American Psycho

Clay comes home to LA for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy. His holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. This is a novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money.

Now a major film, 'Glamorama' is a darkly funny tale set in the superficial, film-studio and status-symbol world of the celebrity.

You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. So begins our hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. This is a classic 80s novel.

This title introduced Dexter Morgan, a serial killer to fall in love with.

A novel about a brilliant young forger, who continually reinvents himself to escape the authorities. This book evokes the boulevards and strip bars of 1980s Los Angles. Daniel Fletcher is resuscitated in a Los Angeles emergency room and detained for psychiatric evaluation. Daniel Fletcher is actually Johnny, who has done many assessments.

The Red Dragon is a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families. He is a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes. Special agent Will Graham is reluctantly lured out of retirement, to find an opening to the evil mind of the Red Dragon.

The author of Bright Lights, Big City here zeros in on one section of 1980s Manhattan culture which is burning itself out even as it ignites. Beautiful, blunt, world-weary and 20, Alison is the reader's guide to the group indulgence and parental indifference that conspire against her.

Focuses on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College, a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s. This work treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the centre of their lives.

'I'm sick of all this pointless glamour,' his glamorous girlfriend said. 'I want a simple life.' If only Connor McKnight had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly on a fashion shoot, but he doesn't know where she is staying and a sinking feeling tells him that she might never come back.

Set in the Manhattan of the 1980s, this story captures lives-in-the-making - men and women confronting their middle-age with wit and low behaviour, fear and confusion, and occasionally with a little honesty and decency.