The Fountainhead
One of Javid's heroines is Ayn Rand, who is the proponent of a philosophical system known as Objectivism; he recounted once that he regularly rereads the courtroom scene from her novel "The Fountainhead", telling "The Spectator" he admired its description of "the power of the individual … sticking up for your beliefs, against popular opinion". At a Crossbench Film Society event, Javid chose to introduce the film version of "The Fountainhead" and described the profound effect it had on him after watching it as a 12-year-old. Javid's wife once threatened to divorce him if he did not stop reading "The Fountainhead" aloud to her.