Book · by Bret Easton Ellis · first published 1991
How many pages is American Psycho?
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis has a median of 399 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 399 pages.
Median pages
399
8 editions counted
Range
384–416
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
110k
at 275 words per page
How long will American Psycho take you?
Reading time
7 h 02 min
At 30 min a day
15 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 46 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Pan Macmillan | – | 400 | OL28547753M |
| 2011 | Picador | Paperback | 384 | OL30618514M |
| 2011 | Pan Macmillan | – | 416 | OL28467532M |
| 2000 | Picador | Paperback | 399 | OL35658317M |
| 1998 | Picador | Paperback | 399 | OL22034830M |
| 1998 | Picador | – | 399 | OL22474675M |
| 1992 | Picador | – | 399 | OL17358773M |
| 1991 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 399 | OL1857983M |
Questions
- How many pages is American Psycho?
- About 399 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 384 to 416 pages.
- How long does it take to read American Psycho?
- About 7 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
- How many words is American Psycho?
- Roughly 110,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).