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John Green fans will finally be able to get their hands on a new story from the Y.A. author this fall, but this time, it'll be geared toward adults.
The novel, Hollywood, Ending, from Dutton Books, a Penguin Random House imprint, releases September 22, 2026, but signed pre-orders are happening now.
Green, who is also a pioneering YouTuber, entreprenuer and podcaster, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything is Tuberculosis, but he hasn't published a novel since 2017 (Turtles All the Way Down).
In a YouTube video he posted this week, he said he wasn't sure he'd publish another novel because he didn't know what his fiction was for or didn't know what he wanted his fiction to do.
"I've been trying to write this novel since 2017," he said. "But in the last couple of years, I could see the path clearly. I loved writing this book."
Hollywood, Ending, his first non-Y.A. novel, is about two people in their early 20s, Kai and Juniper, who were in a movie together. The movie, titled Andy Warhol Never Gets Old, is about Andy Warhol's last year of life. Together, Kai and Juniper navigate fame, work, early adulthood, and their complex feelings for each other, all while their movie is starts to blow up. "As a result, their lives are blowing up in ways that are intoxicating and exciting and also terrifying and painful," Green explained. "It's about love and how we find it, celebrity and the machinations of the fame machine, which I've seen up close for the last decade."
He started working on the story after finishing Turtles All the Way Down and actually read bits and pieces of it to unsuspecting audiences on pandemic-era livestreams.
The 48-year-old father of two said Hollywood, Ending is "on several levels more adult" than his previous novels, but that he thinks there's nothing inappropriate in it for teens. He said his first novel, Looking for Alaska, is now banned in Utah schools. It's not the first time the book has been banned for being allegedly sexually explicit, either.
According to the Associated Press, Green said during an appearance at Stanford University in 2024 that he expected to move away from young adult fiction because he felt more "emotionally and intellectually" distant from that age group.
And while The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything is Tuberculosis are good and important books, it's nice to have another work of fiction by Green, whose work captures the beauty and heartbreak of not just being alive but of growing up.
"There were many times over the years where I thought I could never publish this book, partly for personal reasons," he said. "But now it is finally ready and I am so, so excited to share it with you."
Green is currently signing 82,000 pages that'll be bound with preordered books, which you can find here.