Hollywood

Bright lights, bold ambitions, and larger-than-life personalities define Hollywood — a world where fortunes are made, legends are born, and every story feels like a movie waiting to happen. These books pull back the curtain on the entertainment industry and the remarkable lives it shapes, from candid celebrity memoirs and behind-the-scenes chronicles to tales of the hustlers, dreamers, and dealmakers who keep the show running.

Hollywood Kirjayhteenvedot

Molly's Game

kirjoittanut Molly Bloom • 2014

Tobey Maguire won millions at her table. Leonardo DiCaprio was a regular. The FBI seized everything.

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🎰 High-Stakes Gambling 👩‍💼 Female Entrepreneurship 🕶️ Underground Economies 🌟 Celebrity Culture ⚡ Power Dynamics

Molly's Game

Tobey Maguire won millions at her table. Leonardo DiCaprio was a regular. The FBI seized everything.

kirjoittanut Molly Bloom 2014 272 sivua

3.84

24 000+ arvostelua

🎰 High-Stakes Gambling 👩‍💼 Female Entrepreneurship 🕶️ Underground Economies 🌟 Celebrity Culture ⚡ Power Dynamics

Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story

kirjoittanut George S. Clason • 2002

An Office writer gets famous and discovers fame fixes nothing about friendship or self-worth.

4.19

500+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Comic Essays 💕 Complicated Friendship 💪 Body Image Struggles 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor

Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story

An Office writer gets famous and discovers fame fixes nothing about friendship or self-worth.

kirjoittanut George S. Clason 2002

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500+ arvostelua

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Comic Essays 💕 Complicated Friendship 💪 Body Image Struggles 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor

How to Take Charge of Your Life

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler • 2014

From high school wallflower to TV comedy writer: a memoir of terrible jobs and self-invention.

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500+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Humorous Essays 🎤 Female Comedians ✍️ Writers Room 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

How to Take Charge of Your Life

From high school wallflower to TV comedy writer: a memoir of terrible jobs and self-invention.

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler 2014 128 sivua

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500+ arvostelua

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Humorous Essays 🎤 Female Comedians ✍️ Writers Room 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

The Sound of Music Story

kirjoittanut Tom Santopietro • 2015

Critics scorned it. The studio feared ruin. Then it ran in theaters for four straight years.

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500+

🎬 Film Production 🎵 Hollywood Musicals 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Stage To Screen 🎞️ True Story Films

The Sound of Music Story

Critics scorned it. The studio feared ruin. Then it ran in theaters for four straight years.

kirjoittanut Tom Santopietro 2015 324 sivua

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500+ arvostelua

🎬 Film Production 🎵 Hollywood Musicals 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Stage To Screen 🎞️ True Story Films

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

kirjoittanut Jerry Weintraub • 2010

He walked into Colonel Parker's office uninvited and walked out managing Elvis. That was act one.

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4 000+

🎬 Entertainment Industry 🎥 Hollywood Memoir 🤝 Deal-Making 🔗 Networking 🔄 Reinvention

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

He walked into Colonel Parker's office uninvited and walked out managing Elvis. That was act one.

kirjoittanut Jerry Weintraub 2010 304 sivua

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4 000+ arvostelua

🎬 Entertainment Industry 🎥 Hollywood Memoir 🤝 Deal-Making 🔗 Networking 🔄 Reinvention

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

kirjoittanut Vic Armstrong • 2011

Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.

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403

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 💥 Action Filmmaking 🎥 Behind The Scenes ✨ Special Effects 🪂 Hollywood Stunts

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.

kirjoittanut Vic Armstrong 2011

3.67

403 arvostelua

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 💥 Action Filmmaking 🎥 Behind The Scenes ✨ Special Effects 🪂 Hollywood Stunts

Ghosted

kirjoittanut J.M. Darhower • 2017

Her famous ex is back, sober, wanting to meet their daughter. She's heard promises before.

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52 000+

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🌟 Celebrity Romance 👧 Single Parent 💕 First Love 💔 Addiction And Recovery

Ghosted

Her famous ex is back, sober, wanting to meet their daughter. She's heard promises before.

kirjoittanut J.M. Darhower 2017 452 sivua

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52 000+ arvostelua

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🌟 Celebrity Romance 👧 Single Parent 💕 First Love 💔 Addiction And Recovery

My Name Is Barbra

kirjoittanut Barbra Streisand • 2023

She kept the nose, the name, and the final cut: Barbra Streisand's uncompromising life.

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Broadway History 🎬 Hollywood Studio System 🎵 Pop Music History 🏚️ Childhood Poverty

My Name Is Barbra

She kept the nose, the name, and the final cut: Barbra Streisand's uncompromising life.

kirjoittanut Barbra Streisand 2023 1040 sivua

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21 000+ arvostelua

🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Broadway History 🎬 Hollywood Studio System 🎵 Pop Music History 🏚️ Childhood Poverty

We Were Dreamers

kirjoittanut Simu Liu • 2022

Fired from accounting, he answered a Craigslist ad for Asian extras. Today he's Shang-Chi.

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🛬 Immigrant Memoir 🎬 Actor Memoir 🎯 Parental Expectations 🌏 Asian Representation 🎨 Starving Artist

We Were Dreamers

Fired from accounting, he answered a Craigslist ad for Asian extras. Today he's Shang-Chi.

kirjoittanut Simu Liu 2022 320 sivua

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30 000+ arvostelua

🛬 Immigrant Memoir 🎬 Actor Memoir 🎯 Parental Expectations 🌏 Asian Representation 🎨 Starving Artist

Meet the Newmans

kirjoittanut Jennifer Niven • 2026

America's favorite TV wife is unraveling off camera. Her husband's accident forces the reckoning.

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🎬 1960s Hollywood ✊ Feminist Awakening 🎭 Show Business Family 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted In Hollywood 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Meet the Newmans

America's favorite TV wife is unraveling off camera. Her husband's accident forces the reckoning.

kirjoittanut Jennifer Niven 2026 400 sivua

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17 000+ arvostelua

🎬 1960s Hollywood ✊ Feminist Awakening 🎭 Show Business Family 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted In Hollywood 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Johnny Carson

kirjoittanut Henry Bushkin • 2013

His first job for Johnny Carson: a break-in. The next 18 years got stranger.

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📺 Late-Night Television 💼 Hollywood Dealmaking 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🔍 Insider Accounts 💔 Maternal Rejection

Johnny Carson

His first job for Johnny Carson: a break-in. The next 18 years got stranger.

kirjoittanut Henry Bushkin 2013 323 sivua

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9 000+ arvostelua

📺 Late-Night Television 💼 Hollywood Dealmaking 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🔍 Insider Accounts 💔 Maternal Rejection

Dream On

kirjoittanut Jennifer Hartmann • 2025

After a car crash with a child star, a struggling dreamer must play his lover on stage.

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🕰️ Second Chance Romance 💥 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Forced Proximity 🔥 Slow Burn 💔 Angsty Romance

Dream On

After a car crash with a child star, a struggling dreamer must play his lover on stage.

kirjoittanut Jennifer Hartmann 2025 448 sivua

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🕰️ Second Chance Romance 💥 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Forced Proximity 🔥 Slow Burn 💔 Angsty Romance

Sinatra's Century

kirjoittanut David Lehman • 2015

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

3.97

169

🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack 🕰️ Mid-Century America 🎬 Hollywood History

Sinatra's Century

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

kirjoittanut David Lehman 2015 224 sivua

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169 arvostelua

🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack 🕰️ Mid-Century America 🎬 Hollywood History

Up Till Now

kirjoittanut William Shatner • 2008

Star Trek typecast him for decades; a late-career role as a shameless lawyer changed everything.

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👤 Celebrity Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Careers 📺 Television History 🖖 Star Trek 🔄 Career Reinvention

Up Till Now

Star Trek typecast him for decades; a late-career role as a shameless lawyer changed everything.

kirjoittanut William Shatner 2008 358 sivua

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👤 Celebrity Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Careers 📺 Television History 🖖 Star Trek 🔄 Career Reinvention

Silver Screen Fiend

kirjoittanut Patton Oswalt • 2015

A comedian’s movie-a-night obsession was his film school. The theater owner’s question ended it.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🎭 Comedian Memoirs ⚠️ Addiction Memoirs 💡 Creative Ambition 🎪 Alternative Comedy

Silver Screen Fiend

A comedian’s movie-a-night obsession was his film school. The theater owner’s question ended it.

kirjoittanut Patton Oswalt 2015 240 sivua

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7 000+ arvostelua

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🎭 Comedian Memoirs ⚠️ Addiction Memoirs 💡 Creative Ambition 🎪 Alternative Comedy

L.A. Women

kirjoittanut Ella Berman • 2025

A novelist mines her best friend's life for fiction in Laurel Canyon. Then the friend vanishes.

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🖤 Complicated Female Friendship 🎨 Muse And Artist ✍️ Writers Writing About Writers 🌴 1970s Los Angeles 🥀 Glamorous Decay

L.A. Women

A novelist mines her best friend's life for fiction in Laurel Canyon. Then the friend vanishes.

kirjoittanut Ella Berman 2025 416 sivua

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2 000+ arvostelua

🖤 Complicated Female Friendship 🎨 Muse And Artist ✍️ Writers Writing About Writers 🌴 1970s Los Angeles 🥀 Glamorous Decay

Falling Like Stars

kirjoittanut Emma Scott • 2024

A grieving assistant and a wounded actor collide on set, risking hearts scarred by loss.

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2 000+

🎬 Celebrity Romance 💖 Healing Romance 💔 Grief And Guilt 🩹 Abuse Recovery 😢 Angsty Romance

Falling Like Stars

A grieving assistant and a wounded actor collide on set, risking hearts scarred by loss.

kirjoittanut Emma Scott 2024 289 sivua

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2 000+ arvostelua

🎬 Celebrity Romance 💖 Healing Romance 💔 Grief And Guilt 🩹 Abuse Recovery 😢 Angsty Romance

Only You

kirjoittanut Samantha Young • 2023

She returns to the Highlands to find the boy she loved is now a Hollywood stranger.

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5 000+

🕊️ Second Chance Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🎬 Celebrity Hero 🩹 Trauma Healing 💔 Mutual Pining

Only You

She returns to the Highlands to find the boy she loved is now a Hollywood stranger.

kirjoittanut Samantha Young 2023 416 sivua

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🕊️ Second Chance Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🎬 Celebrity Hero 🩹 Trauma Healing 💔 Mutual Pining

The Only Woman in the Room

kirjoittanut Marie Benedict • 2019

A film star weds a munitions mogul, escapes, then invents a weapon the world dismisses.

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📖 Biographical Fiction 🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🏰 1930s Vienna 🔒 Gilded Cage 🎭 Hidden Intellect

The Only Woman in the Room

A film star weds a munitions mogul, escapes, then invents a weapon the world dismisses.

kirjoittanut Marie Benedict 2019 312 sivua

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📖 Biographical Fiction 🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🏰 1930s Vienna 🔒 Gilded Cage 🎭 Hidden Intellect

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

kirjoittanut Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez • 2021

MacArthur's Filipina mistress was no victim. She used performance and his letters to survive.

4.14

🇵🇭 Philippine History 🌎 American Imperialism 🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🎬 Early Hollywood 🔍 Feminist Recovery

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

MacArthur's Filipina mistress was no victim. She used performance and his letters to survive.

kirjoittanut Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 2021 232 sivua

4.14

44 arvostelua

🇵🇭 Philippine History 🌎 American Imperialism 🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🎬 Early Hollywood 🔍 Feminist Recovery

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