Rome: Edizioni Studium, 1987. ISBN: 88-382-3551-1
• Korean: Seoul, 1984.
• Polish: a) (samizdat edition)—Duch demokratycznego kapitalizmu. (Biblioteka. Polityki Polska,
1986.) b) (legal edition)—Duch demokratycznego kapitalizmu. (Wydawnictwo W drodze, 2001).
• Portuguese (Brazil): O Espirito do Capitalismo Democratico, translated by Helio Polvora. Rio de
Janeiro: Editorial Nordica, Ltda., 1986. –(Portugal): O Espirito do Capitalismo Democratico,
translated by Joao Evangelista Ribioro Jorge. Coimbra, Portugal: Grafica de Coimbra, 1988.
• Russian: Luchi Sofii Publishing House, 1997. ISBN:985-6171-14-8
• Serbo-Croatian: Duh demokratskog kapitalizma (skolska Knjiga, 1993).
• Spanish: (Argentina): El Espiritu del Capitalismo Democratico, translated by Leonardo Wolfson.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Tres Tiempos, 1983. ISBN: 950-18-0029-6
• (Mexico): Vision Renovada de la Sociedad Democratica (abridged) Centro de Estudios en
Economica y Educacion, A.C., 1984.

Free Persons and the Common Good

• French: Democratie et Bien commun, translated by Marcelline Brun. Paris: Les Editions du
Cerf/Institut la Boétie, 1991.
• Polish: Wolne osoby I dobro wspólne Krakow: Wydawnictwo Znak,1998. ISBN: 83-7006-756-5
• Spanish: a) Costa Rica: Personas libres y bien commun, translated by Orion Traduciones,
(Ltda. San Jose: Libro Libre, 1991). ISBN: 9977-89-016-1 b) Mexico: Personas libres y el bien
commun, translated by Rafael Quinjano. (Editorial Diana, 1992). ISBN: 968-13-2275-4

Will It Liberate?

• Filipino: Manila, Philippines: Sinag-Tala Publishers, 1988.
• Portuguese (Brazil): Sera a Liberdade? Rio de Janiero: Editorial Nordica, Ltda., 1988.
ISBN: 85-7007-116-7
• Spanish: a) Argentina: Será liberadora? Interrogantes acerca de la teologia de las liberacion,
translated by Alejandro G. Tiscornia. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Planeta, 1988.
ISBN 950-37-0335-2 b) Mexico: En verdad liberará? Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1988.
ISBN: 968-13-1881-1 c) Costa Rica: En Verdad Liberará? Libro Libre, 1990. ISBN: 9977-907-94-5

The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

• Italian: L’etica Cattolica e lo Spirito del Capitalismo, translated by Marco Lunari. Milano: Edizioni
di Communita, 1994. ISBN: 88-24-50498-1
• Korean: Seoul: The Korea Economic Daily, 1994.
• Polish: Wydawnictwo W drodze, 1995.
• Portuguese: A Ética Católica e o Espírito do Capitalismo. Portugal: Principia, 2001.
ISBN: 972-8500-47-5
• Spanish: La Ética Católica y El Espiritu del Capitalismo. Santiago, Chile: el Centro de Estudios
Públicos, 1995. ISBN: 956-7015-18-X

Business as a Calling

• Dutch: Zaken Doen Als Roeping (Callenbach/Averbode, 1997). ISBN 90 317 1268/90 266 0887
• French: forthcoming
• German: Gewinn und Gewissen: Berufung in der Welt der Wirtschaft (Paulinus, 2002).
• Italian: L’impresa come vocazione Rubbettino Editore Srl, 2000 ISBN: 88-7284-869-5
• Korean: The Korea Economic Daily, 1997. ISBN: 89-475-2203-1
• Slovak: Biznis a ko poslanie (Bratislava: Charis, 1998).
• Spanish: Los Negocios Como Vocación (Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1998). ISBN: 950-04-1836-3

Tell Me Why

• British: Tell Me Why: A Young Woman Questions Her Father About God (Oxford: Lion
Publishing, 1998). ISBN: 0 7459 4428 0
• Polish: Tato, dlaczego wierzysz? (Wydawnictwo W drodze, 2001).
• Slovak: Povedz me Pre o (Dilema, 2000). ISBN: 80-968029-6-8

Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions: Freedom with Justice

• Polish: Liberalizm-Sprzymierzeniec czy wr_g ko_cio_a (Wydawnictwo W drodze, 1991).
• Spanish: a) El Pensamiento Social Catolico Y Las Instituciones Liberales (San Jose, Costa
Rica: Libro Libre, 1992). ISBN: 9977-89-024-2 b) Libertad con Justicia (Buenos, Aíres,
Argentina: Emecé Editores, 1992).

Character and Crime

• French: Force de caractère et Crime. Librairie Philosopique J. VRIN, 1989. ISBN: 2-7116-0993-6

This Hemisphere of Liberty

• Spanish: Este hemisferio de libertad: Filosofía de las Américas (Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1994).

The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics

• Polish: Przebudzenie etnicznej ameryki. Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa 1984.
USBN 83-06-01114-7

The Tiber was Silver

• French: Le Tibre Était d’Argent (Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1963).

Confession of a Catholic

• Czech: Vyznání Katolíka (Centrum Pro Studium Demokracie a Kultury, 1995).