Money and Numbers: Financial, Business and Math Fiction

Math Fiction (Alex Kasman, College of Charleston): Author, title, publication year, lengthy descriptions of about 630 works of mathematical fiction. Search, or browse by title, author, or chronologically. Mostly adult books, with some YA and children's books as well.

The Financial Fiction Genre: Banking and Finance in Literature (Roy Davies): Big site with annotated author listings in these sections: Financial Fiction through the Ages: From Chaucer to the Victorian Era; From the Dawn of the American Century to the 1970s; Finance without Frontiers, 1970-; Social Commentators, Journalists and Educators; Banker - Novelists and Modern Financial Thrillers. Japanese Business Novels. Finance in other Genres.

Financial Thrillers (Sophia Manta, Skokie Public Library, IL): Lists 17 books featuring money and finance, almost all published in the mid-1990s. Summaries and publication years. From John C. Boland's The Margin to Steven Womack's Software Bomb.

Business, Work, and Money (Auburn Hills Public Library, MI): 'Stories set in the business world and/or the world of high finance.' Author and title only for almost 100 books, from several by Donna Andrews to Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full. Updated Feb. 2007.

Fiction: Political and Financial Schemes (Bookbytes): Extensive summaries/reviews of over 15 recommended political and financial novels. Most are political, but includes Jim Silver's Assumption of Risk, Michael Ridpath's Trading Reality, and James Patterson's Black Market.

Office (Overbooked): 'Work, workers, the workplace, corporate world, etc. Office romances, politics and more.' These books have received starred reviews from the major reviewing sources. Author, title, publication info, brief reviews for about a dozen titles, from Flippin' the Script by Aisha Ford to The Ax by Donald Westlake. Updated Feb. 2007.

Money, Money, Money: Money and Finance in Fiction (St. Charles Public Library, IL): Author and title only for about 20 novels, from Walking Money by James O. Born to Money To Burn

IRA/Tax Evasion Novels (Carol Kubala - Fiction-L): Author and title only for about 25 novels about the taxes, tax evasions, etc., from Tori Carrington's Constant Craving to Edmund White's Fanny: A Fiction. Compiled Jan. 2005.

Shopping Fiction (Julie Marks, Skokie Public Library, IL): Author, title, pub. year, webcat link for almost 20 novels that 'The following stories share the antics of buying and selling and everything in between,' from Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road to Judy Waite's Shopaholic.

Novels of Greed and Betrayal (Springfield Library, Springfield, MA): Author, title, summary for 9 novels, from Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer to Never Enough by Harold Robbins. Updated July 2006.

Book with Numbers in the Titles (Reader's Advice): Listed by genre (Fantasy, General, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humor, Mysteries, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller), provides author, title, and Amazon link for about 250 titles. Compiled June 2000, updated May 2004.

Behind the Eight Ball (Susan Higgins, Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO): These books feature the number 8, either in the title or the plot of the book. Titles, authors and summaries for about 20 books, including The Beginner's Book of Dreams, When Eight Bells Toll by Alistair MacLean, Symposium by Muriel Spark, and Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain.

Books about Numbers, Numerical Patterns and Codes (Mandy Luchs, Fiction-L): Author and title only for about 18 books (most are novels), from Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett to Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe. Compiled June 2005.

Gambling, Poker, and the Lottery

Books Featuring Lottery Winners or Lotteries (Mary Rindfleisch, Fiction-L): Author/title for about 15 books/series featuring lotteries or lottery winners. Compiled Sept. 2001.

Take a Gamble Booklist (Overbooked): Books about gambling and gamblers, especially poker and poker players. Author, title, publication info, summaries for about 15 fiction and 6 non-fiction titles about gambling and poker. Fiction from The Music of Chance by Paul Auster to The Perfect Play by Louise Wener. Updated March 2007.