Bret Easton Ellis 1991
- What it is
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A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · it tells it with no filter
- Genre
- Literary Horror Thriller
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to American Psycho
Coming from American Psycho? Start with The secret history, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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The secret history
Donna Tartt 1992
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A Clockwork Orange
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk 1996
You end up rooting for the wrong people · pitch-black comedy
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad 1985
No clean hands here · a story hidden inside another
The butcher boy
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It tells it with no filter · it leaves you shaken
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson 1962
It gets under your skin · pitch-black comedy
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica 2015
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn 2007
It tells it with no filter · it's hiding a secret
Defending Jacob
William Landay 2012
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid 2016
You'll keep turning it over for days · you read it holding your breath
Beloved
Toni Morrison 1987
It tells it straight · it leaves you shaken
12 books · Alike in just one
Only it gets under your skin
Asylum
Patrick McGrath 1998
It stirs you up inside · a place nobody can leave
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite 2018
Grouped with yours in Crimes that aren't the usual kind
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver 2003
Nobody is entirely good · a threat that keeps growing
1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell 1978
It gets under your skin · a society that controls everything
El Filatelista
Nicolas Feuz 2025
It tells it with no filter · the truth comes out bit by bit
Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller 2003
It ties your stomach in a knot · pitch-black comedy
The Hunter's Daughter
Nicola Solvinic 2025
It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco 2003
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
8 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy 1900
Nobody is entirely good · outlaws and guns in the West
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 1777
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1947
It tells it with no filter · it stays with you
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh 2019
It tells it with no filter · sharp and very funny
Trust
Hernán Díaz 2022
You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
No clean hands here · a farewell that moves you
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes 2011
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · it won't tell you everything at once
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