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Hollywood, Ending
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Expected 22 Sep 26#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life. Signed edition
For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, 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.
John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of 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.
Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only John Green can tell it.
For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, 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.
John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of 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.
Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only John Green can tell it.
416 pages, Paperback
Expected publication September 22, 2026
About the author
John Green
57 books318k followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
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March 31, 2026new john green this is NOT a drill
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April 9, 2026Dear John,
You say Hollywood, Ending, I say My World, Crumbling.
8 years ago, I had the best of times reading Paper Towns while I was having the worst of times in real life. I was unsure of what would become of me, had lost touch with my best friends, and felt far behind my peers.
5 months ago, my father passed on. This January, two people I knew and cared about passed away as well. Everything happened so quickly, in less than three months, that I didn’t even have the time to process the first blow before the second knocked me over and the third knocked me out.
This February, my brother and I watched you and Hank raising funds for the 2026 Project for Awesome, answering funny questions, interviewing amazing people, popping balloons, and eating exotic fruit. I hadn’t laughed that much in months. By the way, congratulations on breaking your own record—over $4 million raised! You were speechless but still talking, Hank was covered in confetti. I was overwhelmed. I couldn’t stop thinking about Paper Towns, so I ended up writing a review.
Yesterday, I found out you’re publishing Hollywood, Ending this year—a novel about two people in their 20s, Kai and Juniper, navigating fame, adulthood, love, and trauma as the movie they’re working on, Andy Warhol Never Gets Old (about the last year of Warhol’s life), blows up.
I’m curious to see how the movie within the book, a fiction within a fiction, plays out. Will the characters see parts of themselves in the roles they’re playing? Will the plot of the movie help them find clarity in their own lives, the way fiction books sometimes do for us as readers? I know your novels have already done that for me.
Once again, I might have the worst of times in real life, but I know I’ll have the best of times reading your new novel. It feels like meeting an old friend after many, many years. It feels like finding my the back home.
Dear John, you have no idea how much we needed this. Thank you for giving us something to look forward to. Funny how everything changes, people leave, some friends don’t stay, but books… books stay with us forever.
See you in September. Until then, take care.
And thanks for all the memories.
You say Hollywood, Ending, I say My World, Crumbling.
8 years ago, I had the best of times reading Paper Towns while I was having the worst of times in real life. I was unsure of what would become of me, had lost touch with my best friends, and felt far behind my peers.
5 months ago, my father passed on. This January, two people I knew and cared about passed away as well. Everything happened so quickly, in less than three months, that I didn’t even have the time to process the first blow before the second knocked me over and the third knocked me out.
This February, my brother and I watched you and Hank raising funds for the 2026 Project for Awesome, answering funny questions, interviewing amazing people, popping balloons, and eating exotic fruit. I hadn’t laughed that much in months. By the way, congratulations on breaking your own record—over $4 million raised! You were speechless but still talking, Hank was covered in confetti. I was overwhelmed. I couldn’t stop thinking about Paper Towns, so I ended up writing a review.
Yesterday, I found out you’re publishing Hollywood, Ending this year—a novel about two people in their 20s, Kai and Juniper, navigating fame, adulthood, love, and trauma as the movie they’re working on, Andy Warhol Never Gets Old (about the last year of Warhol’s life), blows up.
I’m curious to see how the movie within the book, a fiction within a fiction, plays out. Will the characters see parts of themselves in the roles they’re playing? Will the plot of the movie help them find clarity in their own lives, the way fiction books sometimes do for us as readers? I know your novels have already done that for me.
Once again, I might have the worst of times in real life, but I know I’ll have the best of times reading your new novel. It feels like meeting an old friend after many, many years. It feels like finding my the back home.
Dear John, you have no idea how much we needed this. Thank you for giving us something to look forward to. Funny how everything changes, people leave, some friends don’t stay, but books… books stay with us forever.
See you in September. Until then, take care.
And thanks for all the memories.
Want to Read
June 25, 2026The number of books coming out in September and October 🤯 If you need me, I'll be under house arrest.
I’m happy we're finally getting a new romance novel
I swear I love the non-fiction and I'll read whatever he writes (even though that blurb's not looking too enticing 👀) but I'm over the moon right now.
I’m happy we're finally getting a new romance novel
I swear I love the non-fiction and I'll read whatever he writes (even though that blurb's not looking too enticing 👀) but I'm over the moon right now.
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March 31, 2026so happy to see him write adult fiction
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August 14, 2026John Green is back to "Writing Fiction Era"😍
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April 1, 2026i am seated 🤭
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June 17, 2026COVER ALERT
ok i will admit i was a bit disappointed when i first saw it but when he explained it i was like yk what its lowk genius. sorry for doubting you mr green will not happen again 🫡
ANYWAY IM SO FLIPPIN EXCITED MAN SEPTEMBER CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH
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john green fiction john green fiction john green fiction
he got his spark back 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
ok i will admit i was a bit disappointed when i first saw it but when he explained it i was like yk what its lowk genius. sorry for doubting you mr green will not happen again 🫡
ANYWAY IM SO FLIPPIN EXCITED MAN SEPTEMBER CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH
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john green fiction john green fiction john green fiction
he got his spark back 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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May 26, 202630 year olds across america falling to our weak knees
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April 4, 2026Best news ever, I was screaming yesterday when the news broke!!!
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April 1, 2026So happy to be a fan for the Greenaissance.
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April 1, 2026A new John Green novel?!
In 2026?
Yeah. I'm in.
In 2026?
Yeah. I'm in.
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May 2, 2026tbh the summary of this does not sound very appealing to me but I like to support John so on the TBR it goes
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March 31, 20263/31/26
So happy to see him write some fiction again. Although I do love his nonfiction too!
2026 is becoming the best year for book releases!!
So happy to see him write some fiction again. Although I do love his nonfiction too!
2026 is becoming the best year for book releases!!
Want to Read
April 4, 2026First heard snippets of this read on little livestreams by John during the pandemic, and have not gone a week without thinking about the potential of this book since. Eager doesn't even begin to cover it.
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May 29, 2026john green's adult debut....... i've prayed for times like these
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April 8, 2026I cant write a review yet, because I cant read this yet. And that is deeply disappointing. But just like every john green book, I will be buying it on day one, at my favorite independent book store. So excited!!!!!
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April 1, 2026So glad we got this news on March 31st and not April 1st or I wouldn't have dared believe it. John Green - an adult novel - this year?? It feels too good to be true!!
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April 2, 2026this entire plot is right up my alley
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June 16, 2026Excuse me, a new John Green book after 9 years??? About two people in their 20s and touches on falling in love, trauma, survival, internet/attention and finding love despite it all??? I’m so sat
I will not be waiting patiently until September :)
I will not be waiting patiently until September :)
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April 6, 2026oh hell yes... we are SO back
Review of advance copy received from Author
So grateful for an ARC of this book!
This book came into my life at the perfect moment and I had a really meaningful experience reading it. I found in the pages so much of my experience of being 21, 22, now 23, and facing the world when I am so thin-skinned and don't quite know how to feel safe. Love how Green explored finding meaning in making art and then the experience of sharing your art with the world, the effects of the social internet and celebrity on the lives of these characters, and trauma and ambition and so many more ideas.
This book came into my life at the perfect moment and I had a really meaningful experience reading it. I found in the pages so much of my experience of being 21, 22, now 23, and facing the world when I am so thin-skinned and don't quite know how to feel safe. Love how Green explored finding meaning in making art and then the experience of sharing your art with the world, the effects of the social internet and celebrity on the lives of these characters, and trauma and ambition and so many more ideas.
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April 17, 2026EVERYBODY STAY CALM - NEW JOHN GREEN BOOK
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April 19, 2026NEW JOHN GREEN IN THE BIG 2026???
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May 1, 2026👀
I came from a TikTok
So I’m watching
I came from a TikTok
So I’m watching
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June 13, 2026Due September 2026 - I can't wait - Green's first adult fiction novel!
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April 16, 2026Is this...is this about Hudcon???
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