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Hollywood, Ending
- Author
- John Green
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 22 September 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Performing arts genres: film, television, radio, and theatre
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story.
For rising stars 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. 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 examination of the private cost of a public life, in this masterful tale of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.
Tender, heartbreaking and shrewdly funny, Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about finding your someone to trust in an untrustworthy world, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.
© John Green 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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In an era in which more and more people must market themselves on social media, courting the dizzying highs and crushing lows of fame, Green still hopes we’ll find something better
Guardian
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Thought-provoking and captivating
Daily Beast
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Green’s novel of betrayal and survival, trust and love is a fluent condemnation of the machine of commercialization and a paean to art . . . A spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate story of love and creativity.
Booklist, starred review
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Wise, tender and engaging
People, Book of the Week
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A classic portrait of young love
Kirkus, starred review
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Sharply relevant in today’s landscape of constant attention and the pressure of a public life
Today
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Green’s storytelling is astute, empathic, and magnetizing
Booklist, starred review
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Green’s a tender writer whose abiding concern through all his work is what it takes to remain decent in a ruthless and impersonal world. Once, that might have seemed a sentimental question. Today, it is more crucial than ever
Slate
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A love story but also an interrogation of modern stardom, art and the struggle to be real in a social media-fueled world of artifice and performance. Come for the Hollywood intel, stay for the breathtaking passages
US Weekly
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In the author’s anguished portrait of modern fame, the most challenging performance is that of an authentic self . . . Kai emerges vividly on the page. Green depicts the young man’s bewilderment with radiant empathy
New York Times
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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Amazing. I stayed up far too late because I couldn't stop listening. I don't normally go for this kind of book, but this will stay with me for a long time.
GeorgeJ 2026-09-23
Details
- Author
- John Green
- Narrator
- Zachary Chastain, Julia Whelan, John Green
- Duration
- 8 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9780241847619
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Performing arts genres: film, television, radio, and theatre
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story.For rising stars 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. 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 examination of the private cost of a public life, in this masterful tale of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.Tender, heartbreaking and shrewdly funny, Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about finding your someone to trust in an untrustworthy world, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.© John Green 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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