In Literary Wealth, Ward Just shares his five favorite novels about the pursuit of money:
- The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (1873).
- The Financier by Theodore Dreiser (Harper, 1912).
- Something Happened by Joseph Heller (Knopf, 1974).
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt, Brace, 1922).
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, 1997).