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.
| Author | Title | Year |
| Katherine Albert | Remember Valerie March | 1939 |
| James Robert Baker | Boy Wonder | 1988 |
| Clive Barker | Coldheart Canyon | 2001 |
| Cal R. Barnes | True Grandeur | 2017 |
| William Boyd | The New Confessions | 1987 |
| Ray Bradbury | A Graveyard for Lunatics | 1990 |
| 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 |
| Charles Dennis | The Dealmakers | 1981 |
| Joan Didion | Play It as It Lays | 1970 |
| John Gregory Dunne | True Confessions | 1977 |
| Robert P. Eaton | 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 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Last Tycoon | 1941 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Pat Hobby Stories | 1962 |
| Carroll Graham | Queer People | 1930 |
| Richard Grenier | The Marrakesh One-Two | 1983 |
| Michael Grothaus | Epiphany Jones | 2016 |
| Doris Grumbach | The Missing Person | 1981 |
| Richard Hallas | You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up | 1938 |
| MacDonald Harris | Screenplay | 1982 |
| Alfred Hayes | My Face for the World to See | 1958 |
| Brian Hayes | A Boy Scout in Hollywood | 2000 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Horace McCoy | 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 |
| James Patterson | Mary, Mary | 2006 |
| Rachel Pine | The Twins of Tribeca | 2005 |
| Tim Powers | Medusa's Web | 2016 |
| Harold Robbins | The Dream Merchants | 1949 |
| Harold Robbins | 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 |
| Jacqueline Susann | Valley of the Dolls | 1966 |
| Michael Tolkin | The Player | 1988 |
| Gore Vidal | Myra Breckinridge | 1968 |
| Gore Vidal | Myron | 1974 |
| Gore Vidal | Hollywood | 1990 |
| Peter Viertel | White Hunter Black Heart | 1953 |
| Bruce Wagner | Force Majeure | 1991 |
| Bruce Wagner | I'm Losing You | 1996 |
| Bruce Wagner | I'll Let You Go | 2002 |
| Bruce Wagner | Still Holding | 2003 |
| Evelyn Waugh | The Loved One | 1948 |
| Nathanael West | The Day of the Locust | 1939 |
| Harry Leon Wilson | Merton of the Movies | 1922 |
| P.G. Wodehouse | Laughing Gas | 1936 |
| Gary K. Wolf | Who Censored Roger Rabbit? | 1981 |
Novels set in satires of Hollywood
- Michael Grothaus, Epiphany Jones
- Brandie Knight, Hollywood Under the Covers
- Geoff Nicholson, The Hollywood Dodo
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures