List of Hollywood novels

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This is a list of Hollywood novels i.e., notable fiction about the American film and television industry and associated culture. The Hollywood novel is not to be confused with the Los Angeles novel, which is a novel set in Los Angeles and environs but not overtly about the movie business and its effect on the lives of industry participants and moviegoers.

Author Title Year
Katherine Albert Remember Valerie March 1939
Kate Alcott The Hollywood Daughter 2017
Kate Alcott A Touch of Stardust 2016
Clive Barker Coldheart Canyon 2001
Cal R. Barnes True Grandeur 2017
William Boyd The New Confessions 1987
Ray Bradbury A Graveyard for Lunatics 1990
Christopher Bram Father of Frankenstein 1996
Gwen Bristow Tomorrow Is Forever 1943
Brock Brower The Late Great Creature 1971
Charles Bukowski Hollywood 1989
Edgar Rice Burroughs The Girl from Hollywood 1922
James M. Cain Serenade 1937
Don Carpenter A Couple of Comedians 1979
Don Carpenter The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan 1975
Don Carpenter Turnaround 1981
Robert Carson Love Affair 1958
Raymond Chandler The Little Sister 1949
Jackie Collins Hollywood Wives 1983
Ray Connolly Shadows on a Wall 1995
Robert Crais Lullaby Town 1992
Charles Dennis The Dealmakers 1981
Joan Didion Play It as It Lays 1970
John Gregory Dunne True Confessions 1977
The Body Brokers 1970
James Ellroy The Black Dahlia 1987
James Ellroy The Big Nowhere 1988
James Ellroy L.A. Confidential 1990
James Ellroy White Jazz 1992
Henry Farrell What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1960
Peter Farrelly The Comedy Writer 1998
Steve Fisher I Wake Up Screaming 1941
Carrie Fisher Postcards From the Edge 1987
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon 1941
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Pat Hobby Stories 1962
Paula Fox The Western Coast 1972
Daniel Fuchs 1989
Platinum Doll 2016
C.W. Gortner Marlene 2016
Garrett & Carroll Graham Queer People 1930
Richard Grenier The Marrakesh One-Two 1983
Doris Grumbach The Missing Person 1981
Richard Hallas (Eric Knight) You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up 1938
MacDonald Harris Screenplay 1982
Alfred Hayes My Face for the World to See 1958
Tom E. Huff Marabelle 1980
Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer 1939
Clive James The Silver Castle 1996
Cheryl Jordan Our Gal Cal 2011
Jay Richard Kennedy Prince Bart 1952
Amanda Lee Koe Delayed Rays of a Star 2019
Michael Korda Queenie 1985
Gavin Lambert The Slide Area 1959
Gavin Lambert Inside Daisy Clover 1963
Gavin Lambert The Goodbye People 1971
Gavin Lambert Running Time 1982
Janet Leigh House of Destiny 1995
Janet Leigh The Dream Factory 2002
Elmore Leonard Get Shorty 1990
Anita Loos No Mother to Guide Her 1961
Anita Loos A Mouse is Born 1951
Norman Mailer The Deer Park 1955
Alan Marcus Of Streets and Stars 1960
Armistead Maupin Maybe the Moon 1992
James McCourt Kaye Warfaring in "Avenged" 1985
Horace McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1935
Horace McCoy I Should Have Stayed Home 1938
Mary McCoy Dead to Me 2015
Larry McMurtry Somebody's Darling 1978
Mary Miley Silent Murders 2014
Jennifer Niven Hollywood Blonde 2014
Joyce Carol Oates Blonde 2000
Darcy O'Brien A Way of Life, Like Any Other 1977
John O'Hara Hope of Heaven 1938
Stewart O'Nan West of Sunset 2015
James Patterson Mary, Mary 2006
Tim Powers Medusa's Web 2016
Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2017
Harold Robbins The Dream Merchants 1949
Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers 1961
Theodore Roszak Flicker 1991
Thomas Sanchez 1978
Budd Schulberg The Disenchanted 1950
Budd Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? 1941
Pat Silver-Lasky Ride The Tiger 2010
Amy Sohn The Actress 2014
Martha Southgate Third Girl from the Left 2006
Matthew Specktor American Dream Machine 2014
C.K. Stead Sister Hollywood 1989
Robert Stone Children of Light 1986
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls 1966
Adriana Trigiani All the Stars in the Heavens 2016
Martin Turnbull Chasing Salome 2019
Martin Turnbull series 2012–2018
Martin Turnbull The Heart of the Lion 2020
Gore Vidal Hollywood 1990
Peter Viertel White Hunter Black Heart 1953
Bruce Wagner I'm Losing You 1996
Bruce Wagner Dead Stars 2012
Nathanael West The Day of the Locust 1939
Harry Leon Wilson Merton of the Movies 1922
Gary K. Wolf Who Censored Roger Rabbit? 1981

Novels set in satires of Hollywood[]

Author Title Year
James Robert Baker Boy Wonder 1988
Steve Erickson Zeroville 2007
Michael Friedman Martian Dawn 2006
Michael Grothaus Epiphany Jones 2016
Rupert Hughes 1941
Brandie Knight, Hollywood Under the Covers 2010
James Lever Me Cheeta 2009
Geoff Nicholson The Hollywood Dodo 2004
Rachel Pine The Twins of TriBeCa 2005
Terry Southern Blue Movie 1970
Michael Tolkin 1988
Gore Vidal Myra Breckinridge 1968
Gore Vidal Myron 1974
Bruce Wagner Force Majeure 1991
Bruce Wagner I'll Let You Go 2002
Bruce Wagner Still Holding 2003
Evelyn Waugh The Loved One 1948
P.G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas 1936
Charles Yu Interior Chinatown 2020

See also[]

References/further reading[]

  • Brooker-Bowers, N.: The Hollywood Novel and Other Novels About Film, 1912–1982: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland, 1985.
  • Slide, A.: The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide to Over 1200 Works with Film-Related Themes or Characters, 1912 through 1994, McFarland & Co., 1995.
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