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Fiction (and nonfiction) with a Movie or Hollywood Theme or Setting
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June 2002
Compiled by Carol Carlson,
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
Lovomaniacs by Rona Barrett
Swing Low Sweet Harriet, The Greta Garbo Murder Case, Mae West Murder
Case, The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case, etc by George Baxt
Destiny by Sally Beauman
The revenge of Kali-Ra by K.K. Beck
Dirty Eddie by Ludwig Bemelmans
Malibu by Pat Booth
Pay or Play by John Boorstin
A Graveyard for Lunatics , Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
Voices of the Heart by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Father of Frankenstein by Chrisopher Bram
Dreams Are Not Enough by Jacqueline Briskin
The Producer by Richard Brooks
The Image Lantern by Robert Carson
Weep No More My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark
Lucky, Hollywood Kids, and other novels by Jackie Collins
The Unsleeping Eye by D. G. Compton
Show Business Kills by Iris Ranier Dart
The Matt Cobb mystery series by William DeAndrea, beginning with Killed in the Ratings
Play It as it Lays by Joan Didion
Playland by John Gregory Dunne
Traditions by Alan Ebert
Popcorn by Ben Elton
Pandaemonium by Leslie Epstein
L.A. Confidential, and Hollywood Nocturnes and American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
I Wake Up Screaming by Steve Fisher
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not on the Screen by Henry Blake Fuller
Flavor of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith
Hollywood Unreal, Martin H. Greenberg, ed.
Brand New Cherry Flavor by Todd Grimson
The Users by Joyce Haber
Glittering Images by Susan Howatch
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
The Toby Peters Mysteries by Stuart Kaminsky
Stars Screaming by John Kaye
Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert
Get Shorty and Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
Fleur de Leighâs Life of Crime by Donna Leslie
The Better Things of Life by Anita Loos
The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
Somebodyâs Darling by Larry McMurtry
Only You, Dick Darling by Merle Miller
The Book of Dreams by Craig Nova
A Way of Life, Like and Other by Darcy O'Brien
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
A Voyage to Purilia by Elmer Rice
The Inheritors by Harold Robbins
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
The Velvet Knife by Irving Shulman
Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
Secrets by Danielle Steele
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Karoo by Steve Tesich
The Player by Michael Tolkin
Crowned Heads, and All that Glitters by Thomas Tryon
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Remake by Connie Willis
Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson
Come on Out, Daddy by Bernard Wolfe
Titles by Screen Actors
Who is Carla Hart? By Johanna Barnes
Center Door Fancy by Joan Blondell
A Gentle Occupation by Dirk Bogarde
Kid Andrew Cody & Julie Sparrow by Tony Curtis
Today is Tonight by Jean Harlow
Voyage by Sterling Hayden
Just like Humphrey Bogart by Adam Kennedy
The Red Raven by Lilli Palmer
The Mountebank's Tale by Michael Redgrave
The Sun Doctor by Robert Shaw (and others)
Paradise Alley by Sylvester Stallone
Crowned Heads by Tom Tryon (and others)
Krumnagel by Peter Ustinov
Mr. Arkadian by Orsen Welles
Pleasure Man by Mae West
Non-fiction Titles
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neil Gabler
The Parades Gone By by Kevin Brownlow
Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth Schuyler
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
True Crime
A Cast of Killers by Sidney Kirkpatrick
Deadly Illusions: Jean Harlow & the Murder of Paul Bern by Samuel Marx
Hot Toddy by Andy Edmonds
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
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