This is a list of Hollywood novels i.e., notable fiction about the American film and television industry and associated culture.
For instance, the works of Paul Beatty, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence are Los Angeles novels but not Hollywood novels; The Oxford Companion to English Literature deems Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust a standard example of the Hollywood novel.
"[2] Hollywood novels portray the entertainment industry as "glitzy, powerful, and often sleazy.
A place that is quintessentially American—where strivers and connivers can reinvent themselves and where there is always the possibility of being discovered.
"[4] According to author Michael Friedman in Publishers Weekly, "My informal taxonomy revealed that, as far as subject is concerned, Hollywood novels tend to fall into the following loose categories: moguls (Fitzgerald), divas (McCourt, Vidal), train wrecks (Stone, Didion), ingénues en route to stardom (Lambert), foolish dreams of being discovered (West, McCoy), and Brits who have had enough of our philistine ways and ersatz culture and return home to civilization (Waugh, Wodehouse).