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Adventure · Literary

Life of Pi

Bestseller: about 10 million copies (estimate)

After a shipwreck, a teenage boy from India is left adrift in the Pacific in a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger, and must find a way to live alongside the last of them.

First published
2001
Pace
medium
Length
medium
Format
Standalone

Read this if you want a survival story that doubles as a story about faith and storytelling.

Skip this if you can't read about animals killing each other, or want a conventional ending.

The feel

Content warnings

  • Animal death
  • Death
  • Violence
  • Grief

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