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 at least overtly about the movie business and its effect on the lives of industry participants and movie goers.
- Katherine Albert, Remember Valerie March (1939)
- James Robert Baker, Boy Wonder (1988)
- Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon (2001)
- William Boyd, The New Confessions (1987)
- Brock Brower, The Late Great Creature (1971)
- Charles Bukowski, Hollywood (1989)
- James M. Cain, Serenade (1937)
- 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)
- Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (1970)
- John Gregory Dunne, True Confessions (1977)
- Robert P. Eaton, The Body Brokers (1970)
- Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero (1985)
- James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), and 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)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (1941) and The Pat Hobby Stories (1962)
- Carroll Graham, Queer People (1930)
- Richard Grenier, The Marrakesh One-Two (1983)
- Doris Grumbach, The Missing Person (1981)
- Richard Hallas (pseudonym for Eric Knight), You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up (1938)
- Brian Hayes, A Boy Scout in Hollywood (2000)
- MacDonald Harris, Screenplay (1982)
- 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)
- Gavin Lambert, The Slide Area (1959), Inside Daisy Clover (1963), The Goodbye People (1971), and Running Time (1982)
- Janet Leigh, House of Destiny (1995) and The Dream Factory (2002)
- Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty (1990)
- Norman Mailer, The Deer Park (1955)
- Alan Marcus, Of Streets and Stars (1960)
- James McCourt, Kaye Warfaring in "Avenged" (1985)
- Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) and I Should Have Stayed Home (1938)
- Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling (1978)
- Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde (2000)
- Darcy O'Brien, A Way of Life, Like Any Other (1977)
- John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven (1938)
- Rachel Pine, The Twins of Tribeca (2005)
- Harold Robbins, The Dream Merchants (1949) and The Carpetbaggers (1961)
- Thomas Sanchez, The Zoot Suit Murders (1978)
- Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run? (1941)
- Pat Silver-Lasky, Ride The Tiger (2010)
- Terry Southern, Blue Movie (1970)
- C.K. Stead, Sister Hollywood (1989)
- Robert Stone, Children of Light (1986)
- Michael Tolkin, The Player (1988)
- Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge (1968), Myron (1974), and Hollywood (1990)
- Peter Viertel, White Hunter Black Heart (1953)
- Bruce Wagner, Force Majeure (1991), I'm Losing You (1996), I'll Let You Go (2002), and Still Holding (2003)
- Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One (1948)
- Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939)
- Harry Leon Wilson, Merton of the Movies (1919)
- P.G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas (1936)
- Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981)
Novels set in satires of Hollywood
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
- Geoff Nicholson, The Hollywood Dodo
- Brandie Knight, Hollywood Under the Covers
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.