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.
- James Robert Baker, Boy Wonder
- Charles Bukowski, Hollywood
- James M. Cain, Serenade
- Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
- Jackie Collins, Hollywood Wives
- Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays
- Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
- James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential, The Big Nowhere, White Jazz and The Black Dahlia
- Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Peter Farrelly, The Comedy Writer
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon; The Pat Hobby Stories
- Richard Hallas, You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
- Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
- Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
- Norman Mailer, The Deer Park
- David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow (play)
- Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; I Should Have Stayed Home
- Rachel Pine, The Twins of Tribeca
- Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers
- Thomas Sanchez, The Zoot Suit Murders
- Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run? (1941)
- Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
- Gore Vidal, Myron
- Gore Vidal, Hollywood
- Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
- Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust
- P.G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas (1936)
- Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981)
- John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven
- Michael Tolkin, The Player
- Steve Fisher, I Wake Up Screaming
Novels set in satires of Hollywood
See also
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