Books Set in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
Novels and stories set in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif., mostly angel fiction, paranormal romance and gay fiction. The most-read are Valley of the Dolls (1966), Play It as It Lays (1970) and The Loved One (1948).
This list collects 91 books in this collection by 74 authors, published between 1578 and 2017. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann

Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

Colpo di scena a Hollywood
Elisabetta Dami

The City and the Pillar
Gore Vidal

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hollywood Wives
Jackie Collins

A Stranger in the Mirror
Sidney Sheldon

Family Album
Danielle Steel

The Carpetbaggers
Harold Robbins

The Last Don
Mario Puzo

Sweet Revenge
Nora Roberts

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates

Heartbeat
Danielle Steel

The Face
Dean Koontz

Columbo The Glitter Murder
William Harrington

Postcards from the Edge
Carrie Fisher

After Many a Summer
Aldous Huxley

Secrets
Danielle Steel

The Wedding
Danielle Steel

The Cottage
Danielle Steel

Hollywood
Charles Bukowski

Genuine Lies
Nora Roberts

Be Cool
Elmore Leonard

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

One Day at a Time
Danielle Steel, Luis Murillo Fort

Lady Boss
Jackie Collins

The Deer Park
Norman Mailer

Bungalow 2
Danielle Steel

What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg

A Graveyard for Lunatics
Ray Bradbury

How to Save Your Own Life
Erica Jong

What I Did for Love
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Tell-All
Chuck Palahniuk

I Totally Funniest
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

Popcorn
Ben Elton

Radiance
Catherynne M. Valente, Heath Miller

The Best Awful There Is
Carrie Fisher

Coldheart Canyon
Clive Barker

Betrayal
Danielle Steel

Hollywood
Gore Vidal

The Late Show
Michael Connelly

Laughing Gas
P. G. Wodehouse

Let's All Kill Constance
Ray Bradbury

Daniel Martin
John Fowles

Maybe the Moon
Armistead Maupin