#1 NYT Bestselling Author John Green Returns to Fiction With HOLLYWOOD, ENDING
#1 NYT Bestselling Author John Green. Photo: © Marina Waters.
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, has announced the publication of HOLLYOOD, ENDING – the debut adult fiction novel by internationally bestselling and award-winning author John Green.
Scheduled for a global English-language publication September 22, 2026, HOLLYWOOD, ENDING follows the rise of young actors Kai, 20, and Juniper, 22. Being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways—forcing them to confront the private cost of a public life.
In addition to hardcover and e-book formats, the book will be available in audio from Listening Library. The book will be released simultaneously by Penguin Random House UK and translated into Portuguese by Intrínseca in Brazil.
In his long-awaited return to fiction, Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of celebrity and the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel follows Kai and Juniper from the first days on location to the movie’s premiere, brilliantly juxtaposing their story with the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture.
Green says, “I’ve spent the last eight years finding my way through this story, and I am so excited to share Hollywood, Ending with the world. It’s a book about navigating love and loss all while participating in the strange, complicated exchanges of attention and trauma of the social internet that has become something no longer reserved for movie stars alone. It’s been a fulfilling journey to bring Kai and Juniper to the page, and I hope it will be as satisfying for readers to meet them.”
“Whether it’s a bench beside an Amsterdam canal or a thin-mooned night in Alabama, John has brought readers to immersive, emotional worlds for more than two decades,” adds Green’s longtime editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, “I can’t wait for readers to meet Kai and Juniper, and step into their Hollywood, a world unlike any other. In his extraordinary return to fiction, John has crafted a layers-deep story about two young actors trying to survive in an industry determined to flatten them into two dimensions.”
With more than 60 million books in print worldwide, Green is the author of #1 bestselling novels Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars, and Looking for Alaska, as well as his #1 New York Times bestselling adult non-fiction The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything is Tuberculosis. Green’s work has been translated into more than 60 languages and been adapted for both film and television.
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