List of Hollywood novels


This is a list of Hollywood novels i.e. 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.
AuthorTitleYear
Katherine AlbertRemember Valerie March1939
James Robert BakerBoy Wonder1988
Clive BarkerColdheart Canyon2001
Cal R. BarnesTrue Grandeur2017
William BoydThe New Confessions1987
Ray BradburyA Graveyard for Lunatics1990
Brock BrowerThe Late Great Creature1971
Charles BukowskiHollywood1989
James M. CainSerenade1937
Robert CarsonLove Affair1958
Raymond ChandlerThe Little Sister1949
Jackie CollinsHollywood Wives1983
Ray ConnollyShadows on a Wall1995
Robert CraisLullaby Town1992
Charles DennisThe Dealmakers1981
Joan DidionPlay It as It Lays1970
John Gregory DunneTrue Confessions1977
Robert P. EatonThe Body Brokers1970
James EllroyThe Black Dahlia1987
James EllroyThe Big Nowhere1988
James EllroyL.A. Confidential1990
James EllroyWhite Jazz1992
Henry FarrellWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1960
Peter FarrellyThe Comedy Writer1998
Steve FisherI Wake Up Screaming1941
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Last Tycoon1941
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Pat Hobby Stories1962
Carroll GrahamQueer People1930
Richard GrenierThe Marrakesh One-Two1983
Michael GrothausEpiphany Jones2016
Doris GrumbachThe Missing Person1981
Richard Hallas You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up1938
MacDonald HarrisScreenplay1982
Alfred HayesMy Face for the World to See1958
Brian HayesA Boy Scout in Hollywood2000
Aldous HuxleyAfter Many a Summer1939
Clive JamesThe Silver Castle1996
Cheryl JordanOur Gal Cal2011
Jay Richard KennedyPrince Bart1952
Gavin LambertThe Slide Area1959
Gavin LambertInside Daisy Clover1963
Gavin LambertThe Goodbye People1971
Gavin LambertRunning Time1982
Janet LeighHouse of Destiny1995
Janet LeighThe Dream Factory2002
Elmore LeonardGet Shorty1990
Norman MailerThe Deer Park1955
Alan MarcusOf Streets and Stars1960
James McCourtKaye Warfaring in "Avenged"1985
Horace McCoyThey Shoot Horses, Don't They?1935
Horace McCoyI Should Have Stayed Home1938
Larry McMurtrySomebody's Darling1978
Joyce Carol OatesBlonde2000
Darcy O'BrienA Way of Life, Like Any Other1977
John O'HaraHope of Heaven1938
James PattersonMary, Mary2006
Rachel PineThe Twins of Tribeca2005
Tim PowersMedusa's Web2016
Harold RobbinsThe Dream Merchants1949
Harold RobbinsThe Carpetbaggers1961
Thomas SanchezThe Zoot Suit Murders1978
Budd SchulbergWhat Makes Sammy Run?1941
Pat Silver-LaskyRide The Tiger2010
Terry SouthernBlue Movie1970
C.K. SteadSister Hollywood1989
Robert StoneChildren of Light1986
Jacqueline SusannValley of the Dolls1966
Michael TolkinThe Player1988
Gore VidalMyra Breckinridge1968
Gore VidalMyron1974
Gore VidalHollywood1990
Peter ViertelWhite Hunter Black Heart1953
Bruce WagnerForce Majeure1991
Bruce WagnerI'm Losing You1996
Bruce WagnerI'll Let You Go2002
Bruce WagnerStill Holding2003
Evelyn WaughThe Loved One1948
Nathanael WestThe Day of the Locust1939
Harry Leon WilsonMerton of the Movies1922
P.G. WodehouseLaughing Gas1936
Gary K. WolfWho Censored Roger Rabbit?1981

Novels set in satires of Hollywood