How long does it take to read American Psycho?
Bret Easton Ellis, Mariano Antolín Rato
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Mariano Antolín Rato takes about 8 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 477 pages, about 131,175 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
Subjects: Gothic & Horror, Literary Fiction, capitalism, postmodernism, id, schizophrenia
