American Psycho

Published in 1991, American Psycho is a gothic fiction and horror novel by Bret Easton Ellis and Mariano Antolín Rato. The story is set in Wall Street, New York, N.Y. and Manhattan, New York, N.Y., in the 1980s. It features Patrick Bateman, Evelyn Richards and Timothy Price. Key subjects include Capitalism, Postmodernism, Schizophrenia and Consumerism.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 104 ratings, and 1,812 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 46 editions across 6 languages.

It runs to roughly 477 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.