My take on order to read Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged* Trumps

[atlashead]

By the time you have read The Fountainhead you are in, or have gotten out of compulsory education, probably.  To have maintained your integrity you will have to have been a creator.  Thus to be Galt, you must first be Roark.  So The Fountainhead is not the necessary novel, it is the novel that gives you credit for what you achieved.